I am, in general, very skeptical of “give it a chance, it gets good later on” types of arguments for anything I had to spend $60 to get. For $60 you need to be fun in five minutes and you need to stay fun for however long your game ends up being, and I’d rather have a lean, entertaining 30-hour game than a 100-hour game filled with … well, filler.
I’m nonetheless very, very glad I stuck this one out– I just beat it half an hour or so ago, although I’ve left a number of the mop-up tasks for later. I may or may not get back to them.
But: forget the game for a moment. Spider-Man PS4 is one of the best Spider-Man stories I have ever encountered, in any medium. Comics, movies, whatever. And even that, as I said in the piece from earlier today, takes a good long time to get rolling. But once it does … wow. I was in tears during the final act. I’m not gonna bullshit around. I’m a grown-ass man and a video game just made me cry because the story was that good and they get this character that thoroughly. Fucking tears.
And then, the three movie-style stingers after the credits?
*kisses fingers*
Can’t wait for the sequel. And if they put the same people in charge of writing it, I’m not gonna have shit to say about the gameplay. Because with a story this good, I’ll chase fucking pigeons all day if I have to.
That was the argument given to me for Stranger Things and I still didn’t watch it, even though it was free 😂
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You should absolutely watch Stranger Things. 🙂
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