Spider-Man: Miles Morales

I guess I'm just gonna do little reviews of all the videogames I play. At least if I have more than a thought or two.

Miles Morales is basically stand-alone DLC for the 2018 Sony Spider-Man game. And that game's great, so I'm not complaining.

I'm not really a reader of superhero comics, but I have always liked Miles, the Ultimate Spider-Man, as a character. After Peter Parker gets super-old and married and angsty, Miles shows up as an actual teenager and does teenager things. Spider-Man is meant to be a teenager, really.

I feel like the Spiderverse movie (I haven't seen the second one, so I can't generalize) does a decent job of introducing Miles to the masses. (I also love Spider-Gwen, and that movie is beautiful. I should probably watch the sequel). This game, tho, does a better job of making Miles the focus. Spiderverse just has too much going on.

I've got some quibbles about the game. It really hurries you along the story missions, expecting you to ignore the constant monologuing or phonecalls about how you really ought to be going on to the next urgent thing and go around doing the side missions to level up and get power ups. It doesn't hurt you to not have those to finish the story, but I feel it would've been more fun to have the power-ups in the actual story missions rather than in the post-game.

It's also kind of short. Basically DLC. But you don't have to buy the original Spider-Man, which I suppose is a plus.

Spider-Man 2 is reportedly kind of meh. Not bad, just not as good. I'll probably pick it up in a Steam sale.

What's particularly disappointing is Sony's decision to stop bringing their single-player games to PC. Mind you, they've been pretty spotty on supporting Steamdeck (Horizon Forbidden West, for example, is unsupported). But I do enjoy their stuff. And I'm not about to buy a PS5.