(ft. ZachAdvanced) - In this glorious episode of VOID ARCADE, join Zach and Brando on a journey to understand the great power and responsibility of Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered. You'll find some deep-cutting conversations about Spider-Man, courtesy of my local expert Zach, and you'll find some killer jokes and laughs. Hope you enjoy the ride as you experience this cabinet with us in the VOID ARCADE.
Show Outline
Intro
Welcome to void arcade yadda we talk about games
Game release date & studio & stuff
Awards (for the original release in 2019, by the by)
DICE Awards - Outstanding Achievement in Animation
Game Audio Network Guild Awards - Best Dialogue
Game Critics Awards - Best Console Game, Best Action/Adventure Game
Gamer’s Choice Awards - Fan Favorite Action Game, Fan Favorite Single Player Gaming Experience, Fan Favorite Character of the Year
Gamescom - Best PlayStation 4 game
Japan Game Awards - Award for Excellence
SXSW Gaming Awards - Excellence in Animation, Excellence in Convergence
[NOTE THAT → It was nominated for like a BAJILLION things across the board (well, 73 things to be exact))
Quick impressions / overall opinions (mastapeeeece)
Overarching main narrative
Older spider man (really dig this, I am tired of origin stories lol)
Puts away Fisk creating a power vacuum
The scary negative man seizes an opportunity to control the city and does a bunch of scary stuff
Tries to kill the mayor and kills miles morales dad
does all sorts of bad stuff around the city - game kinda opens up from there and you have tons on your plate to do - lead into discussion about that
Gameplay
Really feel like Spiderman
the rush of swinging around the city for the first time
Nick Robinson’s video? (swinging mechanics very dialed in)
Very much enjoyed the constantly changing world that is directly affected by your actions
Prison break - now there are escaped convicts in the streets (and as you defeat them they do not respawn)
Sable takeover - they take over Woah
Police really do show up after you resolve crimes
And non-narrative wise like slowly unlocking a million billion things on the map instead of a floodgate of activities right from the start. Constantly evolves because of the story and your actions
Gadgets
favorite gadgets and gadget combos
loved doing a combination of web grenade + suspension matrix + concussive blast
In terms of utility, I used grenades probably the most, next to electric web and the normal web-shooters
Suit abilities
I almost exclusively had the battle focus on. It was just useful to use if a heavy dude came on screen and I needed more focus for the instant takedown, or if I was low on health that was useful.
Had some fun in the endgame changing my power constantly to break up how the crimes would go lol
Suit Mods
Also practically did not use this system at all lol I am such a scrub. Just kept on less bullet damage, less melee damage, and better healing. Didn’t experiment for some reason?
Builds? Or Combos? Are there any? Lol, I didn’t experiment so I don’t really know! Hah.
Talk about the freakin’ dope suits from all across the spiderverse if we haven’t at this point
Extra Stuff to Discuss
Maybe touch on open-world fatigue and how this game combats it or adds to it
The music is phenomenal
To be able to make music that pays respects to the entire history of Spiderman yet be its own thing is an absolutely bonkers achievement. It is so good.
The fact that it REACTs to the gameplay is crazy. Also boggles my mind that they had Yuri whateverhislastname record two of every line to also react to gameplay if spiderman was swinging around or whatever. Absolutely bonkers crazy to me. The level of detail to create that sense of immersion is absolutely bonkers
also the uhhhh all the rooms having a sense that they’re a 3D space, the gorgeous ray tracing the freakin realistic new york city?!? had moments in game where I was like, I literally was here in real life?????
Talk about the new spiderman face being a lil freakin’ baby or whatever idk why do the marvel do that tho
Missions and stuff?
collecting backpacks
taskmaster stuff
base takedown stuff
uhhhh you know, whatever I’m missing or whatever
Go into the rest of the narrative up through the main ending
Spid man no like evil and put a negative man in jail very cool
Doc oc gets fricked up on arm juice and wants to take down the mayor
Doc oc breaks spider man villains out of jail to help to promise them things they really desire. The big jail break leads to tons of riots in the streets from escaped convicts
spiderman takes down his foes again
Sable comes in at some point and does a marshall law thing where they overcompensate and take over the city and are being very rude
anyway Spiderman face off against doc oc and win
Aunt may freakin’ die :: miles become spider man 2
extra stuff to discuss about narrative ending and whatever
LOVE the DOC OC build up holy crap
mastapioece
also loved the duo boss fights, especially after you’ve beat em a couple times and then had to juggle them? Crazy, chaotic, and very fun.
aunt may and no uncle ben leave for a lonely boy
DLC
Story and stuff
The heist
You find some mob dudes at a museum and black cat is also there and she’s like I’m gonna steal the declaration of independence and she does but it’s a USB drive
All the USB drives lead to the great treasure
Turns out the mobs of new york are noticing the power vacuum with the villains gone and they want a slice - keeping black cats son as hostage… who may be spidermans son. So he helps black cat get drives
oops she doesn’t have a son and duped him. Haha! Then she freakin’ dies
Ham head is freakin’ pissed off about this
turf wars
so the police are like, hamn head dude, we got you and they assault his house. Then all the police freakin’ die because it was a trap! it makes Yuri, the head cop lady, real pissed off.
She goes on a rampage as a rogue cop enacting justice on dudes working for hem head. Spiderman does not like that she has gone evil mode
meanwhile hammner head has stolen a bunch of sable supplies and is wearing a mech suit now and is going to publically execute other mob bosses to become the king mob boss, this all on live television
spiderman defeats mechanized hamburger hed and Yuri shows up at the end to execute the frick out of him but spiderman stops her just in time and she runs away
When headner hamb is in the ambulance, he is resussitated by a bench man eluding to the next chapter
silver lining
Silver Sable comes back and is pissed off about her technology being stolen and being used by headed hamm. Spiderman wants to work with her but she is angry all the time
Turns out Silver Sable needs the tech back to win the war in her home country
There are rumors that head hammer is back, but that would be crazy right? he dieed.
But he not died! He is now the hekcing terminator and he has a bigger mech body with a dumb human face. He captures silver sable and spider man is helped by black cat. Ah! She fake her death!
Hem had takes Sable away and black cat gives spiderman a USB with the weaknesses on it
spiderman saves sable and they escape and go to sables special invisible ship where they put a big freakin lazer on a drone ship and melt hamn hends head to death, and that’s where spiderman can punch the metal head and make him pass out and maybe die
THen peter is like dang. I have been a busy boy. and Sable is like I go home now. And miles is like pLEASE let me also be spider man. And peter is like okay. Then the DLC ends.
New activities? Suits?
We got more base activities, but the biggest inclusion is probably the crazy streamer girl stuff what’s her name ahhhhhh
Worth?
Closing Statements
Recommendations of game and whomst
Hopes for sequel (that is not in miles morales mayhaps have Zach explain a little about what’s in miles morales and if it’s worth in like a micro review segment?? me personally I’m not sure how that game fits into everything besides being a continuation from miles story but like is it just more spiderman but from miles perspective??? You know what I mean?)
Anything else to add?
Social media plugs or whatever and stuff
End of episode
