Miles's powers allow you to set the pace in a fight in a way that's different from Peter Parker. It cannot be overstated how fun it is to just be Spider-Man in the game. Miles backflips, twirls and spins through the sky, a slightly gawky acrobat. You can fast travel in Miles Morales by taking the subway, but more often I opted to swing my way through the city, dipping down almost all the way to the street to gain speed before flinging myself up into the sky. There aren't many meaningful differences between playing as Miles and Peter until a few hours into the game, and while they make the combat more interesting and varied, that baseline experience is still so thrilling. By all metrics, Spider-Man Miles Morales is a great game. It's truly wholesome, feel good superhero writing.Īnd the game lives up to it.
The plot walks down an extremely well trod path, and offers little in the way of surprises. The move from Brooklyn to Manhattan has Miles a little shook, and he's unsure if he's ready to be the only Spider-Man, though he also clearly longs for the recognition. At the start of the game, Peter tells Miles he's taking a vacation with Mary Jane, leaving Miles as the only web slinging crime fighter in town.Ī lot has changed for Miles his father, a cop, died while on duty during the events of Marvel's Spider-Man, and now his mother Rio Morales, is running for city council in Harlem. In the world of this game, Miles has recently come into his powers and is learning to be a superhero alongside the original Spider-Man, Peter Parker.
He's Spider-Man! Well, the other Spider-Man. It cannot be overstated how fun it is to just be Spider-Man in the game.Īs all viewers of the movie Into The Spider-verse know, Miles Morales is a good boy who has never done anything wrong.
But it also is a key that unlocks the closet where the game has hastily shoved all its messy politics. When I saw it, I knew that I should be happy that Insomniac had included it in the game at all. By doing various tasks for Miles's neighbors in Harlem, the game rewards Miles, and the player, with a special suit that has been placed beneath a mural bearing a phrase that I have shouted until my throat was hoarse. The New York of Miles Morales isn't quite the same New York as mine, but Black Lives Matter does exist there. I marched in some of these protests, and saw people dressed as Miles Morales climbing scaffolding and street lights to hold signs that loudly proclaim the sanctity of black life, and decry the violence enacted upon us by the state. People dressed as Spider-Man, and specifically as Miles Morales, have become a fixture in Black Lives Matter protests, which erupted in March all over the country to protest police violence. I've seen a lot of Spider-Men in 2020, not just on my television or computer screens.
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