Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Review (👌m8)
7/10 ~ “Fun game to watch and play, but the story is short.”
CATEGORYFEEDBACKRATING
Story (45%)👍 Nice entry plot for Miles
👌 Action-packed story, but the length felt like a DLC4/10
Gameplay (45%)👍 Fun free roam
👍 Great combat with a tiny bit of jank9/10
Aesthetics (10%)👍 Amazing graphics
👍 Nice soundtrack and voice acting9/10
TWEAKS - temporarily changes the final score
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❌ Soft-locking after loading screen-0.50
❌ Intermittent input lag-0.25
❌ Performance issues on high end PCs-0.50
📝Basis of Scoring
Things to consider when thinking of getting Marvel’s Spider-man: Miles Morales:
⚡ It’s pretty much a DLC as it has half the amount of content as the original Marvel’s Spider-man. You could compare it by searching the HowLongToBeat pages of the two.
⚡ Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered vs Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales? The original has bigger story content while this one has more seamless free-roaming and combat. Other aspects would land on personal preference.
⚡ As regards to the game’s difficulty, don’t expect anything more challenging than the Arkham games. If challenge is what you’re after, this game ain’t it. The original game has more difficult challenges though. Seeing the word ‘Screwball’ still boils my blood to this day. 😁
REVIEW
STORY
⚡ The Plot may just be a generic story of a comic book superhero’s silver age. It has shallow character building since the hero just started his career, light plot twists because the writers don’t want to go all out on a new superhero story, and the usual high stakes that every famous superhero would face to make the whole arc worth witnessing. All in all, the game delivered these aspects fairly well for the character’s story.
⚡ There’s a good side and a bad side about how the game handled the story’s Length. The good thing is they don’t fill it with boring missions. Marvel’s Spider-Man: Remastered was arguably bloated with main missions where your character plays as a civilian. The devs made sure you only get 1 main mission that almost does the same thing here (i.e. The Christmas party mission).
On the other hand, the bad thing is we, or at least I, wished there was more to the story. Even though it has all of your usual plot points covered, other characters could have been fleshed out more. These two points served as an impression to me that the game is more of a DLC compared to the Remastered.
GAMEPLAY
⚡ Just like any open world Spider-man games, the main meat is Free-Roaming. This game manages to improve what’s already good from the Remastered. The web-swinging looks more fluid since Miles has several more animations than any other games of its franchise has ever shown (pre-2023) – plus the electric boosts he could do while mid-air. I just wish there were movement challenges that focus on his electric powers.
⚡ I like how even if the Combat’s controls are the same as the main game, they even bothered making it feel like we’re playing a different character. Miles’ normal attacks are much weaker than Peter’s and has less tools in his arsenal; thus, it becomes more efficient to use his electric powers in exchange when playing as him. The stealth ability feels gimmicky apparently, and it only becomes necessary for a few scenarios in the whole game.
AESTHETICS
⚡ The Graphics seem more polished compared to the main Spider-Man game. Their cut-scenes have slightly better cinematography, the details on the clothing look more realistic, and the lighting just feels more balanced overall. Additional eye-candy points for the gameplay animations as well.
⚡ I have nothing much to say about the Audio besides the 🔥 soundtracks and some small in-game features. I just love how this game’s series added a detail to make your characters sound like they’re slightly breathing heavily when talking to someone on a voice call and web-swinging at the same time. There are also some dialogues when you land on a point of interest anywhere where Miles says something about it. The voice cast behind Miles is a bit subjective since I prefer Miles’ voice casting in the Spider-Verse movies.
Thus, the verdict is an overall…
7 web zips out of 10
This is an easy 8 out of 10 if it weren't for the bugs. I may have experienced more bugs here compared to the Remastered, but despite that, I really enjoyed the game. If you're checking whether this will be your first Spider-man game, this one's a good idea to pick if you just want a quick glimpse. Free-roaming across the city alone took me as long as actually playing the main story before I uninstalled it for good.