This review contains spoilers
knew this was gonna be an all-timer the moment when I rocked up to fight Kraven's pre-boss goon squad, fully tweaked out on symbiote juice and presented with something like 40 of the biggest baddest brute bastards that had been giving me hell for the entire first half of this game with their incomprehensible shield and staff movesets, only to immediately activate rage mode and smear those schmucks like paste across the pavement the way a child would smash their action figures together, in about a minute tops, all while Venom's in my ear hyping up the violence like a feral gorilla at wwe superslam
and then, after building Kraven up to be this unstoppable force and immovable object both, roid rage Peter just reduces the fool to a fleshy punching bag while the guy whips out almost pathetically ineffective boss fight gimmicks in a feeble attempt to get even a single hit in on the swirling mass of violence and tendrils that Peter has become, while Venom is all but chanting RIP AND TEAR at this terminal cancer patient with a health bar getting his ass beaten within an inch of his remaining life
and then, after some of the most satisfying and adrenaline-pumping fight sequences of the game thus far thanks to the obscenely overpowered symbiote kit, the perspective shifted and I involuntarily shouted "oh shit" to no one in particular: I didn't just beat the Big Bad, I became the Big Bad. suddenly all of those feeble gimmicks of the previous Kraven fight were actually the best tools in my arsenal as Miles for countering the skittering monster formerly known as Peter that was now darting across the stage and shrieking like a banshee - a creature that I intimately understood could reduce Miles to a fine red mist at a moment's notice if I wasn't tight on that dodge button.
all-fucking-timer.
truly one of the most satisfying adaptations of the black suit saga for me. sure, there's some stuff here that isn't perfect, but I fuckin' love Spider-Man, and I even more specifically love Venom, and this game gave me great incarnations of both. can't wait to see how the things they set up here resolve in the final chapter of the trilogy.
and then, after building Kraven up to be this unstoppable force and immovable object both, roid rage Peter just reduces the fool to a fleshy punching bag while the guy whips out almost pathetically ineffective boss fight gimmicks in a feeble attempt to get even a single hit in on the swirling mass of violence and tendrils that Peter has become, while Venom is all but chanting RIP AND TEAR at this terminal cancer patient with a health bar getting his ass beaten within an inch of his remaining life
and then, after some of the most satisfying and adrenaline-pumping fight sequences of the game thus far thanks to the obscenely overpowered symbiote kit, the perspective shifted and I involuntarily shouted "oh shit" to no one in particular: I didn't just beat the Big Bad, I became the Big Bad. suddenly all of those feeble gimmicks of the previous Kraven fight were actually the best tools in my arsenal as Miles for countering the skittering monster formerly known as Peter that was now darting across the stage and shrieking like a banshee - a creature that I intimately understood could reduce Miles to a fine red mist at a moment's notice if I wasn't tight on that dodge button.
all-fucking-timer.
truly one of the most satisfying adaptations of the black suit saga for me. sure, there's some stuff here that isn't perfect, but I fuckin' love Spider-Man, and I even more specifically love Venom, and this game gave me great incarnations of both. can't wait to see how the things they set up here resolve in the final chapter of the trilogy.