Spider-Man 2 Needs To Give Peter Parker The Symbiote Suit
Insomniac’s next Spider-Man needs to make a big change.
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Spider-Man showed us exactly how a game starring the web-slinger should be. It had a fantastic story, great aesthetics, and, most of all, it let you do whatever a spider can. It was the best representation of the character in a video game we’d seen – at least until Spider-Man: Miles Morales came out and beat Peter Parker at his own game
Miles Morales improved literally every element of the Spider-Man experience and is easily the best Spider-Man game out there. Swinging is more fluid and feels like a spectacle to watch, combat is more dynamic thanks to the venom powers, and Miles’ story is way more intriguing thanks to its unique perspective of showing a young hero learning the ropes. Because of this, I’m worried that going back to Peter Parker is going to feel like a downgrade, as Miles was done so well that he felt like a massive improvement to what we’d seen before.
Peter Parker should still be the focus of the next game in the series. After all, he is the original Spider-Man, and he has a lot of stories left to tell. If he’s going to be the main playable character though, something needs to change and there’s really only one logical solution – the next Spider-Man game needs to give him the Symbiote Suit.
Before Miles Morales launched, I actually would have preferred if Marvel’s Spider-Man held off on giving Peter the Symbiote Suit in the sequel. It’s a hugely important moment for his character across every medium that it has appeared in, so introducing it in the second game would feel a little rushed – you need momentum to properly deliver the immense weight of a good guy giving in to his bad side. Even the Raimi films knew to hold off until the third entry.
That was the past though, and with the character of Miles being so much more interesting to play as, the sequel needs to make some sort of change to Peter’s arsenal. One idea is to upgrade his array of gadgets, but this seems like a pretty boring approach – he already has more than Miles and still falls short. As useful as they eventually become in the post-game, Peter’s gadgets are pretty boring and are immediately undermined by Miles’ venom powers and camouflage.
Off the top of my head, there aren’t really that many more changes that could be made to Peter Parker. He’s had tons of suits, but we’ve already seen them and they don’t really do a lot to change his abilities. The only canonical thing that seems to achieve that is the Symbiote Suit.
It’s not like Insomniac Games has been coy about the suit’s existence either. It’s one of the only suits that isn’t in the game, which is definitely deliberate with all the winks to it. We’ve also already seen a symbiote-esque creature keeping Harry Osborne alive in both games’ end credits, so it’s likely to be a big part of the story at some point. If that creature truly is a symbiote, you’ve got your way of Peter getting it right there.
With the Symbiote Suit, Peter Parker becomes stronger, faster, and is usually seen swinging with two webs to show how the suit has given him newfound confidence (or just to look cool). The suit having these effects on him would be more than enough story justification for why Spider-Man has gotten more powerful and unlocked new abilities across the sequels, and the introduction of a second swinging arm could do for the sequel what the new range of tricks did for Miles Morales. Some of the mechanics would need changing around to accommodate this, but that’s the sort of thing you want to see from a sequel anyway.
Peter could even get his own range of combat abilities through the Symbiote, as we’ve seen in games like Shattered Dimensions and Web of Shadows. The first game wasn’t short on abilities, but it was pretty reliant on using the environment and gadgets. You could even still have that sort of thing by making the Symbiote something you can switch between.
The gameplay advantages seem pretty obvious then, but there are also numerous narrative opportunities that the Symbiote Suit could introduce. Insomniac’s Peter Parker is one that mostly has his life in check following the first game’s conclusion, so throwing in the Symbiote is sure to mess things up and reduce him back to that ol’ Parker luck. It can also bring in Venom, arguably the most exciting villain yet to appear in the series.
The only other option is to once again focus on Miles Morales, but that wouldn’t really feel like a true Spider-Man sequel. It might seem a little early in the series to be making character-changing decisions, but adding the Symbiote Suit only serves to make Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 the sequel we all want it to be.
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George is the Lead News Editor for TheGamer, and an advocate for Psychonauts goggle-wearing. He’s notorious for caring far too much about platforming mascots. He tries, bless him.
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