Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 looks pretty cool. Insomniac Games finally broke cover during this week’s PlayStation Showcase to unveil an extensive gameplay presentation alongside a menacing introduction to Kraven the Hunter. As far as sequels go, it seems to incorporate everything we loved about the first game and Miles Morales into a more ambitiously grand superhero adventure filled with action, drama, and all of our favourite characters. Our hero also dons the Venom symbiote suit now, which means he is super-duper tough and grumpy.

This shouldn’t be surprising. All iterations of the suit, ranging from the classic cartoon to Sam Raimi’s ill-fated sequel, have leaned into how the alien slime turns our friendly neighborhood webhead into an edgy asshole. It makes him brash, selfish, angry, and prone to mistakes he would otherwise avoid. There’s a charm to Yuri Lowenthal’s delivery, the direction obviously asking him to lean into the gothic anger instead of something malicious. We know our hero will come back from this, so it’s okay to rely on extremes destined for eventual forgiveness.

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Conversations around the symbiote suit weren’t entirely focused on the vocal delivery though, it seemed most of us were angry about how the gooey number looks on Peter Parker. I don’t think it looks incredible, but we’re still a few months out from launch and the aesthetic seems reminiscent of the cartoon series while building directly on top of the original game’s vanilla costume which I never liked that much. It has far too many glaring white accents that don’t gel with the red and blue we’re all so used to.

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That was the beauty of having so many different costumes at our disposal, it gave us endless opportunities to shape this character to our will, even if they happened to look out of place in cutscenes when things got serious. It didn’t matter, so I’m shocked to see fans act so aggressively to a black suit which isn’t even finished yet. Besides, it looks serviceable while ticking all the necessary boxes. It’s black, has a white spider on it, and crawls across Spider-Man’s skin like some form of malignant virus rather than fabric, because it’s a living creature that influences how he behaves. Seeing through the seams as it spreads over Peter is the entire purpose, made even more unsettling as Miles can tell something is wrong. Perhaps that’s exactly it, and what we saw in the trailer is merely a faint representation of the final product, with it set to grow and mutate across the narrative.

Fans jumping to conclusions reminds me of the time they lost their minds over inconsistent puddle textures. Back when Marvel’s Spider-Man was showcased at E3 2017, we weren’t impressed by the action-packed combat and brilliant characterisation, we were wowed by stagnant puddles on the ground that evil henchmen were free to walk over. However, said pools of liquid vanished in the finished game, resulting in an unparalleled conspiracy where consumers screamed in rage about a graphical downgrade. You know, despite the game still looking amazing even as the PS4 was entering its fifth year on the market. A totally normal thing to be angry at.

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Gamers love to focus on small omissions or shortcomings they can drag through the mud, often minute criticisms that are better overlooked and not obsessed over. It’s happening all over again with the black suit, as folks throw up arms and demand changes before release or there’ll be hell to pay. Please consider the bigger picture, how small a part of the game this will be and how it will likely be customisable anyway. The showcase was filled with exhilarating set pieces and a further expanded open world we’ll be free to explore, so you can’t tell me you’ll be staring at Peter’s armpits as you zip through New York.

I’d be more willing to criticise the on-rails nature of the gameplay that veers on predictable too often, asking us to press buttons as the action unfolds as opposed to having any real influence on things. When we play this moment for ourselves, it will unfold much the same way, albeit with different costumes because wearing the ones we like is the whole point. If the black suit doesn’t change and still feels disgusting, just don’t put it on.

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