Spider-Man's Forgotten Worst Game - Just Bad Games
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The game endlessly trolls you with unavoidable bad outcomes, then you finally reach the good ending and it's so anticlimactic that you only feel more empty inside for having unlocked it. A masterclass in storytelling.
That sounds exactly like "Town With No Name"
@@SEiMEi_EXiSTS And both were drawn in MS Paint.
Great now I'm imagining a game/story made with the goal of either bumming out the player with bad endings or giving the player such an unsatisfying good ending just to mess with them
@@abloodcorpse3318 Yoko Taro furiously taking notes.
@@DonVigaDeFierro tbh I've always thought about things bad games/
stories do but make it intentional and interesting
I don’t know why, but “Mysterio’s Happy Bubbles” sounds like a weird Happy Meal toy that later had to be recalled.
Weed strain
@@velvetaeon2774 Optimized for bong use
14:34-14:30 I love that part!
25:49 she clearly sais Smerdyakov. The same as did Spider-Man. Why didn't you just used the code? It was there all the time mouse=rodent. 27:05 ah maybe because Peter Parker is the well known freelancer taking photos of Spider-Man while no one else can? Maybe because everyone thinks that he knows Spider-Man? 28:58 So he knows her name, now what? Maybe now they can find who Spider-Man is among her thousand acquaintances. How he could know her name right? Maybe because she's a actress and millions of people know her. Maybe she was on television many times because of the attacks on the movie set. Maybe. Are you dvm6? What's it with these angry nerds that they're all $+vp¡d @$$#0//€$?
@@suprememasteroftheuniverse bruh quit spamming this
To me the bigger problem with the "Smerdyakov" puzzle was simply the notion that an American child in 1996 would have any clue how to properly spell it, especially after hearing the "proper" Russian pronunciation.
I wonder if the name “Smerdyakov” is ever spelled out in game before that point? At least then, you’d have seen it before. This? How did they think this was a good idea for a puzzle? Lots of names are pronounced differently than how they’re spelled, especially to those who speak English as a first language (Groening, “gray-ning”. Leonard, “Len-nerd”, for just two examples)!
Sounds weird but I actually like the vibe of this spiderman game. IDK, something's about it.
@@pizzaparkerhotdogmaguire3225 Well Indiana Jones got a phenomenally excellent point'n'click game by LucasArt for a franchise that screams "adventure/platformer/shooter" games, so why not? Even if Batman would be a more logical choice for a super-hero puzzle/clue-based game.
But this game execution is just crap. Rerez pointed out a few other P'nC games that are leagues better than this game on every point.
Seriously, go check a video of Indiana Jones and the Fate Of Atlantis and compare.
You can also check out a video of Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! for a similar game style released the exact same year.
I think the sound quality makes that issue worse. This game was made in an era where pc games usually had bitcrushed audio and the accent combined with that ended up making the name sound near incomprehensible. As someone who suspects having auditory processing issues, that hint would've tripped me up too.
@@MadameSomnambule To be fair, they don't explain how to solve the puzzle and it's pretty easy. The game writes the clue Mouse= Rodent on the paper. It mean that M=R
Recopy the alphabet by moving the letters accordingly M=R, N=S O=T, etc... and the whole puzzle is decipherable in about 2 minutes.
I mean if anything the clue is useless if you don't understand the logic of the puzzle... Which kids may have a hard time grasping.
Spider-Man: The City With No Name
Peter after One More Day: "Give me a drink...barteeender."
Do you have the right time, old man?
@@Scarletdex8299 "No."
Kid: Come back Peter!
**webs kid into oblivion**
Spider-Man: My name's not 'Peter' kid.
@@mehlessmidori602 **subway evaporates into space**
🎵Spider man🎵
🎵Spider man🎵
🎵Spider man🎵
🎵Spider man🎵
🎵Spider man🎵
🥲 Beautiful. Really shows emotion and struggle deep within one's soul
Rejected lyrics: 🎵Spider-man...Spider-man...radioactive Spider-man🎵
🎵 Spider man 🎵
🎵 Spider man 🎵
🎵 Spider maaaaaaaan🎵
🎵 Spider man 🎵
🎵 Spider man 🎵
@@gabrielboorom6196
Spiderman
Spiderman
In a cancer bed
@@magentapurpleyap5566 *That post gave me cancer.*
@@Ze_eT you get me cancer daddy (:
The scene of Spiderman getting blasted into that dumpster by the Sinister Six is actually a pretty fitting metaphor for the developer's treatment of the source material: They treated it like trash, we got trash.
Ok low key best and most underrated comment I have seen I actually giggled at the idea of the games developers being thrown in a dumpster
And those poor animators
@@gracekim25 oh yeah especially the animators they had to suffer for this game man
It seems the animation team sneaked an angry rant in the credits of the game. They knew it was going to be terrible.
"Hey! Picross!"
35:20 Also Shocker is a criminal, but he's in it just for the money. He's not a monster or a megalomaniac. It's perfectly consistent with his characterization.
Yeah I mean another fine example of his character is PS4's Spider-Man game Shocker where he was only robbing those banks because he needed to pay off the Demons or they would kill him and they scared so much that time he couldn't really tell Spidey.
The Town with No Name: Spider-Man Edition.
The voice acting is at least a notch above Town, but I guess that isn't a difficult thing to achieve.
this may be worse than me pretending to be Spider-Man in my room when I was 2
I still do that sometimes lol.
Well hey, whether it was at the age of two or doing that two weeks ago, at least you guys were having more fun than you would have playing this video game right? So I would say it's still a lot better than the video game. :)
Only wih your spidey underware
Holy crap why is this the most liked and seen thing I've ever done on UA-cam. Maybe because my content just sucks that much lmao
I used to wall crawl up my stairs
It was a wonderful feeling
"Spider-man, Spider-man, plays Picrosse in a garbage can" is officially the greatest lyric of all time!
I nearly chocked at that point from laughing....
What time in the video is that?
@@reversalmushroom 12:32
🎶🎶"This Is To Hard Complete,Rats Are Nibbling At His Feet, It Smells Please Help The Spiderman" 🎶🎶🎶
lmao, yeah
This game may be bad but emotionally supportive Shocker gets it a +1 from me.
Yeah I think this game is the first (and possibly) only time that more honroable Shocker was used in a medium outside the comics
Hell, I ship it….
@@Ivyzord 💀
It's pretty jarring to hear one of Spiderman's archnemesies console and comfort him like they're best buddies out of nowhere. Especially after he took hostages and robbed a bank. Lmfao
@@blackdemonknightYeah apparently in the comics Shocker’s actually a pretty nice guy outside of being a criminal.
Difficulty: Happy Yoshi face
this is crazy funny to watch
Difficulty: the egg Yoshi poops.
final rating: sad yoshi face
Diantres, no creí que el gordo pelón cuarentón fuera anglosajón, un gusto hahahahaha
"Blem!"
That “Spiderman, Spiderman” continuing joke was just hilarious.😂 I loved them duplicating and bouncing every time.
I laughed so hard I woke up my wife. They were perfect!
I wish they made a whole video of just the balls bouncing and singing
SPIDER-MAAAN
SPIDER MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
@@VelvetMagician Really needs to be one of those 10-hour loop videos
The more they played it the louder my laugh got lol
Now we know what a J Jonah Jameson produced Spider-Man game would look like!
Yeah, I guess that's why Mac Gargan(The Scorpion); doesn't show up in this game. But I'm sure he wouldn't end the game by having Spidey save the day though, and I don't think he'd let MJ get captured by the Sinister Six of all things, because even Jameson isn't THAT bad, sure, he's a douche, but he wouldn't put MJ in danger like that, would he? No, he'd just end it after slandering Spider-Man's image, most likely. I guess that's where the ending where the Sinister Six throw Spidey into a garbage can comes from...
20:54 especially here
@@NashTheBlade My favorite part of the video
true. And considering this possibility already makes this game 1000 times better.
With the Falcon cameo hidden in the game, does that hint that JJ is a Falcon fan? 🤔
Spider-Man: That guy is a lunatic. I'm not a criminal.
Also Spider-Man: Hippity hoppity I'm breaking into your property.
It honestly would've been an interesting idea to have both endings not be perfect endings, as Spider-Man has had to make several sacrifices to save the people of New York. The idea of having to choose between preventing Alvarez from getting his memory wiped and fighting Doctor Octopus kinda showcases the difficulty of being Spider-Man: you can't save everyone.
See, I thought the save Alvarez ending was true to the spirit of Spider-Man. After reading the comics for so long, I’ve been conditioned to treat endings where Peter saves the innocent parties and foils most of the bad guys but the big bad gets away as a win.
If only the game were more fun.
John your fired Matt your hired
Just like how Spider-Ham said.
That was done better in the PS4 game. Spoilers for anyone who hasn't played, but if you're prepared;
Both games feature the Sinister Six, both with Doc Ock acting as their leader. Near the climax of the game, Ock releases a virus that infects several people within NYC, Aunt May being among them. If you (hopefully) manage to defeat Doc Ock and retrieve the antidote, he is forced to choose between either using the limited cure to save Aunt May or synthesizing the cure to save everyone else, though Aunt May will die. He chooses to save the other citizens, leading to a sad yet somehow heartwarming scene where, on her deathbed, Aunt May reveals she knew that Peter was Ours Truly and says she's also proud of him for doing the right thing before dying from the virus while everyone else is saved. Ya think Insomniac was inspired by that game and wanted to fix it? Because to critics and fans, they succeeded, this PC game being nothing more than a memory... until Rerez made us remember it.
The Spiderman singing balls in jail made me lose it
Agreed. Especially since it was built up like that from the beginning. A perfect running joke.
@matt fahringer Yeah, me too.
*SINGING BALLS*
@@teratrillionz lol
Agreed too.
Shane and Adam are willing to torture themselves completing awful (and sometimes nigh-unplayable) games for us. Both of you Sirs, we salute you.
Indeed we do
With Great Responsibility comes Easy Mode. Hint, hint, LOOK ON THE DESK!!!
“Gotta complete it so you don’t have to” i feel like i’ve seen this before
Don’t speak for all of us. I can think of plenty of other things they could do that would, you know, benefit humanity. But cool.
@@loveyuiz *the review must go on plays*
"I'm glad you're here, Spiderman! Shocker is-"
Shocker?! SHOCKER! YOU CAN'T ESCAPE FROM ME! i'LL HUNT YOU TO THE ENDS OF THE EAAAAAAAARTH!
"...All he did was rob a bank..."
Honestly this game wouldve been like cd-i levels of funny if they had symbiote suit spiderman in it, imagine all the unintentionally comedic one-liners
That transition from Wand of Gamelon carpet ride to the Spidey roof jump was excellent. I had to watch it twice.
Damn, that secret message at the end really hits hard. I feel so bad for the animators. Game was probably on a shoestring budget with an incredibly short deadline which only made things that much worse.
The devs probably gave up and stop caring at some points as some of the animation clearly shows. Can't blame em!
25:49 she clearly sais Smerdyakov. The same as did Spider-Man. Why didn't you just used the code? It was there all the time mouse=rodent. 27:05 ah maybe because Peter Parker is the well known freelancer taking photos of Spider-Man while no one else can? Maybe because everyone thinks that he knows Spider-Man? 28:58 So he knows her name, now what? Maybe now they can find who Spider-Man is among her thousand acquaintances. How he could know her name right? Maybe because she's a actress and millions of people know her. Maybe she was on television many times because of the attacks on the movie set. Maybe. Are you dvm6? What's it with these angry nerds that they're all $+vp¡d @$$#0//€$?
@@suprememasteroftheuniverse You, uh, replied to a thread.
@@suprememasteroftheuniverse spamming with baby rage
@@suprememasteroftheuniverse I'm fairly sure I'm not dvm6.
30:49 Peter looks scared, the cop looks shocked and Mary Jane looks like she's about to kill them both.
That conversation with shocker in the ending where Alvarez dies actually seemed really good. Good voice acting.
I thought Shocker's voice actor was pretty good overall, whether he was a villain or an anti-hero...
@@hakanstorsater5090 How can you say that? He shows no emotion in his voice tone he is just reading a script like a robot. shocker is no mastermind in crime, he is a criminal on edge. He should be shouting and/or laughing that he won against spiderman and tricked the hero into letting him escape.
@@misterymisterio8778 Maybe it's just cause I'm an introvert Scandinavian that I like this kind of downplayed acting. I might have been brainwashed by all the Ingmar Bergman movies I've watched...
The idea of a Spiderman point and click adventure title actually doesn't sound bad on paper, it's just the execution in this case where it fell through. Pretty nice review here!
More puzzle games need easy modes like this one:
“Professor it looks like we need to solve this puzzle to keep climbing the tower.”
“Luke, here’s my answer.”
*SMASH*
“Critical thinking is the key to success.”
Now we can get an idea on how it'd have made some Layton puzzles a breeze.
I actually like this, kinda.
Silent Hill actually did that; there was a separate setting for puzzle difficulty.
@@TooMuchSascha really? It wasn't like this one
25:49 she clearly sais Smerdyakov. The same as did Spider-Man. Why didn't you just used the code? It was there all the time mouse=rodent. 27:05 ah maybe because Peter Parker is the well known freelancer taking photos of Spider-Man while no one else can? Maybe because everyone thinks that he knows Spider-Man? 28:58 So he knows her name, now what? Maybe now they can find who Spider-Man is among her thousand acquaintances. How he could know her name right? Maybe because she's a actress and millions of people know her. Maybe she was on television many times because of the attacks on the movie set. Maybe. Are you dvm6? What's it with these angry nerds that they're all $+vp¡d @$$#0//€$?
As soon as I read “1996” and “multimedia”, I knew this would make “One More Day” seem critically acclaimed.
This makes all of those old Spider-Man Movie Maker shorts look like Homecoming
Merciful even
Yeah this game is almost as bad as that comic storyline where it's revealed that Goblin had sex with Gwen Stacy, and she had 2 kids that were now part of the Osbourne blood line. I wish I was making this up.
@@darthcinema4262 Please tell me that didn't happen
@Jay Pee Well "Sins of the Past" certainly lives up to its name
The Shocker is actually the real hero of a game about his nemesis lol
13:37: I find it interesting that the custom animation fits with the joke by having Peter being as pixelated as the rest of the background.
So, Shocker betrays the Sinister Six, but only if Spider Man picks the left door. If Spider Man picks the right door, Shocker is totally up for tossing him in the trash.
Honestly pretty accurate to his character
@@jeanvictor8178spam spider man!!!!!!!!
SHOOOOOCCCCCKKKKKKKEEEERRRRRR ! YOU CAN'T ESCAPE ME!
Everything Spidey does leads to an alternate timeline
@@sophiebubbles07yknow how DC has a dark multiverse formed of every fear and bad decision made? Well, it makes me wonder, if there was a marvel dark multiverse, what would be the worst outcome to this universe (game)? Like, a route where spiderman does the least heroic stuff possible (like using the wrecking ball on the trash bin and doing crime) and end up with the worst possible ending?
At the Bank scene they literally just flipped the same sprite for the wet cop to make two cops.
Two cops -
One pants
Mmmmm... Wet cops... 😩👌💦
To explain the “Smerdyakov” thing, this is actually a result of the way the two different VAs spoke. The hint narrator was saying the name with a proper accent whereas Peter’s is trying way too hard to pronounce it phonetically, but you could’ve deduced the spelling somewhat if you actually followed the cryptogram correctly. Speaking of which, what is the damn point of “Mouse = Rodent”? It has nothing to do with the puzzle, and this game is clearly aimed towards kids so… why put in such a useless red herring?
Mouse=Rodent?
My best guess is M=R, which would mean to take the given letter and go five over. Ya know, M being 0, N1, O2, P3, Q4, R5. The rest of the puzzle being solved similarly checks out with that.
@@paulmann8570 you have better
thinking skills than i could ever have lmao
@@paulmann8570 Then why Have a 5 Letter word Equal to a 6 Letter word, If all you need is M=R?
@@Jacob_G9 One of two reasons.
Either the developers chose two words that have extremely similar meanings whose first letters are five spaces apart, or they chose to use their PTO and just not care how this would throw most anybody off.
My guess is the latter.
@@paulmann8570 i was going to say this same thing m=r
9:24 I love how the edit is of indistinguishable quality from the bad original character drawings.
At least those bouncy Spider-Man logos are cute.
@@bubblesandsqueak899 spodeyball can into videogame
I think it was funny. XD
@@bubblesandsqueak899 squish
I want
*I NEED!*
Don't encourage them!
I mean, Chameleon might assume Peter knows Spider-man on account of the fact that the thing Peter was best known for throughout the earliest years of the comic was being the only one who could get good photos of Spider-Man.
Yeah one would be pretty suspicious as to just how he keeps getting good pictures. Surprised no one has figured that out, at least to my knowledge.
@@crimsondynamo615 A lot of villains did at least make the logical connection that Peter probably had a deal with Spider-Man and exploited it.
But they didn't say that so it didn't happen. But I really like your theory, makes more sense than the whole game.
@@ethanku4390 As far as I know, that happened in one of the movies. The green goblin connected the dots and tried to shake down J. Jonah Jameson to find out who was taking the pictures.
@@RobMustDie482 ok which movie, because that sounds awesome. Unless it's the Raimi one. That I already know is awesome.
Soooooo, every correct decision you make in this game, including the best ending, is Spider-Man doing the wrong thing and the problems being solved off-screen by someone else.
Genius.
“Spider-Man,Spider-Man playing picross in a garbage can. This is hard to complete, rats are nibbling at his feet. It smellllls, please help the Spider-Man.”
Following the events of this game, MJ's film career died due to word getting around about her husband showing up on set to constantly harass the crew for no reason.
He also keeps taking off his clothes to put on his Spider-Man cosplay.
Later they got divorced. Making this a timeline where Spider-Man One More Day never happened.
Like that would happen
11:22 damn that transition was smooth af. That was satisfying
The "wrong" hint answer was probably right, actually. I think the hint voice was saying it as it's meant to be pronounced in the language it came from (Russian?), but Peter, being a different voice actor in a different room entirely, just pronounces it like an American.
15:47 i now realize why i didn't recognize the picross puzzle 😅
Isn't it weird that the only ending where Spider-Man loses is somehow less sad than the one where he only fails to save one person, but still saves the day in the end?
This game looks like The Town With No Name if it had a slightly bigger budget. The keyword being “slightly”
Peter in this game looks kinda like Ricky “Garbage Day” Chapman from Silent Night Deadly Night 2
"HEY DOC OCK
GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS
GARRRBAGE DAAAY"
Yeah both were made in MS Paint.
@@Gemidori (M)y (S)hitty Paint
That's what the devs were going for. How do I know this? "I was there."
;)
@@Pytatoon Yhitty Paint?
As far as I can tell, the Hint lady actually pronounced Smedyakov correctly in terms of how the name would be pronounced in Russian, but the fact that they didn't anglicise the name for both pronunciations is really annoying to me.
22:00 I will say that could be a good plot for a game though. playing as a superhero, only every act is set up to make it look like the player has caused an accident. This could lead to some interesting choices like "do you keep trying to save the day, or try to find who's responsible to prevent the loss of more life"
actually take the superhero out, and make it some poor teenager, and that could be a pretty good horror mystery game.
and with that I have half the plot points figured out. lol
Honestly I agree that sounds like a cool plot.
Kinda like Spider-Man: Far From Home haha but doesn't have to be all that similar
The fact that the team suffered INJURIES making this "game" makes me wonder how bad the development team was at this game. Let alone whatever kind of abuse they had put up with to warrant the mention of severe injuries
Indeed. I mean, if that part was meant to be a joke, then it's definitely not a funny joke they pulled, that's for damn sure.
@@crazyluigi6664 and what they hell do they mean by......
"but hey, thats just what you get"
THATS WHAT YOU GET WHEN WHAT
is that what you get when spider-man, the CDI, and a crappy game developer squadala into a bar
@@dubstepbeecorsi6892 Absolutely
Little
25:49 she clearly sais Smerdyakov. The same as did Spider-Man. Why didn't you just used the code? It was there all the time mouse=rodent. 27:05 ah maybe because Peter Parker is the well known freelancer taking photos of Spider-Man while no one else can? Maybe because everyone thinks that he knows Spider-Man? 28:58 So he knows her name, now what? Maybe now they can find who Spider-Man is among her thousand acquaintances. How he could know her name right? Maybe because she's a actress and millions of people know her. Maybe she was on television many times because of the attacks on the movie set. Maybe. Are you dvm6? What's it with these angry nerds that they're all $+vp¡d @$$#0//€$?
"Seinfeld daily planner for windows 3.1"...
Weren't the 90's a magical time?
What is the deal with this "internet" thing?
Actually yes. I miss the 90’s
@@JoshuaJacobs83 everyone does
Simpsons and star wars screen savers
"She has man hands"
This is the most caring I've ever seen the Shocker. Not only weighing the cost of a single man's life against the lives of millions but also going out of his way to make sure Spider-Man doesn't feel all too guilty about making such a weighty decision.
21:28 I think the hints were.
1: Click on the desk.
2: I said click on the desk!
3: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! CLICK ON THE F-ING DESK!
honestly 10/10 game for "there's a donut sale somewhere"
Their next title: The Fast And The Furious, JIGSAW.
They alreasy did that fast & furious game and the completionist already covered both Saw games.
@@Invidente7 I'll check them. Thanks mate.
@@Invidente7 pog
for Windows 95!
@@Invidente7 even then. The saw games are actually good.
Know what the worst part is?
They DID end up making a good game
in 1996, Brooklyn Multimedia released the Click and Point adventure game Private Eye, which adapted the wonderful Phillip Marlowe story "Little Sister." Multiple Choices, that leads to different outcomes and ending, a great voice cast, amazing music and atmosphere.
These guys weren't assrendingly terrible...
Just...this wasn't the best license for them to use.
14:00 I genuinely laughed at this knowing it's the same explosion that Deltarune uses.
The idea of a spiderman point and click adventure isn't a bad one. Its just the execution that is the problem.
Yeah
If it was something like the telltale games it would have worked.
KINGpin: "Spidah boi, this game is what real gamers strive for!"
Spider-link: I just wonder what Osborn's up to.
@Chimera MK
Venom: your majesty. Osborn and his minions have seized the islands of new york
@@dimitriwarchief301 Carnage: I spy with my little eye, someone who must die!
Punisher: Lamp oil, rope, bombs… you can kill with it, it’s yours… as long as you have enough… bullets.
@@ThePhantomSafetyPin ....OK but that just sounds like something Carnage would ACTUALLY say.
Shocker always intrigued me, honestly the whole supervillain with a conscience thing, that's probably one of the most complex tropes and I've always liked it.
12:33 i need a 1 hour version of this...
I'm waiting for the game to make a horribly animated Stan Lee appearance.
Bet you it won’t even be played by Stan the Man.
@@milotic4243 Hey, i think if Stan Lee cameoed in this, it may have made it not that forgettable. But, let us not also forget that Stan Lee is more respected than that. But then again, even he wouldn't want to cameo in this. Falcon and Daredevil(well, he's mentioned by name, taking out the Hobgoblin), making a cameo in this is bad enough. But let's not drag down Stan Lee too. This would've made the poor guy roll over in his grave if he saw this awful game...
@@shawnfields2369 he’s already been trashed by Disney
@@floridaman4596 no he hasn’t! Stop lying
Oh boy that be funny
The guy who wanted to be Mayor was working with the Sinister Six the entire time!? I'VE BEEN BETRAYED!!!!
Fitting with your avatar. :P
Also am I the only one who thought the mayoral candidate was videogamedunkey in disguise?
I'd never heard of Shocker so I looked him up, and one of his notable traits on wikipedia is that he's just a mercenary with no world-ending plans, and if things go south he'll team up with Spider-Man. If a kid playing this new about that from the comics they would probably never get the good ending.
Really odd moment to have the Shocker so sympathetic towards Peter in that one ending, trying to console him so insistently
To Quote Mike S (RLM), you'd think the shocker might want to do something else with a villain moniker like that.
Honestly it's not that out of the realm of possibility with Shocker. He's dabbled in being a good guy.
Well it sure shocked me so in a way he’s doing something right.
It's actually pretty in character for most shockers.
Mate, some villains have limits. Not hard to understand
That message at the end of the game speaks volumes. I really feel bad for the animators.
Amen on that one.
29:32 I hate to defend this, but he's actually Clark Kenting his entire body language too, which sells it better. In the video you can easily hop back and forth between the Parker sprite and the Spider-Man sprite in the same scene. He's slouching so much as Peter that he visually is shorter than MJ, but when he stands up straight, as he does as Spider-Man, he's actually taller than her. It's a minor detail, but it does actually give him a more reasonable way of selling his disguise than usual, since he's faking his height and body language.
good eye. that's pretty fun.
i just assumed the game was just having fun with the whole thing. "lol look at these silly people"
But spider-man rarely stands still. Where Superman fights upright and up front, spider-man in most interpretations is in constant motion and tends to minimize his profile by crouching. Spider-man already has his own unique way of moving.
@@Fluffkitscripts
Sure but he stands still a bunch in this game.
I don’t know why but I like MJ’s character model in her first breakout movie role cutscene she’s actually kinda detailed compared to everyone else including Peter
Yeah, i thought MJ was really pretty in here.
So the director guy was the chameleon the whole time. That means while he was posing as the director he had to direct an entire movie just to keep from blowing his cover. Thats pretty dedicated to the plan.
They went from Gundam to Spider-Man and I love that
From what I remember shocker always seemed to be more of a sympathetic villain, like he only did crime to try to make a living and would generally try not to hurt any people
Shocker being sympathetic is especially true if you read ultimate Spider-Man. In issue 122 of ultimate Spider-Man we learn ultimate shocker has it rough.
So that's how the Telltale's Spider-man would have looked like.
No wonder MJ needed a doctor, she stayed on that couch on that weird position.
This game is a load of shmedical.
Smerdyakov?
@@shawnfields2369 shmadical
@@magentapurpleyap5566 Shmedical?
@@shawnfields2369 Spanakopita
@@RenegadePandaZ "Find Smerdykahv or your wife dies?" Schmaidical?
Oh my god. I had this game as a kid! It was completely broken. Nothing loaded properly. If we clicked around the glitched screens, we'd get to combat sections sometimes (which *sort of* worked) but we never finished one. My brothers and I spent *weeks* trying to get this game working and couldn't.
The closest thing we have to a Telltale Spider-Man
Le
Oooof
24:07 That gag goes by so quickly I watched this video twice before I consciously processed it.
I wish all games had a mode where you could just obliterate puzzles instead of solving them. It's much cooler than skipping/autocompleting it or a hint that gives the answer.
Yeah that would be cool. Maybe it makes more noise, or reduces the reward or something to give you incentive to really try at first
It would be nice for people to just blow up doors when they have the ability to, instead of solving stupid color pattern stuff.
can't wait for easy mode professor layton where you stab the people who give you puzzles
I'm getting major CDI zelda and Mario vibes from the animation of these games.
That's both really really terrible and really really GLORIOUS...
At least the creators of the Zelda CDI games tried! Say what you want about them, but they're still animated better than this garbage.
Even the gameplay seems like something you would see in a CD-i game.
@@baalfgames5318 Same goes for I M MEEN which had cutscenes done by the same studio (Animation Magic) and speaking of Animation Magic. I find it sad that Blizzard rejected Warcraft Adventures Lord Of The Clans BUT was fine with Warcraft 3 Reforged/Refunded.
I got Town With No Name vibes, and that says A LOT I guess.
Imagine if the separate puzzle difficulty in a future Silent Hill game (Or an indie game inspired by the franchise) gave you the option to do something as ridiculous as the wrecking ball thing here or do a simpler puzzle. And punish you for doing the former by having it so that doing it ONCE gets you the bad ending.
7:47, every time they do that, I bust out laughing XD
It’s like you’re trying to get that damn song stuck in my head.
Well, you succeeded!
Spider-Man... Spidermaaaaan.
I know how you feel
It sounds like Nirvana
@@SuperPeterok hahah I thought it was Alice in Chains
@@cxxxxxl dude I thought the same thing 😂 it really sounds like layne
I agree, it really sounds like they were going for an AIC impression.
Someone build a time machine so we can go back in time and free those animators from the dungeon basement at Byron Preiss.
Anyone else notice that the barrier at 12:03 is just a looped recording of soapy water?
17:51: I can’t help but think of Duddley Puppy when Adam talks, especially when this made me think of that one-off joke of T.U.F.F. Puppy, where in the first episode (“Purrr-fect Partners”) they said Duddley has a dash of Billy Goat.
This is what we call 'Spoderman'.
"Spødermen"
Sploogerman
The Falcon cameo, and the branching story feature, are actually pretty nice. Like, it's not a well-realized game, especially for the time, but like... it's an okay Spidey adaptation. Am I going crazy? Yes.
Plus, it's another sporadically really dark game that managed to get away with a K-A/E rating because it looks like something for preschoolers.
From a company that previously made Baywatch and Seinfeld screensavers, I'd say it's an ambitious move forward. I'm not saying it's a great game but you can't expect Broken Sword from a screensaver company. That's like shouting at a child for being a terrible dolphin trainer when they only previously fed a goldfish. You can't expect Sea World standards at first.
You should look up Byron Preiss, the guy who made all this. He wrote a book called "The Secret" in the 80's and it was a treasure hunt that hasn't been solved yet.
Then maybe they should have started with a more modest game that didn't attempt to shoehorn a superhero into a point-and-click.
@@3rdalbum You're right but that wasn't their business model. They licensed stuff to make software products.
I'm 99.9 percent sure the sprite for return of the sinister six is what inspired spooder man
9:09 "Can we see that again?" Sure, after a FREAKING 5 SECOND BUDWEISER ADVERT! UA-cam ads. THEY'RE. JUST. BAD.
Especially those ones
@@dimitriwarchief301what about the evony/Hussle castle/hero time?
"What are you waiting for Parker? I need PICTURES! PICTURES of SPIDER-MAN! I don't care what they are!"
Peter: Ok. *Dresses up and plays picross in a garbage can*
Underrated
oh hai
@@kimikonofujiwara9206 Alola.
@@robertkovarna8294 fancy seeing you here :p
If this was meant to be the Spider Man: TAS Game, Then it should have Kingpin as the main villain since he behind every single villain that Spidey ever faced in that series.
the hint system wasn't wrong about that guy's name at the party, it just pronounced his name in a really weird way that makes it hard to understand.
The bad cutscene art reminds me of The Town With No Name.
My name's not shane kid
Or CDI Zelda
I don't know how hard it is to create branching options in an interactive story game, but at least it's not like in Left Alive where you make the decision and it's completely dropped later, in this game you actually get to DO different stuff with those options!
While that's true, Left Alive came out years after this awful game. And even so, the branching options in this game don't really lead to anything except a bad ending. But I will admit, that I want to see both a good Spider-Man movie and game where The Shocker decides to help Spider-Man out. So that's one point the game gets. But only one. Sure, the branching paths thing is creative, and a good idea for a Spider-Man game; but it's too bad these ideas were wasted on a crappy game instead of well deserved Spider-Man game with these options. But at least the 2 recent Spider-Man games give the ol' Web-Head a good name.
Well Tell Tale did it fairly well where every path led to the same road, but your experience was relatively yours. It is like in Walking Dead Season 1. You have to choose to save either Carley or Doug and your decision leaves one alive and one dead. The writers kept the character that you saved alive for a little while longer and you got to know them more and connected with them. That character obviously had to die to balance everything out in the long run. It was actually really well done in that game. Don't Nod also did some nice branching paths in the first Life is Strange game like watering a plant or trying to talk a girl off a ledge.
Kind of. Its like an animation that pauses so you can load the next sections with more than one for the same time stamp. But your choice here only impacts the next section and not the overall result.
Not gonna lie, Shocker's voice actor here could do a damn fine job playing a serial killer in a game of cat and mouse. Or even as Frank Castle.
Also I've got the GBA version of Broken Sword and it still has better animation in parts than this.
The theme song of the game reflects on how hard is Peter's life, the struggle that he goes through, it's really touching
Wonder if anyone noticed that the same voice actor plays both Spider-Man and The Shocker.
I do now
Shocker sounds like a serial killer
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 Considering Herman Schultz is a criminal, that’s....accurate?
@@cashomnitrix It's usually a C-lister at absolute best
@@cashomnitrix The story is actually shockingly accurate in its portrayal of Shocker. He doesn't really care about revenge and he doesn't want to kill people, he just wants money. He's even done a few superhero-y things here and there.
30:50 someone has to turn that into a walking animation. Just remove the webs & background, then put spidy on an common walkway, I'm sure you'll get a hilarious durp walk.
Shane and Adam are willing to torture themselves to stop people from buying terrible games and warn the world about them. We salute you two.
31:28 That segment gave me MGS2 flashbacks
The "easy" puzzle option is unironically really funny and probably the only "good" part of this game
*_"PUZZLE SOLVED, B****!"_*
@@PearangeProductions *explosion*
10:28 this is actually the first appearance of Master Chief.
Frittata
I knew i'm not the only one seeing master chief here
@@haruhisuzumiya6650 omelette?
14:34 is my favorite part lol
Every “Now that’s a Spider-Man game!” moment
1. 3:59
2. 4:30
3. 5:29
4. 7:44
5. 20:53 (“Menace to Society”)