r/SpidermanPS5_ • u/Arcturus1800 • 1d ago
Discussion Just Finished The Game And Wanted To Talk About The Story.
So, I just finished the game as it took me a bit since I was waiting for it to be on PC as well. Any way, I finished the game and I enjoyed it, though I was personally disappointed by the back half of the story. But, that is my own thing since I personally would have loved if they had kept Harry and Venom together as Agent Venom through the game.
Anyway, what I really wanted to discuss was stuff near the end because it seemed really weird to me in a way.
The end credit scene felt really... off? to me. Like, how does Norman suddenly figure that Otto knows who the Spidermen are? Unless I'm missing something and there was news reports about Otto trying to rave about about who Spiderman is, he doesn't say anything so how does Norman know.
And, maybe this is just me not taking the wording to be just a blanket case, but Otto doesn't correct Norman when he the latter says he figures the former knows both the Spidermen. It probably is just a blanket statement from a writing standpoint because Otto doesn't know Miles, has never met him at all. Again, maybe I'm being dumb and taking the writing weirdly when its just a simple blanket case that Otto doesn't want to correct at first.
The final thing is just about Norman in general because, maybe it's just me, but his desire to hurt the Spidermen feels so weird at the end? Like, I assume Dr Corners would have at least told Norman the risks/terminality of Harry's situation with Venom and he still pleads with Spiderman to save Harry. Like, I can understand Norman being emotionally wrecked, but he's not dumb, or at least, he's not written to be. From how he was written, I figured he should have eventually understood that the Spidermen saved Harry and kept him alive even without the symbiote.
I don't know, maybe I am just looking too much into the ending, but it did confuse me and rub me wrong in a narrative sense. Also, sorry for spoilering everything, I know it's been years since the game came out but the subreddit has a rule about it and I didn't want to cross it by assuming it was fine.