I was having a really great time playing Spider-Man 2 until I reached the Mysterio boss fight overtop the Statue of Liberty. allow me to describe the scene.
The Statue has a forcefield around it, which looks to be casting an illusion to make of look like the Statue of Mysterio. Floating above it is a platform with eight spokes, an energy orb on the end of each spoke. Mysterio's controls are in the center of the platform, protecting by a floor-mounted whirled blade. Around the base of the statue are hoverbots; if you web a hoverbot, it will fly you up to the platform. The plan here is to ride a hoverbot to the platform, attack all eight orbs, then jump for the center brain and knock it out. But here's the trouble:
- the long ride up to the platform (the Statue is in real-life scale) makes the camera go berserk, so you usually lose a few seconds and some of your webswinging momentum while you re-orient your view
- the spokes rotate, and not all the hoverbots are close enough, so it's easy to miss your chance at an orb
- Mysterio's platform appears to be Spider-proof, so you can't just wallcrawl up and out to the orbs
- once you whack all eight orbs, you only have a minute or so to laucnh yourself over to the brain before all eight orbs regenerate
This is the sort of thing that I can't imagine made it through playtesting. It is atrocious. I have spent far too much time missing jumps and falling to the Statue's base, endlessly looping around the platform because I can't get the angle right to swing up to the orbs and/or platform, and wasting time doing both so that the goddamn orbs regenerate back anyway.
Other than that, it's been lots of fun... but now I feel like never playing it again. Totally hit the wall.
Oh, Tobey Maguire is an awful voice over artist. I think his acting style requires you to see his face to complete the image, because his voice is this dull sleepy monotone... I didn't mind him as the movie Spidey, but he sucks as the video game Spidey. The overall experience would have been so much better as an MTV Spidey series tie-in, even with Doogie Howser doing the voice. Would have looked better too.
