Modern consoles are filled with helpful quality of life features, including warnings that a controller is disconnected, which while useful, can lead to situations like the one experienced by aSpider-Man: Miles Moralesplayer during a cutscene.Spoilers follow below, as this particular disconnection happened at the most dramatic moment during the climax ofSpider-Man: Miles Morales. The equivalent to what happened would be ifThe Sixth Sensefroze and had a loading screen come up when Bruce Willis goes to grab his wife’s wedding ring.
SPOILERS FOR SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES FOLLOW
Spider-Man: Miles Moraleshas the occasional humorous glitch, but it still looks amazing and runs silky smooth.Miles Moralesfollows new superhero Miles Morales as he starts to come into his own as a Spider-Man, and as a teenager. Though the gameplay is lifted from the original InsomniacSpider-Mangame, Miles has his own tricks and gadgets up his sleeve as he gets to the bottom of a Christmas-time mystery involving Roxxon.
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The amusing clip, posted to Reddit by user caelumscenic, again, contains spoilers for what happens after the climatic boss fight that ends the main campaign. After defeating theSpider-Man: Miles Moralesversion of the Tinkerer, Miles, like the true superhero he is, performs a death-defying save in order to rescue one of his friends, and just as the pair is about to be safe, a controller disconnection screen pops up, freezing the moment and blocking it from view. Thanks to the wireless controller running out of juice, the feel-good moment of the game is ruined and makes it seem like Miles actually failed to perform his rescue.
On a humor level, the interruption is perfectly timed and could not have been better for maximum impact. While it is not a gameplay breaking bug likeSpider-Man: Miles Moralessending players over jets, the system-level warning screen is completely immersion breaking. One of the comments to caelumscenic’s clip points out that it would be an incredible use of shattering the fourth wall like inBatman: Arkham Asylumwith the Scarecrow’s fear toxin, or the classicMetal Gear Solid 2moment with Psycho Mantis.
Sometimes events just line up to be perfectly timed when they’re least expected, like a controller disconnection at the climax of a 20-hour campaign.
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Moralesis out now on PC, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5.
