![]() ![]() All in all if you can look past the flaws it is enjoyable, but fans of Spider-Man might be disappointed such as myself. But it is an extremely flawed film with problems all over the place. It has some fun sequences, Andrew Garfield is again great as the character of Spider-Man and it does have some good moments. Overall The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is mediocre at best. Other gripes I had was the choice of songs in scenes, character logic and villain motivation, and the fact that it was painfully obvious that they were trying to set up a Sinister Six movie and universe. Paul Giamatti is way too over the top as Rhino and he is humiliated in the beginning and he only comes back for the end of the movie, the trailers pretty much lied to you and it was really disappointing. The official Insomniac Twitter account replied to a thread in which fans were speculating about why the game hadn’t received a second trailer since it was originally announced. ![]() Also Rhino is by far the worst handled villain in this movie. Spider-Man 2 is still slated for release in 2023, Insomniac Games has reaffirmed. The story is pretty convoluted and all over the place. The romance while at times good, the dialogue needed some work. But overall he's the best villain in the movie even though he only shows up as Green Goblin in the last minute. what the hell man! He was trying way too hard to be like Willem Dafoe Green Goblin and it just comes off as forced and hilarious. Dane DeHann as Harry Osborn he was alright, but very over the top at times and when he turns into Green Goblin. The best I can say about him was that he was okay, but he had like no legit motivation. Electro is poorly portrayed by Jamie Foxx, I love Jamie Foxx, he's a great actor but he just wasn't very good as Electro. First off this film has pretty bad dialogue and writing. Now all of that out of the way I'm gonna explain what I didn't like. Gwen Stacy's death even though it was predictable was very sad. The scenes with Spider-Man swinging around is well shot. All the cast from the previous film are really good especially Andrew Garfield who still does a good job as Spider-Man not so much as Peter Parker though. My favourite one is the Electro fight at the plant, lots of fun with slow mo action. Let me explain what I liked and disliked. It's not an awful movie but its just very flawed. However, Sony has not officially confirmed or denied as much.The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is the worst Spider-Man movie I've ever seen. Spider-Man also launched on September 7, 2018, meaning that its numbered sequel may fall somewhere around the same time five years later. The outlet said that its publishing sources had recently divulged the same release window. It was quite a saga with an odd message that was backed up by Video Games Chronicle. However, before mostly winding down his Spider-Man tweets, he made a video using a more demonic, Venom-like voice saying it was the “person that has taken over Tony Todd’s Twitter feed” and to “not listen to anything he says” before ending the video saying that he needs to “get out of Twitter jail.” A user then stated that Todd was saying “screw the NDA” and Todd simply replied “No.” He later said it was all a fever dream and blamed jet lag. Hold on to your … and hold breath! Gonna be necessary- Tony Todd March 21, 2023Īctor Tony Todd, who is playing Venom in the game, tweeted that it “looks like September” when referring to game’s release window and that he was told there would be “massive publicity coming in August.” Todd’s following tweets were a little peculiar, as he tweeted “Oooops” when asked if it was real. Commercials start dropping in august so I’m told. Looks like September! Massive publicity coming in august. ![]()
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First time through I didn't pick up the Cursed Chest in the Clock Tower and the shield is called Punishment so I thought maybe there's some chance it'd have it but after opening the chest it was just the usual colorless item, gold and power scroll. I've spent 30 mins on Clock Tower checking every corner/wall looking for breakable ground with Belier's Rune, looking for places I can climb and roll into, nothing though, I memorized the whole layout I had and truely have checked every wall. I did check the Fog Fjord timed door today (only had 1 scroll of Brutality for me and money then souls as usual) because I was looking for the Counter Shield, turns out I found the Counter Shield in a different secret area in the Fog Fjords though but no key. Would be kinda cheap/impossible though, having to do a frustrating speedrun like that just to get the blueprint (and then get murderized because of subpar items/stats against what might very well be the strongest types enemies in the game). I even went to the fjord and took the first key, skipped over the barrier via the secret area on top, and took the village key to the clocktower but nope. ![]() Though i already checked the breakable floor at the beginning of the clocktower and tried ringing every bell, but no luck there. Keys do seem to carry over from one level to the other, so either it's VERY well hidden in the clocktower or it's hidden in one of the previous levels, with the clocktower being about time and all, perhaps behind a timed door? I scrambled up and down and all across the map one last time, ringing them in the right order, and finally gots me that shiny new shield.Originally posted by CarThief:Well, i was thinking maybe its behind the timed door in the fjord, but i dont like doing speedruns so i never checked. Then came 'Bb3', then 'C3' and lastly 'Eb4'. To my amazement, after I rang the first bell a 'G4' popped up. 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