Villain angle Marvel Studio’s been trying to reproduce since the advent ofīlack Panther’s Erik Killmonger, but when you take Martin Li’s actions intoĬonsideration to the greater narrative – none of it really comes off asĭoctor Octopus wants to besmirch Norman Osborn’s name by I really thought Insomniac was gunning for the sympathetic He was used by Insomniac games as a smokescreen to hide theįact that Doctor Octopus was the central antagonist of the game. Obvious when Li is reduced to nothing more than a boss battle mechanic alongside Martin Li was never the primary antagonist – that rather becomes And that’s the problem with Spider-Man’s story. – Doctor Octopus – broke ties with Norman Osborn and left (or got fired from) Isn’t about informing him as a character. The downside to that reveal, however, is that information Powers and the death of his parents, who I think were getting him treated for some kind of illness. Norman Osborn – and the experiment resulted in the creation of his “Negative” Assuming I didn’t misunderstand the shabby video, he was experimented on by Motivations until well near the end of the game. You certainly don’t get any information about his Six reveal), actually leading the Demon gang, it’s just so he ends up gettingĪrrested and sent to “The Raft” (a maximum security prison for supervillains When he shows up again one last time (before the Sinister Knows that Peter is Spider-Man and that he found his hideaway.Īfterward, a lot of your encounters with the Demon gang have Peter discovers his cubbyhole in F.E.A.S.T, and just says-without-saying he Undetermined absence, as it’s the only “good” part him left, and again when To tell May and Peter to look after F.E.A.S.T when he goes off for an He shows up two times before he goes completely villainous: Once See him reacting to Peter’s constant interference with his plans. You also really don’t get to see his side of the narrative, you just Martin doing anything within the narrative to reinforce that he’s a legitimate threat, most of the really violent acts are done (seemingly) on his behalf by people under his influence. The problem with watching the story unfold is that you never see The “Demon gang” that begins terrorizing New York following Wilson If youĪren’t going into the game blind, you already know Martin is the ringleader of Responsible for creating the help center, F.E.A.S.T, which shelters the homelessĪnd generally helps out those without stable financial means or a stableīut, once Peter shows Martin the “Demon gang” mask, and he vaguelyĮxplains it’s a mask with ties to an old story his parents used to tell him asĪ child, then the character rather disappears for long periods of time. Rarely seen in the game beyond a few cinematics that establishes he was When you get to the game, proper, however, Martin Li is In helping around Li’s shelter (because she doesn’t exactly have other responsibilities He also meant a lot to May Parker (Aunt May), who was a little more proactive More importantly, Martin Li wasn’t just important to Peter, What with his repeated insistence to want to help him in earlier demos from Know that this was a person that Peter Parker looked up to and admired greatly – The advertisement and demos seemed intent on letting the audience Negative was quite literally the only villain you saw consistentlyĪmongst the promotional material, even after the reveal of the Sinister Sixĭuring E3 2018. At least, on the assumption that the game had no intention of using established rogues (like it ended up doing). His comic book backstory certainly invokes a lot of those feelings, but his affiliation with characters like The Spot (who I initially mistook him for, lmao) and Hammerhead, opens the character up to an otherwise interesting avenue of villainy. Yuri Watanabe (a Japanese-American police officer who works with Spider-Man) as With the “Yakuza” or “The Triads”) – even with the presence of characters like Hot all through the eighties and early 2000s (think any action film dealing Of criminals, tended to invoke the aesthetic of “Evil Asians” that was really I had some trepidation toward the use of the character –Įspecially since the “Demon gang”, a seemingly Chinese-American fronted group Otherwise known as Martin Li (voiced and apparently modeled after Stephen (emphasis on appeared) to be hinging its bets on a relative unknown villain (within the spectrum of the mainstream or pop culture awareness), Mr. Marvel’s Spider-Man (or, Spider-Man PS4) was the fact that the game appeared I think one of the things I was excited about with regard to
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