Cinepals React to Spider-Man Remastered's Cutscenes and Fall for Otto Octavius Right Away

Achara Cook and Haley Seat have started a full deep dive into Insomniac's Spider-Man Remastered, reacting to Gamers Little Playground's compilation of every cutscene in the game. The full video runs six hours and twenty minutes, so they are splitting it into nine roughly 40 minute episodes, and this first installment covers the opening Wilson Fisk takedown through Peter's early days working with Otto Octavius.

Cook mentioned she had actually played this part of the game before, though she never got past the Fisk battle, so much of what follows was new even to her.

The Opening Fisk Tower Battle Impresses With Its Voice Acting and Swinging

Both hosts were struck by how good the traversal looked right out of the gate. Seat called the swinging "so much fun," and Cook admitted, "Man, I want these powers." They also noted the graphical detail, like dust motes floating in Peter's cluttered, past-due-rent apartment. During the fight through Fisk's tower, Cook praised the performances outright: "The voice acting is really good." She also compared Peter's mechanical web-shooters to the earlier Sam Raimi films, saying, "I kind of miss like from the first Spider-Man movies, the Sam Raimi ones, where it was just like biological... he didn't need a little contraption." They both noticed Fisk Tower's gold, Trump Tower-like design and wondered if a later Spider-Man movie used a similar building for a similar fight.

Wilson Fisk's Boss Fight Ends With a Callback Joke and a Trip to the Raft

The hosts enjoyed the escalating boss fight, including the moment Fisk blows up his own building without regard for his employees inside. When the fight finally ends with Peter pinning Fisk, Seat lit up at the returning joke "So, do we kiss now?" answered with "Yeah, maybe later," calling it "a really good" callback. They picked up on the game's foreshadowing too, noting Fisk gets sent away to join Scorpion and Electro, with Cook guessing there might be a power vacuum among New York's villains while he's locked up.

The Otto Octavius and Peter Parker Relationship Is Already Their Favorite Part

What really won them over was the lab material with Doc Ock, including Peter secretly fixing the tensile actuator with a toothbrush and solvent, the failed grant-committee demo, and the prosthetics work for a wounded veteran. When Otto discovers Peter is Spider-Man, Cook was surprised by his calm reaction: "He was way chiller about that than I thought he was going to be." Cook said she is already dreading where this goes, admitting Otto's fatherly warmth toward Peter and his "bumbling genius" optimism will make his eventual villain turn hurt to watch. They also had fun with the optional Yuri side content, including the "Spider-Cop" bit and the tracked backpack collectibles, before wrapping up genuinely excited for the next episode and Peter's new white-detailed suit.

Do you think Otto Octavius's turn to Doc Ock will hit harder in this game than it did in the Sam Raimi films?