It is not, in any way, the responsibility of Insomniac (or any developer) to wrap their game in real-world politics. It is a work of fiction, set in a universe where a super-scientist with the powers of a spider fights crime in a colorful costume. If they didn’t set out to make a topical game that reflects the issues…

Police are an unimpeachable group in Spider-Man. They show no real flaws and make no mistakes.

Spider-Man’s portrayal of policing feels divorced from reality

Hi Tom!

Just a quick head’s up COMIC BOOKS (and video games) AREN’T REAL

Yeah, this article made me realize we’re actually out of problems.

Peter Porker

My dude, Spider-Ham was right there waiting for you to reference him. 

Dude there’s no misogyny here lmao. Chill the fuck out and quit telling people to kill themselves over like 7 words, holy shit.

This is quite groan inducing. Spider-Man helps Yuri, and by extension the NYPD, not the NYPD specifically, she is the only one he trusts, and likewise, and she is the only one he is truly attempting to help. Hell, several times during gameplay he remarks about leaving the scene before the police show up because he’s…

I’m sure I’m not the first to say this to you, but I’ll give you the one reply because I like to make the mistake of giving people the benefit of the doubt.

So you could say

It’s because of scum ball lawyers and uppity parents who can’t bother to police the content their children see. If they didn’t have it all it would do is leave the door open to a lawsuit by some jackass who would sue them because they can’t be bothered to pay attention to what their kids do.

It’s primarily a liability dodge. It allows the service provider to say that they have filters in place, and it’s not their liability for bad info from users (ie people incorrectly entering their birthdates intentionally or otherwise)

“It’s Better Than Nothing!”™

Why do you think one of Mario’s trademark quotes is “It’s-a me, Mario!”?

A fan brings up a good point: the game is out in October. Perhaps it is more fitting for us to consider this a horror game?

Haha.