Which version you talking about? The one from the comics, Spider-Verse, or Insomniac?
Insomniac's, I know Miles has been done better before.
Define "we"? I am all for diversity within reason, but I don't shout and scream constantly, because I am playing as some white dude, nor white girl. The only ones who focused too much on race and gender are usually the people who hate seeing others different from them existing in a positive light, nor be a negative stereotype. I know there's those on the left or left leaning guilty as this on the opposite end, they're nowhere near as vocal and troubling as the ass hats hating on a character being black, female, gay/lesbian, trans or not looking "beautiful enough".
See that's the thing though man. I don't mind the diversity, or the inclusion, but the story has to be entertaining. When the story is trash, all it does it make that diveristy and inclusion bullshit stand out because it's clearly they are expecting me to like it just because it's "diverse" and not because it's actually good.
I know you hate me bring that shit up, but you gotta understand that I don't care what a character's race/gender/or sexuality is. I care that they are good characters. It's what I've preached from the beginning in that diversity and inclusion are natural results of better writing over all. You can't just put a woman in the lead role and make her gay and expect the rest of the film/show/or game to take care of itself. That's lazy garbage and it does nothing to help anything. And when I see things like Black Cat being Bi/gay/whatever now it annoys me because it is completely unearned. Why does she have an alternate sexuality? Well because Insomniac says so. There is no justification for it, they are just changing characters because they think that'll earn them social justice points.
Spider-Man 2 and Miles Morales are not the case.
Mile Morales little inbetween game was fantastic.
Spider-man 2 completely shits on both of these characters. It treats Peter like everything he has done and gone through is for nothing, and he spends the whole game getting his ass kicked and having his arcs rushed, like the venom suit changing his entire personality in the course one 1 mission. Meanwhile too much spotlight is given to Mary Jane to prove that she is somehow a capable badass woman or something. People complained that the Mary Jane stealth games sucked in the first game, and Insomniac doubled down and made us play even more missions? Why? Because fuck you for wanting to play as Spider-man in your Spider-man game, play this dumbass reporter and a deaf girl for no reason.
Then Miles' side is filled with helping gay kids ask each other out (actually a cute mission), listening to his deaf girlfriend tell him about how she spray painted some shit, a mission about praising bi-sexual artists of color, and recovering a school mascot. I'm supposed to be fucking SPIDER-MAN! It's a bunch of fluff nonsense. In the first game the side activities were all about Spider-man doing Spider-man things and focused on challenging the player's skills. Things like races, chasing drones, combat challenges, clearing enemies bases, stopping crimes.
Most of that isn't here in Spider-Man 2, and what is here is significantly reduced in volume in favor of the aforementioned social missions.
Most projects aren't doing this and you know this
Most projects are doing this, look at shows like Batwoman, The Arrow, movies like Charlies Angels, I mean Snow White is so fucked that they wont even release it, Marvel's latest phase has been garbage and it's gotten so bad that they are in talks to bring back all the original Avengers cast back for another movie. People are not buying this shit anymore, it has gotten way to heavy handed and it needs a major adjustment.
Hopefully things will turn around and stuff with start to walk a better middle ground, telling good stories without making tolken characters.