Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Actor and voice artist Yuri Lowenthal has suggested it’s time for fans unhappy with Peter Parker’s controversial face change to “get over it”.
Lowenthal’s comment comes in an interview with Comic in which he discussed how he felt when a segment of fans were up in arms over Insomniac’s decision to update the facial features of Marvel’s Spider-Man’s unmasked hero, Peter Parker, when the fan-favorite game was remastered in 2020.
The change – made to ensure the facial animations better matched Lowenthal’s performance – caused quite a stir and revealed to Lowenthal just how ’emotionally connected’ people can be to their favorite games and characters.
“The performance was the same for me,” Lowenthal said. “I got over it as soon as they said, ‘Hey, we want to make this change so the facial animation gets better.’ I said, ‘I’m all for it!’ I don’t care if he looks like a goblin, if my performance is better then I’ll join in.”
After admitting that he was “a little tired of talking,” Lowenthal acknowledged that “some people will never get over it,” but added that some good had also come out of the situation.
“The one positive thing I take away from this experience is that people were so emotionally hard and deeply connected in the first game that they get angry when they feel that person changing,” Lowenthal concluded. “I can only be so angry about that because it worked, not the change stuff, but you connected with the character, which is great. Now get over it!”
Developer Insomniac Games recently announced this Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 has become goldand reaches a launch-ready status ahead of its October 20 release PS5 Edition.
With Cat, usefully summarized for us at the time, for those who don’t know, “going gold” is a gaming industry term, meaning the game is “finished” as far as the development cycle is concerned. This doesn’t mean that Insomniac might not tweak and polish the game in the meantime, but it does mean that if the game were to be released tomorrow, it would be in a launch-friendly state.
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