History YMMV / SpiderManEdgeOfTime

** At a later point in the game, Peter chews Miguel out for his TheNeedsOfTheMany stance, saying that Spider-Man would always save even a single person no matter the risk. Miguel takes this lesson to heart here, but his [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse Earth-928B counterpart hasn't learned this]] and in fact [[spoiler:formed an entire Spider-Society dedicated to maintaining the stability of the multiverse over saving individual lives, essentially creating an entire army of Spider-People who don't understand what it means to be Spider-Man]].

** However, while this game loses some of the simplicity and accessibility of the first game, it gains a tighter and more mature narrative, improved voice acting from the two best Spidey voice actors (go ahead, try to envision Harris & Gilvezan reprising their roles rather than Keaton & Barnes. Most of the dialogue wouldn't work nearly as well, or would sound awkward with their voices), better dialogue, more interactions between the Spider-Men of the game than just the ending, and a few twists most wouldn't see coming. It's easy to assess this game as having a better story than ''Shattered Dimensions'', but maybe failing to live up to most of the hype that it created due to not being exactly the same.

* MemeticBadass: This game's version of Peter has become this a little since the release of ''Across the Spider-Verse'', where [[spoiler:that version of Miguel creates the Spider-Society who all believe in TheNeedsOfTheMany at the cost of betraying everything Spider-Man stands for. Peter's scene where he convinces his Miguel to abandon this line of thinking became increasingly popular, and Peter is now seen as having the best understand of what it means to be Spider-Man and would beat Miguel in any sort of encounter]].

** At a later point in the game, Peter chews Miguel out for his TheNeedsOfTheMany stance, saying that Spider-Man would always save even a single person no matter the risk. Miguel takes this lesson to heart here, but his [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse Earth-928B counterpart hasn't learned this]] and in fact [[spoiler:formed an entire Spider-Society dedicated to maintaing the stability of the multiverse over saving individual lives, essentially creating an entire army of Spider-People who don't understand what it means to be Spider-Man]].

* CompleteMonster: [[MadScientist Walker Sloan]] is a sociopathic industrialist from the 2099 future, functioning as the catalyst behind the game's events. [[AmbitionIsEvil Chafing under his lowly position]] in Alchemax, Sloan travels back in time and [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight changes history]] to one where Alchemax has asserted control over most of Earth. Under Sloan's banner, Alchemax performs [[PlayingWithSyringes mass human experimentation]] on civilians with monstrous results, and runs the state of humanity into the ground under its dystopic heels. Personally experimenting on [[Characters/VenomEddieBrock Eddie Brock]] and implanting [[MindControlDevice mind control chips]] into him so as to command his alter ego "Anti-Venom", Sloan sends him on a rampage that endangers innocents while torturing him into further savage mutations, hoping to annihilate Spider-Man and gain even more control of time until Sloan can rewrite all reality.

* ContestedSequel: ''Edge of Time'' is seen by several fans as inferior to Beenox's last Franchise/SpiderMan game, ''VideoGame/SpiderManShatteredDimensions''. While some do defend it, many admit that losing [[ComicBook/SpiderManNoir Noir]] and ComicBook/{{Ultimate|SpiderMan}} was a steep blow.

** This may have sparked Franchise/{{Batman}} vs. Spider-Man, as Creator/ValKilmer, famous for putting on the batsuit in ''Film/BatmanForever'', plays the villain in the game. Fast forward six years later, and Creator/MichaelKeaton, another actor who has been the Film/{{Batman|1989}} first, is now the BigBad in the movie, ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''.

** At a later point in the game, Peter chews Miguel out for his TheNeedsOfTheMany stance, saying that Spider-Man would always save even a single person no matter the risk. Miguel takes this lesson to heart here, but his [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse Earth-928B counterpart has to learn it all over again.]]

* CompleteMonster: [[MadScientist Walker Sloan]] is a sociopathic industrialist from the 2099 future, functioning as the catalyst behind the game's events. [[AmbitionIsEvil Chafing under his lowly position]] in Alchemax, Sloan travels back in time and changes history to one where Alchemax has asserted control over most of Earth. Under Sloan's banner, Alchemax performs [[PlayingWithSyringes mass human experimentation]] on civilians with monstrous results, and runs the state of humanity into the ground under its dystopic heels. Personally experimenting on [[Characters/VenomEddieBrock Eddie Brock]] and implanting [[MindControlDevice mind control chips]] into him so as to command his alter ego "Anti-Venom", Sloan sends him on a rampage that endangers innocents while torturing him into further savage mutations, hoping to annihilate Spider-Man and gain even more control of time until Sloan can rewrite all reality.

* WhatAnIdiot: Why would Miguel think his security access code would work in the past way before it would've been programmed into the computers of the building?

* ContestedSequel: ''Edge of Time'' is seen by several fans as inferior to Beenox's last Franchise/SpiderMan game, ''VideoGame/SpiderManShatteredDimensions''. While some do defend it, many admit that losing [[ComicBook/SpiderManNoir Noir]] and [[ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan Ultimate]] was a steep blow.

* FridgeBrilliance: Not having Noir And Ultimate was disappointing, but it does make some sense. Noir knows nothing about technology, and Ultimate would be just a copy of Amazing without the black suit. It also makes further sense considering the focus on time travel: the 2099 era would be the best place to start such a story in contrast to Noir, while the Ultimate universe (being a parallel universe which has no effect time-wise on the main 616 universe) would not fit the aesthetic at all.

* DemonicSpiders: Stunners: they emit shockwaves that are nigh impossible to avoid (your only option is to regularly abuse either Spider-Man's Hypersense or 2099's decoy ability), they fire very quickly, they stun you so that you can barely move or attack for several seconds, they have a shield that prevents you from directly attacking them to stop an attack, and they're fairly common.

** Much of the backlash comes from the gameplay side of things, lacking the varied environments and boss fights seen with ''Shattered Dimensions'' in addition to a relatively toned down combat system which was not as refined as it's predecessor's.

* HilariousInHindsight: One of the available outfits is the suit used by Miles Morales, Peter Parker's successor in the Ultimate Universe. Flash-forward to 2012 with ''ComicBook/SpiderMen'', where the 616-verse Spider-Man finally gets to meet him.
** This may have sparked Franchise/{{Batman}} vs. Spider-Man, as Creator/ValKilmer, famous for putting on the batsuit in ''Film/BatmanForever'', plays the villain in the game. Fast forward six years later, and Creator/MichaelKeaton, another actor who has been the Film/{{Batman|1989}} first, is now the BigBad in the movie, ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''.

* ContestedSequel: ''Edge of Time'' is seen by several fans as inferior to Beenox's last Spider-Man game, ''Shattered Dimensions''. While some do defend it, many admit that losing Noir and Ultimate was a steep blow.

** This may have sparked Franchise/{{Batman}} vs. Spider-Man, as Creator/ValKilmer, famous for putting on the batsuit in ''Film/BatmanForever'', plays the villain in the game. Fast forward six years later, and Creator/MichaelKeaton, another actor who has been the Film/{{Batman}} first, is now the BigBad in the movie, ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''.

** Miguel's words to Mary Jane about her and Peter having their whole future together is near heart shattering after ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay''.

** This may have sparked Franchise/{{Batman}} vs. Spider-Man, as Creator/ValKilmer, famous for putting on the batsuit in ''Film/BatmanForever'', plays the villain in the game. Fast forward six years later, and Creator/MichaelKeaton, another actor who has been the Film/{{Batman}} first, is now the BigBad in the movie, ''SpiderManHomecoming''.

** However, while this game loses some of the simplicity and accessibility of the first game, it gains a tighter and more mature narrative, improved voice acting from the two best Spidey voice actors (go ahead, try to envision Harris & Gilvezan reprising their roles rather than Barnes & Keaton. Most of the dialogue wouldn't work nearly as well, or would sound awkward with their voices), better dialogue, more interactions between the Spider-Men of the game than just the ending, and a few twists most wouldn't see coming. It's easy to assess this game as having a better story than ''Shattered Dimensions'', but maybe failing to live up to most of the hype that it created due to not being exactly the same.

* FridgeBrilliance: Not having Noir And Ultimate was disappointing, but it does make some sense. Noir knows nothing about technology, and Ultimate would be just a copy of Amazing without the black suit.