As the map is quite big, encompassing several buildings, rooftops and city streets, it can make getting to where you need to go a mounumental pain. The first being the design and placement of the map: The map is located on the top of screen and cannot be manipulated to see where you need to go. It sounds really excellent describing it, sort of like Spider-Man meets the light/dark world mechanic from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, however there’s more than a few design errors that make this an exercise in frustration. To solve puzzles and progress, players can switch between the two at any time with a simple push of the select button.
In the case of EOT, there’s a map for each of the Spider-Men (Spider-Man’s?) and each have their own unique abilities as well as a link between the two time periods where something that affects the past, say Spider-Man knocking over a robot in the present opens a pathway for Spider-Man 2099 in the future. To correct this and bring balance to both the present and future, Spider-Man must team up with his future counterpart, Spider-Man 2099 to put an end to Sloan’s plan.Īs stated above, EOT is an open “metroidvania” styled game where levels are replaced by an open map that restricts itself until a proper upgrade is obtained to proceed. The studio tried admirably to pick up where Griptonite had left off before them, but unfortunately lightning did not strike a third time with the use of the formula.ĮOT on the DS features a similar story as its counterpart on home consoles: In the year 2099, Walker Sloan from the Alchemax corporation abuses the time stream to bring about the birth of the corporation in present time, but inadvertantly damages the time stream in the process. That particular studio was purchased by Glu Mobile in 2011 to work on mobile games, and published Activision contracted Newfoundland based Other Ocean Interactive to craft Edge of Time. Prior to the release of Spider-Man: Edge of Time on the Nintendo DS, development duties for Spider-Man games on the DS had fallen on Griptonite Games who created some pretty great “metroidvania” style games featuring the web-slinger with Web of Shadows and Shattered Dimensions.
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