Between the parallels of terroristic organizations seeking personal vendettas to high-octane action and comedic back-and-forth, Spider-Man: Miles Morales could be the Die Hard Christmas game.Hot off the heels of the successful Resident Evil trilogy, Dino Crisis, and Silent Hill games (and by hot, I mean hot, there were foursurvival-horror titles released for the PlayStation 1 in the year of 1999 – Parasite Eve II being the last of the heralded genre at the time), this barely remembered IP suffers some anonymity today despite the favourable reviews of its day. However, due to the many festive decorations across the open world and certain story beats, it can be argued that Spider-Man: Miles Morales is a Christmas game. Like Batman: Arkham Origins or Parasite Eve, the Christmas backdrop does little to the game overall as Miles faces a range of classic Spider-Man villains from the Rhino to a reimagined Tinkerer.
It also works, narratively, as the first Christmas since his father's death and how it influences the character development of Miles and his family. This festive backdrop could have been done to reflect the differences between it and 2018's Spider-Man, such as the time elapsed between the two to justify Miles' improved abilities as a second Spider-Man. But unlike the gloom of Gotham, Spider-Man: Miles Morales saw players swing through the streets of Manhattan in an upbeat take on the season. While Batman: Arkham Origins was DC's Christmas, Spider-Man: Miles Morales is Marvel's holiday counterpart. This is probably the best example of an AAA game explicitly framed as a Christmas game, which might be a better alternative than repeatedly referring back to Die Hard. Dead Rising 4's Christmas-centric marketing was prominent though, likely due to not just its content, but also its early December 2016 release date. Not least because the game was set after Christmas Day itself, but that the zombie outbreak seen in-game began during earlier Black Friday sales. However, Dead Rising 4's position as a Die Hard parallel is tenuous.
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Following the same format the series had long established, Dead Rising 4 saw Frank West's return as he uncovered a burgeoning news story while surviving among zombie hordes in a season-ready shopping mall. But for the most part, it was, as all other Dead Rising games, a zombie-smashing romp with ever-outlandish ways of killing the undead. Even Bayonetta's ongoing development of its style of tongue-in-cheek humor and over-the-top moments could reflect Die Hard's own yippee-ki-yay absurdity.Īrguably the most explicit Christmas game, Dead Rising 4 uses its Christmas backdrop to greater effect, bringing fresh social commentary on holiday commercialism and people's consumerism.
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However, for the brief opening that does acknowledge the season, it does so in full force, where Enzo reflects every parent's worst nightmare of getting the perfect present for their children to Rodin cosplaying Santa Claus and bearing gifts for Bayonetta. RELATED: How Bayonetta Origins is Following Bayonetta 3 So QuicklyĪfter this, Bayonetta 2 mostly overlooks the holiday period, but then so does Die Hard which only uses the Christmas party hosted at Nakatomi Plaza as a backdrop to its story. But one angel-jet fighter attack later and the seasonal shopping spree is abruptly brought to a close.
This is made explicitly clear by the game's whirlwind opening which sees Bayonetta out Christmas shopping, joined by Enzo finding gifts for his kids.
Consequently, players will recall that 2014's Bayonetta 2 is also set during the holiday period. Following the recent release of Bayonetta 3 and Bayonetta Origins reveal, fans of the Umbra Witch have had plenty to enjoy and might have even replayed the Bayonetta series.
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