Insomniac Games' Spider-Man: Miles Morales improves on a lot of the things which made Marvel's Spider-Man great, and that includes eliminating the original game's most boring missions. When it originally released in 2018, Marvel's Spider-Man was near-universally praised for being one of the best open world superhero games ever made, but even with those acknowledgements some players felt like there were certain sections of the game which ruined its pacing and brought all the fun to a screeching halt.
This feeling usually arose every time Marvel's Spider-Man would take the player's control of Peter Parker away and instead put them in the shoes of one of Spider-Man's supporting characters. While this helped to show how a normal person would react when facing the kind of foes Spider-Man often battles with ease, it also provided far less gameplay options and forced players into linear stealth segments which could take a while to accomplish. For people who want to play a Spider-Man video game specifically because they want to BE Spider-Man, this was frustrating.
Thankfully, there is none of that in Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and the game is much better for it. Although there are certain sections of the game which, were it not so streamlined, could easily put the players in Ganke or Rio Morales' position to show them what they were going through, Insomniac restrained themselves, and the end result speaks for itself.
Miles Morales Is Spider-Man At Its Most Streamlined
Marvel's Spider-Man offered players lots of different gadgets to use in combat. Spider-Man: Miles Morales, on the other hand, has far less - but thanks to Miles' Venom abilities and his Invisibility, players can experiment with a large amount of gameplay strategies anyway. The ability to instantly turn invisible while picking off enemies makes the version of stealth found in Spider-Man: Miles Morales much more engaging than what was possible in Marvel's Spider-Man - not just in the boring forced stealth sections, but in Peter Parker's gameplay as well.
By keeping the camera (and the controls) solely relegated to Miles' story, Spider-Man: Miles Morales does a better job of planting players in his body and allowing them to experience the snowy skyscrapers of New York through his eyes. Spider-Man: Miles Morales may be a shorter game than Marvel's Spider-Man, but it's better for it. There's no fluff, no tedious missions that feel like too much filler content, and, most importantly, no boring segments where players have to become one of Spider-Man's interesting (but basically useless) friends. Instead, Spider-Man: Miles Morales is all Miles all the time - just like it should be.