Modern consoles are filled with helpful quality of life features, including warnings that a controller is disconnected, which while useful, can lead to situations like the one experienced by a Spider-Man: Miles Morales player during a cutscene. Spoilers follow below, as this particular disconnection happened at the most dramatic moment during the climax of Spider-Man: Miles Morales. The equivalent to what happened would be if The Sixth Sense froze and had a loading screen come up when Bruce Willis goes to grab his wife's wedding ring.
SPOILERS FOR SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES FOLLOW
Spider-Man: Miles Morales has the occasional humorous glitch, but it still looks amazing and runs silky smooth. Miles Morales follows new superhero Miles Morales as he starts to come into his own as a Spider-Man, and as a teenager. Though the gameplay is lifted from the original Insomniac Spider-Man game, Miles has his own tricks and gadgets up his sleeve as he gets to the bottom of a Christmas-time mystery involving Roxxon.
The amusing clip, posted to Reddit by user caelumscenic, again, contains spoilers for what happens after the climatic boss fight that ends the main campaign. After defeating the Spider-Man: Miles Morales version of the Tinkerer, Miles, like the true superhero he is, performs a death-defying save in order to rescue one of his friends, and just as the pair is about to be safe, a controller disconnection screen pops up, freezing the moment and blocking it from view. Thanks to the wireless controller running out of juice, the feel-good moment of the game is ruined and makes it seem like Miles actually failed to perform his rescue.
On a humor level, the interruption is perfectly timed and could not have been better for maximum impact. While it is not a gameplay breaking bug like Spider-Man: Miles Morales sending players over jets, the system-level warning screen is completely immersion breaking. One of the comments to caelumscenic's clip points out that it would be an incredible use of shattering the fourth wall like in Batman: Arkham Asylum with the Scarecrow's fear toxin, or the classic Metal Gear Solid 2 moment with Psycho Mantis.
Sometimes events just line up to be perfectly timed when they're least expected, like a controller disconnection at the climax of a 20-hour campaign.
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales is out now on PC, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5.
