After being on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle curtesy of Rhino, Peter’s suit has Clothing Damage with the most prominent damage at the top right of the white spider, where one of the legs is almost completely chipped off. This is the same area where Doctor Octopus impaled Peter in the previous game, possibly indicating that that part of the suit is permanently damaged and necessitating a new and improved suit in the sequel.
Most of the villains of the original game while having changes were similar to their comics counterparts but with updated designs, however one of the Big Bad Ensemble here is a radically changed female version of the Tinkerer who uses an armoured suit and gadgets to be a physical threat. Since Miles came from the Ultimate Universe, it seems his own personal rogues gallery will be taking cues from the Ultimate Marvel books in changing around the villains.
The new suit Peter gives Miles looks like it's cinched at the joints, symbolizing the big shoes Miles feels he has to fill as Spider-Man. After recognizing his own strengths, the black suit he makes with Ganke is a perfect fit. It goes well with the "Be Yourself" message of the game.
The amount of high-tech criminal weaponry used by the Underground seems a bit much, even for a teen genius like Phin, but it should be noted that most of what they have is very similar to the Sabletech left over from the Devil's Breath incident. The Tinkerer would have to do less building her own super-tech and more modifying the old. As for where the Underground got it? Well, the Maggia stole oodles of it and they've been known to rob them.
The weapons the Underground uses and the way they assemble and disassemble is very similar looking to the object Miles and Phin steals to break into the Oscorp Science Museum.
Similarly, the gear used by Roxxon mooks is almost a carbon copy of Sable's gear from the previous game, with no modifications like the Underground's gear has. This lines up with Phin's statement that "all Krieger knows how to do is steal other people's technology".
In the first game, Harry Osborn's reason for not being physically present was that he was on a trip to Europe or so he says, and in Miles Morales, his best friend Peter's reason for not being physically present for most of the game is that he is also on a trip to Europe.
In a sad way, Phin and Miles's childhood dream of going to space does come truewhen Phin uses the last of her Tinkerer gear to run Miles's overloaded body to low orbit so he can release the energy he absorbed from Roxxon's reactor.
Fans will complain the lack of gadgets Miles has access to compared to Peter in the first game but there's two easy explanations for that:
Peter's gadgets would've been the result of him taking on multiple enemies as well as supervillains all by himself for 8 years, while Miles had the last year with each other as back-up. It didn't become a necessity until after Peter left for Europe and Miles was on his own and by then, Miles had started making his own gadgets.
During the first game, Peter had access to a lab where he could use equipment and tool to build the devices while all Miles has is his small bedroom to work and whatever tech he can scrounge from the Underground's caches.
Peter may not have had time to train Miles in the maintenance and use of all his gadgets seeing as his training sessions are still covering the nuances of his basic abilities.
Pete gets his ass kicked by Rhino presumably because he ended up having to fight him in an arena with no Boss-Arena Idiocy unlike in the fight in the first game that had many convenient heavy object to stun Rhino with.
Jameson's hysteria and arrogance have been cranked up in this game compared to the last, and his Jerkass Has a Point moments are notably fewer. That said, it can be easily explained as being him undergoing Sanity Slippage in-universe, as Spider-Man's standing among the populace has only gone up as of late, and not only does old jolly Jonah have to deal with two of him now, but it's implied that his own podcast's numbers have had nowhere to go but down in the same timeframe. As far as he's concerned, however, the people of New York are the ones losing their minds, hence his increased misanthropy towards them as well.
Simon Krieger feels confident that the number of people suffering serious illness from their faulty reactors are not going to be a impediment to their bottom line. Is Krieger being overly confidant or has he done this sort of cover-up before? Are there other places where Roxxon has raked in a fortune while leaving behind ruined lives and horrifying medical conditions? How far away is this from reality?
"No one is going to care about some sick people uptown."
Though for fridge nightmare retardent, Krieger has a big case of Evil Cannot Comprehend Good going on and in the same speech, he also says that no one would care about Rick's death, when in fact said murder screws Krieger over big time because Rick left no notes on how to make Nuform. It's quite likely that he is wrong, but no one wants to let it get to the point where they'd find out.
While Simon Krieger and Norman Obsorn are exposed and each are removed from their positions of power, Oscorp and Roxxon continue to exist, albeit each with a much lower public profile. The fact that their actions could have contributed to the deaths of so many people yet they continue to exist and profit is chilling.
In this case, it's actually indicated that the Roxxon executives genuinely didn't know the details because Kreiger lied to them.
There's a four-week time skip in between the end of the story and Krieger getting arrested. If Miles neglected to dismantle any of secret labs' Nuform reactors before that point then they will have almost a month to poison all the Roxxon staff and potentially any nearby locals who happen to use the Roxxon gas station.
Towards the end of the game you can hear some ambient dialogue from an Underground member who transported the Nuform and is now sick. Given the amount of time The Tinkerer spends carrying a cannister of the stuff around they may be living on borrowed time even before their Heroic Sacrifice.
If Phin and her brother still had a living mother/father/aunt/uncle, how would said family member take the death of Phin, while already reeling from the death of her brother?
Actually, their parents are dead, which adds a different form of Fridge Horror - the Mason family line is now extinct.
