First, please make sure that there is no tutorial message on the screen, the game intentionally pauses during tutorial sections until the tutorial action is completed.
If this is not the case, try the Restart from Checkpoint option in the menu. If this does not solve your problem, you can load a backup save.
How to load a backup save
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 creates backup saves at key points in the story, when new objectives appear, when collectibles are obtained, when Crimes are completed and when new GankeNet areas are discovered.
If your current game slot is stuck in an unplayable state, you can return to a backup save instead of starting the game over.
To do this, exit the game and go to the Marvel's Spider-Man 2 folder that is located inside the Windows Documents folder.
The path of the folder will look similar to this:
C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Marvel's Spider-Man 2\
If you installed to the default path copy and paste this into your file explorer. It should take you directly to where the save files are located.
%userprofile%\documents\Marvel's Spider-Man 2\
In here, you will find a folder with a long number or combination of letters and numbers. That folder contains the save files and the backups.
- Backups have the same base name as the save slot with a suffix added.
For example: slot1-autosave.save.backup01. - If you do not see the backup files, go to the View tab in the folder and click the 'File name extensions' checkbox.
- There is a maximum of 10 backups, the backup with the lowest number is the most recent. You can confirm this by looking at the time and date the backup file was created.
- To restore a backup, remove the ".backupXX" extension from the filename to overwrite the normal save. So slot1-autosave.save.backup01 would become slot1-autosave.save.
- Each profile has its own autosave and backups. The game has a maximum of 6 profiles. Slot1 is Profile 1, Slot6 is Profile 6, etc.
- After renaming the backup save, start the game and press Load Game, to select the desired save file that you restored.
Please be aware that overwriting existing save files can result in losing progress. You can backup your own save files by copying them and storing them in another folder, before overwriting any file.
You may lose some side content progress depending on the time between when the save was made and when you experienced an issue.