Everyone has noted that the webswinging is the real selling point here, though endemic to AAA, there's a sense that you can do some incredibly cool swinging but it never feels like you've earned that coolness. The swinging mechanics won't let you faceplant into a building or fall flat on your face, you always recover and always land on your feet which makes stringing spidey through some buildings like a needle through thread, not as satisfying.

The combat is barely there and the story is fine (though I would like to say that they put some real effort into character writing here and I really liked this version of Spidey) and it's got all the trinket/sidequest/mini-game malarkey you'd expect from a AAA open world game.

Still i liked it.

The Souls gang at their peak. Will it ever be this good again? Who knows but I hope so.

The perfect cocktail of rewarding combat, intriguing opaque world building and squishy shit that makes your skin crawl.

Unparalleled in almost every regard.

Goddam what a deliciously sloppy cocktail of horror, action and exploration. Just when your body can't take any more of the game's scares it does a great job of ramping your power up to boost your confidence. Expertly paced to a tee (more short games please!) and a joy throughout.

Also the level designers for this game deserve some kind of McArthur Genius grant cuz holy shit there are parts where you just want to stop and look at every single little detail crammed into the environment. It's truly amazing.

It's up there with 4 as their greatest work that's for sure.