I enjoyed it but much less than the original. They made a number of decisions that make the game more broadly appealing and sand off a lot of the friction but leave the game feeling shallower. Stealth in particular has been simplified and is kind of brain dead, random crimes don't really count towards anything, they got rid of most of the gadgets, and most missions don't have optional objectives any more. The game has a ton of big flashy set-pieces for its main missions that seem to have been the focus, but the moment to moment gameplay isn't as compelling, and it makes a lot of the side content feel boring. I beat the first game 100% twice over but probably won't with this one.

Story-wise it's weak. Spends tons of time setting up stuff and then the final act is really rushed. A lot of story beats feel like notes or fixes for stuff that happened in the movies ( making Harry Venom would be a great fix for Spider-man 3, Peters decision around curing Harry would be a great fix for The Amazing Spider-man 2 ) but I don't think they work here in their own story. In addition many characters feel under-served or under-written. Harry is very one-dimensional, Miles' arc is a bit confused, and MJ has... a lot of strange choices around her character.

I had fun with it, it looks great, and the set-pieces are cool... But yeah a bit disappointed considering the original and Miles Morales were so strong.