Alright. Time to review this game again, and after playing it again for the 6th time, this game is an underrated gem. In my previous review, I said the web swinging was slow and the web rush carried it, but playing it again, I was actually kinda wrong, the web rush does carry it but the web rush combined with the web swinging is surprisingly fast and satisfying to do, the mechanics involved are fun and I really like how traversal works in this game, is it better than the insomniac games, probably not but I haven’t played them but based on what I’ve seen the insomniac games are leagues above this one in every way but anyways, the games combat while not the most complex, especially compared to the other games, is very fun, yeah it’s a little button mashy but the spider sense mechanic tests your reflexes, and a full skill tree gives you plenty more options for combat, the boss fights range from “oh just a normal enemy with a spider man villian skin” to “oh this is actually pretty good”. So for the negatives, of which there are many, the reputation mechanic is a pain in the neck to keep up with, especially with how fast crimes go down and how many crimes there are happening at the same time, and then when you get to a menace level, you have drones, the task force, guns attached to buildings all after you, which is such a pain to deal with, especially if you just wanna swing around the city for fun, if the devs wanted to integrate this reputation mechanic, that’s fine but did they have to make it so stupidly intrusive for the player? The story is mid too. So anyways, the fire missions suck on higher difficulty, how in the world am I gonna find 5 people in 1 or 2 minutes in such a huge building? It just feels impossible to accomplish! But overall, this game is a 7.5/10, reccommened.

Reviewed on Dec 27, 2023


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