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.

Actual masterpiece of 3D sonic level design, nothing has topped it yet, classic sonic (while not bad like sonic “4”) is a downgrade from the classic games but still fun in his own right, this game is a celebration of the series in the purest way possible, the only thing bringing it down is the story (or lack there of) which means unleashed is still my favourite game in the series. But if the story was actually written well (or written at all) it would probably be my favourite in the series, still a 10/10 game though!

This game is a guilty pleasure for me, it’s not great, I just think it’s neat and I love it. Not just because I’m a Spider-Man fan who doesn’t have a PS4/5 and wanted a substitute for it, I just think it’s a pretty good game in my opinion that deserves more love, I like the web swinging (even if the web rush carries it) the stealth, while a bit jank, is still pretty fun! But the cons do kinda outweigh the pros somewhat, asides from the rubbish story, the web slinging is kinda slow. The open world missions are just repetitive, and once the main campaign, the arcade machine challenge and Russian stealth missions are over with the game becomes boring, especially after you’ve seen every variant of the missions, the games biggest flaw is the lack of replay-ability and variety. And also that very weird morality bar thing, it’s supposed to make the game more interesting I guess but not really. So yeah. That’s my thoughts on this very flawed but underrated game!