Insomniac continue to follow it's winning streak with a very safe sequel that improves upon the first entry in many ways.

I would have loved to see more traversal changes but I can't complain about what we got as it addressed many of its issues. You actually get speed right after a dive now and things like swing assist options and extra abilities make you feel more in control. It's a step in the direction I wanted them to take with traversal. I hope they only raise the skill ceiling to keep people coming back to learn more.

In terms of story and characters. Whilst it didn't get me emotionally like the first one did. Miles and Pete are amazing together and my god I adored Kraven. Never cared for that villain until now. I also get they wanted a unique symbiote story but not even trying an Eddie Brock was disappointing. Harry just wasn't an entertaining enough character for Venom in my opinion. The symbiote/venom part of the story was easily the weakest. MJ had her cool moments but overall I just didn't care for her that much. Pete and MJ's relationship just isn't convincing to me.

And speaking of MJ, no fewer MJ sequences huh? Good for them to double down and try to make us enjoy playing as her but I still believe they are too a jarring change of pace and hurt the game's replayability. I still would rather replay this game than the first due to the Miles & MJ sequences but damn I still don't enjoy these parts.

ALOOT more I could talk about but to keep it short I love this game very much and cannot wait for new game plus!!

Rockstar Games crafted one of if not the most realistic open worlds here. Its gritty tone and unsaturated colour palette give this scarily realistic modern-day feeling of being in a city filled with crime and corruption around every corner.

Interesting and intriguing character designs with a ton of Rockstar's signature sense of humour all wrapped up into an engaging story that carries this Hollywood movie style to it.

And physics has to be mentioned. "Euphoria." still to this day has to be the most satisfying, realistic and intricate physics system in any game and paired with more realistic and unforgiving driving physics for a GTA title it's easy to see why this game was ahead of its time, it knew exactly what it wanted to be, and that vision is carried over into every design choice. It's why I feel this game truly earns the title of a masterpiece.

It's hard to write a review about a game like TotK, I definitely didn't enjoy this one as much as I did BotW and I'm ok with that. It captured the greatness that was the first game and I can see how they evolved and put forward new ideas but unfortunately, the invention system specifically didn't grab me at all. I might one day come back to this game and have a different opinion. There really wasn't much they could get wrong as this game truly feels like a continuation and extension of the first and so for that I still want to give it a score similar to BotW, the story was very engaging and the boss battles were great fun, It just didn't bring me as much enjoyment as the first.

Since I got this on a deep sale the shortness of it was quite refreshing and makes me want to reply it on hardcore at some point. I didn't like how the game constantly took my control away and put me in a cinematic, there were so many times I wanted to play a setpiece myself but just had to sit and watch. Said cinematics were fantastic though, not sure if I just missed this in the original but Nemesis is so like Terminator in this one. Especially that soundtrack!

I enjoy the gameplay more than RE2 Remake. It's faster-paced, slicker animations and the return of dodging. Overall solid enjoyable RE title.