Platinumed between PS4 and PS5.
This game suffers from the same problem Rift Apart has but much more extreme, It's simply just too dull to keep me engaged. This game is so insanely polished, everything looks beautiful and everything feels tight and fluid. The game includes every reference and suit and whatever, it's a fans dream in that aspect.
You've heard everyone tell you about why this game is so great, and I agree with a handful of their praises, so since you already know why this game is good, this review is just gonna be about my issues with this game, and a lot of Insomniacs games. They're just too dull and repetitive.
First off, the web-swinging, It's great and all, but it's just boring honestly, you know why? There is zero consequences for messing up. No fall damage, no collision damage, nothing. There's hardly any physics at play, just the handful of clean animations. It's simply just not that fun to swing around if I'm being honest, there's no thrill when there's no consequences, it makes me feel disconnected from the world.
The combat is stupidly easy. Just really easy. Huge indicators on when to dodge, literally a slow down to allow a giant window to dodge, you can just infinitely dodge with zero repercussions, it really just isn't fun. It looks flashy but it just isn't fun. You can change up combat by using your gadgets, which means opening up a weapon wheel, spamming all your gadgets by pressing the trigger, and gg you win.
It is seriously one of the easiest games I've ever played. Insomniacs solution for harder game play? just boost the stats on enemies, which solves nothing. The AI is brain-dead and you can still do the dodge spam and gadget spam on higher difficulties, it just makes enemies spongier. I understand that this is a Spider-Man game, so it's going to be for a casual audience, but holy fuck dude, this is so fucking easy it is mind-numbingly boring.
(side note: the stealth fucking sucks in this game, completely half-baked and not fun to utilize)
Now a section where I stop complaining about mechanics: the sections where you don't play as Spider-Man. Why are they in the game? Who at Insomniac thought this was fun? It certainly wasn't necessary for the story, we could've just watched a cut scene or something. These sections are so boring and not fun, while playing through them I just want to get back to being Spider-Man. No one on this fucking planet bought this game to sneak around a little museum as MJ.
I got platinum for this game and it honestly wasn't worth it. It felt like a chore. for the open-world content, it's mostly all just boring collectables or repeating the same thing over and over. The side missions are ok cause they have you doing some unique things but everything else is just boring as hell. doing all the crime calls took forever and was just exhausting, all the task master challenges and the Osborn stuff, it was just repetitive man.
Again, I've just only complained and have ignored everything good about this game. I want to clarify that this is a good game, but this is probably the most overrated game I've ever fucking played. I cannot fathom how anyone could give this a 5 star or something.
This game is extremely flashy and polished, but goddamn is it dull. A game tailored for the most casual gamer and no one else.
This game suffers from the same problem Rift Apart has but much more extreme, It's simply just too dull to keep me engaged. This game is so insanely polished, everything looks beautiful and everything feels tight and fluid. The game includes every reference and suit and whatever, it's a fans dream in that aspect.
You've heard everyone tell you about why this game is so great, and I agree with a handful of their praises, so since you already know why this game is good, this review is just gonna be about my issues with this game, and a lot of Insomniacs games. They're just too dull and repetitive.
First off, the web-swinging, It's great and all, but it's just boring honestly, you know why? There is zero consequences for messing up. No fall damage, no collision damage, nothing. There's hardly any physics at play, just the handful of clean animations. It's simply just not that fun to swing around if I'm being honest, there's no thrill when there's no consequences, it makes me feel disconnected from the world.
The combat is stupidly easy. Just really easy. Huge indicators on when to dodge, literally a slow down to allow a giant window to dodge, you can just infinitely dodge with zero repercussions, it really just isn't fun. It looks flashy but it just isn't fun. You can change up combat by using your gadgets, which means opening up a weapon wheel, spamming all your gadgets by pressing the trigger, and gg you win.
It is seriously one of the easiest games I've ever played. Insomniacs solution for harder game play? just boost the stats on enemies, which solves nothing. The AI is brain-dead and you can still do the dodge spam and gadget spam on higher difficulties, it just makes enemies spongier. I understand that this is a Spider-Man game, so it's going to be for a casual audience, but holy fuck dude, this is so fucking easy it is mind-numbingly boring.
(side note: the stealth fucking sucks in this game, completely half-baked and not fun to utilize)
Now a section where I stop complaining about mechanics: the sections where you don't play as Spider-Man. Why are they in the game? Who at Insomniac thought this was fun? It certainly wasn't necessary for the story, we could've just watched a cut scene or something. These sections are so boring and not fun, while playing through them I just want to get back to being Spider-Man. No one on this fucking planet bought this game to sneak around a little museum as MJ.
I got platinum for this game and it honestly wasn't worth it. It felt like a chore. for the open-world content, it's mostly all just boring collectables or repeating the same thing over and over. The side missions are ok cause they have you doing some unique things but everything else is just boring as hell. doing all the crime calls took forever and was just exhausting, all the task master challenges and the Osborn stuff, it was just repetitive man.
Again, I've just only complained and have ignored everything good about this game. I want to clarify that this is a good game, but this is probably the most overrated game I've ever fucking played. I cannot fathom how anyone could give this a 5 star or something.
This game is extremely flashy and polished, but goddamn is it dull. A game tailored for the most casual gamer and no one else.