Honestly had a complete blast with this game. The gameplay was just fully evolved from both Miles Morales and especially the original, this is some of the best and most fluid movement in any open world game period, and the combat was significantly improved, with more complexities and options for both characters and for all types of enemies. Its amazing how the simple addition of a parry can improve the combat so much and help deal with enemies that could otherwise be a lot more obnoxious.

The story is overall very solid and well told. I've heard some issues from friends in regards to how some things were adapted from the comics (I'm not the most fond of this version of Venom, even if it works very well within the framework of the story, he feels more like a Knull-type figure), I think the story on the whole was very enthralling, with a very fast pace. When the story gets going, especially later on with Peter's tenure with the Symbiote, things move a mile a minute with insane setpieces and awesome plot moments and really fun action.

The gameloop was honestly just addicting, I usually don't complete open world games fully, but in this game I was just entranced, going from side quest to side quest to collectible to collectible simply because it was just a fun thing to do.

If I have any major complaints, the game is buggy. I suffered a multitude of crashes, a few major bugs, issues that required a checkpoint restart, and multiple instances of bugs so major that they required a full game restart. Most of my other issues with the game are rather minor, but I feel a 70 dollar product should absolutely not ship with consistent crashing issues like this. There's no performance issues, and I didn't run into consistent minor bugs that made the experience on the whole an issue, but severe bugs like these were definitely a detriment. Luckily I never lost much in terms of progress.