The game equivalent of a MCU movie, high budget and polish but generic and utterly safe. Dunno if it's fair to criticize the story too much since it's not poorly told exactly, but I was so fucking bored the entire way since nothing intrigued or excited me.
Highlight of the experience for me is most definitly the swinging, the track accompaning it is suitably epic. It felt so good to boost off perch points. The combat also feels very polished, simply enough to be effortless from the get go but just enough variety in moves to spice things up. For the 1st 4-5 hours I was having a good time with the gameplay but eventually it wore off. No matter how good the swinging track is, hearing it a 1000 times really starts to grate and the combat which seems really fun before now made my thumb hurt from pressing X so much while every non boss fight played out very similarly no matter the location. MJ and Mile's sections which could acted as a refresher are instead some of the most tedious forced stealth sections I've played. At least they let us skip the boring puzzles.

I just feel there's been a saturation of Spiderman and Batman media in popular culture and it's time for something else. Excited for Insomniac's Wolverine.

Reviewed on Aug 14, 2023


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