While it won't become an all-time favourite of mine, handling great power with great responsibility in this adventure was a really good time. It's gorgeously upgraded on newer hardware, the narrative kept me invested with a handful of really engaging story twists, and just moving around the city with webslings, vaults and swings is a simple pleasure in itself. I had to see the DLC through as well with more of the same goodness but a kind of excessive difficulty curve - some challenges in that pack became exercises in tedium with too much to think about & the risk of losing all progress from one easy-to-make mistake. Yet I persevered and felt really satisfied with my work at the end. Super Spidey Stuff!

I used to think a few years ago that this game was pretty middle-of-the-road. But really, there's a lot about it that has aged like a vintage wine to me as time has passed. It's premise is super simple and a run can be finished in no time at all, its technology at the time is impressively good-looking even in today's landscape, and the original soundtrack has slowly become one of my favourites ever for a video game. Playing this game is pure vibes. I won't stretch and call it a perfect game but I've come to accept that it will be among my personal favourites.

(Played one time on stream, finished & completed in my own time)
The freshest that the two-dimensional Mario game format has been for a good long while. There is a splendid array of playable characters for fans of each one of them, though tieing down some of them to the game's Easy Mode style was a mis-step. It's a visual and audible delight with incredible surprises in store with the Wonder Flower mechanic and very little performance struggles if any, and I personally am a huge fan of the way that online mode was implemented, even though not having a direct online co-operative mode & limiting playing together only to local mode is kind of inexcusable in today's day & age... c'mon Nintendo, stop being archaic on this!