The Japanese exclusive action platformer that has been said to be the best Spider-Man game on the platform (ignoring the beat em ups). It is, but it's still really bad. The slow and clunk controls allow you to punch, dash, dash attack, jump, jump attack, fire a little web ball shot, crawl, climb on walls or a ceiling, and to hit the trigger buttons to swing left or right from your webs. Movement and attacks feel awkward and slow, stage enemies are both very strange and can typically either be dash attacked through or present on odd target that you can't stunlock so you hit them until they hit you once then you either ignore them and move past or hit them one or two more times to destroy them. It has the usual Spider-Man game problem of being too visually zoomed in to make use of web swinging and to give some awkwardly placed stage hazards and off screen enemies that suddenly appear. Bosses require you to attack in whatever cheap way to discover that allows you to basically ignore their attacks or to stun lock them by knocking them over or backwards repeatedly. Stage design is poor and at times like a small maze (thankfully nowhere near as bad as some of the other games) there just to try to run down the pointless timer. You have some allies that show up in story scenes like Iron Fist, Human Torch, Speedball, etc but they don't do anything mechanically like in Maximum Carnage.

Screenshots: https://twitter.com/Legolas_Katarn/status/1766965902371947002

Reviewed on Mar 10, 2024


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