This game's key principle is "less is more". Sure, the extremely short story and lack of many side quests is quite detrimental to the experience, but the quality otherwise within those few hours I spent playing this game was no short of brilliant, exemplifying the aforementioned idea.
The themes of being put in impoverished Harlem and being the underdog Spider-Man who has more abilities to work with (which make combat and stealth missions way better!) but is held back by less exposure and experience and a lack of a mentor, the musical score, the short story, and the whole web of maybe only a few interconnected characters throughout the game makes this game shine. There is only a small amount of content, but I'm glad that Insomniac was able to flesh out everything within that small amount of content.
My only real complaint with this game is that accounting for its brevity, it doesn't really feel like a game, but rather an add-on for the 2018 Spider-Man game. It definitely didn't need to be $50. Thankfully, I got it on sale and with the help of some spare gift card change I got the game for a paltry $5, but it doesn't still change the fact that this is nearly full price for maybe only 10 hours of content total.
3.75/5, but I guess I'm forced to round up to a 4/5 because of Backloggd. Still definitely a good game, just play the game from 2018 first before this one. It'll definitely go for cheap now that there's a new one coming out in less than a month.
The themes of being put in impoverished Harlem and being the underdog Spider-Man who has more abilities to work with (which make combat and stealth missions way better!) but is held back by less exposure and experience and a lack of a mentor, the musical score, the short story, and the whole web of maybe only a few interconnected characters throughout the game makes this game shine. There is only a small amount of content, but I'm glad that Insomniac was able to flesh out everything within that small amount of content.
My only real complaint with this game is that accounting for its brevity, it doesn't really feel like a game, but rather an add-on for the 2018 Spider-Man game. It definitely didn't need to be $50. Thankfully, I got it on sale and with the help of some spare gift card change I got the game for a paltry $5, but it doesn't still change the fact that this is nearly full price for maybe only 10 hours of content total.
3.75/5, but I guess I'm forced to round up to a 4/5 because of Backloggd. Still definitely a good game, just play the game from 2018 first before this one. It'll definitely go for cheap now that there's a new one coming out in less than a month.