My wife: i like sonic
Her sister: i dont
Me (full of wife’s penis): mmhghhfff
The chairs:
Her dead husband:
Egg man: i hat that hedgehog

I’ll keep coming back to this for years to come. Mechanically it’s one of the most tightly designed, fluid games which encourages speedrunning whilst still being friendly to the casual player. It goes balls to the wall in how it asks you to tackle and experiment with its gimmicks and mechanics/physics, despite their simplicity. It’s fast paced and your decisions come on the fly, but it’s never in the sensory overloading way. The game is smooth, quick to let you reset and perfect your run and walk back your mistakes. It’s made with the same understanding of its playerbase and demographics that Celeste was, so despite the intensity or perceived difficulty, it never grates. The amount of tech you can pull off by the end is as impressive as it is fun. While I’ve seen the story be ripped into online, I’d like to say that’s some of the point. The developers wanted it to be cringe in the way it was what you’d think was cool in middle school, and I think that it sticks the landing due to a full blown commitment to camp. Not that it’s what you play the game for, there’s a skip button loudly placed in the top left of your screen. But I think it’s a case where you can embrace the cringe or easily ignore it. Most overblown critique. It’s not like people pretending Fire Emblem Engage’s story was actually good, when it lost the entire campiness midway through.

Stellar game. Truly MADE for ps5 through its use of haptic feedback and trigger tension, as well as nonexistent load times. Movement is crisp and combat is even better. Amazingly satisfying story, and I fucking love these characters. It DOES have issues, like no day/night switch yet or no new game+, though I don’t use that feature. And I encountered a glitch or two that made me backtrack the mission. It’s minor, though. The fact it exists is still there. By no means is this a rushed game, and I can’t wait for whatever they cook next. Objectively I could give this a 4.5/5. Nah. Fuck you, it’s a 5. Pure 5/5 enjoyment for me.

Extremely underrated. Plays amazingly and gives you so many mechanics to juggle and fight the steep challenges it throws you. I don’t think the plot is quite on the level of Explorers, but it’s enjoyable and the world building is a love letter to the series as a whole. 9 years since the last truly new PMD story. That upsets me. Imo, this is how you do legacy content. Build your own story, but sprinkle references in as a bonus. They don’t inhibit it or take control of the plot ever. That’s why this is good.

Plays SO much better for combat, and so much is streamlined. It’s shorter, but I think this is to its favor. Side content matters as you see Miles build that community to prove he can be Spider Man by just being himself. He’s not an imitation of Peter. He’s his own Spider Man and his own person. And it rules. It’s much more interpersonal, but I think it resonates as a result. Lacking a lot of tedium the first game had is great. Though I’d say it has a few flaws, like some puzzles being bad. Length mostly helps this story, but I can’t help but feel that it does create some friction with pricing discussions. I got this with Remastered for 42 bucks, so that’s a steal, but idk. Up to you on pricing. Fantastic midquel. I do wish Miles had a better design though, namely haircut-wise. As it stands he kind of just looks like FlightReacts. Could be me just being way more used to his Spiderverse design, though, but I’d definitely give him a better cut. Fantastic character, though. Loved my time with this as improvements became apparant after how much I wasn’t a fan of the first game’s DLC.