Replayed it since I was curious about the remaster's improvements, and swinging around in this game still feels incredible. The combat is still pretty fun as well and I do enjoy the stealth when playing as Spider-Man. Especially now that it runs at a better framerate. The PS5 version's graphical improvements generally look great as well, with maybe the exception of Peter Parker's new model. Which isn't really all that bad aside from that most of the time he's noticeably less expressive than both the original model and other characters in this game. It feels as if less custom animation work was done on him here which is a shame.

The game's writing I'm more mixed on. This rendition of Peter Parker is mostly hitting the right notes, stuff like him struggling to get by and helping a homeless shelter fits incredibly well with him. Much better than him being Tony Stark Junior in the MCU movies. But then for a lot of the game he also pals around a whole lot with the NYPD, which was bad when this game released and just looks even worse now after this past year. What's also frustrating though is a trend that pops up in a lot of superhero media, which is that the villains try to do the right thing but in the wrong way, while it also feels like the writers never thought of a right way to do things aside from locking the bad guys up in a prison.

Oh also the stealth missions where you play as someone other than Spider-Man still suck. All that being said: the stuff this game does right it still does incredibly well so I still mostly enjoyed this a lot.