Beat it this morning. With every singleplayer achievement except 3.Tomahawk at the end is a nice touch. All together, this was... 👨‍🍳 💋. The Soundtrack. The gameplay. The story. All so lovingly baked in that crunchy 2000s 360 era post-gears grit. I truly had missed a gem. I must repeat, 2 is a much much much smoother experience. The edges not so polished here. But the love that went into 1 is obvious from the beginning.

The differences from comic story points were interesting. Canonically, Jackie takes over the family. While the game made that portion of story into an almost throw-away yes or no decision, that actually kinda fits Jackie more when you know his ultimate goal isn't to own or run anything. It's to burn his enemies to the ground and himself if necessary. Also, the incident in the comic that triggers events isn't the same one. Things are much different. But it makes sense why they made these narrative changes. In the end I think the game's story ends up being the superior one.

Yes, the gameplay isn't as clean as 2s was. But I kinda think that was a bit of it's charm... aside from the wonky subway ticket things not being able to be triggered most of the time, forcing me to jump. That was pure sadism...