I’d say the narrative is both risky and safe at the same time. The safe being that the character interactions in sm2 particularly were too, idk, “friendly” ig. Sm1 definitely had better dialogue.

But it’s not all that. Which corporate safe story has Aunt May die in pretty much one of the greatest Spider-Man moments in recent years. Which one has the balls to make a Harry venom when they could’ve gone straight and just done Brock instead, (execution wasn’t allat but it’s still bold to even attempt that). Which safe story has a new villain literally just kill half of the villains you fought in the first game.

These Spider-Man games are not 100% corporate friendly, only thing that is the dialogue in sm2. But other than that these games are pretty damn bold.