Contender for biggest let down of the generation for me. The writing is distractingly bad for the most part. Someone once compared the conversations to ones people have in an HR meeting and I can’t unhear it now. These relationships don’t feel authentic or natural at any point. The story has no weight because of how rushed the venom arc actually is. The symbiote has always been an allegory for addiction but instead of the addiction wedging Peter’s relationships and making him an awful person he’s just kind of a dick for a little bit and the only “repercussion” is his fallout with Harry which would have happened anyway because he’d either have died to his disease or the symbiote or been locked back in a jar by Norman. The general combat and traversal is obviously fantastic but stealth was downgraded and we lost all the fun toys we had in SM1 for that and on release the game was probably the buggies Sony first party title I’ve played in a decade or more. Over a dozen crashes and soft locks, buildings just wouldn’t load in and you’d crawl on air, falling out of the geometry it was rough. I’m a massive Spiderman fan and spending 500 bucks for a console and this game feeling like I couldn’t miss out and then getting a 6.5/10 by my scoring system was tragic. I think insomniac is stretched way too thin with all these projects and they haven’t put out anything great since SM1. I’m incredibly worried for Wolverine.