>>149789085 (OP)
I just beat this game about an hour ago. My fresh takeaway is this. I like that this game is seemingly building up towards Peter getting his good ending, a home and life together with MJ and getting to semi-retire. I think Miles, on his own, is a fun character but he frequently shows up Peter in this game and goes "No man I'm not better than you, yet at least, love you bro". I think there are moments where including miles was fine, the final showdown with venom having a team-up beatdown was cool, but Peter needing help to get the symbiote off really weakens his character as someone who through his own willpower can overcome his problems. I think this Peter was a bit too young to really sell the emotionally worn out jaded Spider-man that say Spider-verse peter or the original Spider-men 616 peter can. Harry being both Venom and Agent venom kinda sucked, I'm no great writer so I couldn't tell you how to do it better but they way they did that felt cheap. Kraven was cool, I fucking hated the hunters though. Peters gameplay also now just feels worse than miles, the shared gadgets felt worthless and the robo-spider powers are pretty lame, the symbiote was fun but you use the black suit for maybe 1-2 hours in story unless you pad with side content, and the Anti-venom suit did not have a big power boost in story to make it feel like an upgrade. MJ I don't hate as much as others, but she's Diet-Lois Lane and her levels feel like someone looked at Last of Us stealth and attempted to copy it poorly. Also the fact that I was made to play her rather than run from Venom through the city as Peter actually pissed me off. I had fun with it, I don't think it's a bad game, but its clear Imsomniac isn't good at this type of writing. This game shares a lot of the same issues as the last Ratchet and Clank did in terms of watering down the previous protagonists of these games to hype up the new ones.
