This is the best Christmas game ever conceived. Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales is a shorter but enjoyable spin-off and continuation of the 2018 game focusing on Miles as he becomes New York's only Spider-Man for a few weeks, trying to maintain the balance of his normal life while trying to protect New York City, including his new hometown Harlem. Story-wise, it isn't as strong as the original, same with the villains as Roxxon and the Tinkerer don't compare to the Sinister Six, but it's still solid nonetheless. Gameplay-wise, the DNA of Insomniac's Spider-Man is still here, and if we're specifically talking about combat, Miles beats out Peter here with his Venom Power and his cloaking technique. Just punching, ground-pounding, and dashing through enemies and chucking them at long distances is so much fun and satisfying to utilize. I also think the side missions are better here as I love how each one we clear creates a connection between the new Spider-Man and the people of Harlem feeling like home and gives us glimpses of being the "Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man" and doing all of them before beating the main story felt appropriate to me. My favorite scene in the entire game is the conversation between him and Hailey as they communicate via sign language. It's minor, but I just found their conversation to be beautiful and this scene in particular made me interested in taking ASL, so this game has kind of an impact on me and made me realize that we need more deaf/sign language representation in video games.

I enjoyed revisiting Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales. While it's a much shorter experience than the original, everything that made that game great is still here, and swinging in NYC is a snowy backdrop is such a cozy feeling, especially when you play in the winter season when I first played it back in 2021 when I first received my PS5 (and platinumed it), making this the best Christmas game.