An excellent follow up in almost every way, enhancing everything that was great about the first game. The traversal is insane. Tonnes of options, incredible speed, but also tremendously responsive and never out of your control.

The story is hugely improved over the original, with a tale of multiple villains and your key protagonists interwoven almost perfectly. Everything flows so well from one story beat to another with no real filler - and a laundry list of excellent set pieces. Yes, this is perfectly paced, I have absolutely no clue how anyone could be dissatisfied with the length of this game. To pad it would be to hinder it.

It is probably the best adaptation of the Venom story to date, I would say eclipsing the 90s animated show. But I had some minor problems. In general, I always hate the idea of symbiotes reproducing and there being ten million of them running around - it just sort of cheapens the Venom character to me. But so often that is where these stories go.

Oh and the Mary Jane missions are still bad. I get doing a cute little thing where you make her OP to address criticism from the last game but they are still very bad stealth action sequences.