SM 2018, after a long streak of absolute-shit Spider-Man games, was a treat for all of us players. It revitalized the superhero genre in a similar fashion to Arkham City. I do appreciate the Metroidvania approach with a closed world in superhero games, but when it's about Spider-Man, you can't go wrong with a modern open world. Suit abilities, gadgets, and the skill tree were finely adjusted. Both very well-known and somewhat underdog characters (like Martin Li's Mr. Negative) were introduced smoothly in an intriguing story that also captured Parker's persona far better than previous attempts. My biggest complaint would be the side activities, and despite the strong cinematic presentation, bosses were lacking in terms of gameplay variety.

A subpar experience, was pretty overbearing too. Once you get to early-unlock some shells/items you can tank your way through. There's nothing in that I could potentially associate with fun but for the sake of completion I did it anyway. The ideas might be something to take a notice on but their implementation were plain. Lack of tracks (which always sought after not only in souls-like but in any good action-rpg game) and poorly designed levels killed it for me. The progression and backtracking was frustrating at best. I get the team was small and this supposed to be modest work. Considering those, you can give it a shot but I wouldn't say you'd lose much if you didn't.

Ugh... I wouldn't have played it if it was not for PSN Plus. It was a rough one but still playable. I thought it could hook me cuz Sumo Digital was involved but they couldn't get the task done. DnD Dark Alliance was the same and probably now, Gang of Sherwood will be the same. These games, unfortunately, lack polishment and often left uninspired and even worse, unbalanced. Being highly dependent on cooperative work if people would leave your work you'll be left with nothing. Promote it as hard as you want to, it won't be long lasting. The fundamentals of the game is weak and that's all there is to it.

It came and went away silently within a year or so. Had a shit optimization. I had enough patience to plat it on PS5 knowing that it'd eventually die and at some point it'd be unobtainable.

The traversal was cool. Characters were shifty and that actually elevated gunplay quite a lot. I liked the vampire classes and the perks that you could obtain during the game. As well as the city's artistic design. Despite all these, it was going to die and everybody knew. Can't elaborate further than that. It's hard to survive in a bloodhunt where there are already bunch of great battle royales already. Bunch of good ideas went to the grave.