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Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (PS5)
Yeah, actually that was pretty great. While it starts as a safe follow-up with some clunky gameplay asides for the sake of narrative, it escalates. Oh man does it escalate. The finely-tuned cores of combat and movement established in SM1 and MM aid the succession of bombastic setpieces, staving off the AAA curse of a scripted-feeling experience. The key moment here is when you take control of Venom to rampage through Oscorp, smashing through walls and learning abilities on the fly. Nothing establishes a fearsome threat like embodying it yourself. Pete and Miles both get quite a few new tricks as the story proceeds as well, and even good old Mary Jane Watson sees DBZ-like power growth. It feels like the sort of dramatic events you would see in a superhero comic or battle manga, and it certainly is exciting throughout, in both presentation and gameplay. I don't mind seeing this up for Game of the Year anymore, although I'm not sure it would be my pick.