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I specify "good criticisms" because holy shit man there's a LOT of nonsense takes out there that make no sense, many of which I will not give any further time of day to. I'll instead give my own takes... if anyone cares to listen lol

#Positives:

• Earth-1048 is being built quite beautifully and originally. When I saw the trailers I genuinely thought we'd see more than just Jean Grey from the X-MEN, but thankfully Spider-man: Brand New Day has taught me to have an open mind about how these things work and unfold, plus they did a decent job justifying everything without needing to go extra hard in explanations.

• I absolutely loved the story, the main plot, and the characterization of the cast. From Wolverine's origins, to showing a different side to Nathaniel Essex and his group, and of course the interesting way of handling issues regarding mutantkind.

• The gameplay was incredible, though admittedly this is largely because I'm a huge Insomniac Games fanboy lol but they've really nailed the gameplay of basically all these superhero titles, and I say this as someone who grew up on PS2 Spider-man 2 and was incredibly skeptical about how it was going to be handled.

Going back to the story, I seriously enjoyed how they handled the cast. I was dodging spoilers so I wasn't aware of what people were worried about, and I'm glad I did because I honestly really liked how things played out. Essex's being reveal to be a human who not only saw the writing on the wall regarding mutant vs humans issues and thus choose to get ahead of the curve by any means necessary, but also developed into the fucked up control freak I know him as from the comics was seriously cool to see play out. Plus Troy Baker knocked it out of the park. There's more I want to say about this, as well as Sabertooth, Mystique, Shiro and Logan himself, but I'll just leave it here and now give my own negative takes, many of which I'm sure will probably be seen as similar to what you guys don't agree with, but here we go.

#Negatives:

• I actually agree with the folks saying that game is too short, but that's largely because of how I feel about the in-universe time. The story is good but it feels like it doesn't really give itself time to breathe and slow down, which makes sense given what's happening but it still a little frustrating.

• There are a few plot contrivances and weirdly handled subplots, but nothing worth really ranting about, especially when they're very few & far between, and because this point is more connected to my point about the pacing.

• This one is mostly just a big pet peeve for me, but in general I absolutely HATE the Logan x Jean ship. I actually liked how it's handled and justified here, but that's largely because writing wise it was done well in so far as trying to justify it and build it up over the course of the game.

Logan and Jean's relationship in this game actually reminded me strongly of Meliodas and Elizabeth from the Japanese Manga Seven Deadly Sins, which was interesting to say the least and executed fairly well for this universe, but yeah lol like I said I really don't like this ship man, and the fact that it reminded me of 7DS is just gave me the ick again lol.

Anyways I hope I didn't say too much for too long. Ultimately I'd give this game a 7/10, which is what I gave Miles Morales Spider-man & Spider-man 2. Speaking of Spidey, I seriously wonder what he and everyone else in New York must think of this stuff whenever it makes the news lol.