Finally got around to playing this through. As I only got a PS5 this month.
Overall I thought it was solid. Would rate it a 8.5/10. It actually was a lot longer than I expected after reading complaints of it being short. But for me the length was just right. And there is enough side content without out becoming too repetitive like a ubisoft game.
Miles is a likeable and solid main character. Also Troy Bakers performance as a villan is fantastic. Phin however suffers from Mary Sue syndrome. The actress did a good job with the delivery. But conceptually I found this character implausible, and hilariously overpowered for a side character. But I can't complain too hard since this is a comicbook story... But it was the gameplay that kept me interested not the story.
I played through the whole game twice to get the Platinum. First time in Performance RT, and second time in Fidelity. And I have to say, surprisingly I preferred Fidelity for this game!
Performance RT is butter smooth! And it is a technical achievement. But it is clearly much blurrier than Fidelity on a 4K OLED. After playing the whole game in Fidelity a second time it looked noticeably better! And now it is hard to go back to the 60fps mode for me. There is a clear lack of details, much less street life, and missing particle etc. I didn't even realize there was a snow storm at the end of the game until my second playthrough in Fidelity! The blowing snow effect has so much more detail, it really added to the atmosphere for me.
Flipping from 60fps to 30fps certainly is jarring for the first few mins. But somehow my brain adapts, and then it just starts looking normal to me, but with much sharper details.
Strange, because I just came off playing Demon's Souls. And there 60fps mode is far superior. And I noticed no visual improvement strong enough to play in 30fps mode. But Spiderman MM seems to have been designed around the 30fps mode and it shows.
It is specifically the swinging around the city parts that benifits so much from being super crisp and detailed and being able to see for miles in full 4K. In Performance RT mode I believe it tops out at around 1440p. And though it still looks very nice, somehow a could not get over the pure loss of pixels and detail.
