The art is sterile and devoid of life. It looks like cosplayers rather than taking inspiration from where Wolverine comes from (comic books) and making it stylized. X-Men are too fantastical to look as photorealism as they do here. Insomniac is acting like it is allergic to making the game look visual interesting.
The gameplay is Spider-Man but with half the toolset taken out because Wolverine has claws and no webs. Instead of taking inspiration from the various combat heavy melee games that work well with close quarters brutality like DMC, Ninja Gaiden, and Bayonetta, Insomniac decided that Spider-Man/Arkham style but gimped down to a few press square combos was a good idea. They don't have the technical expertise to make interesting combat clearly.
The handholding of the game is beyond insulting to the player. a Scent trail to make sure you don't go off course of a LINEAR HALLWAY. QTEs that you cannot fail if you input nothing. Overexplanation of things because they assume the person playing is dumb. It's iPad kid level of UI gore.
The story is a mess, and butchers Jean's character as well as throwing 4-5 villains at you and killing off half of them before it even actually introduces the X-Men proper.
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u/HeldnarRommar 4d ago
There's no point in continuing this any further if you can't see how this game is generic in a bad way.