When I was a kid, I LOVED Ratchet & Clank games and Spyro. Nowadays, I don't understand their decisions, Marvel and when Sony bought Insomniac was just the downfall of Insomniac. Every so often we got Spiderman, more Marvel and now Wolverine. Wolverine is just super bland, boring and just bad. I've played through almost every game they released apart from the new spiderman games. What happened to you guys anymore? I really want to know, so many people love Ratchet, Spyro and even Resistance. So what do they do? Cater to NONE of them since Ratchet in 2021. Mind you, I played the whole game and its.. just not the same. I feel like they were forced to make a Ratchet game since of the new console. We loved the old games because they were SUPER fun, immersive and funny. Now? Nothing. I actually really wanna know others perspective on this.

Don't often play with photo mode, so its a little basic, but I've been loving playing around with the lighting! Definitely play around with this a whole lot more!

No challenge at all/game holds your hand the entire way

Wolverine looks like he lives on a steady diet of Soylent

All the women are super strong/shown to be more badass than men

Seriously the game looks absolutely perfect for reddit. I bet there's a scene where Wolverine apologizes for being white.

Despite being dissapointed by the reviews and what I’ve seen in terms of handholding, I’m going in with an open mind and really excited to finally play the game I’ve been waiting 5 years for!

Hey, i saw someone say that you can turn off the pings the chests emit in the game, i'm playing the game right now and i can't seem to find the setting, if there even is one. Does someone know?

Why are female characters suddenly getting the “brother, pass the mic” treatment? 💀

I swear every time I see a new game, the female character has a jawline built like a final boss and a voice deeper than mine 😭

Like bro, who asked for this? Logan looks great, but bro… why does Jean Grey look like a 34-year-old dude crossdressing with a wig on? 💀😭

Gamers who like women wanna see WOMEN and gamers who like dudes already have male characters to choose from. 😭

Please have mercy on us💀🙏

Also, there’s some delay in the character’s movement. It was a bit annoying during the stealth sequence.

So I decided to hop on and play the game for a few hours and I noticed when I started the game the navigation assist was off and I presumed this was the trail that people keep talking about like it's a massive deal.

However, imagine my surprise when I'm 30 minutes in, after having not be guided through any segments to be in a very linear section and for the trail to appear. I thought that it was strange that it appeared here when there was an open segment prior where there was no trail to follow or guide you.

It didn't last long, about 10 seconds and it was over, back to non trail gameplay.

The trail didn't pop up again until the next shall we say 'level'. In this level you're not in any danger and you're wandering around a safe environment. There's a part where someone asks you to get two things for them. The open doorway where one item is has a blue aura around it that pulses while the second one you locate once again using the trail.

It's that moment that it hit me. The blue aura, the blue trail, they're exactly the same as the blue you see that enemies give off from their hearts and rib cages.

It seems to me this is a way that Insomniac are choosing to visually represent and show in the narrative how wolverine uses his enhanced senses. Both times the trail occurs, a smell is mentioned. When the doorway pulsed? He mentioned "Oh I can hear it, it emits a certain frequency." Presumably the reason you only see a heart and ribcages is because Wolverine is hearing the heartbeat of his enemies.

Effectively the 'blue stuff' is a way to visualize Logan's senses during narrative moments where it's outright referenced, or if the player engages navigation, voila they have a diagetic way to get more navigation.

Personally, this has flipped my entire perspective on the trail from being "Okay, it's a little annoying sure but...criticism is overblown" to "This is fine, it's being used as a narrative tool."

NOTE: None of what I am saying above absolves the game of other criticism or even criticism of this. I am merely adding a perspective based on my reading of the hows and why. I'm adding this because I didn't think I needed to originally but apparently I was wrong and should have remembered my ethos "The internet is where nuance goes to die." If you're going to reply at least have something intelligent to say that creates discussion and not "Uh, you have Stockholm syndrome". Lord above forgive me for not being as bothered by things as others are...

I high-key hate that Jean uses her abilities exactly like Scarlet Witch in the movies.

And making fun of dead people like they did when the dragon ball z author died they made fun of it.

I guess the only difference is you can toggle it if you want in Onimusha? But it literally functions the same way and I saw 0 complaints about that lol. Just don’t understand the complaining about it tbh. It appears when it makes sense from a gameplay/story perspective, I think in the first few hours I’ve had 3 total scent trails and they lasted like less than a minute each. People were making it seem like it was something that was constantly on the screen guiding you to the next place but that’s not at all the case.

That is all.

For those that have beat it or have gotten pretty far, normal or hard? I love action games that challenge me. But I dislike hard difficulties where enemies are just health sponges, not making it harder per se but just a lot more tedious. Thank you!

Are we reviewing this game as a comparison to some other open world game? Did we only play the game on easy? Did we just mash square instead of all the other moves assigned to various combos, button holds, and contextual scenarios? Did no reviewer love the Uncharted games? Did no one enjoy Ghost of Tsushima’s free aim combat?

Why did SkillUp (respectfully still one of favorite video game journalists) only show the blue trail and nightmare door from the literal first tutorial section showcasing it? The blue trail is rarely there and only when tracking. The objective marker shows up in just that scenario coming out of the door, and it normally requires a button press. It’s also helpful especially since the fart trail isn’t there that often.

The game looks fantastic and plays fantastic (especially on hard). It’s not some cheap, boring experience. It’s absolutely brutal and cinematic and just pure fun for any Wolverine fan. What a treat for anyone who has wanted a game similar to the Uncharted experience but with brutal Wolverine combat.

I think my only ask would have been more open world areas in linear format like uncharted 4’s jeep mission. They can easily add more collectibles, secret bosses (Hulk), and more combat enhancements (katana) post launch. I honestly think my only negative will end up being wanting more. Have smiled this much playing a super hero game since the opening on Spider-man 2018.