[Locke]

Dusted off that copy of Amazing Spider-Man I bought about a month ago and played once. It's amazing how few games on my new PS3 I've actually enjoyed, I've got more out of the bluray functionality. Honestly I'm contemplating just trading in all the games I own and replacing them with movies.

Speaking specifically of the game, it's awful. Terrible level design, clunky mechanics, gameplay that is so easy it actually has to break itself to be challenging, controls that play like your gamepad is literally drowning in dogshit and the general cheapness and cowboy production of the thing is painfully obvious on my new TV.

I will say I enjoyed the voice acting and dialogue and I like the subtle tweaks to Spider-Man's suit and the battle damage you accumulate over the course of a level and the combat is pretty fun even if the game is basically playing itself. But these aren't enough for me to want to finish the game.

The mental patient subplot is also one of the most hilariously bizarre aspects in a game that I've played in a very long while.