Photo attached for proof.

This game sucks.

The combat is so shallow, there is no room for creativity. You parry, you stun, you barrage, you special attack. Over and over again. Any variety in combat comes solely from the combat finishers. Granted there’s a good amount of those, but you have zero say in what finisher animation you’ll even get. It’s totally random.

The level design is incredibly linear. There’s absolutely zero exploration, which is fine in character action/hack and slash games, but again, the combat is not complex enough to warrant such linear levels. Devil May Cry this is not.

The only side content are “nightmare doors”. These provide 2 kinds of challenges. Traversal and, you guessed it, more fucking shallow combat. There’s not even any traversal tools. No double jump, no wall running, no air dodging, nothing. The traversal “challenges” amount to holding the sprint button and just hitting jump as Wolverine magnetizes to the nearest zipline or ledge

The skill tree is also so incredibly basic, I don’t even know why it exists. Skills gradually unlock throughout the story, and so there were many times I had skill points to use but literally couldn’t even spend them because I had already unlocked all available skills, and needed to wait to advance the story to unlock more skills.

Then there’s adaptations. A tree where you can unlock and equip a set amount of passive abilities . I honestly don’t have much to speak on that, because they’re so fucking pointless I forget their existence about halfway through the game.

All collectibles, and “hidden” chests, stare you right in the face, you can’t miss them even if you tried.

I will say though, the story was pretty good, and I thought the actors knocked their performances out of the park, but nowhere close to being good enough to redeem this game.

Bottom line, this is the first Insomniac game I have been disappointed by, and I’m old enough to remember playing Spyro on the PS1. I mean, massive disappointment.

This game sucks.

it has juggling, grabs, with the grabs there’s a bunch of movies, awesome parry’s that lead into badass big critical hits, a lunge mechanic, the ability to do a ton of combos and use the environment around you,

Wolverine is such a badass in this game, you can get impaled by this one enemy type and Wolverine brings his body closer to the enemy, getting impaled even mote then killing them

I highly recommend you try out X Men origins, it’s got so much stuff that not even the new one has

Respectfully, what are you smoking if you think im gonna pay $70 for below mid.

Games like this need to stop being bought because why is the bar so low at this point but the price for games are going up every few years.

Also come on it takes insomniac like 5 years to make this thing.

Boring levels

Boring characters not to mention some aren't even like there comic counterparts cough Sabretooth

Boring story which is what gonna lead to a game not coming out till 2030 or later

Less then 20 hours to complete, so why the $70 price tag

Insomniac really made the first Spider-Man game and thought yeah we're basically the new Rocksteady they'll buy anything.

If you are one of those people who believe that wolverine and sabretooth "date" in the game, you are really really REALLY dumb

For real

I don't get why Insomniac stopped working with comic book creators to plan our their narratives. It worked wonders with Spider-Man 1 (Christos Gage and Dan Slott) and Miles (Evan Narcisse).

The narrative in Spider-Man 2 and now this seem to be among their most common points of criticism and it comes down to the Insomniac writers room just dropping the ball and not fully understanding the characters and lore they are working with and overall having a lot of storytelling and pacing issues.

I saw online outside of hate towards the game i saw people hating on Liam Mcintyre, please leave the guy out of this😭.

Even from interviews you can see how much he cares about the role and how much he cares for the people who are gonna play it hoping they get the best wolverine experience he and insomniac could deliver, the guy from what we know was so much in the role that he scared insomniac's crew on set for the game while acting as wolverine.

(He must have those claws for real under his skin)

I still have to play the game so i don't still have all of the picture to form a complete opinion but from what we saw in the trailers i think he was absolutely rocking it as wolverine.

So please the man genuinely seems like a nice guy and it's just sad the has to get thrown away by the hate wave due to game currently not performing at it's best but it's not his fault if he ended up giving a good performance in a game that doesn't hold to his acting (as i said before i still have to play the game, it's just to make an example)

What do y'all think? Or if there's someone who already played if they can give a bigger picture on how he acts in the game :) (without spoilering ofc)

Saddened to have to do this, I have been looking forward to this game for years. I only have ever pre ordered a few games in my life (only games I knew were going to be a blast, based on the company that made them) and this was one of them.

Might wait until it goes on sale. I usually just follow my gut and not reviews, but the overwhelming "mid" reviews and linear gameplay got to me. This was a huge wakeup call to me.

I've seen many people vouch for Wolverine. Many people say to not listen to reviewers and just try the game yourself to see how it is. You need to understand that that particular philosophy is extremely flawed, and will lead to a horrible future in gaming. Here's why -

If everyone followed your example and bought the game regardless of reviews just to try it, you have already given your money to them. Without the possibility of a refund in most cases. So what does that mean?

That means that Playstation and these sub-par developers continue to receive your money regardless of how high the quality of the game is. They see that as a win. They gonna see that and use that as a viable reason to continue making half-assed, low quality, sub-par games. They know they've already got you people. The crowd that 'just want to try the game' are going to be the ones incentivising they keep making games while cutting corners, not making the best possible games they can. They turn your whole philosophy against you.

Reviews are IMPORTANT. They exist so you can see the state of the game before you commit to giving them your money. Once that transaction is complete, the message is sent that you want stuff like this.

If you throw away all reviews and pay them money to play the game yourself, you are partly responsible for the downfall of gaming. Plain and simple. Playstation know that and they are fking using that against you. Wolverine is just the latest in a long line of this exact thing happening.

However, if all you do is blindly follow reviews without doing a speck of your own research, you also add to the problem. If you only interact with things others tell you to interact with, you are easily manipulated. That is where you get situations where review sites are being paid off by the devs to make it seem better than it is, knowing that you will listen to that review and buy the game.

Do your own research. Come to your own conclusions.

If you hapharzadly throw away the reviews, you incentivise more slop and put more money in their pockets. If all you do is follow reviewers, you take away your own free will and become easily manipulated.

I understand why people say not to preorder now.

How exactly does the "try" part work? There is no demo, there is no refund after trying. Am i really only allowed to have an opinion AFTER spending $70?

So apparently i can't have opinion after trailers, or gameplay reveal, or even after reviews, hell you are not allowed to have opinion after watching game streams. How very convenient for the companies that the narrative here is that you either spend $70 or shut up.

If the companies don't want customers to fall for unjust "hate brigades", why not give us option to try? Oh right, because customer who made a bad purchase is more likely to cope with it and seek validation than admit the mistake.

I don’t usually let reviews dictate my purchases, especially when lately many of them seem to be based on really dumb subjective opinions. And who can forget the Alien Isolation debacle??
But $70 for a game that tops out at 15 hrs of story and is consistently getting panned for a boring story? I’m very disappointed. Wolverine is a great character and this was not a subject that should’ve been hard to stick the landing on. I moved my money over to Control: Resonant because Remedy has never let me down.
I’m sure I’ll play Wolverine someday but I can’t justify my 40/hr pittance on a game that seems halfassed.