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Category: Insomniac Games

  • Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered (PS5 / Insomniac Games / 2020)

    When Spider-Man was revealed for the PS4, I was somewhat confused. A first-party developed licensed superhero game? We hadn’t really seen that since the Sega Genesis days! It sorta made sense considering Sony had the Spider-Man film rights, but superheroes are so ubiquitous, with Spider-Man arguably being the most popular of them all, that it seemed baffling to limit the game to a single console. And then the developer. I love Insomniac, but Sucker Punch, the first party developer who had spent the last decade making open world superhero games, was right there!

    And yet, despite all of the conventional wisdom being defied, Spider-Man was released and it reviewed and sold extremely well, creating a new key Sony first-party franchise.

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  • Ratchet & Clank HD (PS3 / Insomniac Games, Idol Minds / 2012)

    Confession: the first Ratchet & Clank I finished was the 2016 reimagining. I had dabbled with a few games here and there, but that was the first time the series fully clicked for me enough to see one through to the end. A few years later, I played through Rift Apart on PS5 and absolutely loved it. I always wanted to play through older games in the series, and I’m happy to report that I can add the original Ratchet & Clank to my list of completed entries.

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