meanwhile Sunset Overdrive, classic arcade feel inspired by Jet Set Radio. focis on skill based gameplay that rewards you for playing well by giving you cooler and better abilities the higher your combo goes and the better you chain stuff together, while punishing you for standing still and doing basic shooty shoot.
no handholding, no sidestory crap with boring gameplay and not a game that has been made 10 times already.
do sum it down:
Spider-Man = do cool stuff by holding down button
Sunset Overdrive = do cool stuff because you played well enough to even unlock the ability to do the cool stuff
Thank you!
I don't understand why so many people call this game bad or mediocre, I really thought it was amazing and it's definitely one of my favorite games ever.
The gameplay is fantastic, the objectives, the freedom you have, it really gave me the feeling of an arcade game that I didn't feel for like 15 years, tony hawk level of enjoyment, and I really, really missed that.
I don't think there is one single thing I didn't like in Sunset Overdrive, I enjoyed doing absolutely everything in it and never got bored once, which is why I can easily consider it one of my favorite games, because there are tons of other games that I loved, but that had stuff I didn't like, because I mean that's just how it is, all games can have some tedious part even the games you really like, but this just didn't happen with Sunset Overdrive for me, it was perfect from start to end.
I think the biggest reason people might not enjoy Sunset Overdrive is that most people don't even try to actually have fun with it. Like you said, it's a very arcade game, and the quality of the experience totally relies on how involved you will be with the gameplay, if you just do the bare minimum to complete it, without trying to do cool looking stuff or just having fun, the experience won't be the same.
I know this very well because I only played this game for the first time a year ago, and I never thought I would like it that much, because when I was watching videos of it, it looked so much slower and more boring than the experience I had, it's super hard to find actual good gameplay videos of this game, because most people just play it like a dead rising game with more movements, instead of the crazy fast paced / vertical experience it can be.
I personally didn't record a lot of gameplay so I don't have a lot of stuff to compare, but here's a little example of one scene.
And the same scene by another person
The second one looks like a much slower paced game, so like I said, it just depends on how you actually involve yourself with the gameplay and how you are willing to have fun or not with it.
Also some free roam fun just because
I also think the game plays a lot better with keyboard and mouse than controller, because of the added freedom with camera movement, being able to instantly turn around or change weapons without pauses etc.
I wonder if there's rifts in the game that lead to mini parts of other games 
