First of all, to clarify: the last games I played, let alone finished, from this series were during the transition from the PS2 to the PS3, so needless to say, I'm pretty rusty, so imagine my surprise when I learned of a game being ported to Steam.

Originally I had hoped that Insomniac and Sony would've started PC porting by way of starting with the earlier games, relieving computer gamers who loved the classics of the need to find ROM's for Playstation emulators. Having finished the main story last night, however, I'm content with this alternative, given its deep story relative to the PS2 era. While I won't give spoilers for this review, I will say even some older enemies that debuted from those days turn out to have some depth to them.

Now that several patches have been applied since launch day, my only criticism of any significance has mainly to do with compatibility and performance: as primarily a Mac user, I had no choice for now but to cloud game due to DirectX12 requirements, and even there, performance sometimes did falter with enough action and AI going around, which will happen a lot toward the end of the game.

Still, figured I'd contribute my two cents and say that overall, this is a good PC port of what once was a PS5 exclusive, and hopefully it's just the beginning of that much.

First of all, to clarify: the last games I played, let alone finished, from this series were during the transition from the PS2 to the PS3, so needless to say, I'm pretty rusty, so imagine my surprise when I learned of a game being ported to Steam. Originally I had hoped that Insomniac and Sony would've started PC porting by way of starting with the earlier games, relieving computer gamers who loved the classics of the need to find ROM's for Playstation emulators. Having finished the main story last night, however, I'm content with this alternative, given its deep story relative to the PS2 era. While I won't give spoilers for this review, I will say even some older enemies that debuted from those days turn out to have some depth to them. Now that several patches have been applied since launch day, my only criticism of any significance has mainly to do with compatibility and performance: as primarily a Mac user, I had no choice for now but to cloud game due to DirectX12 requirements, and even there, performance sometimes did falter with enough action and AI going around, which will happen a lot toward the end of the game. Still, figured I'd contribute my two cents and say that overall, this is a good PC port of what once was a PS5 exclusive, and hopefully it's just the beginning of that much.