Polygon just moved Sony’s mess onto Santa Monica.
Marvel’s Wolverine landed messy. Uneven reviews. Scent trails. Walk-and-talks. QTEs. Insomniac wore God of War’s coat and looked like a mid copy. Sony also used the launch as a bag for ending physical discs.
Now God of War Laufey has to prove the formula still works.
The formula didn’t expire. A Marvel game did a worse version of it. Santa Monica is being asked to fix Insomniac’s reception and PlayStation’s calendar.
Sony didn’t raise the bar. They dropped Wolverine first and handed the cleanup to the studio that wrote the homework.