Insomniac Game’s new Spider-Man adventure on the PS4 is a fun comic book brawler with some good story beats elevated by a system of acrobatics that features some of the most intuitive and exhilarating movement I’ve ever experienced in a game. It’s extremely fun, if you’re okay with a version of New York City that is bursting with life when viewed from above but whose dazzling beauty is mostly on skin deep. The game is mostly about Spider-Man cleaning, fixing or removing things that stain the: a construction site of corrupt Kingpin thugs, one of Mister Negative’s garages housing military-grade firearms, a carjacking on Broadway, thieves breaking into jewelry store in the Diamond District, a cadre of lethal, malfunctioning Oscorp drones. At the beginning of the game Manhattan is checkered with criminal hideouts, mini-environmental crises, and old Spidey backpacks filled with mementos from days past. To play Spider-Man is to spend your time systematically wiping each of these nodes off the map through a series of main missions and side-activities woven together into a conventional but entertaining comic book plot surrounding a cadre of familiar Spider-Man foes. All of these repetitive activities are made not only bearable, but in fact…