Bit of a catch up for me: I played Outer Wilds a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it, a brilliant indie game about space exploration with some puzzle and mystery solving thrown in. Thoroughly enjoyable and very impressively put together.
Tried Spiderman after having it on my shelf for about a year, technically very impressive but just not a game for me, too many combos to remember and the exploration of the city felt a bit shallow given that you're just swinging from building to building. Obviously a very competent Spiderman game but I was hoping it'd appeal to me in the same way Batman: Arkham Asylum did. Sadly not.
Then went back and finally finished off Watch Dogs 2. I don't really know why, the storyline and characters were rubbish and the overall flow of the game and missions was totally off; you'd finish a mission in the "hacker space" hideout, then one of the other hackers would call you (even though they're in the same room as you) and tell you to get back to the hacker space because they've just discovered something. That said, the city was fun to explore and was nicely designed (aside from the ridiculously long bridges), and it's got one of the most enjoyable multiplayer modes of any game I've played, where you can secretly appear in someone else's game while they're playing, then you have to hack them and stay a certain distance from them without being discovered. Great fun.
I've now decided to work through a few PS+ games I've ignored over the past couple of years, starting with Mafia III. Not sure about it so far, the controls feel clunky at times and the visuals are jarring, with some of the environments and vehicles looking great whilst faces and facial animations look decidedly poor.
I have just finished Metro Exodus.
When it first came out it wasn’t received that well and because I wasn’t too impressed with last light I didn’t bother with Exodus.
I actually quite enjoyed Exodus though. Other than some really bad voice acting in parts I found the story and lore were engaging and locations were nice and varied.
There have been numerous things I have read about clunky physics, lag and crashing. The game crashed on me twice in a total play through time of 32hrs. Which brings me on to my next point - the game took me 32hrs to finish and to be honest I didn’t do that much exploring so still plenty of extra stuff to see.
I wasn't aware till the end that there are different endings a la S.T.A.L.K.E.R but I was pleased that my performance got me the good ending.
Overall I thoroughly enjoyed the game and found it really challenging (still annoyed at myself for losing my NV goggles but I managed without).
I really enjoyed Exodus, some of it felt quite clunky (the UI is especially dated by modern standards) but overall I found it quite polished. Some of the larger areas were a bit awkward to explore, if only because I didn't know if I should be going to certain areas in some maps before an actual mission took me there.
The first of the DLC packs was quite good too, nothing spectacular but it filled in a nice bit of story that was touched upon in the main game. Looking forward to seeing what they bigger, longer one next year brings.
Got a few of the expansions to finish off, but it has been one of the stand out games of this generation for me - sure it can very very clunky at times, but it has been [possibly] the only game where you are dropped into an open world, as a complete blank canvass - and quite a useless one at that 
