I think that's the best description for it. People absolutely hate it, just to join the shitfest, but at the end of the day it's just... Mediocre. And for the price and what else is out there right now, probably not worth anyone's time, except you are a diehard wolverine fan.

It doesn't seem like a game so much as a movie where you can optionally press buttons. The button pressing doesn't do anything; the game plays itself.

What i heard is it's not bad, but really really mediocre and boring.

Is it great no. Is it entertaining to me. Yes. I'm 41 and sometimes I like a game that I can just sit and slice shit up without having to be challenged a lot. It's relaxing sometimes. I really don't see it much different than spider-man. Spider-man was easy as fuck too. Most people bitching haven't played the game and parrot YouTube video critics.

When it's much cheaper and on PlayStation plus, you're gonna see more people saying it's not that bad of a game.

Yup

I found this video showing how bad it is.

Videogamedunkey also did a video on Wolverine, showing how mediocre the game is.

From what I can tell, it's not great, it's got middling bones. But overall the themes of death and rebirth and Logan losing his way are interestingly explored. For a 12-15 hour story with gameplay that handholds you incessantly, but does have some interesting things to say occasionally, I'd say it's a great game to grab on a mega sale.

Edit: I, like many others, haven't played it. I've watched some essays about it but I have no actual playing experience

More importantly for the execs: how did it sell?

It just wasn’t the game people wanted it to be, in a vacuum it’s realistically a solid gameplay experience, with some glaring caveats, and had it not come from the same developers as the Spider-Man games I don’t think it would be getting shit on nearly as much. The biggest issue is the kids gloves approach they took with the gameplay, some sections are just cut scenes that you can pretend to interact with, but outside of that the game is alright and the writing is pretty good.

Good thing you don't actually play wolverine so much as watch and occasionally hit a button

Also Demon's Souls and Bloodborne.

It's a pretty short list. And some of these aren't released yet.

It’s funny to think of how much better that game is than the movie they made it for. That game fucking rules.