BURBANK, Calif. — The directors of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 responded to complaints of reusing the previous game’s map by taking inspiration from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, adding a huge, creepy underground area to New York City.
“I think it’s brilliant,” said Henry Mills, a diehard Spider-Man fan. “I thought it was bullshit that NYC would just be the same city again. I mean, come on, I know it’s a real city but they could’ve changed the layout, at least. But hearing that there’ll be a whole new underground area to explore has me excited. It fits right in with NYC, for some reason.”
The directors of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Bryan Intihar and Ryan Smith, assured players that the addition of the all-new underground area would give players something they’ve never seen before.
“I’m glad we could come up with a way to change up the map,” Intihar said. “Honestly, we got super depressed after seeing all the backlash and drowned our sorrows by playing a shit-ton of Tears of the Kingdom. We added some of Brooklyn and Queens for this game, but those places suck. That’s when we got the idea: why couldn’t NYC have a giant underground area? I can definitely picture it.”
“It’s going to be really creepy and dark,” said Smith. “We got to stretch our creative muscles and come up with completely new kinds of enemies, like giant rats. There’ll be security forces down there, but they’ll just be on their phones and won’t protect you, so you’re on your own. We’ll have hubs called ‘stations’ that act like Lightroots to allow you to fast travel. And players can get down there through chasms just like Tears of the Kingdom, but we made them stairs instead for a little quality of life improvement.”
“Also, and this doesn’t really affect gameplay at all, but it’s true for the characters you’re playing as,” he added, “the whole place smells like piss.”
However, not all fans are excited about the new underground area. Another Spider-Man fan who lives in New York City didn’t see the big deal.
“I don’t get it. Isn’t it just the subway?” The fan said. “I take that every day, so I’m not really too excited. I already feel like I’ve explored the whole thing. But I think people are overreacting anyway. I mean, it’s set in NYC. How are they supposed to change it? It’s more important what content they fill it with.”
At press time, when asked if they considered expanding the map into The Bronx, the developers responded with confusion: “What’s that?”
