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Insomniac’s Creative Director Bryan Intihar has emphasised the importance of featuring ‘human’ stories just as much as the ‘superhero’ content.
With Spider-Man 2 releasing shortly, anticipation for the game couldn’t be higher. While spoilers and leaks are flooding around the internet, we can’t implore our audience enough to try and stay safe from having the story ruined – and, what a story it looks to be. While on the surface, Spider-Man 2 is a super-hero game, anyone familiar with the first game knows just how much the game manages to tug on one’s heartstrings.
“The Super Hero stuff is great, but you have to have the human,” Intihar says in conversation with Marvel’s Creative Director Bill Rosemann. Harry Osborn is featuring heavily in the game’s promotional materials and Peter Parker’s relationship with his childhood friend will likely compose a significant part of the plot. Alongside that, Miles Morales will be grappling with the return of Mr Negative who – spoiler alert – is responsible for his father’s death.
The titular characters’ emotional struggles and human stories will be the ‘cake’ while the Super Hero ‘icing’ will pad the game’s aesthetics and gameplay, explains Intihar.
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Story lead Jon Paquette chimed in too: “When we’re writing and creating the characters, we always say that when Spider-Man wins, Peter loses or Miles loses or MJ loses. That push and pull has always got to be there, because it’s not just one big sacrifice for every Spider-Man story. Spider-Man is constantly sacrificing; he’s constantly got to make choices between, ‘Do I do something for Spider-Man or do I do something for myself?’ That is, I think, what makes him a really cool character, somewhat relatable, but it’s really fun to work with that dynamic.”
The mythos of Spider-Man has constructed a wholly relatable character. Beneath the super human Spidey persona is a young person struggling with the difficulties of balancing relationships and work – “it’s always a coming of age story at its heart,” says Rosemann.
With the Spider-Man 2 release date just around the corner – you’re going to be interested in learning about the Spider-Man 2 cast and when the review embargo is going to fall.
Source: Marvel
