Gear up gamers, are your spidey senses tingling? A new adventure of a classic hero is on the horizon. Released on September 7th of this year, Spider-Man is the first licensed game by game creator studio Insomniac Games, bringing a brand new story to the table of the infamous webbed vigilante.
Included in the game, much like in many—if not all, and especially a Marvel game at that—there are hidden Easter Eggs. These “eggs” are special features that can be as mundane as secrets to future releases or severely serious like a code input revealing a turkey wearing an assassin’s cloak. Of course, Insomniac Games didn’t fall short of this.
Found on an unsuspecting corner in the streets of Manhattan, a beautiful sunset bordering that of a movie theatre marquee reading “MADDIE, WILL YOU MARRY ME?” A tribute so sweet it could rot teeth, a tribute so untimely it could rot souls. The proclaim in question belongs to a Tyler Schultz, Spider-Fan and Twitter user who used the site to ask for the proposal. Insomniac lovingly agreed and got to work fulfilling Schultz’s and his fiancé to be, Madison Gambles, wishes… or so they thought.
September 7th rolls around, players and readers all alike excited for the release, except for the man with a marriage plan. Schultz explained that before the release, Gamble had decided to end things, putting his train of love to a haunting stop. “I never liked video games, but I sat through them because I loved him.” Gamble explains, “Our relationship turned into a mother and son relationship.” On the surface, Gamble seems like a cold hearted individual, but there are always two sides to a story. Gamble has received massive amounts of backlash for her rejection, including Schultz himself, she comments, “I think it’s just easier for him to hate me than to be hurt by my decision to break up. I hope he moves on and finds happiness because that’s exactly what I am doing.”
Art Director Jacinda Chew of Insomniac offered to patch out the ill-fated proposal, but Schultz opted for a memorial to his deceased grandmother instead. Ben Shultz took a gamble, but I don’t think it was the one he was hoping for.