Challenges played a heavy part in the last Insomniac takes on Spider-Man, but this time you won’t be dealing with Screwball, Taskmaster, or hologram Peter. For Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, you’ll finally be dealing with this take on the classic illusionist supervillain Mysterio.
Mysterio has claimed to have gone legit now, but his Mysteriums are bugging out and kidnapping people. Miles Morales will end up a victim of these buggy Mysteriums during a story mission, and will then take it upon himself to investigate the nine other Mysteriums before anybody gets hurt. Be prepared to beat the clock.
Updated by Wyatt Grondin on November 2nd, 2023: Video clips have been added for readers to better learn some of the strategy behind earning gold medals. Additional information on a skipped-over Mysterium has also been added.
Where To Find Mysteriums
All nine Mysteriums will appear for you once the story mission unlocks them. After that, you can always use the FNSM app to locate the nearest Mysterium and set a waypoint to it.
While the Mysteriums will probably already be on your map, here are their locations using the map with no other icons turned on.
How To Beat A Mysterium
Enter a Mysterium to find out the specific rules needed. Each Mysterium is a horde-mode battle, where you will encounter an endless swarm of enemies until you reach a specific goal. Most of these goals are to defeat a certain number of enemies, but on occasion, there will be a different requirement. In two Mysteriums, you will only gain a point for using a Finisher, there’s a Mysterium where only Brutes will appear, and the likely toughest variable is the Mysterium where you only gain a point when you knock an enemy off the side.
Mysterio will also send out a stage hazard depending on the Mysterium. Sometimes he will appear himself, and defeating him is necessary as he is shielding the enemies. Other times you just have to evade a laster or other object such as a train. After you defeat a few enemies, there will sometimes be a forced moment where the illusion changes, and you will be transported to a new room, this change will often cause the stage hazard to be in play.
The rules for medal grades will remain the same:
- Gold medals require a certain completion time
- Silver medals will be earned if you fail the gold time but not the bronze time
- Bronze medals are earned when you go over a set amount of time
There is not a time limit you can go over to fail a Bronze medal, you will always earn at least Bronze as long as you survive the fight. Staying alive is good enough to finish the side missions of the Mysteriums.
The only exception to the rule is the Mysterium named Road Rage, where you gain a gold medal by defeating three founds of enemies without taking a hit.
One final thing to note is that Peter cannot do the Mysteriums, only Miles can enter them. Switch to Miles if you plan on doing a Mysterium.
How To Get Gold In Mysteriums
Getting Gold in the Mysteriums will come easy for some of them if you’ve already gotten plenty of skills and upgrades. Many of Miles’ Venom abilities are perfect for crowd control, meaning plenty of the enemies can be defeated at once. Some of the time limits are as high as 2 minutes, but even in the larger groups, you should have little issue defeating them all within just 1 minute.
However, some of the limits can be shorter, and even with fully upgraded abilities, you may struggle. There a difficulty settings you can mess with to make this easier for certain rooms, such as making enemies have the health bar they would have on easy difficulty even while still playing on normal or hard.
In one case, you may want to opposite: the Mysterium that needs you to throw enemies off the side. You can accidentally knock them out first, so raising their health bar is a good way to avoid that mistake. The swing kick is the fastest way to send them over the edge, but the Brutes won’t budge from it, meaning a gadget of abilities could do the trick. While you could ignore them instead, you need to send 15 over the edge, so try to count them if you can.
Other than that, the Mysteriums needing Finishers can be made easier by using a Venom burst if you have the skill that fully charges your Finisher meter after a burst. Mega Venom Burst is also easy to recommend for Road Rage, as seen above it will temporarily make Miles invincible, allowing a moment to breathe.
How To Beat Grand Finale
After you finish all 9 Mysteriums (at any medal ranking), you’ll get a call from Mysterio claiming he’s kidnapped his associates. You’ll be given a waypoint back to the original Mysterium in Coney Island, and have a side mission where you finally tackle Mysterio.
This is just a straightforward fight, no need to worry about defeating any minions. Take down Mysterio however you’d like; Venom abilities and Finishers do great damage, and you can send his floating skull projections back at him.
After you defeat him, Mysterio will send you into a green hallway. The hallway is endless as you go forward, but if you turn the camera around, you’ll see the exit just behind you.
Mysterio will be shocked you escaped, and you’ll fight him again. It’s no different from the first phase, so you can use the same strategy.
You’ll be sent to another room after you beat Mysterio again, and you’ll need to use your Spider-sense with R3 until Miles realizes the wall is fake. Walk up to the wall, then hit L1 and square to Venom Punch it. This will be the end of the mission.
Rewards
For finishing every Mysterium, you’ll earn a suit for Miles called Smoke And Mirrors.
Each Mysterium also grants you Hero Tokens, with the number increasing based on your medal ranking. You will earn enough Hero Tokens to upgrade all suits and gadgets without getting every single gold medal.