Hades & Hades 2

Surprinsing to see there was no topic about this one: in Hades, you play as the titular God of the Underworld...'s really sexy son Zagreus, as he tries to battle his way out of Hell.

On the way you upgrade weapons, strike up friendships with mythological figure, and die and die and die, over and over again until you don't suck so much.

And this being Supergiant Games, obviously there's a narrator and everything is isometric, 'cause I'm guessing after making the notoriously hard to categorize Pyre they felt they earned a cheat day.

That said, some of the innovative spirit from that one remains as the protagonist isn't a mute this time around.

Oh yes: the narrator isn't the only presence making snark remarks in this one, Hades' little pubic louse will make sure you know every witty thing that goes through his head.

The game is currently on Early Access, but there's already enough content to shame most full releases and with Supergiant Games' usual gameplay polish and writing sharpness, don't be afraid of spending cash on this one just because it is technically not finished because you're guaranteed to get your money's worth.

Edited by HailMuffins on May 21st 2020 at 2:45:53 PM

New content added via the latest patch, "Blood Price"

Highlights are the new Weapon Aspects to join Guan Yu and King Arthur:

• Rail: Aspect of Lucifer - Fires a laser beam for the normal attack (still need to reload after your charge runs out). Special now fires out a hellfire bomb that pulses for damage before detonating for major damage(100 detonation damage at max level). Can be detonated early by attacking the bombs. Unlocked from Zeus

• Bow: Aspect of Rama - Special is a concentrated rapidfire, and the normal attack is now a slower, wider crescent. Enemies that you hit with the special are marked and take damage when you hit anyone else with your normal attack (up to 60% of attack at max level). Unlocked from Artemis

• Shield: Aspect of Beowulf - Take 15% more damage, but you load your cast into your shield for more damage and width to your Bull Rush (+100% at max level). All loaded casts are fired at the end of your Bull Rush. Unlocked from Chaos.

Ooooh, sounds pretty good. Been playing it while ago before other games hit the plate, really good game. The emphasis on dialogue in a roguelike made the game pretty gripping even after finishing it three to four times. I'll probably get back to it after being done with a couple games.

New content update, BLOOD PRICE, is finally out of techical beta!

Charon's new design lookin' kinda clean, NGL

Hades is coming to the Nintendo Switch this fall, after the Steam and Epic versions are out of Early Access.

Spiffy animated trailer to celebrate:

Hades is now out of Early Access! 🥳

Well, I guess it's time to give this another run to see the actual ending now.

How's the switch port?

Do you really think you'll get the "actual ending" from beating the game merely once ?

Edited by TAPETRVE on Sep 18th 2020 at 12:41:20 PM

Well, to be honest, not really. More like I want to see what happens after the Hades bossfight I guess since I'm pretty sure they said 1.0 was going to include that.

Edited by Draghinazzo on Sep 18th 2020 at 6:43:32 AM

Playing the game for the first time, it works pretty well.

Everything seems pretty responsive on the Switch though my thumb hurts a bit from constantly pressing buttons due to the high intensity of the combat.

There aren't that many posts about the performance on Switch yet but oddly enough I'm reading a few comments that handheld mode actually runs better, docked has framerate drops when the combat gets hectic.

Having beaten the game now, it definitely seems like the goal is to beat it more than once to get a "true, final ending".

But you definitely get a real ending anyway.

Yeah, I think you have to beat the Final Boss like, ten times for the "For Realsies" ending.

I keep seeing stuff for “bounty achieved” popping up. Where am I supposed to check for bounties?

Also when are Thanatos & Patroclus supposed to show up? I think they are the only characters left I have not met & I have reached the surface at least once.

Edited by slimcoder on Sep 19th 2020 at 1:15:15 AM

Thanatos shows up at random.

Patroclus can be found at those same special nodes as Sisyphus and Eurydice, on Elysium.

Bounties just enable the player to get the rewards for defeating a boss again on subsequent playthroughs (without them, you only get Darkness after you beat a boss for the first time).

Specifically, Thanatos has, from what I can glean, a 10% chance to spawn in Elysium combat rooms once you've fought one of the Furies that isn't Meg, after which he'll start showing up wherever. Like many things, there's not much more you can do than hope to get lucky.

Edited by Perseus on Sep 19th 2020 at 6:28:06 PM

God, I love the game. Just got the final(-ish?) ending by getting Persephone to Hades. I was actually really disappointed because I had a really good build and was looking forward to fighting Hades with it but alas, he went unfought. Sadface.

One question, though. How do I find out who the narrator is? Not "who is the narrator?" but what do I have to do to find it out? If it involves gifting Nectar/Ambrosia to the narrator, please put that in spoilers, if you don't mind.

You don't, but if you interact with one of the busts in the lounge it's heavily implied the Narrator is Homer.

Wow, Thanatos is really refusing to show up for me. I've been through Elysium about a dozen times by now and he's still the only character I haven't met.

Check that you've gotten the latest update. Patch Notes mention SPECIFICALLY that.

It's also a problem I've had so far.

There's no patch on Switch yet.

Ah. PC player here. I apologize I didn't know what system.

Well, that patch should probably hit by next week? So, hopefully it'll be fixed by then?

Got a perfect run last night. One of those rare runs where the stars align and you get every last boon you needed. I was going for a Demeter Cast build with Talos Fists, and ended up with 5 Bloodstone from a start of 1 (I far prefer cooldown-cast to ammo pickup-cast, even if the latter might be better in some cases) thanks to Chaos and Artemis legendary, Crystal Clarity, Auto Reload and a ton of auxiliary boons, like Aphrodite call which charged in seconds due to the multihit nature of Artemis cast (Supergiant might want to take a look at that). Ended up with something like five or six full-charge Calls against the final boss — Extreme Measures Hades, who usually kicks my ass, went down easily, because dashing around dropping auto-tracking laser beams as fast as I could press circle is pretty OP, turns out. Now back to trying and failing to make crit Excalibur work.