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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 124.7 hrs on record (124.6 hrs at review time)
Posted: 30 Mar, 2023 @ 10:20am
Updated: 4 Mar, 2024 @ 6:17am

I've 100% this game, so what can I say.

Hades has been one of the most pleasurable roguelike games I've played, you already KNOW Imma buy da 2nd one as soon as it comes out.

The gameplay feels fast and fresh, game gives you a bunch of fun builds and broken combinations. You've got 6 weapons with 4 different styles for each weapon and some interesting keepsakes (passive items, around 30 of them) that keep the game enjoyable and in pace on higher difficulties.

OH GOD, NOW LET ME TELL YOU. THIS IS HOW YOU MAKE DIFFICULTIES IN A GAME. I love how they made the system, so that you can steadily up the difficulty with adding elements without it feeling cheap.
Such as; the amount of enemies, their health, less items to pick from, more damage, more expensive shops, upgrading bosses, adding timer for floors, giving enemies shields, basically many way to cripple you if you feel like enough of a chad to handle it.

Gameplay experience is a solid 9.5/10

Now the story. I'm a huge sucker for story games and it didn't disappoint. SPOILER FREE
As Zagreus, son of Hades, prince of the underworld, you decide to say F YOU dad, Imma head out, peace. And so you venture from the deepest pits of hell (aka your hell bedroom) to the gates of hell and the surface of the world. Mfker, I ain't saying why, you better play or google it to find out. I'm not your storyteller.
Just know the shiz is funny, pretty accurate to greek lore, relatable at times and it dishes out parts of the lore in a pace that it's just enough to keep you interested for the next run.
FINALLY a gay ahh Achilles professing to Patroclus, Say. Less.
Also got some romantic options, AND THE BEST PART BOUT THAT, you can rizz up all of them with no hindrance, so you can go full hoe mode.

Story is a solid 9.5-10/10 simply because they handled the mythology well and it's entertaining till the end.

Music, now lemme tell you. Soundtracks satisfies me enough, that it never got stale. Not THE MOST EPIC ish I've heard, but I've added the Good Riddance soundtrack to me Spotify and still to this day, I go all high notes and soft bichy voice in my car when noone is around.

Music gets 8/10 bc Good Riddance is just too good imo.

NOW ART. This bad baby got some *crispy* , *lemme simp to these characters* kind of artwork. As a former bad boi, I can get fully enveloped by Zagreuses cool, but awkward by himself look, with resting bich face, but a compassionate heart under all of that.
Areas of this game made me considerably change my view of greek underworld in a good way and now I inspire my imagination of it heavily by this games design.
Bunch of enemy art and design is copy pasted throughout the floors, but the difficulty scaling does genuinely compensate it.
Thank you developers for making the gods, especially Hades look a bit goofy in a good way, really brings the atmosphere to kind of a homey feel with fun and more ''oh, just another day of being a God'' kind of style.

I like it a lot. If you don't like it at all, I'll find where you live. 9/10

As for the price. I don't like paying for games full price. I just buy off of *key shops* or some ish, but this game. Just take my money and don't talk to me. Thank you and good bye.

Overall, I love it, GIVE ME a sequel RIGHT NOW. If Supergiant Games doesn't give me a second game till 2024, I'm willing to summon demons and sell my soul to speed up the process.

Easy 9.5/10 in the rogue like genre

Edit: Since the sequel is coming and it's release date will be told in Q2 2024, I will not be summoning demons and patiently wait instead.
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EElise 11 Oct, 2024 @ 5:45pm 
Your review is lit! 🔥 It's like reading a mini novel, so much detail and passion. You're a pro at this, seriously!