Hades II - Into Tartarus

[@soup3583]

The theme of entering a room only to immediately get targeted by a comically large amount of lasers

[@Отвратительнодлинныйчай]

That laser evading scene from mission impossible: the game

[@Yasha_U]

I love how on the 3rd Patch they actually address this ONE particular room where you enter and you always, ALWAYS get blasted with a laser to the face lmao

[@myhairhasamindofitsown]

The fact that the first thing Chrono's says when you enter Tartarus amounts to "get out my frontyard" is hilarious

[@belindaluna2067]

Grandpa wants us off his lawn.

[@NeverUseAnApostrophe]

The ticking clock effect is bonkers.

[@3ftninja132]

I know right, it's in near every song.

[@xNSHD]

never noticed till you said. go kill time!

[@YouSoSpice]

We runnin outta time with this one 🗣🔥

[@3ftninja132]

​@@YouSoSpiceNo, Time cannot be stopped.

[@Treeskrub]

Hades really meant it when he wanted Zag to test out his security huh

[@Eggofficial09]

Forgot about that lmao.

[@doubledocable]

Lol

[@Elokamyszek]

Seems like they don't work properly

[@akirapurimatsu5656]

image who ever beat hades 1 with max heat but still can't stop chornos titan of time really something huh

[@someone...6961]

Very clever how its "Out of Tartarus" in the first game, and "Into Tartarus" here

[@makaroninini]

s(he) be(lie)ve(d) level observation

[@klutzypea]

@@makaroninini s be ve

[@IveNeverStoodUp]

alright it's not THAT clever

[@garr_inc]

@@IveNeverStoodUp Exactly. _Just_ clever. It wasn't the hardest of jumps.

[@saj9972]

yall r so mean man just let a nikka comment DAMN. figures hades 2 fans wud be like this tho, it attracts a _certain_ crowd after all....

[@dubbymazlo]

Can't believe we're fighting tooth and nail to go there now...

[@gavo7911]

I love the way it sets up your infiltration almost like a heist, with you needing to enter via a backdoor and setting an express route of the different passageways, all that time Zagreus was helping his dad beef up defenses is now working against you

[@hardstuck_styx]

@@gavo7911​​⁠wait that makes so much sense. I had thought that the enemies were only made stronger by Cronos but no, hades made them stronger because of zag’s work

[@Resstarr]

No traitor to the House shall go unpunished.

[@RE-dh3rw]

Death to Chronos!

[@StaunchKillah]

Judy Alice Lee better win all the awards, Mel's voice lines really take this game to the next level

[@CamelofDestiny]

@@StaunchKillah I heard her from the bloody He-Man reboot and thought she was rubbish And then SuperGiant comes in like Superman and makes me realise she's f***ing amazing.

[@celestialkitsune]

​@@CamelofDestiny Could've been the clouded view of a remake compared to nostalgia of the original.

[@CamelofDestiny]

@@celestialkitsune Mate, I didn't even grow up with the original. The character she voiced was just annoying, I think.

[@carmacksanderson3937]

When I first beat the Region 3 boss and this started playing, I have never more strongly felt "oh, it's fucking on"

[@NoahMcGuire]

The way that this builds up as you make your way closer and closer, the callback to the first game, the fact that there are several room layouts are literally the same as Tartarus rooms in H1 but you go through them backwards...truly amazing. Really gets you hype for the final fight.

[@parkermacneil5523]

I didn't realize until my second time through it, but a lot of the changes aren't from Chronos either. A lot of the changes to Tartarus was likely due to Zagreus and Hades actually upgrading the place

[@thatonenerdonline9183]

Especially with the Charon shop being the starting room from Hades 1

[@TheShanicpower]

@@thatonenerdonline9183Or Hades being in Sisyphus’ chamber. You can even see a mossy and abandoned Bouldy there 💔

[@Herrscher-of-Autism]

​@@parkermacneil5523 we won but at what cost

[@jacobkern2060]

​@@TheShanicpower He does have a pretty snazzy haircut, though

[@jldragon7855]

"get off my lawn" "make me old man"

[@WILTEDSYS]

the fact that you guys are circling back around to the formula of having to descend, instead of the ascension theme from the previous game, but in this instance, it feels fresh and new, is extremely impressive lmao

[@emcleverton]

Anabasis and now katabasis

[@StaunchKillah]

Running through hell eviscerating everything with a giant axe while Mel is dropping the most metal one-liners and this ridiculous track plays... the Doomguy in my heart shed manly tears

[@Ava-uq5dh]

She's fucking awesome

[@brycryfry]

this is like if the transistor ost and hades ost made out and had a baby

[@Firefight_]

More like if the Hades soundtrack had a massive headache, so Transistor split its head open and this came out.

[@iaxacs3801]

It feels like Darren learned what Lunarpunk was and decided yeah let's bring Transistor's cyberpunk music back

[@carmacksanderson3937]

​@@Firefight_ HA good one

[@thefactspherefromportal2740]

It's as if they all share a parent or something

[@0jutai]

Hooo, this one is an absolute winner. The callback to Out of Tartarus is *perfection*

[@chlorohexidineesquire]

Yeah everyone's talking about the Out of Tartarus motifs but at 2:56 there's motifs from one of the Temple of Styx tracks!! Which makes sense, considering what enemies are especially common around this area.

[@MasterDustik]

AND I CAN STILL HEAR THE E1M1 MELODY

[@flar7137]

I hear it too lol

[@isaachunt6694]

The what?

[@MasterDustik]

@@isaachunt6694 0:30 is basically the DOOM - E1M1 Theme.

[@Tarthoc]

Looping this and powered through two assignments. Hands down the best emergency essay writing session music

[@fruitsnackbandit4987]

okay, I figured it out. During the vamp, It's simply a 4/4 groove at a slowish tempo. During the A Melody, (the Tartarus theme from Hades 1), The time switches to 8+8+5 in eighth notes. which can be read as two bars of 4/4 and then one bar of 5/8. After that, the B melody is alternating 4/4 and 7/4 bars. This song is fucking awesome

[@thuro431]

I have no idea what that means but cool

[@Jadefire1010]

Darren Korb write a Hades song with a normal time signature challenge (impossible)

[@themiddleman5763]

@@thuro431 The composer of the score switched to a strange odd number time signature which is known for not feeling complete and tidy. It's typically used to sort of blur the lines between bars, so instead of one-two-three-four, the four might feel like it disappears or got yoinked by the bar right after. In this context, it would make sense if the intention was to make it so that Melinoe was struggling to keep a rhythm and skip a beat in her step, so it's like she can't stay consistent and catch her breath. Imagine it like you're jogging, and you count "1-2" or "1-2-3-4", but then you trip so you stagger for a bit "1-2-3hup-2-3-1-2-3-4" and the "hup" is caused by you losing count, and so you sorta improvise and start counting again. Also helps make the music feel less boxy.

[@bellringer53]

Gotta say properly my favorite song in the game. Like the rush you get when you are fully kitted and rushing down the corridors slaughtering everything to reach Chronos. Its amazing

[@anitaremenarova6662]

Yeah, I like that the enemies there are a lot more chill than the ones in the fields as well.

[@MrRukrio1]

it's almost like playing lategame guncaster (the doom mod) and it feels glorious just rushing around the maps and SMITING the SHIT out of healthbars. sure, there's a few roadbumps in the form of the Treasury room with the bigass goldwraith and let's not forget Chronos himself, but fuck me this music AMPS the feeling of the power trip.

[@goose95722]

Hearing this the first time I reached Tartarus made me so fucking hyped. Made it feel like I was actually running out of time, but nearly there. I died of course, but still.

[@Luzifel]

Me too 😁 The first time I reached Tartarus I was having the time of my life jamming to the music. Didn't even mind dying, it was so much fun!

[@jecrex8349]

If you find your friend in Tartarus, it's got 2 callbacks. Spoilers below. You meet Hades in Sisiphis' old chamber. Bouldy is there. A remix of In the Blood plays while you converse with him.

[@VaurTek]

Spoilers *** The song that plays in the chamber is also a slowed down version of the god of dead, the boss fight theme from the first game.

[@Automatonon]

I love the way this has a very similar chord progression to "At Doom's Gate" creating that assosciation of fighting your way into "hell" while also maintaining its clalbacks to the first game. Absolutely incredible.

[@MonkeSle]

OH I LOVE THE CALLBACK

[@3ftninja132]

I hear it in every song. The ever ticking metronome. The clock that never stops. No, I will pull out the hands, face and then cogs if I must to silence it. Death to Cronos.

[@codebracker]

The tell tale Kronos

[@Gigi-hq7vc]

I love the music and level design for the new Tartarus so much , with the music and no rewards on the main rooms but only if you go do a side room it really feels like a rush assault on the Chronos .

[@Alex-ko897]

The fact that Tartarus is so hard becouse we did so many escape attemps on hades 1 XD

[@super_dude00]

The first time I dropped into Tartarus in this game, it’s probably some of the hardest chills I’ve ever gotten down my spine, and the familiar; yet corrupted music really set in stone how big of a threat Chronos is.

[@carrot_z7345]

And then she said "I will become the hades 2, into tartarus" 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@horseenthusiast9903]

Oh fuck I missed that funky electrified baglama and theremin

[@SofichuDaKilla]

Out of tartarus is my all time favorite hades song so when i first heard this i lost my damn mind. thank you darren korb

[@meganc60]

This is such a bop, and honestly this song is one of the reasons I don't get so frustrated when I get hurt in Tartarus. I'll walk out of some rooms barely clinging to life and going "Well at least the soundtrack was decent." And the way it juxtaposes "Out of Tartarus" from the first game? *chef's kiss*

[@parkermacneil5523]

They did an elder god tier job on making this feel so iconic. I literally screamed "LETS GOOOOO" like a feral dude bro

[@mnooper]

the fucking chills i got when i heard this for the first time in-game

[@TonyBMan]

Here it is. The moment we've waited for. Time to take back OUR house, the one we spent all that time upgrading.

[@Cirby64]

Bro the part at 1:38 goes so hard I literally catn EVEN

[@ryanmenozzi3338]

It's the only time that happens in the track too. T_T but SO fire

[@BackSlashJvb125]

I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE DAREN I SEE

[@Quantumironturtle]

The feeling of dropping into the final stretch, riding high on the feel of a good run and KNOWING you're going to win, so you go turbo aggression and tear through everything in your path at a full sprint. The Labyrinth in Hades I has nothing on this.

[@Elokamyszek]

By the time you get to tartarus you either have an extremely powerful build, or you have no idea how you did it

[@colbybradbury870]

Never would have thought that "Crash bandicoot" plus "Mick Gordon Doom 2016" would result in such greatness but here we are

[@whatislife1337]

I can't believe I got an official remix to my favorite track from Hades I. I mean it was kind of an obvious choice but damn this is such a cool feeling

[@zipponjin]

I still remember the first time I entered Tartarus and was thrown straight into a fight with coin purses shooting lazers and floating hourglasses. It was chaotic and then this beat dropped, and the adrenaline just hit and pumped me up! I died to anyway, but I'll never forget this banger of a track playing with my heart racing.

[@NewCoke7]

ITS THE SAME BUT NOT THE SAME

[@RomnilWater]

Damn Darren's music is always incredible but the first time I reached Tartarus this track made me stop and just listen. It pumps you up so well and it's my personal stand out track of the game thus far.

[@Pestii]

Any Isaac players here think 1:18 sounds familiar? To me it sounds almost exactly like the main theme/motif of TBOI Antibirth. Trips me up every time I hear it LOL

[@Serilaene]

Can't help but have my brain go "Fury Vanquished" at the end of that track.

[@anna-kay-dweight]

The epic return of the jagged rhythm of Tartarus! ❤ Every time I come to this region, my heart beats faster and I shiver in thrill Time to slay!

[@AndrewNSachs]

This is INCREDIBLE. Korb is a madman.

[@theharvinator7935]

There are some REALLY strong contenders in this soundtrack but this one has to be my favourite

[@diardosmanfred7786]

Veteran of Hades POV: Yeah, now the Tartarus is fun place.

[@thesadjupiter1128]

lowkey whenever I hear that drum sound ingame I actually get so fucking hyped, genuinely one of the best drum sounds in any video game don’t even get me started on the melody callback

[@TheChnecht]

it's amazing how they made the part at 0:50 rhythmically even more fcked up than the 21:16 rhythm in the main part. absolutely love what they made with the song.

[@IkeOW]

I got goosebumps so fucking hard when the music from the first game kicked in. Hades 2 game of the year already

[@mugflub]

I love that they use the Tartarus melody from the first game and replace the electric guitar with bells. The other clock sounds are an awesome touch

[@control5586]

This gives me a huge mission impossible vibe every time I break in and i LOVE it!

[@Ryusola]

When I finally entered here with 'THE build' that I knew was going to take that sucker out I was blazing down the halls to this. And someone rightly said there's some elements of crash bandicoot 3 in here that I'm absolutely in love with.

[@retrowolf6482]

I like how it takes “Out of Tartarus” and modified it to fit having to work your way towards the final confrontation

[@PsychicStoryteller]

I think this track does an amazing job at showing you *just how much* Chronos distorted everything.

[@rawkfistgaming]

The ticking as a rhythm track is absolute GENIUS.

[@EHKOS]

I heard this and got transported back to my time fighting N. Tropy in Warped. Good memories. Then the ZoE 2 flashbacks started when Chronos/Anubis kicked my teeth in.

[@gama3040]

"out of tartarus" motif hits HARD 🔥

[@facundomartinezhidalgo8669]

Im amazed by the incredible soundtrack. Death to Chronos and long live Supergiant Games

[@TheDjhansen77]

Listening to this while doing office work like it needs to be done in 30 min.

[@PicklesEsquire]

This song gives me HEAVY Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped vibes and I love every second of it.

[@rue8929]

Out of Tartarus is one of my favorite tracks from the original Hades, so imagine my excitement when I heard this remix kick in when I finally made it to Tartarus again. Mwah, a beautiful surprise.

[@TroySturdy]

This shit slaps

[@eddiedieente1340]

This is just a vibe like you enter tartarus out of the very serene soundtrack from the fields and they hit you with this. It always feels like sht is about to get REAL now.

[@TewbBelrog]

First time I heard I instantly thought of Hat in Time, specifically the stealth level

[@Yobamos]

The drums man. The DRUMSSSSSS

[@Blackleo18]

I hope someone does a mash up of both of them because I like the gentleness playfulness of into I've but I love the punchiness and buildup of out.

[@Helikite]

Daren Korb is unmatched actually

[@Adelicousbottleosyrup]

Zagreus: …sis you’re supposed to get OUT, not in

[@loxzone1]

My favourite track on the list and they all fire.

[@galleryg998]

Oh this is perfect

[@karite2]

Felt like I stepped back into Bastion when the beat dropped.

[@gigabyte3420]

How has nobody mentioned how much this sounds like At Doom's Gate?!

[@shaekelley6500]

Now time to make a house call. Kronos, you damn grandkids get off my property

[@zeldascottgc]

need this on streaming 🗣💯

[@gama3040]

out of tartarus melody is so cool

[@maestromgx]

Damn this heavily reminds me of FF IX Necron's theme

[@aspreedacore]

Speaking of final fantasy FF7 rebirth’s hear the cries of the planet kinda fits chronos cause of the clock sounds

[@Serpencio]

Starts out amazing, a shame it's not a higher tempo from there after.

[@yoyo777]

f*cking hourglasses

[@joshkindled3535]

First time I heard this soundtrack I was thinking " Am I timed in this dungeon?.... Am I fighting against time?" Yes, yes I was.

[@Sqelson]

into fartarus (i shit myself hearing this the first time)

[@Trozomuro]

Yeah, the same, and, if you allow me, you have an amazing account image. The mothership is standing by.

[@Sqelson]

@@Trozomuro real recognises real, and the quantum waveform never dissipates here‼️‼️‼️

[@louiskostasredojevic]

Finnal area in the game who wanna bet ?

[@nocturnal7474]

most likely

[@javyz6197]

you are correct

[@aidencook5524]

as someone who’s been there, yep! sure is!

[@Ampheon181]

Hacking Tartarus to form an express route is such a fun idea

[@lankthedank6931]

Feels almost Matrix

[@themushroominside6540]

Why did chronos give the giant living bag of money aimbot?

[@TheErickgerardo]

Its true. Nerf bag of money haha (joke)

[@aspreedacore]

@@TheErickgerardothe boss version is seriously OD you better have cracked sprint or dodge behind a wall lol

[@quintengames3576]

Yea the miniboss money bag is crazy in how fast he turns when shooting. (Manageable on +0% speed but kinda unavoidable on +40% speed from the fear pact)

[@aspreedacore]

@@quintengames3576 chill bruh I can barely beat chronos pactless lol, I eat his golden Oreo cookie scythe spin for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack lol. I only won twice

[@tripleaaabattery8480]

@@aspreedacore oh yeah even in my first winning attempt (which was my 3rd try against him) i just could not figure out the tell for that attack and it would just clip me half the time. Dunno how i'm gonna dodge that once i increase the speed of everyone

[@catherinebeveridge9023]

This is so Hades but I’m also picking up Crash Bandicoot vibes? What a track

[@lamdang2875]

somehow this sounds like a powerpuff girls remix of the OG score, made me smile while sweating my balls off the whole time

[@misterhoobomaster]

0:30 this is DOOM Eternals intro song almost 😅

[@satyakimukherjee8264]

Ya its definitely inspired by the original 2D doom theme song (and its modern variants ofc)

[@okamiseven]

Death to Chronos \m/ \m/

[@tuckeredout2887]

Getting to tartarus solidified this as GOTY for me

[@lankthedank6931]

Secret Agent movie vibes

[@RefereeWA]

certified banger here

[@fireboltzer0634]

I don't know if anyone is going to see this but, The only complain I have is the missed weapon choice of a whip or boots. Boots for more kicks and speed and a Whip is for creativity. (Bayonetta 1-3) Overall I loved the first hades and I can wait to play the second one.

[@lemonfry26]

Well there's still one more weapon planned that hasn't been added yet so maybe

[@themiddleman5763]

big ben leitmotif

[@TheLuke3399]

Kinda has a NuDoom sound at points. 0:30 Immediately riminded me of E1M1/At Hell's Gate

[@lunasea4841]

Huh, kinda getting a Binding of Isaac vibe from this one.

[@Atlas_Clouds]

Death to Chronos!

[@nuclearbirds]

Anyone else get really strong Crash Bandicoot 3 vibes from this? Or am I officially old for referencing a PlayStation 1 game?

[@NickMaovich]

Guys my time is running out. Cya