Let's Play Hades Part 1 - Megaera, The Fury

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Game Description:
Hades is a god-like rogue-like dungeon crawler that combines the best aspects of Supergiant's critically acclaimed titles, including the fast-paced action of Bastion, the rich atmosphere and depth of Transistor, and the character-driven storytelling of Pyre.
BATTLE OUT OF HELL
As the immortal Prince of the Underworld, you'll wield the powers and mythic weapons of Olympus to break free from the clutches of the god of the dead himself, while growing stronger and unraveling more of the story with each unique escape attempt.
UNLEASH THE FURY OF OLYMPUS
The Olympians have your back! Meet Zeus, Athena, Poseidon, and many more, and choose from their dozens of powerful Boons that enhance your abilities. There are thousands of viable character builds to discover as you go.
BEFRIEND GODS, GHOSTS, AND MONSTERS
A fully-voiced cast of colorful, larger-than-life characters is waiting to meet you! Grow your relationships with them, and experience thousands of unique story events as you learn about what's really at stake for this big, dysfunctional family.
BUILT FOR REPLAYABILITY
New surprises await each time you delve into the ever-shifting Underworld, whose guardian bosses will remember you. Use the powerful Mirror of Night to grow permanently stronger, and give yourself a leg up the next time you run away from home.
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE
Permanent upgrades mean you don't have to be a god yourself to experience the exciting combat and gripping story. Though, if you happen to be one, crank up the challenge and get ready for some white-knuckle action that will put your well-practiced skills to the test.
SIGNATURE SUPERGIANT STYLE
The rich, atmospheric presentation and unique melding of gameplay and narrative that's been core to Supergiant's games is here in full force: spectacular hand-painted environments and a blood-pumping original score bring the Underworld to life.
REVIEWS
“Hades is a one-of-a-kind rogue-lite that does a brilliant job of marrying its fast-paced action with its persistent, progressing story through a vividly reimagined Greek mythological underworld.”
9/10 - IGN
“Hades is one of the best roguelites of all-time.”
10/10 - TheSixthAxis
“It's hard to imagine anyone other than Supergiant pulling off this Herculean feat with such style.”
9/10 - Destructoid

[@ColonelRPG]

24:24 Chthonic means underground. Chthonic gods are literally gods of the underworld, in a very literal sense. Their cult was made in caves and dungeons, but they're also considered to live underground and whatnot.

[@Phadasu]

Truly one of the defining features of this game is the amount of dialogue; the endless selection of unique prompts along the attempts. Makes every death worthwhile :)

[@Lycanthromancer1]

A hundred hours (at least) before you run the risk of repeat dialogue for anything but the most minor bits. Over 300,000 words of dialogue, most of it spoken. Yes, it's a literal full-sized (MASSIVE) novel on its own, again, mostly spoken.

[@matthewpopow6647]

@@Lycanthromancer1 after a LOT of time... I hit it. I have hit the point were the characters vibrant characters i love became... npcs... its a little sad. BUT HADES 2 ON THE WAY

[@Barista.Nathan]

This is my GOTY, and is already one of my favourite games of all time. There's so much I'd love to say about this game, but I want you to experience that for yourself. The time to gush about the finer details is later. For now all I'll say is that with Hades you can just feel the love put into very corner of this game, and that love and care from the developers creates a level of quality that is nigh unparalleled. Everything just feels SO good on a deep, deep level. I hope you enjoy this one, Keith.

[@nihlify]

The only thing I could want is some more end game content, but given I've spent 100+ hours on a game that cost 30 bucks, I can't really complain too much. ;) I'd also give it my GoTY, though I haven't played any playstation exclusives that are dominating a lot of peoples lists.

[@whiskyconmayo]

Commenting purely for the "Achilles, heel" pun.

[@ThatsRaf]

On when to end series: despite this being a rouge-like there is an actual defined end with credits rolling and everything but it's not that easy to reach, mind you. I don't want to spoil anything, but if you have fun with the game then I'd recommend to play until the credits roll. Or if you really like it there's still plenty, and I mean plenty, of "content" after that.

[@daredaemon8878]

Yeah. Credits come after a perfectly sensible amount of gameplay and story content. There's more to be had after if Keith wants to keep going, but if he wants a clearly defined end for a finale that's the place to have it.

[@suicune1324]

@@daredaemon8878 There is also the post credit story that takes a lot of playtime but is also really rewarding

[@daredaemon8878]

@@suicune1324 Yeah it is, but it's probably too poor a time/story ratio for this channel.

[@MatthewMcClung007]

Just want to second this, playing until credits and *maybe* a bit after depending on Kieths enjoyment is probably a sensible amount of gameplay, and absolutely worth it

[@nihlify]

@@daredaemon8878 Yeah, the credit ending is good for a decently long lets play, the epilogue however I think is better to play for yourself.

[@lozg8887]

Jesus, if you thought Bastion was good... Protect your socks and pants for this one.

[@knoir846]

You probably figured this out by now, but just in case you haven't: The more important thing with armor is that beyond being a second health bar, is that it grants infinite Poise, by default certain weapons like the sword can effectively stunlock most enemies if you spam attacks, armor is primarily to prevent this, once armor is peeled off you can just chain stun most enemies.

[@Barista.Nathan]

It's hard to explain the clear ending without spoilers, but there is one. You'll probably figure this out after playing for a bit.

[@mkahvi]

3:56 OMFG Thank you for calling it roguelite instead of roguelike! I want to shed tears of joy now. People getting that right is like a lone ray of hope for the obscurity of the real roguelike games. 27:20 It's for self reflection.

[@trondordoesstuff]

Coin: Has a ! on it, and the game is Greek Keith: Ah, Anubis ears

[@novasolarius8763]

It's not an exclamation mark. It's a vertically flipped version of the head of Hades' bident. The same shape is commonly featured elsewhere in the game. For example, it is included in the sigil shown before enemies spawn, it's the shape of Hades' 'stache, it's obviously the shape of Gigaros' head and it marks boats on the floor of the Asphodel Meadows.

[@SapphireDragon357]

26:10 Zagreus is not the same actor, but the Narrator and Hades (and Achilles, Poseidon, and Charon) are. Zagreus and Skelly are the same guy though... So that's interesting that nobody seems to know of Skelly but Zagreus. 41:37 If a god/goddess offers a boon for the same slot, which is rare, but happens, the replacement will have upgraded rarity from the one it's replacing.

[@mamuf]

Zagreus and Skelly are voiced by Darren Korb, the one and only music composer and sound engineer for all of Supergiant games.

[@TykoBrian7]

YES! You're playing it!!!! Besides materwelonz you're my favourite KZbinr. Loved her playthrough. Now let's see what you do with it!!! Edit: Yes, Ive played it myself and really liked it.

[@Noki_Kelevra]

Good taste in creators there 👌

[@Nikkiflausch]

I am so impressed by how well Hades manages to frame its roguelike aspect. The story, huge amount of dialogue and constant gameplay mechanic addition drip make every run feel like a genuine continuation rather than a repeat. It took me over 20 hours of playing this game before I started noticing some roguelike fatigue, but exactly in that moment I managed to make it all the way to the final boss and almost cleared my first run - and that completely rejuvinated my motivation. The true secret to video games is pacing, and this game aces that like none other

[@ronpudding9598]

Super excited to watch your playthrough of this and hear your thoughts on it. I haven’t actually played Hades myself but heard so many good things.

[@kaimuck]

I hope you'll enjoy it, I think this game easily offers something even for those who dont enjoy rogue-likes. "God Mode" essentially makes it easier if you end up struggeling too much so you can focus on the story, but I doubt you'll need it. (I think it makes you stronger each time you die?) As other have said, there is definitely a more clear-cut ending to the game. And side note: yes, if I recall correctly, some of the tracks from Hades do feature references to riffs from DOOM!

[@knoir846]

Big thing to realize is that meg's summons are distractions, they respawn,they don't mob up and chase you, they are only relevant you get close, so don't waste time hunting them down, when you could be doing damage to her. As an aside meg is the only floor boss with infinite summons, with other bosses clearing the minions is useful. Dash deflect is awesome because it effectively increases number the I-frames to dark souls dodge levels, normal dash has i frames just not as much as you are accustomed to. In terms of raw +% damage increase Aphrodite is the best, other gods might eventually out dps her with their gimmicks, but she just the most straightforwardly powerful. Also you gab on to a bitter truth really quickly, most wins are carried by super weapons you ultimately stack compilatory boons to turn either your attack, special, or cast into a super weapon, once you unlock all the options you basically fish for specific boons, and if get lucky you can assemble game winning super weapons by the first or second boss.

[@dragamation3266]

"Achilles, heel," oh my gosh

[@B_Skizzle]

Oooh yeah, this is gonna be good. I can’t wait to see which weapon ends up being your favorite.

[@chrissolace]

Never experienced a game from this studio before, but it seems promising! Love the main character’s quirky quips and it seems pretty intensive combat-wise.

[@jamesmaceaveli6679]

Been watching your old Let's Play of Darkest Dungeon from years ago recently so i'm very happy to see some more rouge-like content, especially Hades love your playstyle so very excited.

[@TheLordMagmar]

There's probably 2 really clear and good points to end at, both of which are well telegraphed once you get that far in the game. Also God Mode is absolutely not an instant win option and I actually think it's perfectly fine to use if you want to push for narrative stuff.

[@SapphireDragon357]

Yeah. All "God Mode" is is a 2% damage reduction per death. This game is already designed for eventual success; god mode just makes it very slightly less eventual.

[@nihlify]

I'd say there's three points, but he probably won't play long enough for the third. The credit one is probably best if he enjoys the game.

[@snowy5599]

Yes yes yes yes yes YES!!! Thankyou thankyou thank you for playing this~~ I enjoy games so much more watching you play them than anyone else. :D

[@TwinAero]

>Bastion instant eternal faith Same, there's just so much of they do right you can feel the game oozing personality and polish. Transistor I liked less but that's mostly my distaste for sci-fi, the game itself was amazing, and their balancing with audio layer for the different game state was WHEW, the bar for quality just keeps rising. And then Pyre, to me that's the Golden Child, as an ex-Visual Novel addict the immersion for that heavily story-based gameplay just presses all the right buttons. So I already commented on the other video about good end points for Hades but: Ending, getting to the credits has a very defined timecost whose variance is entirely dependant on your skill level, from what I can tell watching your other series I think this might be quite a short series if you decide to end it here. Epilogue, this one might be a bit of a sinkhole because iirc the conditions has some reliance on conversation rng which you need to first exhaust, then get them, then maybe finish certain questlines to get to, although imo this is where people with time constrains but love what Supergiant has put out so far should finish their playthroughs here, because a lot of the narrative juicy bits is contained within this segment. 100%, Don't think this is possible for the channel unless you suddenly get addicted enough to the game for it to be your next Soul/Zelda megaplaylist of 500+ videos. But as a Supergiant addict goddamn they really used the Early Access model to its full potential to fill the game to the brim with interesting bits, I don't think I've played another roguelite that has this much unique content in it without the repetition starting to kick in and deflating the replay value.

[@maxybaer123]

Im with you on waiting for the game to hit 1.0 I waited for that and Im super happy I did but also kinda annoyed everyone else got to it first. But more importantly im so glad to have someone to watch whos not already at endgame from episode 1.

[@nihlify]

I think you wildly exaggerates "everyone else" lol. The game has sold millions of copies, a small minority of those played early access.

[@maxybaer123]

​@@nihlify not really. The game was in open early acess for a long time. Supergiant is an incredibly well liked 0publisher. And hades was consistantly sold as one of the best RLs there was. Most people who were going to play it played it. as in litraly none of the many people I subscribe too that cover this kinda stuff hadent already played it and started playing it when 1.0 came out

[@matthatter56]

Wow that was an amazing first attempt at Meg. It took me several attempts to get as far as you did.

[@MadSwedishGamer]

I was just thinking how cool it'd be if you played this earlier today. Love to see it.

[@Kaeridan]

Hades has quite a lot in the story department (and a ton of voice lines for pretty much every occasion) so the game will probably feel "fresh" for a while despite the base mechanics of Roguelites. There is an actual ending to the game once you do certain things, with credits and whatnot; though that technically rolls over into an Epilogue of sorts, which is where the absolutely "infinite replayability" comes from. If I was the one recording, I'd probably go at least until the credits, but I think going further and unlocking the various items and codex entries (aka story points) would be my ideal.

[@Nikkiflausch]

My center speaker sits in front of the TV and covers the midsection of the low edge of the screen, which means I never saw any of the button prompts, which usually doesn't matter but here it means I played for 20 hours and only through this LP find out you can PET THE DOG I AM NOT OKEY

[@blocksandmorewithkeith9151]

I’m happy I get to see someone else play hades

[@alexandergifford]

I physically groaned out loud at that Achilles pun.

[@straymerodach4713]

theres is a credits roll which you can count as a decent ending, it shouldnt take forever to reach it unless your are bad at the game. But Meg at your second run is pretty good but yeah, unlocking power thorough the mirror helps a lot

[@trickster721]

Short ghosts have to stand in birdcages. It's their punishment for being short.

[@LORDOFDORKNESS42]

There's some sort of easy-ish accessibility mode in this game where you become slightly stronger every time you die. Maybe that could be an idea in your case, to compromise seeing the endings but also shave enough hours off that Hades won't outstay it's welcome?

[@Starslinger27]

Super first attempt against "Meg"!

[@pedrostormrage]

Ooh, this is gonna be a good one! Once you learn the ropes, each run takes around an hour (and you roughly need 10 full runs to experience everything), so a complete series would be at least 10 hours long. Besides that, I'd say make sure to learn what the door symbols mean, and use them to prioritize which room you'll go to (this is a point of discussion, but a priority people kinda agree with is Hammer > Double Boon > Boon > Shop = Gold (depending on which one you need more) > Heart > Key > Darkness/Renovations (Depending what you need more of currently) > Pom ). Also, try to save gold for the last area of the game, because there's a massive shop there (with many expensive items, you'll know it when you see it). And something else the game doesn't tell you is that the god boons are arranged in tiers (like "skill trees"), and boons from the next tier will only show up once you have the required boons from the same "tree" in previous tiers (the same God can have more one tree). Make sure to look up the "Hades boon infographic" (on Reddit) so you can plan your build a bit better. Finally, make sure you give each character (especially Gods) at least one Nectar (when you find them) to get their keepsake; a God's keepsake guarantees the next boon you'll find is theirs (that also gives you a little more control over your current build). Sorry for the big comment, but I hope it's helpful. Good luck!

[@pedrostormrage]

Here's the link for the boon infographic: www.reddit.com/r/HadesTheGame/comments/fijp1s/hades_boons_infographic_shoutout_to_heartfulpeach/

[@pedrostormrage]

@@cooleybrekka3415 I just wanted to make things a bit easier for him, especially when this is a game that requires multiple runs (like I said, some things are never even taught by the game itself, like the boon tier system). I'll apologize if Keith feels this was too much backseating, of course.

[@liallen9380]

"Maybe you're just listening to a podcast, or a KZbin video, because you're not really paying attention, you're just clicking numbers." I feel so attacked. D: ...but I need something entertaining to keep my brain alive while playing Destiny 2 or Genshin Impact, Keith! Come on.

[@bgosl]

2:00 - "Diablo is just clicking while you listen to a podcast or something" uhh guess what I'm playing as i watch this on my other monitor. I feel personally attacked, sir

[@gamabomb6340]

The time has come.

[@thanatosdriver1938]

Man I forgot how hard it was to fight Meg the first time. It took me forever

[@SapphireDragon357]

YEEEESSSSSS! I love this game. Up to Heat13 myself.

[@derangedberger]

Northernlion mentioned, pogging out of my freaking gourd here

[@nihlify]

There's maybe three or four major suitable ending points in the game depending how far you want to take the lets play. If you are enjoying the game I'd suggest looking up what is required to get the "true" ending with the credits (it's not something complicated, just a numerical thing, hence predictable). If you don't want to risk getting spoiled, look that up after you have made a full run once.

[@knoir846]

Really happy to see you return to this, it's great game, and mostly a great let's play candidate, but there is a pretty big potential pitfall with let's playing this to story's end. See there are two credit roll moments, the first is very straight forward to get(10 wins total), but second requires at least 6 maxed out relationships with an Olympian, among a few other things(at least 10 post game runs, one post game win, some dialog triggers with the oldest Olympians), if you(like me) didn't take to them and focused on nectaring other characters, you could end up having to do silly number of runs mid end game(the narrative tension dissipates really awkwardly) to get to the second credits roll. So yeah just heads up from day one you wanna be buttering up the Olympians.

[@Fyrefrye]

Adding my own comment to whole heartedly agree. Achilles would be a GREAT name for a dog! Hahahah I love it

[@noahsarkhive4482]

hades!!!ooooooh hell yeah! you’re in for a ton of fun, keith! :D

[@noahsarkhive4482]

i actually changed my dash to R2. the further you get n the more enemies you have to fight, i found that having my various attacks n dash on the what’s-it-called buttons (triangle, square etc for the ps4 controller) made it really crampy n less fluent to fight. so if your current re-map doesnt quite work out, maybe give dash R2 a try :)

[@aurochtamer]

Pretty decent for a first try at Meg

[@ReedoTV]

If you want a clearly defined end point, you will eventually reach the credits.

[@antoineberkani9747]

Just for reference, Hades took me fewer hours than Mortal Shell. So the game isn't that long, at least to credits. I usually suck at roguelikes and i tend to give up very quickly, but this one keeps you going with the narrative elements, and it felt a lot easier than others i've played. You get to increase the difficulty later on, if you feel like it.

[@nihlify]

Depends, I've seen a lot of people take a lot longer, so probably depends on skill level and how much you care about the fated prophecies and such. Also there's story elements that take a lot longer to accomplish after the credits. Mortal Shell and this game is listed as about the same in length for the credits (without side missions). But sure, it's not designed to be overly difficult like most roguelikes, but I think that was fully on purpose. Usually roguelikes is about the win, here they take some of that and add story snippets as rewards instead.

[@MrArrmageddon]

I'm taking a break from another youtuber called Keith Ballard I was watching one of his longer series I'm on "Let's Play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Part 103" and I still have ways to go. So I'm going to check out this new youtube lets player and see if hes as amazing to watch as Keith.

[@R4ggedyM4n]

From a few others I have watched, took at leas 6 or 7+ Hours to get to the final boss, even though that's not the "ending". So would say see how you feel once you get to the final boss, then maybe either can make it a game you stream to get to the "ending" or come back to it later or whatever after a few games.

[@nihlify]

If you are reasonably skilled gamer you can probably win around 13th run or something (or if you get lucky with the boons a bit earlier). I think for a casual pleb like myself around run 30 is more common. (Could maybe have done it earlier if I hadn't tried to always pick fated prophecies instead of the actual good boons). ;)

[@Phadasu]

Been playing this, it is very good :)

[@2d20kobolds3]

Frip yeah! Hades !

[@GssDeLosAndes]

Was about time :D

[@cutecat2345]

From what I've heard the overarching story ends after you 'win' 10 times I think. Very cool game though! I've had a blast watching a few different people play it so far, you'll be number 4 haha

[@Noki_Kelevra]

You're probably thinking about Charon's obol (obolos in Greek).

[@cedeelbe]

666th like! Not quite the right underworld, but it's still an underworld's number!

[@creakingskull7008]

35:59 what

[@CheddahSlammer]

Have Pyre and Transistor on my steam list, never got around to playing them. Funny you like Pyre over Transistor because most from what I heard don't like Pyre.

[@KeithBallardA]

Most like Fortnite.

[@CheddahSlammer]

@@KeithBallardA lol

[@hammhamm9942]

You sound like Arian from the game grumps. But more anxious, it’s kinda interesting

[@carlotta4th]

There is no Arian from Game Grumps. There's Arin--and I guess he does sound somewhat similar, but they have their own completely different inflections.

[@fufu-jh]

Well 18:18 that's totally opposite ahahahaaa I can't help but laugh a little bit sorry

[@fuucaran]

43:17

[@thepineappleyempireofsuper9612]

6:00 it ends when everyone is together

[@adamyoung6797]

Damn, why isn’t it blind

[@KeithBallardA]

The series? I did a one hour let's try two years ago while it was in early access. So that's the extent to which it's "not blind." kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2jNiXV7o9h0bKM

[@alexandergifford]

As awesome as this game looks. It's much too anxiety inducing just watching so I could never play it myself.

[@mothpawbs027]

Oh yes ⊙◇⊙

[@lastburning]

The problem with rogue lites is that the first run doesn't feel like a real run if you can unlock stuff between runs. It feels like you have to grind for loot/upgrades before you can experience a real run. You shouldn't unlock stuff between runs imo. It's better when your skill is the only limiting factor.

[@nihlify]

If Hades only required skill by not having upgrades they'd need to make it a lot harder or people would just win every other run. And if it's harder it wouldn't work with the narrative element they have incorporated. Besides it doesn't take long before you can beat the game if you're really skilled anyway.

[@Sorcerers_Apprentice]

Cool, I heard this was a really awesome game, though so far I think a more fitting title would be "Spoiled, Smartass Son of Hades".

[@SapphireDragon357]

Smartass, yes. Spoiled, no. Hades is not a good dad before... events.