So I Tried Hades 2..

Asmongold plays a new early access open world survival crafting mmorpg Hades 2
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[@letri5444]

For anyone who feel familiar with Hecate's voice, it is the narrator's voice of Baldur's Gate 3

[@101phil101]

s-tier voice acting. So good in bg3.

[@GuiiBrazil]

nice

[@bumpy86]

Nope, not even close...

[@letri5444]

@@bumpy86 what do you mean? Am I wrong ?

[@tahafury]

no you arent, dont know what hes on about ​@@letri5444

[@Sableye666]

If this gets over 500 likes I will buy a starforge PC

[@FalconStrikeGames]

Liessss

[@legionofanon]

Physicians

[@Sableye666]

I am tracking this and will go thru with it and upload picture or video evidence

[@Sulthex333]

Fishing for likes..gay

[@aoaoao-pe2ec]

if this gets 500 likes I'll steal his starforge PC

[@keegansimons7348]

"She looks like she works at kotaku" LMAO 😂I'm fuckin dead😂

[@-radioactiveelf-3469]

I'm surprised this game didn't change his life

[@Darkworldwolf]

come now, you gotta know that´s the title for the second video

[@Daryl90]

I think asmon doesn't even manage this channel and it's his editor or something that makes the title

[@lovelylemonfactory]

@@Daryl90 No way, really!?

[@humpewter]

he hasnt come across whirlwind

[@Ukgyt99]

Hades had me singing for weeks "Good-bye to all the plans that we made🎵🎵🎶🎶"

[@walternolasco9052]

@ukgyt99 the siren song had no business going in as hard as it did!

[@yaguito49]

"Good riddance" its the songs name

[@KPid10t]

Sameeee lol. I remember the first game I always went out of my way to get to Eurydice just to hear the song again.

[@daami7100]

@@yaguito49 one of my fav

[@RigRacers]

40:45 have a listen for about 60 seconds. Hades set the standard for OST quality during GAMEPLAY, not just cutscenes.

[@One_Millisec]

Just wait for it, it's gonna be a trilogy. Zagreus and Melinoë have another sister, Macaria.

[@D3sdinova]

Cant wait for the greatest tooth keepsake.

[@Splendorius]

Plot twist you play as their daughter. As greek mythology goes it isnt too farfetched.

[@D3sdinova]

@@Splendorius no thats fucked up, but yes that makes sense. 😖

[@monstrosity598]

⁠@@Splendorius pretty certain that they did not have kids in the mythology

[@itheasian]

@@monstrosity598 Mel and Zag were in Greek mythology, look them up it's wild lol i thought they were made for the game at first

[@jacobbaartz7710]

"So i tried The Rain, Formerly Known as Purple"

[@JamesCastle-vd1lc]

one of the best video game OSTs ever conceived. chris is a musical genius

[@shandrakor4686]

As soon as 32:29 came around with that army of pinhead fish, I asked myself if he is going to recall that cast can root them and channeling it can one hit dozens or is he going to kill them with only attack and special. Guess I'll keep watching and see when he starts using it. edit: so never, he does realize about 35 minutes into the second video playing this. Honestly it feels SG though cast was so underused in the first game that they made it the strongest attack and utility move in game.

[@McZippyMedia]

he's going to go from "this game changed my life" to "this game transitioned me"

[@modernlegend_gaming]

can someone tell asmon that his camera has been to large in his videos lately lol

[@user-xp1ll5iz5f]

Blocking all the juice 😡

[@jantrakstudios3059]

Asmon is like a squirrel let out of a cage at first chance he gets to control the player character

[@user-ec3rm9wr1n]

God saves from the nonsense

[@TheFlyingChungus]

It's insane how he got the double moonshot poseidon in his third run. That's arguably one of the most broken builds rn.

[@Shellackle]

Then proceeds to get nearly the same build again right after lmfao his luck on that last run was insane

[@45noop]

It’s literally just 2 boons to break the game, you can get them almost every run if you try

[@A.Useless.Goddess]

they're gonna need to nerf it a bit 😆

[@oniuserjh]

​@@45noop sure there are plenty of those, Zeus blitz+ Apollo solar ring is insane, really good on staff attack blitz

[@Lostforface]

Aimbot stave + Poseidon is how I got my first kill. After that Ive killed Cronos several times, but that was not even close to what aimbot build did. He discoverd (probably) best combo in a game by accident

[@scarletsletter4466]

❤ It looks like a direct sequel to Hades 1 which is exactly what I wanted to play. I still play Hades 1 on Switch. Can’t wait

[@sterlingcampbell2116]

"which ones is the ace?" ...takes him 10 seconds to register the word "axe", does not know a sheep from a goat, misreads half the boons and didn't notice that each cast shot two spells shile asking where his double cast buff was. Wow...dude, ests glue.

[@PsychoMachado]

Poseidon put so much work into that last run it's a shame he didn't beat it

[@Oathbreaker.]

The backseating is strong with this one.

[@LivingFire_BurningFlame]

After spending hundreds of hours in the first game, my first two hours here was essentially "why the hell is the dash recovery so long??" "o yea sprint lmao" 10/10 gardening sim

[@thrive8106]

nice copy paste xdd

[@EchanteDante]

Lmfao “how did that hit me?! 😡 😤” literally runs right into it

[@daniell.3395]

43:58 Oh wow that song slaps so hard wtf. Super cool to make the siren a pop star vibe and actually have her singing while you're fighting her.

[@ino145]

That Siren boss is cool. :O

[@lloydgush]

They hate you, learn to hate them back.

[@Minecraft-gw1jv]

Forreal💯

[@ZeallustImmortal]

Take your meds

[@lloydgush]

@@ZeallustImmortal they still hate you.

[@turkkuli3996]

Who?

[@lloydgush]

@@turkkuli3996 you know who.

[@AstonMartinStig]

First game was great. Gonna wait for full release for Hades II but sure does look amazing already.

[@yeeyw]

I love this game one problem i had is how harder it is to make a decent build because how many resources i need to get so i more focused to get them instead of boons.

[@BlightSam]

44:34 Scylla: Down Down Asmon: FCK!FCK!FCK!FCK!FCK! 😂😂

[@GuiiBrazil]

My God... he still dosent use Cast. I can't undestand this.

[@vnshngpnt]

ARPG player can't play other games lmao

[@homelander2243]

It’s pretty sad to watch how other people play certain games and completely miss an entire mechanic.

[@A.Useless.Goddess]

it's asmond whaddaya expect haha. cast is essential so he will eventually have to learn to use it

[@erikhendrickson59]

@@homelander2243 Mainly when they're being paid millions of dollars to be a "professional gamer." It's why he still hasn't played BG3 - it's just too complex for him.

[@TrueKivan]

This is why Asmon loves Vampire Survivors style games so much, at some point you don't even need to play to win. To be fair his mind is mostly occupied with generating content, with only 30-40% of the focus being on the game. But then maybe it's just an excuse, we don't get vogs of him playing games off stream.

[@Donkexote]

30:14 Well I'm never gonna be able to unsee this now

[@CrazyGamesPlays]

The game feels good if you can get the latency down to 1ms. Basically for AMD I thought enhanced with freesnc was enough but when you turn on the latency setting with both the game felt amazing.

[@NCSGeek]

I'm so torn between waiting for the more full release or just playing.

[@Jipooki]

It's not far off, there's a ton of content already

[@PherPhur]

Be patient and just wait a few weeks or so. As the other person said, it's not far off.

[@NCSGeek]

Hm, really? I would've thought it'd be many months out. I'll have to check where to watch for updates

[@IgorJCorrea]

@@PherPhur the full game only releases next year tho

[@FluxFresh96]

1.0 is at the end of this year

[@TeleologicalConsistency]

"Few tales are told of Hades, whose reign as grim lord of the dead came to a sudden end when, all at once, a bunch of women came around to cancel him over alleged groping he did 500 years ago."

[@tyg-zw7nn]

you're supposed to use casts and omega attacks with the staff.

[@jesse5253]

bro wouldve gotten all the way to the third boss on his second run if he used heart throb like at all lol

[@zaelheimricht4978]

Melinoe: is a girl Asmongold: "Ew, yucky."

[@diegovinicius6100]

hades for me is my favorite rogue like game by far, it has a good price a good gameplay, the story is nice, good art

[@Dustmadeout]

It is not rogue like.

[@Shellackle]

​@@Dustmadeoutit's a roguelike by definition wdym

[@nerzid]

@@Shellackle It is rogue-lite because you have permanent upgrades in the game.

[@Dustmadeout]

@@Shellackle Check your definition then.

[@m0ejo324]

​​@@Shellackleit technically isn't a rogue-like but a rogue-lite. Rogue-likes are games where you can't upgrade your character between runs while in Rogue-lites you can. So giving Mel the ability to upgrade her health, slow time while casting her Omega moves and death defiance, among other things, makes Hades 2 not a rogue-like.

[@dwwynn]

i love all the new wepons in this game but if they brought back the gun id be so happy

[@RustyPro676]

honestly props fo him for playing how he did, i thought i did worse

[@IxOrI]

Asmon second try and he figures out the speedrun build xD Asmoizing!

[@RigRacers]

asmo fucking what?

[@omgsofresh4005]

@@RigRacers amazing and asmongold mix together i think

[@mikos6353]

Its funny to me how people say that combat is much worse in Hades 2 because its slower. Easiest way to play H1 was to spam dash and be invincible almost all the time, you can't do that in the sequel and that alone makes the game much cooler. Spamming Athenas dash was such a braindead strat, I hated that

[@user-lb5cp5mw4u]

But this is slower not only because of the dash. Omega moves are obnoxiously slow for a melee build and half of all the boons rely on them, requiring you to disengage before using. Sprinting is also heavily incentivized but attacks cancel it. There are no enemies that punish ranged builds and many that reward it. They could get rid of dash spam without screwing up all the fight mechanics.

[@mikelleonardi]

@@user-lb5cp5mw4uyou don’t need to disengage to use charge moves when they all slow down time dramatically lol

[@zirkereuler5242]

among that there is also an hermes boon that gives you a 1 hit absorption every time you sprint with no cooldown, some balance changes are clearly needed

[@mikos6353]

@@user-lb5cp5mw4u agreed ranged combat is too safe. Especially when you use cast to slow down enemies, I hope they will balance it somehow, but I am not sure some rougelikes just suffer from ranged combat being too strong.

[@Hakarasan]

It's amazing and I love it. The only issue I can think of that bothers me is how similarish all the boons feel. In the 1st game for example for casts basically every single one of them was different depending on which god you picked which made it really fun messing around with different stuff, as for Hades 2 you dont have as much options. Then again the game is in early access and I feel like we can place good faith on Super Giant on making the game even more amazing

[@Abyss0fDelta]

If Apollo sounds familiar, that's cause it's the same VA as Alphinaud from FFXIV.

[@DubbleLime]

Just want you to know I first tried Cerberus with Eris debuff. 😊

[@oddjam]

"idk why they made the main character a girl" oh it's one of those videos. Jfc

[@blazinglion018]

Am I the only one who thought Skelly sounded like ItsAGundam?

[@spooderderg4077]

I mean. He's meant to sound like a fangasming nerd excited to see you. So it fits.

[@wiseasaserpent.2961]

I lost count how many times i killed a boss with 1-2 hp for most of the fight lol.

[@A.Useless.Goddess]

i already have like 50 hours in this game. it fucking slaps. chronos is a god tier boss, literally

[@AroWolfArts]

Asmon playing Hades 2?! This will surely be awesome.

[@BrolysShadow_]

I do feel like Hades 2 is a bit harder than 1. I enjoyed what there is so far though.

[@AlphaOmegaInfinity]

It’s a lot more methodical that’s for sure. Chronos also definitely hits like a truck compared to Hades.

[@briankeebler4634]

It's harder, but there's more grinding for progression and just more progression in general.

[@bleez89]

I cant beat chronos, best ive done is 40% phase 2 :(

[@TP-pq9xx]

I didn't play early access Hades 1 so I can't really compare. Maybe it will be easier on final release.

[@soulflame99]

Its because there is way more progression. Also prob forget how much hades fucked everyone in the beginning.

[@flannastri]

I love how coins are just lil asmons.

[@taylortaylor6845]

So I tried hades 2 and it changed my life

[@miserablebrian9245]

I swear if in this whole video he doesn't realize that he's got other attacks than just that main one I'm gonna lose my mind. Somebody PLEASE tell me if he ever starts using the damn cast?? Also WHY DOES NOBODY WHO STREAMS OR PLAYS THIS GAME ONLINE EVER INTERACT WITH THE GLOWING YELLOW ORB THINGS THAT TELL MORE BACKSTORY!!>?!?!? WTF I've got like 6 hours in the game and I've never seen Eris and he met her on the first damn time he got there!?

[@D3sdinova]

Retromation does, but then again he did miss a permanent progression item somehow.

[@Kekos-cl5zi]

the reason you get eris is so you dont progress too fast if you dont see eris it means you died a lot

[@pffboahkeineahnung]

imagine giving a f about the backstory, let me just play

[@D3sdinova]

@@pffboahkeineahnung what?! Greek mythology is the very reason i even got the first game. Just make sure you play it without ever interacting with any characters you dont have to now.

[@nicklasveva]

@@pffboahkeineahnung the characters interacting with each other and referring to what's happening in game is like 50% of the game

[@olderbadboy]

This is an early access " triple iii " game that is better than most triple "AAA" released 😅

[@shivablack2832]

It has more content in this Early acess than most AAA games.

[@ericv738]

Triple iii?

[@anesthesia24]

@@ericv738 "i" for Indie

[@kalestiyapetrovna9962]

@@ericv738 i = indie

[@savinmeal]

this game changed his life

[@evanblake5252]

He wasn't kidding when he said he was slow on the uptake...

[@deplorible753]

Bros face covering the goods literally unwatchable

[@chaosi1753]

Hestia makes sense as a granny. She is one the oldest gods period. She usually wears a shawl that covers her face and she is plain. She represents the home and hearth. She is also usually a virgin so I’m fine with this art. 🤷‍♂️

[@rhys5958]

Cool art design

[@Mementomori292]

Asmongold on the thumbnail is from ERB Ivan the terrible at 0:25, check it, I promise I am not lyin.

[@AthleticGuy54]

Should i buy and play hades 1 before hades 2?

[@mehsterSkeletor]

Yes

[@Bandit_ow]

if you care about the story yes if not it doesn't matter

[@Bandit_ow]

hades 1 is on sale tho you could just get both

[@jwebcoding7289]

Hades 1 is also fantastic game on its own.

[@lionart5230]

Hades 1 is a masterpiece

[@MARKHENSTROM]

I looked into the assets used in HADES (1) not that long ago and was blown away by how all character animations are actually BINK files. That's a format typically used for splash screens and cutscenes/cinematics, ability demonstrations, etc. I've never seen any other game use BINK files in this way. I wont be playing II - as I'm still salty about the grindfest involved in obtaining all of those contractor upgrades 😋

[@annonymous734]

I too wished to play as Zagreus and thought Melinoe was going to be groan inducing but she is a great character. She is more humble and "scared" compared to Zagreus which makes sense because she needs to save the world while Zagreus was just a rebel who didn't want to obey daddy then turned out it gets more serious and dramatic Something funny happens when you fight Chronos tho I won't spoil it When you eventually reach the end of the early access, the message states much more to come so I'm HYPED AS HECK BROTHER. The game is already doubled compared to 1

[@Shadowofawolf]

Me studying to be a voice actor: Wow whoever voiced Scylla did a great job. She sounds amazing! Asmond: SHUT THE F*** UP

[@uhuuehu7863]

that counts as a job well done? the english va industry is a joke lmao

[@Shadowofawolf]

@uhuuehu7863 so is the video game industry. Its currently fucked atm yet no one wants to believe or accept it. But thats fine. A good game like Hades 2 doesn't count as a job well done either I guess

[@tentales10]

I don't think this one is gonna change his life....

[@liampriestman4090]

Why is the highlighted comment section of every video i open now filled with trash like "4 views fell off" and "x number of likes and I y". Feels like im scrolling down a teenagers facebook timeline from 2010 🙄

[@TheBloopers30]

It's the "new", now old and overdone, NPC "joke" uninteresting people copy-paste to gain likes.

[@seekittycat]

I figured they're bots 😂

[@MrDawnHD]

trying to watch this but i cant the music volume is louder then his game volume and voice voulume ? is this a edit bug or his he actually playing with music on and 100% ???

[@robinbubeneder6208]

i played this game for 8 hours and never have i ever seen that op poseidon ability, nor the double freaking health buff, nor the duo incarnation like wtf is this luck 🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️

[@jamesrobbos4457]

How you manage to suck at every game you play despite it being your job and forced to do it daily is remarkable

[@pyrojkl]

if asmon streams again, we should see if he lets us vote for cam position and get him to go to the bottom right lol

[@martiano13bros]

Why is there something behind him?

[@tacolatte1498]

Cause they want to see the characters bodies and asmon is blocking the “goods” as they say

[@JamesCastle-vd1lc]

i can't blame asmond. the game is brutal starting out. i mean, if i got moonshot poseidon in my first few runs i would abuse TF out of it too xD i just hope he plays long enough to at least get to see all of the chronos boss fight. he really is sensei 2:35:59 p.s. you can actually push armored enemies away with poseidon's water sprint and it does decent damage. it is pretty insane when you need to escape lol

[@PLRAHAPL]

I enjoyed Hades on switch, such fun little game. From what I remember I beat Zeus once it was very hard 😅

[@eternalevil3897]

it's weird how this game supposed to be about Greek mythology but the music is more Egyptian than Greek ! :D ..

[@feliox3307]

I think this style is close to ancient greek music, there are some recreations of it on youtube by some academics wich I saw sometime I think. But regardless of that, I find realy strange how much black characters there are in a game that's suposed to represent greek mithology, does it even make sense with Hades 1 lore?

[@FluxFresh96]

​​@@feliox3307I think its not meant to represent greek mythology accurately... Its just heavily influenced by it. And the music is written by darren korb i believe with vocals from ashley barret. They work on supergiant games since forever and you can hear musical elements from the older games in hades 2 as well (From the game Transistor for example or Bastion).

[@jackbower9087]

It also destroyed the Greek mythology by making it a Netflix woke adaptation

[@Frohman2]

@@jackbower9087 Holy shit it destroyed Greek mythology? Like it doesn't exist any more? God damn, such power no game studio should possess.

[@kostasspirou1010]

@@feliox3307 black characters exist in the first game as well

[@xpapakahn94]

"idk why they made the main character a girl" well you see. the whole point of the game is zagreus is trapped and thats his sister trying to save him. coulda just googled it

[@georgejerry1545]

I think he was asking why the game developers chose to write that he had a sister and make her the MC for the game. They could’ve written the story in a lot of different ways to situate her as the MC but why not Zagreus again is Asmon’s question. And I sympathize with Asmon’s opinion. Zagreus was cool 😂 and fans of the game would probably already look forward to playing the sequel just because they were familiar with playing as Zag from the first game.

[@TheFlyingChungus]

why would you google things just so to spoil things for yourself?

[@vid9170]

@@georgejerry1545 Here's a logic test for you: Why would Chronos not trap Zagreus? We literally beat Hades himself consecutively to beat the game. He would trap a God that owns the underworld but not his son who's stronger?

[@zirkereuler5242]

@@vid9170 why is skelly or charon not trapped

[@vid9170]

@@zirkereuler5242 Cuz they don't rule the underworld?

[@Kagedamage]

Why this camera position Asmon? Instead of seeing the character art on the left, we can admire his gold and a lil bit of UI icons on the right!

[@Bajlorven]

You must test V Rising! 🦇

[@doombeak2517]

Amazing game. It’s been great since early access but now the 1.0 launch is phenomenal

[@djinny11]

he played it

[@user-lb5cp5mw4u]

It's boring and too monotonous

[@RigRacers]

I like it but damn it feels like once you play through it once, theres really nothing to do. PvP is slow and even living center map with every plot around us taken, we never see anyone. The whole 80% of servers only allowing raids on weekends or certain hours is dumb af. & the entire set of bosses are just dumb. its essentially just a PvE game, and the PvE is so mid theres not really any reason to keep grinding. You realize that really quickly on, and Asmon wouldnt like it after the 2nd or 3rd dumb boss.

[@RigRacers]

40:40 - Just stop and listen closely at the OST playing, try to mute out asmon for just like 60 seconds. For the love of god, it makes me so sad when such a perfect OST goes unnoticed, but ig we aren't supposed to let it be a distraction while playing so, even more perfect. Just like Hades OST P.S. Sounds like Billie Eilish in No Time to Die

[@chexmixkitty]

He should finish the first game lol

[@Dimi26G]

Hecate is not Eva Green. It is Amelia Tyler, the narrator from Baldur's Gate 3!!!!

[@cocohonso]

LOL some of the character designs... 😂

[@eliajshdjddj]

Are peak

[@jasons2202]

Hades 2 did Hestia so dirty 😂 WTF IS THAT ...

[@domL2507]

It’s a good design also her being a old granny works in what god she’s actually meant to be

[@Steve-of1kb]

@@domL2507why would a god have an autoimmune disorder?

[@cocohonso]

Seriously bro xD

[@Rocko130185]

The VIRGIN goddess? Her appearance is supposed to be a young women. ​@domL2507

[@artix003]

@@domL2507 it is based on greek mythology where there is a simple and accurate description of her. granny isnt one of them. last time i checked this game is heavily relying on its myth and defintely not just based on them it is them.

[@evelinajensen3435]

The music is fucking amazing

[@milikitito]

hades 1 keeps unlocking new dialogs for me after 160 excape attemps and over 100hours... so 37h is... ok xD

[@jackbower9087]

This game looks like a netflix adaptation of Greek mythology fused with clownifornia

[@alexander1055]

Yeah, the Gameplay looks fine but the vibes are way off.

[@mSeabass]

Classic case of needing to be inserted into everyone's else history and mythology due to lacking your own. Game could have been good, stick to the sources

[@nickf2657]

Hades will always be better

[@joemama-mu1dd]

@@nickf2657 there are black and gay characters in hades 1 too lol. you are npcs

[@slow9573]

We wuz greek gods and sheit

[@eliajshdjddj]

Cope

[@jira6423]

Soot actually weird caring about dark skin

[@hiddendrifts]

gotta tick those dei boxes, source material be damned

[@mSeabass]

Woke washed, shameful to appropriate Greek culture.

[@nickf2657]

​@@jira6423Is it weird to take culture while complaining about the same thing incessantly, to the point of making it your identity?

[@Y-I-N-A]

Is hades harder to play with mouse and keyboard

[@R3ZGAMES]

34:03 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Pe37777]

Ehhhh not for me I liked the first one better…

[@MrTeamGuy]

After playing Hades for 100+ hours, tried this one and refunded ... The main character was just bland. Too perfect, too pure, to honest. Not even close to Zagreus, who was this rebellious child wanting to see his mother once more. In this you're just superman physically and mentally. The combat is an outright downgrade, Hades was faster gameplay, while that ended up being an addictive run when you unlock harder map. Now the other thing I really hated here was how there is a lot of progression currency to get. Sounds good, but all it does it take space for room rewards. Instead of feeling the build by getting power ups every few rooms, now you get 1 power up in like 4 rooms. Some enemies just demand you to use the spell that stuns, literally limiting your way to play. The constant yelling of the main character after every attack becomes a noise. Now of course it is divisive politically, but I didn't mind that in Hades 1 when the gameplay was so fun. Here I felt like the starter weapon was just not fun. The character I controlled was not interesting, the music wasn't new/just a lamer remixes of original ones, the story is nowhere near as compelling as in Hades 1. Compare the story of kid going through hell just to see his mom for few seconds, doing so again and again and again. Compare that to this, a strong sister going to kill a god to save Hades and Zegreus who somehow got caught. Where is the cool story in that, a hero with no struggle saves the day and proves to everyone how strong she is. Boring. Then the main hub, it felt so vibrant in Hades 1, every time I died and swam from that blood river all tired, went next to my father Hades who was so focused on his work and just told me few remarks, while Orpheus sang in the background all depressed. Even the death animation was really brutal and cool. Here you don't even get that brutal death animation, and you don't come out from blood river, you just reanimate. I haven't found a single aspect that was anywhere near as good as it was in Hades 1. I don't think this is a bad game, not at all. But, it doesn't do itself any favors by naming itself Hades 2. In the end, it's a decent rogue lite. While Hades 1 is a masterpiece. Not going to lie, after I refund it, I reinstalled Hades 1 to replay it from the start. Hades 1 is so good, if you want to play something similar, just to play the same game twice. It is still as good, and replay ability is insane. After reading the good reviews, I felt disappointed. I know Hades 1 is a high standard to follow, but this wasn't even good, it was just okay at best.

[@IgorJCorrea]

gets way better over time and it's still in early access

[@jackbower9087]

​@@IgorJCorreafake news

[@eliajshdjddj]

@@MrTeamGuy”to perfect to pure” so did you just ignore 90 percent of dialogue?

[@jira6423]

@@jackbower9087real news

[@g4m3rm0j0]

Androgyny 2: It's just Pat edition

[@zappbrannigan4170]

Lol nice

[@sticksandstones1173]

Gotta dance for those ESG bucks. It's like a clown dancing for spare change on the street. I actually feel sorry for the small company having to beg like this.

[@eliajshdjddj]

Cope and seethe lmao There’s Zagreus is literally bisexual in the first game

[@eliajshdjddj]

@@sticksandstones1173??? So you didn’t play hades 1?

[@DillonMeyer]

The better you get at Hades 2, the more you learn you can play it REALLY fast just like Hades 1, but now you have a bunch of charge moves and not just one. The main thing I'd say could use a bit of adjustment is base damage. Unless you're stacking endless damage bonuses, you won't feel like you'r doing a lot of damage. But when you do build tons of damage, it feels even higher than Hades 1.

[@yeeyw]

People doesn’t seem to understand the difference between a mage and a warrior. They expected mel a witch to fight like a warrior like zagreus did.

[@rebnvodkaxx]

GAME OF THE YEAR no question!

[@DerpyDerp254]

Jesus f*cking Christ the people who wanna hate on this game for somehow being woke for ......some reason lol give me the best laughs lmao

[@kostasspirou1010]

ikr like did people forget that the first game also had the exact same "woke" things such as black or queer characters, but no one complained

[@DerpyDerp254]

@@kostasspirou1010 If those two things trigger people they have deeper mental issues than a video game xD

[@kostasspirou1010]

@@DerpyDerp254 they love to complain without even playing the games, they're missing out

[@DerpyDerp254]

@@kostasspirou1010 Agreed

[@LegendOfLynk]

I thought I was losing my mind seeing all this “woke” BS but glad to see level headed gamers in the comments

[@ribps289]

Gonna be honest, feels like the exact same game, but maybe is because I'm not the one playing but as an expectator looks like the same thing.

[@zirkereuler5242]

it pretty much is just some minor changes

[@Shellackle]

Seeing Asmon only go for m2 spam I can see why you think that. The mechanics with Selene, omega moves, and casting add whole new dimensions to the gameplay, but otherwise yes this is a sequel to a massively successful roguelite, there's not really much they needed to entirely overhaul. New weapons are unique enough from the original and the storytelling is just like what hooked players before

[@MrTeamGuy]

@@zirkereuler5242 after playing Hades for 100+ hours, tried Hades 2 and refunded it pretty fast... The main character was just bland. Too perfect, too pure, to honest. Not even close to Zagreus, who was this rebellious child wanting to see his mother once more. In this you're just superman physically and mentally. The combat is an outright downgrade, Hades was faster gameplay, while that ended up being an addictive run when you unlock harder map. Now the other thing I really hated here was how there is a lot of progression currency to get. Sounds good, but all it does it take space for room rewards. Instead of feeling the build by getting power ups every few rooms, now you get 1 power up in like 4 rooms. Some enemies just demand you to use the spell that stuns, literally limiting your way to play. The constant yelling of the main character after every attack becomes a noise. Now of course it is divisive politically, but I didn't mind that in Hades 1 when the gameplay was so fun. Here I felt like the starter weapon was just not fun. The character I controlled was not interesting, the music wasn't new/just a lamer remixes of original ones, the story is nowhere near as compelling as in Hades 1. Compare the story of kid going through hell just to see his mom for few seconds, doing so again and again and again. Compare that to this, a strong sister going to kill a god to save Hades and Zegreus who somehow got caught. Where is the cool story in that, a hero with no struggle saves the day and proves to everyone how strong she is. Boring. Then the main hub, it felt so vibrant in Hades 1, every time I died and swam from that blood river all tired, went next to my father Hades who was so focused on his work and just told me few remarks, while Orpheus sang in the background all depressed. Even the death animation was really brutal and cool. Here you don't even get that brutal death animation, and you don't come out from blood river, you just reanimate. I haven't found a single aspect that was anywhere near as good as it was in Hades 1. I don't think this is a bad game, not at all. But, it doesn't do itself any favors by naming itself Hades 2. In the end, it's a decent rogue lite. While Hades 1 is a masterpiece. Not going to lie, after I refund it, I reinstalled Hades 1 to replay it from the start. Hades 1 is so good, if you want to play something similar, just to play the same game twice. It is still as good, and replay ability is insane. After reading the good reviews, I felt disappointed. I know Hades 1 is a high standard to follow, but this wasn't even good, it was just okay at best. Not just minor changes, a complete miss on the good parts that made Hades 1 a masterpiece.

[@IgorJCorrea]

the more you play the more content you unlock, don't know why people are forgotting you still see new stuff after 20 hours in hades....

[@jarlbalgruuf2415]

@@MrTeamGuy so you barely played 2 and came to baseless conclusions. You don't personally like it so it's not good sums up your summary.

[@nirvanna7774]

this man does not like to sprint.

[@artemsetov8889]

Bruh, after many many attempts with different builds I saw this right-click spam and tried it. One-shoted the main boss losing only 50 hp, not using any resourses. Asmon probably have some spydey sense for broken-ass builds.

[@Turtlefry]

So... why are all the Greek gods not caucasian?

[@palamedes4740]

Cause there's where Africans in Greece and they were represented in the pantheon. Got to take that up with the ancient greeks. Then again it's not a documentary and as most mythology was orally shared, their depiction varied from one part of their occupied land to the other. For example if the story of Zeus is shared in one of the territory in north Africa he won't look the same as it would in Italy.

[@scarletsletter4466]

😂 particularly when they have British accents so it’s both ancient euro mythology & euro voice acting. But it’s a cartoon so who really cares

[@kostasspirou1010]

both Hades games aren't fully accurate to the mythology

[@uhuuehu7863]

@@palamedes4740 that's all made up and the population of northern africa was not dark skinned at that time.

[@dannyboylan5926]

Can't wait to meet the new Asmon once his life gets changed by this game again...

[@fersuremaybek756]

sounds like the ranger from poe

[@nicklasveva]

Zagreus always had snappy responses. Melinoë is just talking about girl and witch stuff all the time. Zagreus always had the funniest, snarky one liners. Mel isn't a bad character, but I think that Zagreus is way funnier and more interesting. She's just a girl struggling. The ghost girl (Mel's friend in camp) is kinda funny though. Because it's a mix of Zagreus and Meg from the last game. Als you know I want that Ghussy.

[@bullettime1116]

I think it makes sense though considering their uprisings, but at least we have the ghost girl

[@MrTeamGuy]

well she is bland, I would say uninteresting and too perfect. Also, the story is not even close to the first one. Child wanting to see his mom one more time even for just few seconds, to the point he went through hell again and again and again. In this, strong sister will fight and beat final boss to save her father and brother who somehow got caught. Doesn't draw any emotion from me. I felt the weight of Zagreus failing, how he comes out of blood river all tired, goes through his working father who throws him few remarks and gets back to work while Orpheus sings all depressed in the background. Not to mention the brutal death animation, that is not present in this one for some reason. The hub itself felt vibrant and full of story.

[@eliajshdjddj]

Brain dead take

[@joemama-mu1dd]

the game acknowledges this, chaos literally says zag was more interesting lol

[@nicklasveva]

@@joemama-mu1dd daaamn they're firing shots on themselves? I haven't played for that many hours. But I'm guessing I've met most of the major cast. I decided to go back to the first Hades game a bit and see what I missed (not 100% completed)

[@seekittycat]

This is such a fantastic game. Love the art style and story so much. Playing it on handheld and it's so comfy.

[@adoboflakes8473]

Practically every streamer I've seen that's playing this game doesn't bother reading like 10 words on their screen to understand what 6 very simple controls do and spend the next hour or so wondering what their moves are. Lmao.

[@vyrv6719]

Some weapons better on M&K, and some bettter on Controller. oh look, balance that has some awareness of their player base. Holy shit. Love Hades I and II already

[@godzone488]

why is appolo black

[@enjoymyskillhack]

Why care, he is a God, noone saw him lol

[@erickrodriguez6053]

Man i wish i could buy a starforge pc.....sadly im not in the us