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[Hades] is King of the Scythe and the Sword
Quetzi
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
He covers the world in the color of rust, he scrapes the sky and scars the earth, and he comes down heavy and hard on us.
But especially on you, Zagreus. You're his rebellious teenage son, and you're going to get out of the underworld even if it kills you. Again and again and again.
Hades is the new game from Supergiant games, who made a bunch of other games that are also good. It's a roguelike action sort of affair, and is currently available in early access on the Epic Store. It's a lot of fun, even in its technically incomplete state, and we've been talking about it a lot, so now we've got a thread to do that in.
But especially on you, Zagreus. You're his rebellious teenage son, and you're going to get out of the underworld even if it kills you. Again and again and again.
Hades is the new game from Supergiant games, who made a bunch of other games that are also good. It's a roguelike action sort of affair, and is currently available in early access on the Epic Store. It's a lot of fun, even in its technically incomplete state, and we've been talking about it a lot, so now we've got a thread to do that in.
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Just walk up on the enemy and shotgun their ass.
The only downside to the bow is that it means I'm constantly forgetting to use my blood cast unless I have it turned into something weird. My current favorite combo is to get the Aphrodite boon for it, so that it becomes a short range attack as a counterpoint to my bow.
Boiling blood maxes at 50% and that'll stack with each stone.
It actually plays with a similarly bureaucratic depiction of Hades as this game does, even if the tone is wildly different in every other respect
I made it up to I think seven or eight casts, which were Poseidon blessed to deal a decent amount of damage. But the real trick was that Artemis had made it so they fell out after a mere 5 seconds, and when they did, they did an additional 300 damage in the process.
So my entire strategy was based around flinging out all of my casts, dodging around the battlefield for a few seconds, and then going to collect them while enemies respawned.
It was an extremely weird strategy, but it got me all the way to Theseus.
and then you open it with a Hadestown quote?
Hell yes.
second realm boss spoilers
So far my favourite builds are Shield or Bow with a Dionysus boon on their special to put Sick damage over Time on many enemies at once
though I had a Spear run last night with Zeus adding lightning to the throws and Artemis boosting Special damage and crit chance that put in serious work
I missed out on the original live show when it was touring
i'm very excited for the musical to come to my town
although this is the voice that I really want for orpheus
in at least two Holiday Forum opinion threads over the years I've had people say that their main recollection of me is "person that introduced them to Hadestown" and there are worse things to be remembered for
For anyone listening to Hadestown for the first time as a result of this thread, I highly suggest headphones
they do some harmony stuff with a set of triplets on one song that is such a cool effect in full stereo
Yeah okay, I'm sold.
reminds me of Wizard of Legend, with better thematic integration
also I want to make out with Zag
and probably Meg
that is all
(the shield is the best)
but this is definitely on the same level as Bastion so far
I thought for a brief moment after I first met Thanatos that they were making Zagreus bisexual, but that doesn't seem to have held up since then
yeah for some reason Wizard of Legend just left me kinda cold
I feel like supergiant is really good at filling in their games with little bits of charm and personality, and this game is doing a great job with that, even in Early Access
oh he definitely is
Deciding to mainline Achilles is going to finally pay off.
But I felt all "this is impossible" for the Hydra, too, and now I clear it on the reg.
The shield guys in Elysium can suck a fuck.
they're incomplete, they'll be unlocked as the game gets more and more updates
I'm not even sticking to the shield. I pick whichever weapon has the dark thirst.
For me it's Dionysus. Stacking DOTs and dodging around while enemies die is a solid strategy with multiple weapon choices. The sword is about the only one it isn't as good with, in that case I want Athena so I can baseball bat projectiles
Same here, and I haven't started using the keepsakes that guarantee a particular god for your next/first Boon. I'm loving the variety of trying a different setup every time.
everyone else is kind of a mixed bag
Everyone else is deeply dependant on the weapon and boon in question
fucking amazing against bosses