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As expected, Dan's making my runs look like a joke.
You'll get this the more you play but ABD = Always Be Dashing
Dan is improving mightily.
Hey, some pro tips with the bow. If you use your special right after a shot, you'll cancel into it, making it a good combo. Also, while the spray of the special shot might seem weak on the surface, it is devastating up close, since you can potentially unload all your shots into a single enemy. So, while it may seem like a zoning tool, the bow is strongest when really close. You can charge up while an enemy spawns, time out a power shot, then go into an up close special, melting HP.
Yay! Chaos! 😀
I love all the Greek mythology, but some of the stuff has taken artistic liberties:
Disclaimer, it has been some time since I have read a lot of these myths, and some details may be incorrect. Also I do not hold it against the developers as it is their game to do with as they wish.
1. Poseidon is never portrayed as jovial, he's a temperamental god that punishes transgressions with natural disasters. Earthquakes, violent storms and floods were seen as signs that someone had angered The Earth Shaker, and unlike Zeus and many other gods who believed in justice and the idea of redemption, Poseidon clung to the "old justice" of revenge and vengeance (the same that saw Ouranos castrated by his progeny and Chronos slain by the Olympians) where transgressions can be punishable by death. A classic example of this is in The Odyssey where Poseidon, enraged by the Greeks destroying his favoured city Troy through cheap, underhanded tactics, wants Odysseus and his fleet to be destroyed at sea so their bodies will forever remain lost and unburied at the bottom of the ocean. Zeus forbids this as it is not fate that Odysseus die at sea on his way home. Poseidon, caring more about revenge than any cosmic plan, doesn't kill Odysseus but instead summons winds and storms to ensure that Odysseus is constantly blown off course and made to suffer for years before returning home. After all, Zeus didn't say WHEN Odysseus had to return home, just that he had to return home at some point.
2. The Furies are inhabitants of Hades, but they are anything but beautiful. They are ancient beings, some sources say they're older than the gods themselves, and (like Poseidon) they really embody "old justice" as can be seen in the Greek play Orestes. Here the furies are describes as being withered, vaguely human, covered in warts blisters and boils, possessing inhumanly long claws and sharp teeth. I believe the description goes further, but you get the idea. They are like the vigilantes of Greek mythology that hunt down evildoers, particularly those who kill or otherwise harm close family. In Orestes, the titular character's father (Agamemnon) is killed upon returning home by his wife's lover (this is also the consequences for Agamemnon's actions during the Battle of Troy). Orestes, a young boy at the time, carries this burden until he is old enough to do something about it. When he's finally a grown man, he kills his mother and her lover and flees to Delphi to plead forgiveness and protection from the Furies, which Apollo grants. The Furies, despite knowing that Orestes has been justified by Apollo, never the less hunt Orestes wherever he goes for the murder of his mother. This culminates in divine intervention from Athena who asks both Orestes and the Furies if they would mind putting this matter to a fair trial. The Furies begrudgingly agree, Athena summons some locals to act as jury with herself presiding as judge. Orestes argues that his actions were justified by the killing of his own father by his mother and her lover, but the Furies have a very black and white sense of justice: All killing of family is evil no matter what the means, intention or context. Orestes accuses the Furies of not going after his father's murderers themselves to which the Furies laugh, effectively saying "They were not related of blood, why would we seek to kill them?". Once the trial starts moving against Orestes, he prays for Apollo's guidance to which Apollo himself descends from Olympus to act as Orestes' defense attorney (and you thought Phoenix Wright had some weird trials). Apollo argues Orestes' case well enough to convince the jury who vote Orestes as "not guilty and fully justified in the killing of his family". The Furies are… well… furious and deny the outcome, still wanting the blood of the kinslayer. Athena forces the Furies to abide by their promise to respect the outcome of the trial, and the Furies begrudgingly return to Hades.
3. Hermes doesn't wear boots, he wears sandals. This may seem very dumb, but it's a very important symbol of Hermes as in his origin myth (which is one of my personal favourites), he is the inventor of sandals. This invention (along with a few others he created in the myth) were used to prank, and thoroughly enrage, Apollo who as a god of truth and justice (among other things) despises tricks (and fun). Hermes makes up for it at the end when he's invited to live among the Gods as one of them (Hermes was born to a river nymph in a cave) and gifts Apollo a lyre (that he also made) that plays beautiful music which soothes Apollo's anger.
4. Dionysus is too lean and muscular. While most gods and goddesses are portrayed as being the pinnacle of divine beauty, Dionysus is an exception (arguably Hephaestus as well but he wasn't born ugly and lame). Dionysus was not a God born of Gods or nymphs or Titans. He was a traveler from afar who brought wanton revelry, mirth and madness to a city. He and his band of nymphs and satyrs would party day and night in the woods, singing songs and drinking heartily. This behavior began to influence the people of the city as women began to go missing, later found to be in the company of Dionysus, having been completely intoxicated with his mirth. They would strip their clothing, don strange masks and dance with the satyrs and consume raw meat like animals. As women were seen as the guardians of hearth and home, this caused things to degrade as more were attracted to Dionysus' endless parties. As he is quite opposite to typical Gods and Goddesses in the Greek pantheon (iirc some mythologists say Dionysus was written to be a parody of divinity when worship of the Gods was beginning to wane), embodying chaos instead of order and inactivity as opposed to action, this is also reflected in how he is commonly portrayed visually. While undeniably a male figure, Dionysus is often portrayed as more androgynous, having softer features and little muscle definition. In some portrayals, his figure is a bit pudgy and overweight contrasting the typical muscular portrayals of other male Gods.
3:27 If there is anything that wowcrendor has taught me, it's "Don't stand in the fire!"
2:25: Dammit! Who let the river flood?
…a god also named Phlegethon. What is it with the Greek underworld and places that have the same name as their masters?!?
14:45: Fun fact—there are only three beings in Greek mythology who Aphrodite has no sway over—Athena, Artemis, and Hestia. Which makes their orientations pretty easy to figure out.
32:45: It's traditionally Romanized as "Khaos". In the original mythology (or at least Hesiod's Theogeny), it was a sort of primordial being/state which created/birthed a bunch of slightly less primordial beings before dropping off the face of the mythology. Some of those beings sired/birthed the Titans and some of them sired/birthed the Olympians, though, so the game's leaving a couple generations out.
Death counter: 3½, 16:00, 20:05
10:10: Dan, what Olympian is associated with wings? It's a pretty basic Greek mythology fact.
…or possibly I know more about Greek mythology than is typical. But that doesn't seem very—
looks at post above
Oh come on, I had to google the Phlegethon thing! …okay I see your point
0:35: You don't even have a barge! That's Charon's job anyways.
3:05: See? You could only barge the one way.
4:45: You had a bit more choice there, but still could only barge in one direction.
7:20: Again, your barging options are sharply limited. Though I'll grant you have a moderate amount of barging freedom across all barges.
10:10: Look, game, give me something different to wrap this gag up on. I can't just leave it hanging after a random comment on another parallel barge-choice!
Some advice: Make use of dash strike more. If you having trouble dodging enemy attacks, you could use your dash strikes to do damage to them while you pass through them which also allows you to spin around and attack from behind.
Of course Hermes has the 'side hustle'.
"Dusa"? As in 'Medusa'?
There's an interesting idea I came across a last year or the year before that suggested an alternate telling where Perseus helps Medusa fake her death and the two of them elope. Yes, much to Poseidon's fury.
IMO getting fast, close and personal is my favorite method of killing the hydra. I really dislike the bow because of the slow draw
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That is obviously the white chaos emerald
I would love to see you do a full playthrough of this game!! if you're up for it ofc :))
I have 80 hours and I still RARELY do the Barge of Death event damageless
I can't believe he made it all the way to the hydra on his first time in asphodel
Hail, Hydra!
So… your character's main goal is to escape, and one of the mechanics of the game is to renovate the bedroom. dies
In greek mythology: In the area of torure in the underworld (don't remember the name of the place) it is said that to keep the evil souls still intact for further torture they have to drink fire from a river of fire, (i don't remember the details well) but that fire heals you but scars your insides every time.
So to have a eternal sentence of torture in the area they have to torture themselves just to be healed up just enough to still exist and stay able to be tortured.
Are you confused yet?? i'm confused, i didn't write it direct enough.
Wow in the scrying pool description they accidentally fit in two lines of iambic pentameter
enchanted bowl containing traces of
the hapless Prince's past attempts to flee
Hades is like "did you wish the combat from Bastion was infinite?"
My play style more fits the spear, so it's interesting seeing how other people use the other weapons :3