Lauren plays Hades #3: A Question of Parentage (plus, meeting Dionysus and Sisyphus!)



OK, so I don’t want to straight-up say what the BIG STORY REVEAL is, but I still want people who are trying to follow my videos to be able to tell which one this is based on my thumbnail image and my video title, and that’s a tricky thing to skirt!

Soooo, sorry for *another* preamble at the beginning, but I felt like I needed to more properly situate where I’m coming from, what people can expect from me, and how I’m going to approach things. If you don’t need that info, you’re welcome to skip the beginning. Because we got into some good stuff here! Only, what, two runs? But I think I did pretty well in them, I learned some new things, I met Sisyphus and I love him and we are friends now, I continue to love their take on Achilles, I gave a lot of friendship juice to people to see what would happen, and then MOM OH MY GOD THE MOM REVEAL AHHHHHHHHHHH I WAS SURPRISED AND HAD BIG FEELINGS THAT YOU WILL HEAR ABOUT FOR THE NEXT MONTH AT LEAST.

I think I’ve figured out what’s going on. Of course, I am building my idea on almost no actual basis I’ve been given in the game. But just, like, wait til next week when I present my fully fleshed out theory of what’s going on, based on the most absolute threadbare framework of information we’ve been presented with so far. This is what I do.

I don’t … think this game is as hard as roguelikes usually are? But that’s good. Maybe I would think it was more frustrating if I weren’t actually looking forward to ending a run and getting more interactions with people and little bits of lore, but so far it doesn’t really feel frustrating or unfair or even outrageously difficult or complicated. I’m having a lot of fun with it. Maybe eventually I will start getting impatient, but so far so good.

(I really, really dislike Meg, but I think I’m supposed to. Zagreus deserves better. I don’t know who I’m going to ship him with, if anyone, but at this point in time it is extremely not Meg.)

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6 thoughts on “Lauren plays Hades #3: A Question of Parentage (plus, meeting Dionysus and Sisyphus!)”

  1. A subtle clue about Zagreus' birth mother being Persephone – Achilles describes that you can clearly see his parentage in Zag's appearance… But Zag's heterochromia is red and green, not red and yellow as SHOULD be the case if he was birthed from Nyx.

    Also, I like how both Athena and Ares have similar skin colours… I feel it ties into their similar interrelationship re. aspects of war. I don't remember thinking the other Gods had similar skin colours to that extent. Or maybe that's me just over-analysing character design.

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  2. Every time she plays, she's gaining skills. It's going to be so interesting seeing how she takes these skills forward into games like FFXIV again, and other games in the future. But also there's major props on how this game entices you to do these things. I love how this all works out. Story encouraging gameplay encouraging more story, and you don't even realize how much you grow in the process.

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  3. Ooh, as someone with very little knowledge about music but who adores his soundtracks, I loved you discussing Darren Korb’s work and pointing out instruments and patterns. Really cool!

    If you like his guitars I definitely recommend checking out the Pyre soundtrack. It’s his most stylistically diverse one, to match the game’s overall eclectic nature, but there is plenty of guitar! Especially in the tracks that play during “downtime” in your wagon, which are built around layered acoustic guitar. Those pieces also have an unusual about of ambient guitar-playing sounds – or at least I feel like you don’t usually hear that amount of string squeaking and grip adjusting in finished songs? I could swear I can even hear breathing in “Downside Ballad”! I find them very “homey”.

    (If you decide to check out one I recommend my personal favourite “Strange Voyage,” which is just so charming).

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