Returnal & Hades are Changing Gaming – The Blessing Show



What is a Roguelike? What is a Roguelite? And what does the success of Hades and Returnal mean for the future of Rogue Games? In this episode of The Blessing Show, Blessing breaks down what’s up with Roguelites.

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50 thoughts on “Returnal & Hades are Changing Gaming – The Blessing Show”

  1. Returnal was huge for me. Currently my game of the year. It was my first ever rogue like, and I’m currently 50 hours in. I absolutely love it, and it also opened doors for me. Discovering a genre I didn’t think I would like. This kind of changed my perspective. I initially had zero intention of playing hades, but now I can hardly wait to try it.

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  2. First time watching a blessing show. Pretty fcking good. XD.

    Dont know if this is a thing but can you make a episode about "Souls Like". With Tamoor would be better.

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  3. Man, I'd love you guys to keep making this style of content. Even if Blessing only has a few really good ideas a year, I'd love to see some of the rest of the crew work with Bless and Rog on these too to keep them fresh. I'd love Mike's take on Battle Royales and Coop Gaming, Andy's take on Pixelart/ Retro Gaming and Soulsborne stuff, Tim talking about anything Nintendo related, etc, etc.

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  4. Fell off Kinda Funny for about 2 years but this popped up on my feed and i checked it out. Damn i've been missing out this was amazing. Good job!

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  5. Loving these deep dives from Bless! Great vid. Oh and Returnal is my GOTY so far. Easily one of the best games I’ve played and a fine example of how to expand on the Rogue-Like formula.

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  6. Great vid Bless. I appreciate you and your work.
    Personally I think the next big "Rogue-lite/like" will be something that on the surface may not appear "Roguelike" but still has a lot of rogue-like features. Returnal and Hades gets close, despite them being a Rogue-lite the Story and gameplay progressions really does a great job at making you feel like you are SUPPOSED to die over and over to progress the story/relationships.

    Im super interested interested to see how the genre evolves and as you guys said kind of expand past just "Roguelite/like" and spill into other genres more often.

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  7. Seeing returnal had a soft sales I don't think we will see another one from housemarque. Hades with a much smaller budget I thinks a better overall game and even though it was on pc / switch it sold alot of copies way ahead of returnal .

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  8. What a masterpiece of editing, writing, and passion for gaming. This incredible episode was informative and fun to watch from start to finish. Blessing and Roger have done it again. I'm going to go get my ass kicked by some roguelites now – I finally know what the hell this means thanks to you guys!

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