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#HadesII #Part4
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I hope they change the Eris "blessing" later.
I guess smaller challenges you can play around would be even fun, but who knows
(also, is there a song subtitle option? Would be cool to read the Scylla lyrics, but if you would be bothered by it then no worries!)
The "nothing personel kid move"
I think I might need two of these a day.. Do I need a prescription so you can do that?
I Will Claw (out your eyes and drown you to death) is absolutely my favorite of the siren songs, even if they are all amazing
Can't wait for fishing to get unlocked, there was great designs in the first.
Also love the design of Chronos, it shows his history of being torn apart to create the lands
Bruhh, once the short girl with the gun ends with her curse nonsense… Like, that's so frustrating! I understand the reason but then again…
1:06:04 Melinoe doing her best impression of Goku doing the instant transmission kamehameha move
1:15:17 "You will never get this, you will never get this"
Would be funny, if you could give Chronos a gift.😁
I think the Hecate keepsake is meant to be a form of bolstering your early-game until you can get another form of magik restoration
I think the biggest thing that makes Eris feel bad is that there’s no workarounds or benefits, and there’s not much variety, so it just feels like you’re being punished for getting through the game. It’s one thing to add difficulty spikes or tough trade-offs, but she doesn’t have interesting mechanics to make it feel like an actual difficulty spike instead of artificially slowing players down. It also messes with her character, she seems to think she’s helping or being a companion, but she literally only hurts. Makes sense for strife incarnate, but still.
A simple change to make it better would be to, while starting with a downside and no obvious upsides to keep the theme of strife and Melinoe’s frustration, still have give bonuses whenever you clear an area with it. Like, you take more damage, but after each area boss you get a flat increase to all damage you do. Enemies have more health, but after each area boss you get some free health. Everything costs more magick, but you start to passively regenerate more magick passively once you beat a boss. This makes them more of an interesting trade-off, and makes you change your play style, without just punishing. It also balances itself out, where meeting Eris in earlier areas means you do better early on, so you don’t die as easily and go into bosses with a better position, but in return you don’t get the benefits of more bosses with Eris.
Damn, not the Ally I expected to see in the final zone. Ironic that they're being kept in the same room Sisyphus was imprisoned in. Also, I couldn't tell, but was poor Bouldy destroyed?
try pausing in the Chronos fight
Re: the first boss fight being a "cute" fight this time, I think it's because you managed to match the rhythm of Hecate's attacks. For instance, teleporting/dashing into the center of that ring she makes, getting your damage in, then dashing back out as the ring shrinks again. The most well-designed boss fights have those moments that make you feel like you're in sync with how the devs intended the fight to work, that make it all feel like a choreographed and satisfying dance.
In short, I agree. This fight was great.
Would be nice if Eris would be changed to give you doubled edged damage instead of just take more damage.
1:18:04 Homer is the narrator?
Not gonna lie the healing dress has helped me on a few occasions.
I can hear the Nick Cage coming from Narcissus honestly. According to the wiki, his voice actor is Darren Korb, who voiced the main character in the first one(and also Skelly) and was also the composer for Transistor.
Ah, you went for Aprhodite cuz of the defensive stuff? mhm? definitely the ONLY reason anyone would go Aphrodite lmao
Plesa stop ignoring the omega cast. It's really good against swarms like the little fishes.
The soundtrack of this game is fantastic but I always look forward to Scylla's song
1:04:33 I think he had weakness from your cast, not from the guaranteed 1 weak enemy changing
The expensive ultimates might be better than originally expected now that we know there are some very long rooms at the end of the run. Since you can probably charge them reliably in those end rooms
30 Bones, for each Ambrosia after the end of your run from the Broker.
7:19 For Poseidon, his Attack and Special Boons seem best fit for the 3rd weapon, maybe the 5th one too, but otherwise rather bad. The defensive boons though…oof, those can be really great.
I found an incredible Aphrodite boon that said if you have at least 80% health when you leave a room, you heal to full health. Each upgrade lowered how much health you needed to activate it. Made a very strong run with the axe because I could tank one or two hits, till I hit a boss and they dropped be below that threshold.
The mana regen keepsake will be A LOT more useful once you can swap keepsakes in between zones. You could use a different keepsake for the earlier zones then swap to Hecate's to have that mana regen boost for the last zone and boss
I got a really good use of that ult when the upgrade path for it gave me "the beam fires from where you used it and you don't have to stand still" plus "you fire three beams in a fan shape" – on larger enemies, such as bosses, I could position it so all three beams would hit and rack up 6-7K damage in the 4s it was active. Otherwise I have found times I can fire it while fighting Chronos, but it is tricky
Of the three(or more?) NPCs mid-run, Arachne is easily my favorite.
23:50 I'm sure she's gonna be bisexual like with Hades 1, but this exchange feels so much like a lesbian thing to say. I love her
love the series, but also love greek/roman mythology. the little inconsistencies BUG me.
omg I just realized I have basically everyone's gift but the skeleton's
Fun fact: Retro was 1HP off from 63% total HP on that last room.
I wonder how they will explain some of these encounter after defeating Kronos? Because it doesn't really make sense for Hades and Cerberus to still be trapped where they are. Kronos coming back could just be some sort of weird time loop he makes with his powers.