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Um the surface was always terrifying. Each surface biome is so much harder than their underworld counterparts. The city is harder than Erebus. The boat is harder than Oceanus. And now Olympus is harder than mourning fields.
Each boss is harder, too. Polyphemus, Eris, and now Prometheus are more difficult than Hecate, the sirens, and Cerberus
i love this game but i am so sad about the changes to the block with the axe! your 55 fear run absolutely blew me away and made me practice with it and it became my favorite weapon. only managed 32 fear with axe and staff. staff felt like pure luck though, feel like if i don't get the perfect hammer, its so hard. love watching your easy going, well humored, and super high skill content. all the best! can't wait to learn some new strats from you and i get ready to try high fear runs with the new updates.
Sub 12 lets goo
was waiting for this one!
Prometheus is my favorite deity in Greek mythology, I'm so glad he's in the game.
Dang Olympus looks scary asf. Glad you're still enjoying the axe.
Trivia time:
Prometheus is the creator of all humanity, a Titan who sided against his brethren and with the Gods in the Titanomachy. He also gifted humanity with fire, hence the fire attacks. In Aeschylus' famous Prometheus Bound, Prometheus was pivotal to the victory of the Gods of the over the Titans through some unspecified manner (often thought to be intelligence). Aeschylus' account derives partially from the now-lost epic simply titled The Titanomachy, which covers the specifics of the War between the Gods and the Titans in Greek myth. As a result, it's as close to the source material as we can get. In Aeschylus' account, humanity is one of five different attempts by the Gods to create perfect beings to populate the planet. Zeus destroys each version the Gods create, unsatisfied, until Prometheus intervenes on humanity's behalf and prevents Zeus from destroying them through an unspecified method. In retaliation, Zeus deprives them of the ability to create fire, but then Prometheus steals some from Hephaestus' forge and takes it back to humanity to show them the secret. He also teaches them writing, science, math, farming and medicine philosophy, architecture while he is helping them against the Gods.
Plato's account of the relationship between Prometheus and humanity is more famous, where Prometheus and his much-less-clever brother Epimetheus are tasked with creating all life on Earth themselves. Careless Epimetheus works on many different creations, bestowing the Gods' gifts upon each and every one of them–claws, wings, teeth, poisons, tails, paws, coats of fur and scales and feathers to protect them from the elements and more. Prometheus works on a single creation made to be a highly detailed facsimile of the Gods in shape and intention, but Epimetheus by this time has already used up all the gifts Zeus bestowed upon the brothers. Thus Prometheus has no choice but to find another way to protect his creation, so he steals pure elemental fire from the forge of Hephaestus (remember in my talk on the fire vid I mentioned many of the Greeks believed fire was the source of creativity and the soul) and breathed the spark of creativity and divine spirit into humankind.
Lastly, Hesiod, the first writer about Prometheus myths we have a record for and the only one who seems to be fully doing his own thing rather than using the Titanomachy as source material, writes that Prometheus was merely a pacifist who refused to intervene in the Titanomachy. In his account, the original start of Prometheus' efforts to help humanity came from tricking Zeus in how he obtained tribute from them. Originally, the Gods wanted sacrifices to contain the meat of the animal, the part they could actually eat. But Prometheus offered them two forms of sacrifice–inedible bones wrapped in tasty fat or the actual meat of the animal wrapped in the stomach of the animal. Zeus, ever the arrogant and shallow bastard that he is, picked the bones wrapped in fat, and from then on humanity sacrificed these two parts (conveniently the hardest to chew) to the Gods while leaving the meat and organs for their own taking. In retaliation Zeus then made farming much more painful and difficult for humanity and stole their ability to make fire. Prometheus then stole from Heph's forge.
In most subsequent adaptations (including modern ones) we usually represent Prometheus as having done all of these things in some respect. Prometheus is humanity's champion, creator and guide, forming us as a humble tribute to the Gods and giving us our souls and creativity, as well as teaching us secrets we later refined and passed down in the form of wisdom and civilization. He did these things for us not through superhuman strength or powerful divine magic, but simply using his wits and ability to innovate and create things, the qualities we humans like to think we most embody. I don't know where these prophetic powers the game is alluding to come from–in Ancient Greece sacred fire was sometimes said to bestow visions of the future upon Oracles, but this was a different thing from the fire of inspiration and creativity that Prometheus gave to humanity. His motives in Hades II are a little bit easier to understand. With Chronos promising to return humanity to its Golden Age and make life on Earth much easier, and with how Zeus treated his creation and source of joy in life after he created it, it only makes sense Prometheus would side with him. What Zeus did in retaliation for all these acts of deception might have also swayed him a little…
The most famous part of the myth, and one even the ancient authors all agree upon, is that Zeus punished Prometheus for lying to him and aiding humanity against him by shackling him to a rock on the edge of the world and having an eagle come to rip out his liver every day, then have it painfully grow back every night, only for the eagle to then rip it out again the next day. More specifically, said eagle is the eagle that you fought in the video. You can see the scar from where his liver was ripped out on his chest in his character art, actually, and it seems by all counts he has somehow tamed said eagle to work with and for him. Maybe the eagle felt equally trapped in the arrangement and is glad to have been freed by Chronos. In any case, the symbolism here is quite ironic, as is standard for a Greek God's punishment. The liver was the seat of human emotion in Ancient Greece, the source of our ability to feel, and the eagle is Zeus' divine animal. Thus, Zeus is effectively ripping out Prometheus' humanity every day in an endless loop forever. Given that the game seems to be going with Aeschylus' account of Prometheus pivotally fighting in the last Titanomachy on the side of the Gods, I can understand why he's more than a little bitter about how all of that turned out for him. Mel here seems to have no sympathy for him, but I imagine once she learns a little more about why he's doing what he's doing, she might start to feel a little bit differently. We'll have to see. More new content to enjoy once we get there!
some of the new olympus enemies got me fucked up fr
How do you feel about the new weapon? I'm having so much fun with it. The block feels really similar to the shield from hades 1 and I love it
12:11 that was already in the game before this patch
6:19 Yeah I noted it too, feels like the awkward input-buffer time was somewhat reduced to prevent accidents like those dash-strikes you mentioned.
– Tried Vow of Fangs in 3 different runs to check what monsters could do. No more linked lasers from the first game, but oh boy some of the new effects are kinda BS in the wrong situations lol
– Shadow minibosses are much, much more dangerous than I anticipated. Lost a good 49 fear run to the stupid sea snake.
Spoilers:
– Found Athena, she gave me Divine Dash from the first game and I was yelling "LFG run's over!!" but it seems to have bugged out and wasn't doing any reflects, I don't know why lol
– Aspect of Nyx is a beast with Poseidon special + Static Shock.
Man I can't believe you beat him first try! It took me like 8 or so runs. Now let's see a 32.
Nice, a new update playthrough and a new Youtuber to subscribe to- love your commentary man, its very chill to listen to☆
It's nice to watch new patch gameplay from goated 🐐
My reaction to new patch: Ah shit, here we go again.
Thanks for the video mate and I guess I'll have to reinstall Hades 2 to see what's new : )
once again athena dash best dash?
Something Worth testing with new Axe special: I think it's two hits for barriers, and Heph's blasts were happening after the two hits
Prometheus isnt that hard as people say, I beated him first try and im a casual player
Time for you to do it on 32 fear lol
But Prometheus is actually an insane fight. He deals hundreds of damage for mistakes, and is extremely punishing up close. It was funny to see you barely take any damage through the first 95%, then lose the pin from near-full to him. My advice: don't get hit by the flame waves between phases.
Also, it was great seeing your reaction to divine dash, since it's the exact same as everyone who played the first game
Major 👏up👏date👏!!!!
lets goooo
I'm not gonna say what it does in case you haven't seen it yet, but the new keepsake from the Olympus peaceful encounter looks like it'll be nutty for speeding through certain regions.
I had to use torches heart+bloodline cheese (honestly still a little faceroll, and much easier to set up on surface) in order to beat Prom.
I got destroyed so hard just trying to play normal lol
Boated in shambles after the axe rework. But hey maybe the new special will be good with poonsidon spec
No cause the first time I saw the rocket launcher goats I got hit point blank and got evaporated
Uuuh, is it just me or is Born Gain nerfed this patch?
Location is every room. Its ridiculous
Have you seen any of the new keepsakes? I dont know about Athenas, but Dios in very interesting!
I was crazy enough to not only attempt surface update blind at 32 heat but I also put on white antler on my first attempt😅, needlessly to say I lost even with “ol’ faithful “hex. it took me about 8 attempts 3 of them was with Eros torches, congrats to anyone beating this at 32 fear or higher without “ol faithful” hex
Nice video man I just subbed! I haven't played hades 2 in a minute and my memory is a bit hazy, do you know of any resources I can use to catch up on things like which boons are good for certain weapons and attack/specials?
Boated pls Remind me not to vow of fury on new content next time ( I died a lot) 😭
Tried the new Staff Special and it was really fun. I never tried the broken ass version of it when the game first released on EA, but it seems to kinda tap into the same vibes. I had a Poseidon Special with Zeus Chain lightning and Heph-Zeus Master Conductor with the dual special hammer and enemies just evaporated when I got close
For the long line attack that tracks, id just put distance. U cant throw it off but it deals dmg in a line and travels slow enough that u can dodge it at mid to long range.
i honestly want them to add phase two for prometheus , heck not just him but for every biome boss. Honestly mobs doing 30-40 dmg per atk is crazzy, that's mini boss lvl
I won first try against prometheus but only thanks to Athena restoring all 5 of my death defiances right before 😭 I was using charon and between the block being removed + losing the arcana that slows down time during omega channeling, it was so insanely unsafe 💀💀💀
i acutally hate the new axe change and the sorceress change