This Keepsake BREAKS High Fear | Hades 2

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  8. The Pos disrespect not taking that first shop ;-; early sea star/oceans bounty is so good very underrated. i am proud of your gold part killing in the room before tho

    note: you play you, i will just forever shill pos as being way better then people give credit

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  11. I think the Tempest time stops are unironically the single biggest threat to Strength runs in the game.

    Trivia Time!

    Dionysus is strongly associated with fig trees in Greek mythology, with fig fruit said to be his favourite among all the different plants in the world and some of the names for him meaning things like 'he of the tree' or 'him among the trees', thought to be references to the fig and pine trees that figure so prominently in his worship. The Greeks had two myths for how figs came about. Firstly, they say Dionysus fell deeply in love with a wood nymph named Syka, the Greek word for fig. Dionysus so loved her that in a moment of drunken stupidity he turned her into a sweet fruit tree. Another story tells of how one of the Titans who fought in the Titanomachy was one Skyeus, who ran afoul of Zeus and was hopelessly outmatched against him. The Titan fled, but Zeus pursued, and seeing that he was doomed Sykeus prayed to his mother Gaia to save him. She did so by turning him into the first fig trees. I found multiple accounts of these two stories, but couldn't isolate a primary source for them, so take that with a grain of salt. Dionysus' love of figs and their use as his symbol of the joy in life are well-documented, however.

    The Greeks took their figs very seriously as a result, and they were an incredibly important luxury good. The Athenian politician Solon forbid the export of fruits besides olives to anywhere outside of Athens, with figs being one of the primary banned exports. This move proved wise for bolstering Athens' economy, as outsiders would come to the city specifically to pursue business with its exclusive fruits or partake in its tourist trade. Under Solon and the other Seven Wise Men of Athens the city began the start of its Golden Age. But of course, any ban on goods leads to blockade runners. Those who revealed fruit smugglers were well-compensated, so the story goes, but people who worked as agents of the state to identify them were not necessarily popular abroad or with the general public. Apocryphally, the word used for them was Syco-Phant ('fig-revealer'), a word that became synonymous with cronyism and lack of independent thought across the eons.

    But the Fig Leaf in Hades II is more about concealment than revelations. The item is a tongue-in-cheek reference to how very, ahem, confident Dionysus is in his current state of dress in Hades II. More specifically, the Greeks were very fond of portraying their heroes and gods naked in their artwork to display how beautiful and magnificent their beyond-human bodies were. Many of their most beautiful statues were carved in this state, and survive to this day to become objects of discourse about censorship and artistic depictions of nudity. But in the Dark Ages after the rise of Christianity this debate was much more heated than it is even today. The Vatican had a great deal of friction between those who wanted to conserve beautiful artifacts from the institute's Roman heritage and those who felt showing the genitals of pagan deities and heroes on display was hypocritical of them and at odds with a monotheistic religion where nakedness was equal to shame and animal-like behaviour.

    So a compromise was struck. In the Book of Genesis in the Bible, Adam and Eve are said to cover their shame and nakedness with fig leaves after eating from the Tree of Knowledge at the heart of the garden. Thus, little stone fig leaves were sculpted for all the gods and goddesses and affixed to the offending organs the Greeks had put on display. The sculptors made it easy to attach and remove many of these fig leaves, as the sensibilities on how offensive this nudity was deemed to be varied from Pope to Pope. One of the most common targets for this form of censorship was Dionysus himself, lover of fig trees and fig fruits though he may have been. One of Dionysus' symbols of worship was an erect penis, in keeping with his status as the god of hedonism and pleasure. This was a huge no-no for the Catholic Church, where sex was a sin to be discouraged. Unfortunately, in some cases these leaves were indeed affixed permanently, meaning these statues of figures like Dio have been permanently disfigured. For her part, Mel complains the fig leaf smells 'musty' and that she doesn't want to think about where it's been before it was given to her, implying that our particular fig leaf might have been used by Dio to cover his divine grapes, so to speak.

    Back in the real world, many of the statues in the Vatican have since had their fig leaves removed for good in our more progressive and nudity-tolerant modern society. Still, we're not quite as progressive as the Ancient Greeks were on the topic of nudity, so some level of censorship was inevitable in our own Greek Myth adaptations. Hades II is not an R-Rated game, after all, so it still has to dance around censors itself when showing our heroes display their nudity. They use a panning camera shot and steamy water to censor anything untowards in the baths in the Unseen Grove, hair to censor Aphrodite and the nymphs and satyrs in Dio's baths, and of course a leopard-print speedo with a, ahem, noticeable bulge for our man Dio himself. This last one probably pushes what is acceptable for censorship, so as a further wink-wink-nudge-nudge to the fact that he probably should be as naked as all of his guests, he gives us an icon of censorship that nonetheless implies a great deal of sexuality by its mere existence and presence in Mel's inventory. This icon also covers over the enemies in the room, replacing them with a disco ball that skips the encounter, and thus, the Fig Leaf not only acts as a censor in the metatextual sense but also quite literally censors Mel's enemies from appearing when it's equipped.

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  18. I wish arty blades could have a bit of a rework, i dont think they work the way a "parry" weapon should. When i think of a parry weapon, i think of a frantic in your face playstyle, where youre constantly doing clutch parries to skate by the skin of your teeth. Arty gets one parry with an ENORMOUS cooldown followed by a bunch of crits, which encourages you to use the parry as a setup move and not as a defensive counter. When do you EVER last second clutch block an attack with arty vs how often you hold attack for 5 seconds while baiting out an attack to proc parry crits? Its not a parry playstyle, its a slow and campy setup playstyle

    My rework:

    Parry cooldown is MUCH faster, probably 1 second, however you now need to time it, releasing omega attack right as the enemy hits you. The reward is no longer a bunch of crits, instead the enemy who hit you is stunned (ie hecuba bark) and marked, allowing you to punish them and only them. This is much more in line with how i expect a parry weapon to work, frantic with a high skill floor and ceiling and specialized for 1 v 1

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  22. Arty is the first aspect that I'm attempting 50 fear on (because I don't find Medea fun at all), and I either die in Erebus or make it to Chronos (and die to p2p2).
    Please send help (My previous highest fear clear was like 24 fear with the blades)

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