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Fun video as always. I know surface is hard but enemies having no dmg, speed or hp makes them feel completely free. Personally I'd love a combo of some challenge with fun options even if the run doesn't even end in victory. I know trying new stuff under challenge will also let you discover more viable things too.
Boated…legend himself🙌. Thanks for another great run video, love watching your content!
Ref your comment on increasing the fear: a nice middle ground Idea could be since you can have different variations of an all element build just based on the core god boons you pick, maybe you could have levels( so like all air boom level 2, 20 fear etc) that also increase the fear you use. This way you get more vid ideas, we get to see your skills and even if you fail the run, it’s generally entertaining.
Bro fr fear is very much optional, for me as long as that timer is not like menacing, all fear does is keep the run going longer and that means more content, which is what I'm here for. I've got better as a player but I have no desire to do max fear ever so fun and silly is deffo what I like, keep up the good work Goated
The legend cooking with literal fire is what I needed today
Think you could probably swap some Scars for some timer and go a bit higher heat. Having said that, I'm here for the vibes and the fun gameplay as well as the high Fear runs so I'm good with either tbh.
Trivia time!
Hazard Boom isn't the first time Icarus cooked a little too hard. His father Daedalus was originally from Athens, where he invented the practice of proper carpentry by introducing concepts like glue and tree-felling axes to the early Athenians. But Daedalus grew envious of his nephew, who is usually called Peridx. He threw his nephew off a cliff that overlooks Athens, now the site of the famous Acropolis temple. At the last minute, Athena saved Perdix and turned him into a partridge to save him from his uncle. Daedalus meanwhile fled Athens with his family and landed in Crete, where he traveled to the court of King Minos. King Minos is most famous for having his problem with the Minotaur (Asterius from the first game), which came about from his wife banging Zeus while he was disguised as a bull and giving birth to a half-bull creature who ate nothing but human flesh (why exactly a man with the head of a herbivore came out a dedicated carnivore feeding on other humans is anyone's guess).
Minos agreed to let Daedalus stay in his court, but only if Daedalus would design a prison for his rather bull-headed stepson, which Daedalus did. This was actually originally going to be the premise for the game that would become Hades. It was originally a story about Theseus where the Roguelike elements would come from Daedalus' labyrinth for the Minotaur. This labyrinth was said to be ever-shifting, with the walls changing arrangements to make it impossible to escape at any time. The idea for the Roguelike is that because the labyrinth shifts whenever you leave a room, it would never have the same arrangement twice. This idea would later be recycled for Hades with the conceit that Hades has commissioned Daedalus' shade to do the same thing for the Underworld to make it inescapable, with his prize being an eternity in Elysium with his son.
Back to when he and Icarus were still alive, Icarus himself doesn't appear in the myths about his father up until this point (part of why Hades 2's Icarus is so insecure about being inadequate compared to him). He's only mentioned after Daedalus aids Minos' daughter Ariadne by giving her a hint on how to solve his labyrinth which she later used to produce her famous thread (the same yarn ball you can buy in Charon's well), which let Theseus retrace his steps through the labyrinth using the yarn, thereby allowing him to elope with Ariadne. Daedalus is punished for his part in Theseus' escape and Minos' daughter eloping with him by being forced to live within his own labyrinth under a tight curfew or total house-arrest. Escape was impossible by sea because of ships Daedalus himself had invented (some say he even invented the first sails and rudders), and Crete is an island.
So Daedalus gathered bird feathers and beeswax from the windows of his palace prison and took them back to the labyrinth where he was locked each night, slowly building a set of wings for himself and his son Icarus to use in their escape. When the two were ready to fly their way to freedom, Daedalus warned his son not to fly too close to the sun. Icarus, however, was intoxicated by the experience of flying, and soared as high as he possibly could. The rays of the sun melted the wax from his wings, causing the feathers to unwravel and Icarus to fall to the sea and drown. Both he and Mel reference this event repeatedly in their dialogue, and in the Hades games his wings are now made out of interlocking bronze to ensure he never falls from the sky this way again. This is also why he originally had a fear of flying he had to conquer as a shade, and his love of flying in the myth is why he still talks about it as an addicting and magical experience even after falling to his death.
Hazard Boom seems to be a reference to Icarus' more reckless and dangerous side, the same impulsiveness and desire to live dangerously that originally got him killed. As for Daedalus, after his son's death he managed to fly his way to Sicily. There, he built a shrine to Apollo and offered up his wings to him while weeping for Icarus. He was taken in by the local king there, but King Minos tracked him there. Minos had been travelling from city to city, posing them all the same logic problem to prove their court was housing Daedalus–thread a string through the coils of a seashell. Daedalus easily solved the puzzle, tying the string to an ant and luring it through the shell using a honey droplet, but he also planned a trap for Minos in Sicily.
He built a complex bathhouse for the King of Sicily, which the King offered for Minos to use while he would have Daedalus fetched for him. But the King of Sicily had no intention of surrendering his master architect, and Minos had no intent of being captured again. So Daedalus (or the King of Sicily's servants, depending on the version) pumped boiling hot water into the bath that Daedalus had heated so much it boiled King Minos to death. After some years of living peacefully in the Sicilian Court, Daedalus himself was killed by a snakebite eventually in a random act of fate, at which point we catch up with him again in Hades 1. Here he's again building labyrinths, this time for Hades himself (as mentioned) to make the Underworld as inescapable as Minos' labyrinth. While he works on this ever-shifting, trap-laden super-prison, he periodically leaves his own custom modified crafting tools behind from time to time.
These 'Daedalus Hammers' are the super-tools we use to modify our weapons in Hades 1 and 2, although Icarus reveals in Hades 2 that Hades (unlike Minos) honoured his contract with Daedalus and that Daedalus has been retired to the fields of Elysium for quite some time now. Instead, Icarus himself is the one carrying on his father's legacy, leaving behind his own hammers for others to find so that they, too, can teach themselves some of his father's master-crafting techniques if they so desire. Greek myth itself never mentions Icarus before or after his famous death by falling, so it's interesting to see the Hades devs flesh him out by comparing him to his father's more lasting and positive legacy.
For Mel's part, she seems to not need any convincing at all that Icarus is something truly special. It looks as though she has quite the case of puppy love for Icarus, and the feeling looks to be very much mutual. She seems uncomfortable with spending so much time with the shade of a mortal, though, hence why she tried to resurrect him in a ritual that cost her her arm. This is why the two seem to dance around certain subjects sometimes, including the subject of Mel's new spooky ghost arm and where their chemistry might lead them. So, there's still more to expand on his story even here, and we'll see what the fully-completed relationship system will do with our two lovebirds as the game draws closer to completion.
hazard boom mental block is crazy work !!
Yeah Heph is a god you can't half ass with, you have to full ass to make him viable as your main damage but god damn it it's so worth it
Loving the daily uploads💜
Any fear can be a fun run if you are having fun. Just don’t get dom’d too much by pom’in. Keep all the shenanigans going and all of the visual obscurations because that is every run I play.
We have fun when ur having fun. Nothing is funnier than hearing you cackle over a build or a run.
4:54 Back Burner has a bug (or a QoL feature? idk) where Blast always deals backstab damage when a foe is affected by Daze. Its damage also stacks with Rude Awakening as long as Daze remains applied. However, the backstab damage from Blast is unaffected by backstab damage increase effects from other sources, such as Mel Dagger or the Skulking Onslaught hammer.
Chain reaction is amazing, i've recently got a sub 7 with it on momus, I think it's very viable if you play a strong early game weapon and take the time to set it up.
We already seen you do some of the sickest sweaty feats in the game. So we ok with you running weird sub optimal builds WITH STYLE. Just maybe not do a splash fount max Pom run 😂
Instead of more expensive items, I think you should consider frenzy and fangs for fun runs 🙂