Gonna give Hades another chance, after dropping it within the first 5 minutes when it was big. Have since then played the previous Supergiant games and am thoroughly stunned. Bastion and Transistor are great, went into Pyre believing they could not raise the bar any higher and that one might actually be a 10/10. Can't believe it took so long to get around to them. Though it seems there is a Hades 2 now? A sequel seems odd when the originally and uniqueness their previous games was a big part of the appeal. Either way, they've earned a second chance. My life for Jodariel.
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NTA. But that's an interesting point, because most people DO like replaying the same short game over and over again. That's what sports is, and card/board games, and all the big-budget multiplayer games The current "fad" is delivering the same kind of widely appealing experience but with RNG instead of a human opponent. Don't expect it to go away any time soon. I think we might be reaching a point of meta-appeal; each run within a game is minor variance on a familiar pattern, and each game within the genre is also just minor variance on a familiar pattern