what's /v/'s opinion on Hades?
is it a good game? do you have any protips or good builds for a newbie?

It's pretty good and looking up builds or tips will just ruin the entire experience for yourself just turn the game on and play it

>>714611562
alright then i will try to tinker builds on my own

>>714611259 (OP)
Great game. You'll naturally learn how builds work and what approaches you prefer as you play. But you're mechanically incentivized by the game to try out everything anyway. Plus you'll need to do lots of runs to see all the narrative stuff anyway. So just play.

>>714611259 (OP)
It's great until a few hours in when you realise the enemy variety is extremely lacking and it sours your experience. It's definitely worth buying though, if only for the soundtrack, presentation and setting. Give it a shot. Don't look up protips or builds, just go in blind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awWB3DEEzfg&list=RDawWB3DEEzfg&start_radio=1

Good game for pick up and play and also long sessions, don't look anything up.

it was ok but after i beat it ~10 or so times i lost the will to keep playing. I got to the part where you finally bring persephone back down to hades and it seemed like an appropriate stopping point.

the gameplay is alright but the story is wokeslop

>chaos is non-buynary with autism
>achilles has homolust for that ghost in elysium
the muse broke up with orpheus because he tried to save her or something, and she's a strong black druid who dont need no man

>>714611259 (OP)
I don't think it's Supergiant's strongest story-wise (that was probably Pyre, but only seven people played ithat one), but I had a good chunk of fun with it. It definitely drags a bit by the end after you've seen all that the bosses have to offer though.

>tips
For the first game? I felt like as long as I had Athena's shield dash I was set.

>>714611952
It's their weakest score tbhq
Is Hades II any better in this regard?

its shit

>>714611259 (OP)
It would be better if not for reddit-core writing

>>714612428
>that ghost in elysium
dumb frogposter

>>714612428
>another game ruined by not-mes

One day they'll finally make a game where everyone is me and everything is about me and it's not a game it's real life.

I really liked it and 100%'d it, even the cheevos.
I don't think it's the studio's best but ultimately it was fun enough that I wanted to see all it had to offer.

I agree with >>714613050 though that towards the end I was sort of forcing myself through it just to get the story beats.

>>714611259 (OP)
It's the most fun I had with the roguelite genre.

Combat is shallow and spammy.

>>714613050
>probably Pyre
Yes. Also easily the best romantic relationship subplot in a Supergiant game.

it was my GOTY back in 2020 and got me to fall in love with the roguelike genre. I don't know if it would still be my GOTY for that year now, but it's still up there, and still ranks as one of my favorites of that genre. One of the worst things about it, though, is how many roguelikes i've played with similar isometric combat since then that had me thinking "this could be the next hades" and i've been disappointed by damn near all of them.

also, i mean this in the most heterosexual way possible, Zag is a stud and i want to suck his dick.

>>714614839
What makes Hades special isn't just the well tuned isometric combat and roguelike build and level structure, although that's excellent. It's the massive amount of polish and extra effort put into every little aspect of the game and presentation. That's something that all the imitators have a hard time recapturing because it's a ton of work.

I won't forgive what happened with Dusa
It's best to just go blind though and work out what kind of boons and setups you like.
Shield is the best.

>>714614794
They never quite reached that height again

>>714614794
My review of Hades 2's relationship arcs will depend on whether or not they let me smooch the spider

>>714611259 (OP)
Currently playing it for the first time, very fun game.
Now I know where this whole "3 random upgrades roguelike" trend is coming from but Hades does it actually well and it's not just exactly the same run every time where you decide between +2% damage and +2% crit damage for half an hour.

>>714616515
>Now I know where this whole "3 random upgrades roguelike" trend is coming from but Hades
It's from Vampire Survivors more than anything which lifted it from Crimsonland

>>714617090
the "3 random upgrades" shit had a massive popularity spike immediatelly after hades. Vampire Survivors was a coincidence with the exact same effect except 2x stronger