Hades – JG Judgementally Comments…

What’s The Game? Hades II

What’s It All About, JG? Well, it’s the sequel to Hades, isn’t it? You play as Melinoië, a princess of the Underworld and sister to the original game’s Zagreus. Chronos, the Titan of Time, has taken over the House of Hades and imprisoned Melinoë’s family, so she’s on a mission to kill Chronos and restore her family. She’s been mentored by Hecate, who’s kept her hidden at a secret location called the Crossroads, while Melinoë has spent her life training to defeat Chronos. The game is, as with the first Hades, a roguelike, so with each run, Melinoë gains knowledge, skills, and resources which help take her closer to her goal. Unlike the first game, however, there are two paths for Melinoë to follow – there’s the initial one back to the House of Hades, which takes her through three different biomes, but this time there’s also an “upstairs” run which takes her to the very peak of Mount Olympus itself to defeat Typhon, the worst of all monsters. Can Melinoë manage to defeat the Titan of Time and free her family from his imprisonment?

Death to Chronos!

What’s The Game? Hades

What’s It All About, JG? It’s a roguelike dungeon-crawler released in 2020 by Supergiant Games, and if your eyes are glazing over already, wait, come back! You play Zagreus (I’ve heard that name before somewhere), son of Hades, of Greek myth. He’s trying to escape the Underworld, feeling unloved by his father, and to make it to the mortal realm and his mother, Persephone. Alongside the action, the story gradually unfolds, as Zagreus finds out more about his Olympian family, who help him along the way. The Underworld is divided into three distinct regions, each of which will contain a randomly generated series of rooms which Zagreus has to hack and slash his way through to move on to the next level. Each region has an end-of-level boss of increasing difficulty, the defeat of which allows access to the next level. Once all three have been defeated, there’s a final series of quickie rooms, then the Final Big Boss. But who could he possibly be?