Your character, Zagreus, is the want-away son of Hades. I expected the writing to be good and the world to be great, but I was magnitudes off. Hades is just that good at making each raid feel different. We’d kill them, get the gem back and repeat the process. Another run, we focused on the B ‘Cast’ attack and its cooldown: we’d hit an enemy with the special, socketing a gem in them, and that gem made them a wobbly bomb of death. Every time we rushed away from an attack, we were leaving behind blades, singularities and poison-like effects, making us extremely powerful cowards. One run had us doubling down on our dash. If you’re Hades-ing correctly, you’re creating synergistic builds that completely change how you play. Not only THAT, but these buffs stack and upgrade, with different god flavours mixing with others. Not only that, but the associated god has a different flavour: Aphrodite applies weaknesses with attacks, while Hermes likes to speed you up. Not only are the three buffs wildly different, but there are rarities of buff, so some rare ones are often overpowered. But then you’re handed a gift from a god, and you choose from three buffs within it. First of all, you get to choose the weapon you take in, which isn’t dissimilar from any class-based dungeon crawler. What I didn’t expect was how different the combat would feel, raid on raid. There is a more powerful attack called a Cast, using the B button, but it’s on an inventive cooldown (the attack sockets a gem in the creature you hit with it, which you have to kill to retrieve), so do you lead with that attack or save it for a killing blow? A crowd control Y ‘Special’ attack is on a time-based cooldown, so do you use it now or save it for when you’re overwhelmed? So many of these micro-questions pop up as you play Hades, and it’s a simple kind of depth. While there are no Soulcalibur-like combos to pull off, the depth in the combat comes from situational play.
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Zagreus, your character in Hades, is a nippy bugger, and can zip across the game screen with responsive dashes. In Hades, it feels like the end of that journey. From Bastion through to Pyre, Supergiant have been perfecting their moment-to-moment combat. I certainly expected it to be a slick AF fighter. It nails it in ways that I both did and didn’t expect. But the wonderful, unexpected thing is that Hades nails it. As soon as it dropped, nothing was going to stop me from dedicating a two-week fraction of my life to it.
Since then, I’ve been making a gilded throne for Hades at the front of my gaming backlog. We got the double-header that it would be launching on Xbox (woo!) on day one for Game Pass (yeehah!). Finally, there was the E3 2021 Xbox & Bethesda Games showcase.
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