Hades 2 Looks Better Than I Expected - Playing Early Access

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After playing video games again for a while, I think I can recognize when I'm in an addiction cycle with a title. I get up to work my 8 hours just to come home, make dinner, and stay in front of the screen until my eyes say they can't take it anymore. That was my feeling with the first few hours of the first Hades, and those are now my feelings with the sequel, which is better.

Supergiant Games (the developer studio) made a notable effort in this second installment so that we didn't feel that it was too similar to the game we played a couple of years ago, but what remains intact is the variety, how fun it is now to play with one of the witches daughters of Hades and again the story I think is a high point for me although of course we are still in early access that doesn't reveal it completely.



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The scenario is very different from the one we found in the first game, while in that one we were trying to escape from the underworld and its levels here it seems that we want to enter to get to where the first game begins, everything seems to have become much more difficult after we lost contact with Hades and now it is up to the witches AKA the backup plan to be able to restore the House of Hades.


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And Thus we begin our journey into the depths of the underworld, now much more changed. It seems that there will be a whole set of new paths that we can follow here. There is even a path outside of Olympus that seems to serve as a time trial track. We have many more options once we reach the area where we can grab our weapons and choose our spells, which by the way is another of the new features of this title.


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Melinoe is the daughter of Hades, she is a witch trained to finish off the giant who has kidnapped the underworld, we will have the same dynamics as the first game, go down a path as far as we can until they finish us off, we return to the base to reinforce ourselves and talk to the characters to learn more about the story and then continue trying to pass the levels, it will seem simple but it is not and it is also very addictive.

The most noticeable change in the gameplay has to be the spells, now we have an additional bar to cast various types of charged spells and these in turn are benefited by the blessings of the gods that we find in the game, it is very satisfying to find an improvement that allows you to burn the curses of the underworld or gives you a boost in your speed and I think that is where they hit the nail on the head.


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It never feels too rushed, we can always see what's around and even being a taste of what's coming I think there are many complete ideas and even many more options at home than there were in the first Game, as always, Supergiant's characters get all the praise because some of the designs and how they are certain characters from Greek mythology I think they achieve them very well.

As well as Melinoe who is the protagonist and although I still don't see her as having the same flavor as Zagreus I think she is a very interesting character that I am sure once the full story comes out she will become one of my favorites, for now we can only appreciate what they have achieved at the gameplay level which is quite a lot, much of what we see already had a base in the first game but here we do feel a difference in how we play the levels.


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Despues de un tiempo nuevamente jugando videojuegos creo que puedo reconocer cuando yo estoy en un ciclo de vicio con un titulo, me levanto a trabajar mis 8 horas solo para llegar, prepararme la cena y quedarme en la pantalla hasta que mis ojos digan que ya no pueden mas, esa ha sido mi sensacion con las primeras horas del primer Hades y esas son ahora mis sensaciones con la secuela que esta mejor.

Supergiant Games (el estudio desarrollador) hizo un notable esfuerzo en esta segunda entrega para que no sintiesemos que es demasiado similar al juego que jugamos hace un par de años atras, pero lo que sigue intacto es la variedad, lo divertido que es ahora jugar con una de las brujas hijas de Hades y nuevamente la historia creo que es un punto alto para mi aunque claro seguimos en un acceso anticipado que no la desvela por completo.



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El escenario es muy diferente al que nos encontramos en el primer juego, mientras que en ese estabamos tratando de escapar del inframundo y de sus niveles aqui parece que queremos entrar para llegar hasta donde empieza el primer juego, todo parece que se ha vuelto mucho mas dificil despues de que perdiesemos contacto con Hades y ahora le toca a las brujas AKA el plan de respaldo poder restaurar la Casa de Hades.


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Y asi emprendemos nuestro viaje a las profundidades del inframundo ya mucho mas cambiado, parece que aqui habra todo un set de nuevos caminos que podemos recorrer, hay incluso un camino fuera del olimpo que parece servir como una pista contrarreloj, tenemos muchas mas opciones una vez llegamos a la zona en donde podemos agarrar nuestras armas y escoger nuestos hechizos, que por cierto es otra de las novedades de este titulo.


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Melinoe es la hija de Hades, es una bruja entrenada para acabar con el gigante que ha secuestrado el inframundo, tendremos la misma dinamica del primer juego, ir por un sendero lo mas lejos que podamos hasta que acaben con nosotros, volvamos a la base para reforzarnos y hablar con los personajes para saber mas de la historia para luego seguir intentando pasar los niveles, parecerá sencillo pero no lo es y ademas es muy adictivo.

El cambio mas notorio en la jugabilidad tienen que ser los hechizos, ahora tenemos una barra adicional para lanzar diversos tipos de hechizos cargados y estos a su vez se ven beneficiados con las bendiciones de los dioses que nos encontremos en la partida, es muy satisfactorio encontrar una mejora que te permite quemar a las maldiciones del inframundo o te da un boost en tu velocidad y creo que ahi dan en el clavo.


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Nunca se siente demasiado apresurado, siempre podemos ver que hay alrededor e incluso siendo una prueba de lo que viene creo que hay muchas ideas completas y hasta muchas mas opciones en casa que las que habia en el primer juego, como siempre los personajes de Supergiant se llevan todos los elogios porque algunos de los diseños y como son ciertos personajes de la mitologia griega creo que los logra muy bien.

Asi como Melinoe que es la protagonista y aunque aun no le veo el mismo sabor que a Zagreo creo que es un personaje muy interesante que estoy seguro una vez salga la historia completa se convertira en una de mis favoritas, por ahora solo nos queda apreciar lo que han logrado a nivel de gameplay que es bastante, mucho de lo que vemos ya tenia una base en el primer juego pero aqui si que se siente una diferencia en como jugamos los niveles.


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A very interesting game and a very concrete analysis, from your screenshots I can notice that it can be a very intuitive and at the same time addictive game, I guess it is not a linear mode but rather where your decisions can make the difference, I don't really know, but if you can clarify it for me.

Maybe I'll take some time to look for and try the first installment and once I do, I'll be able to get into this sequel. Thanks for sharing bro, very good job, regards!

play the first one and then decide if you want to play the second one, I think the first one has one of the best gameplay and stories I've been able to play in recent years

Understood colleague. I will take it into account, regards!

Generally speaking I am not a fan of rogue-like games but Hades was an exception. Somehow they were able to get permanent upgrades to make new runs not seem like truly NEW runs and this kept me interested. I look forward to this one coming out as well.