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Hades is out now, holy heck
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yeah, I have over 80 clears under my belt and still can't max out my affinity with Dad 
When was the last time you talked to dad after being killed on the way up?
I talk to him every single time
I specifically mean after dying before you reach the surface. It sounds like you've been winning a lot! Maybe there's an unfinished dialogue tree from not winning?
I finally was able to give him his last Nectar after another win 
I've really, really loved my time with this game but it's time to put it down for now; I have four weapons completely maxed out and two Chthonic Companions; I'd need about 20 more Ambrosias and Titan Bloods to finish maxing all weapons and companions.
I've really, really loved my time with this game but it's time to put it down for now; I have four weapons completely maxed out and two Chthonic Companions; I'd need about 20 more Ambrosias and Titan Bloods to finish maxing all weapons and companions.
I'm on eight clears now (everything but the sword, and a couple with spear/gloves/bow). I think once I get credits I'll give it a little rest for a week or two.
I finally was able to give him his last Nectar after another win
I've really, really loved my time with this game but it's time to put it down for now; I have four weapons completely maxed out and two Chthonic Companions; I'd need about 20 more Ambrosias and Titan Bloods to finish maxing all weapons and companions.
oh no I lied and maxed out all of my weapons and am 18 Ambrosias away from maxing out the Companions, I blame this on Genshin Impact's UI feeling like hot garbage to me
tried out the Zeus aspect of the Shield for the first time and good LORD it's amazing - you can still attack while the Special wanders away killing stuff for you, it's awesome with Drunken Flourish and Lightning Strike/Static Discharge
yes. I prioritized making my damage machines go brrrrr
I usually just run with Companion Shady because it's nice to have a little mid-fight healing and also up money just before hitting the end of an area for just a little more Golden Touch gains. Dusa and Skelly's Companions are adorable but they don't help me much with killing bosses quickly, which for me personally is the point of Companions
Oh wow yeah the Zeus shield is great. My first time out with it I also had the blade rift cast and just had "damage vortex go whrrrr" happening at all times
I was of that opinion for a while as well, but after giving Dusa and Skelly their fair shakes to fill out the codex, I've come around on them. Skelly is actually pretty good for boss damage because you don't have to dodge stuff for a good long while, and Dusa really cleans up midbosses, which are often less predictable than the bosses you fight every run. (There's a good case to be made for Dusa on Extreme Measures 4, for that matter.)
This isn't to say that those are my favorites, but I do think the companions are better balanced than it may first appear.
I was all set to whip the boss' ass with the gun for the first time on my tenth clear but then Hades just let me go.
Now that I've seen credits I'll go ahead and say this is one of the best games of the year.
Now that I've seen credits I'll go ahead and say this is one of the best games of the year.
Yo lemme tell you about Casts.
Each weapon comes with its own normal attack and flourish, which the boons of the gods can modify the properties of but never outright change. Casts, however, do not follow this rule. Zagreus begins the game with one Bloodstone, which deals 50 damage when cast at someone, and which then embeds in them. This can be modified with two pairs of Mirror of Night talents, but every run you do, Zagreus will always begin play with that option. As such, your Cast is a constant benefit that can overcome the flaws of your weapon of choice.
With this in mind, it's time to consider the boons of the various gods which modify these casts. Some boons can modify the casts further, which will be indicated as well.
Zeus
Electric Shot is a very straightforward modifier for your cast: just bumps base damage up to 60 and lets the shot bounce between enemies. This is a bit of a mixed blessing if you're relying on embedding casts for Blood debuffs, because the chain effect, while accurate, can miss. This makes it better for Infernal Soul rather than Stygian Soul, because if it DOES miss, just grab the Bloodstone and cast again. Like the basic cast, Electric Shot is a fine addition to most loadouts, able to function well at long or short ranges.
Zeus has the boon Lightning Rod (Artemis duo) that makes those discarded casts all the more effective by calling lightning down around them, but that doesn't really modify the cast itself. The only other boon that modifies Electric Shot is Storm Lightning, which lets it bounce more times. I don't find that to be incredibly vital, but it is one of the prerequisites for the legendary boon Splitting Bolt, if you really want to chain some damage everywhere. There's a few duo boons for modifying other casts: Lightning Phalanx (Athena duo) and Scintillating Feast (Dionysus duo), but we'll cover those for those specific gods.
Poseidon
Another basic boon, Flood Shot bumps the base damage up to 60 and makes the cast explode in a wave of knockback. The only thing keeping this from being a more generalist-option than Electric Shot is the knockback making it hard to spam multiple casts without a nice convenient wall, and that the knockback can prove troublesome to melee characters, but don't let either of those things stop you from choosing Flood Shot.
Poseidon has a number of boons to modify casts, although only one (Mirage Shot, an Artemis duo) applies to any cast. The rest all modify Flood Shot. Curse of Drowning (Ares duo) turns it into a series of close-range pulses, making it amazing for long-range builds that need a last-ditch defense or for close-range builds that think dodging is for weaklings. Blizzard Shot (Demeter duo) instead turns into a much slower, piercing shot that sheds ice everywhere, suiting it much more to close-range fighters who can get one foe hit with the same cast multiple times. In either case, your cast no longer embeds, so plan accordingly.
Athena
Phalanx Shot is a much larger change to your cast, literally. The base damage is much higher at 85, and the projectile is larger and deflects while in flight, but it also starts out moving slower and accelerates as it goes. Still, it's another fine choice for most any builds: melee builds want it for deflecting ranged foes, ranged builds want it for spike damage up close where the shot speed is a non-issue.
Athena gets two boons that modify casts, both duos. Parting Shot (Aphrodite duo) grants all casts the ability to backstab and a bonus to backstab damage, while Lightning Phalanx (Zeus duo) grants the Phalanx Shot the ability to chain between targets. Lightning Phalanx is ridiculously good, because again, the rule of thumb for Deflects is "give it a big and active hitbox" and letting the slow-but-accelerating Phalanx Shot persist by chaining can only mean good things.
Aphrodite
Aphrodite gets Crush Shot, which has the second-highest base damage on a Cast at 90, but also turns it from a projectile into a short-range wave (and inflicts Weak because Aphrodite). This means that Crush Shot should really only be taken by long-range builds who need a good way to handle enemies up close in a pinch. Melee builds should probably give it a miss, and instead take almost any other Aphrodite boon (unless you like dying to ten thousand Flame Wheels, in which case woooo spike damage!)
Aphrodite has three boons for modifying casts. Parting Shot (Athena duo) is covered above. Blown Kiss modifies Crush Shot specifically, giving it a bonus on undamaged enemies and barely extending its range, hardly enough to justify using it on a melee weapon. The other one, Cold Embrace (Demeter duo) modifies the Demeter cast, and will be discussed there.
Artemis
True Shot, like almost every other Artemis boon, is just solid and effective. Base of 70 damage with a 10% crit chance, and it homes in on enemies and flies faster. While it's one of the weaker casts for dealing with large crowds of enemies, it's still a perfectly solid cast, especially for melee builds. Ranged builds tend to have better options for covering close encounters, though.
Artemis has probably the most boons in the game for modifying casts or Bloodstones in whatever way, so let's go about that now. First, the non-duo modifiers. Exit Wounds lets Bloodstones deal damage when dislodged, which is cheater-level on a Poseidon sword, decent if you have Quick Reload, and basically useless in all other cases. Support Fire lets you fire off an extra arrow when you cast or hit with Attack/Special, but that's mostly being mentioned for inclusivity, since Casts fire off infrequently enough for that to be useful here. Fully Loaded is Artemis' legendary boon, and it grants two extra Bloodstones, which obviously helps you spam your cast of choice way more often, and is therefore VERY GOOD if you're using casts regularly.
Two of Artemis' duo boons for casts have been detailed above, specifically Mirage Shot (Poseidon) and Lightning Rod (Zeus). Her other duo boons modify specific casts: either Hunting Blades (Ares duo) for Ares' cast, or Crystal Clarity (Demeter duo) for Demeter's cast.
Ares
Slicing Shot is the first of the casts that does not embed, instead procuring an active effect while out. In this case, it creates a Blade Rift, that deals a base of 20 damage for every hit it scores on an enemy. Blade Rifts move slowly, however, so by default they're best used on large, slow targets that won't get out of the way, or against weak targets that will blunder headfirst into it and instantly die. Given the slow movement speed, it's ideal for ranged builds as a good option for handling close-range targets.
Ares has three non-duo boons specifically for modifying Blade Rifts (which his Dash and Call can also produce). Black Metal improves the area of effect, Engulfing Vortex improves the duration and draws nearby foes into them, and the legendary Vicious Cycle increases the damage dealt with each consecutive strike from a Blade Rift. All three of these should be serious considerations if you plan to make any use of Blade Rifts whatsoever, although they all work best on your cast, of course.
Ares also has three duo boons for modifying casts, each of which requires a specific cast. Curse of Drowning (Poseidon duo), as above, only works on Flood Shot, and both Hunting Blades (Artemis duo) and Freezing Vortex (Demeter duo) only effect Slicing Shot. Hunting Blades increases the speed of the cast and causes it to home in on enemies, improving its use mid-range and against less-immobile foes. Freezing Vortex shrinks the area and speed of the cast (and uniquely, increasing the boon's level offsets these penalties), but causes it to inflict Chill with each strike, which is EXTREMELY worth the downsides. It's much harder for a Chilled enemy to escape a Blade Rift, after all. Now, if only those two boons could stack...
Dionysus
Now, I know what you're thinking. Dionysus is a weak god that only uses Hangover effects which aren't very good unless you overinvest in Dionysus boons. Ignore all of that, because Dionysus has the secret best cast in the game. Trippy Shot lobs an arcing bomb that deals 100 base damage (wow!) AND creates a cloud of Festive Fog where it lands. Festive Fog periodically stuns enemies in the area, making them easy pickings for really anyone. Given the similarity to the rail's special, I can't really recommend Trippy Shot for the rail, but it's a solid companion for most any other weapon if you're ready to sacrifice attack speed for big area damage.
Dionysus has a few personal boons that modify Trippy Shot. High Tolerance grants Zagreus some pretty solid damage resistance while standing in Festive Fog, while the legendary Black Out causes Festive Fog to amplify the damage taken by Hungover foes. Both pretty nice effects, maybe a little situational, of course, but the secret power of Trippy Shot doesn't lie there.
No, it lies with the duo boons. Scintillating Feast (Zeus duo) causes lightning strikes to pepper any area with Festive Fog, gaining all the benefits of Zeus' lightning-specific boons in the process. Ice Wine (Demeter duo) changes the cast from an arcing projectile to an instant explosion, increases the damage, and makes it inflict Chill. And unlike Slicing Shot, both of these boons can stack. I am now accepting names for this cast build: the current champion is Fission Vodka Bomb.
Demeter
Finally, we have Demeter, saddled with what is widely considered the weakest Cast in the game: Crystal Beam. Crystal Beam deploys the Bloodstone as a turret for 5 seconds that fires a laser, slowly tracking enemies and dealing 8 damage every fifth of a second. Compare that to basically any other cast, and it doesn't look great. The damage from an optimally-placed base-damage Crystal Beam caps out at 200, but that's assuming whatever you're aiming at stays completely put. Crystal Beam tends to come off as a weaker Slicing Shot, trading the raw damage against slow enemies for mid-range potential. It gets stronger if you apply Chill to enemies, since that slows them down and makes the tracking less of an issue, but it's still not great on its own.
Like the other gods with heavily-unique casts, Demeter gets boons specifically for Crystal Beam, although one boon applies to any cast; namely Snow Burst, which causes Zagreus to emit a close-range pulse of 40 damage with Chill on top whenever he casts. Glacial Glare improves the duration and causes the Crystal Beam to inflict Chill, which means if it DOES get a lock on an enemy, it'll likely stay locked on.
Demeter also gets a large amount of duo boons for modifying casts. We've already seen Blizzard Shot (Poseidon duo), Ice Wine (Dionysus duo), and Freezing Vortex (Ares duo), and all of them are great and good and I like them. For modifying Crystal Beam, you either get Crystal Clarity (Artemis duo) to improve the tracking and damage, although fast enemies can still avoid it, or Cold Embrace (Aphrodite duo) which improves the duration by 4 seconds, boosts the damage, and forces the Crystal Beam to aim at Zagreus. Cold Embrace is especially handy against Greatshields or Theseus, since you can park all your casts on one side, move to the other, and flank your target.
Each weapon comes with its own normal attack and flourish, which the boons of the gods can modify the properties of but never outright change. Casts, however, do not follow this rule. Zagreus begins the game with one Bloodstone, which deals 50 damage when cast at someone, and which then embeds in them. This can be modified with two pairs of Mirror of Night talents, but every run you do, Zagreus will always begin play with that option. As such, your Cast is a constant benefit that can overcome the flaws of your weapon of choice.
With this in mind, it's time to consider the boons of the various gods which modify these casts. Some boons can modify the casts further, which will be indicated as well.
Zeus
Electric Shot is a very straightforward modifier for your cast: just bumps base damage up to 60 and lets the shot bounce between enemies. This is a bit of a mixed blessing if you're relying on embedding casts for Blood debuffs, because the chain effect, while accurate, can miss. This makes it better for Infernal Soul rather than Stygian Soul, because if it DOES miss, just grab the Bloodstone and cast again. Like the basic cast, Electric Shot is a fine addition to most loadouts, able to function well at long or short ranges.
Zeus has the boon Lightning Rod (Artemis duo) that makes those discarded casts all the more effective by calling lightning down around them, but that doesn't really modify the cast itself. The only other boon that modifies Electric Shot is Storm Lightning, which lets it bounce more times. I don't find that to be incredibly vital, but it is one of the prerequisites for the legendary boon Splitting Bolt, if you really want to chain some damage everywhere. There's a few duo boons for modifying other casts: Lightning Phalanx (Athena duo) and Scintillating Feast (Dionysus duo), but we'll cover those for those specific gods.
Poseidon
Another basic boon, Flood Shot bumps the base damage up to 60 and makes the cast explode in a wave of knockback. The only thing keeping this from being a more generalist-option than Electric Shot is the knockback making it hard to spam multiple casts without a nice convenient wall, and that the knockback can prove troublesome to melee characters, but don't let either of those things stop you from choosing Flood Shot.
Poseidon has a number of boons to modify casts, although only one (Mirage Shot, an Artemis duo) applies to any cast. The rest all modify Flood Shot. Curse of Drowning (Ares duo) turns it into a series of close-range pulses, making it amazing for long-range builds that need a last-ditch defense or for close-range builds that think dodging is for weaklings. Blizzard Shot (Demeter duo) instead turns into a much slower, piercing shot that sheds ice everywhere, suiting it much more to close-range fighters who can get one foe hit with the same cast multiple times. In either case, your cast no longer embeds, so plan accordingly.
Athena
Phalanx Shot is a much larger change to your cast, literally. The base damage is much higher at 85, and the projectile is larger and deflects while in flight, but it also starts out moving slower and accelerates as it goes. Still, it's another fine choice for most any builds: melee builds want it for deflecting ranged foes, ranged builds want it for spike damage up close where the shot speed is a non-issue.
Athena gets two boons that modify casts, both duos. Parting Shot (Aphrodite duo) grants all casts the ability to backstab and a bonus to backstab damage, while Lightning Phalanx (Zeus duo) grants the Phalanx Shot the ability to chain between targets. Lightning Phalanx is ridiculously good, because again, the rule of thumb for Deflects is "give it a big and active hitbox" and letting the slow-but-accelerating Phalanx Shot persist by chaining can only mean good things.
Aphrodite
Aphrodite gets Crush Shot, which has the second-highest base damage on a Cast at 90, but also turns it from a projectile into a short-range wave (and inflicts Weak because Aphrodite). This means that Crush Shot should really only be taken by long-range builds who need a good way to handle enemies up close in a pinch. Melee builds should probably give it a miss, and instead take almost any other Aphrodite boon (unless you like dying to ten thousand Flame Wheels, in which case woooo spike damage!)
Aphrodite has three boons for modifying casts. Parting Shot (Athena duo) is covered above. Blown Kiss modifies Crush Shot specifically, giving it a bonus on undamaged enemies and barely extending its range, hardly enough to justify using it on a melee weapon. The other one, Cold Embrace (Demeter duo) modifies the Demeter cast, and will be discussed there.
Artemis
True Shot, like almost every other Artemis boon, is just solid and effective. Base of 70 damage with a 10% crit chance, and it homes in on enemies and flies faster. While it's one of the weaker casts for dealing with large crowds of enemies, it's still a perfectly solid cast, especially for melee builds. Ranged builds tend to have better options for covering close encounters, though.
Artemis has probably the most boons in the game for modifying casts or Bloodstones in whatever way, so let's go about that now. First, the non-duo modifiers. Exit Wounds lets Bloodstones deal damage when dislodged, which is cheater-level on a Poseidon sword, decent if you have Quick Reload, and basically useless in all other cases. Support Fire lets you fire off an extra arrow when you cast or hit with Attack/Special, but that's mostly being mentioned for inclusivity, since Casts fire off infrequently enough for that to be useful here. Fully Loaded is Artemis' legendary boon, and it grants two extra Bloodstones, which obviously helps you spam your cast of choice way more often, and is therefore VERY GOOD if you're using casts regularly.
Two of Artemis' duo boons for casts have been detailed above, specifically Mirage Shot (Poseidon) and Lightning Rod (Zeus). Her other duo boons modify specific casts: either Hunting Blades (Ares duo) for Ares' cast, or Crystal Clarity (Demeter duo) for Demeter's cast.
Ares
Slicing Shot is the first of the casts that does not embed, instead procuring an active effect while out. In this case, it creates a Blade Rift, that deals a base of 20 damage for every hit it scores on an enemy. Blade Rifts move slowly, however, so by default they're best used on large, slow targets that won't get out of the way, or against weak targets that will blunder headfirst into it and instantly die. Given the slow movement speed, it's ideal for ranged builds as a good option for handling close-range targets.
Ares has three non-duo boons specifically for modifying Blade Rifts (which his Dash and Call can also produce). Black Metal improves the area of effect, Engulfing Vortex improves the duration and draws nearby foes into them, and the legendary Vicious Cycle increases the damage dealt with each consecutive strike from a Blade Rift. All three of these should be serious considerations if you plan to make any use of Blade Rifts whatsoever, although they all work best on your cast, of course.
Ares also has three duo boons for modifying casts, each of which requires a specific cast. Curse of Drowning (Poseidon duo), as above, only works on Flood Shot, and both Hunting Blades (Artemis duo) and Freezing Vortex (Demeter duo) only effect Slicing Shot. Hunting Blades increases the speed of the cast and causes it to home in on enemies, improving its use mid-range and against less-immobile foes. Freezing Vortex shrinks the area and speed of the cast (and uniquely, increasing the boon's level offsets these penalties), but causes it to inflict Chill with each strike, which is EXTREMELY worth the downsides. It's much harder for a Chilled enemy to escape a Blade Rift, after all. Now, if only those two boons could stack...
Dionysus
Now, I know what you're thinking. Dionysus is a weak god that only uses Hangover effects which aren't very good unless you overinvest in Dionysus boons. Ignore all of that, because Dionysus has the secret best cast in the game. Trippy Shot lobs an arcing bomb that deals 100 base damage (wow!) AND creates a cloud of Festive Fog where it lands. Festive Fog periodically stuns enemies in the area, making them easy pickings for really anyone. Given the similarity to the rail's special, I can't really recommend Trippy Shot for the rail, but it's a solid companion for most any other weapon if you're ready to sacrifice attack speed for big area damage.
Dionysus has a few personal boons that modify Trippy Shot. High Tolerance grants Zagreus some pretty solid damage resistance while standing in Festive Fog, while the legendary Black Out causes Festive Fog to amplify the damage taken by Hungover foes. Both pretty nice effects, maybe a little situational, of course, but the secret power of Trippy Shot doesn't lie there.
No, it lies with the duo boons. Scintillating Feast (Zeus duo) causes lightning strikes to pepper any area with Festive Fog, gaining all the benefits of Zeus' lightning-specific boons in the process. Ice Wine (Demeter duo) changes the cast from an arcing projectile to an instant explosion, increases the damage, and makes it inflict Chill. And unlike Slicing Shot, both of these boons can stack. I am now accepting names for this cast build: the current champion is Fission Vodka Bomb.
Demeter
Finally, we have Demeter, saddled with what is widely considered the weakest Cast in the game: Crystal Beam. Crystal Beam deploys the Bloodstone as a turret for 5 seconds that fires a laser, slowly tracking enemies and dealing 8 damage every fifth of a second. Compare that to basically any other cast, and it doesn't look great. The damage from an optimally-placed base-damage Crystal Beam caps out at 200, but that's assuming whatever you're aiming at stays completely put. Crystal Beam tends to come off as a weaker Slicing Shot, trading the raw damage against slow enemies for mid-range potential. It gets stronger if you apply Chill to enemies, since that slows them down and makes the tracking less of an issue, but it's still not great on its own.
Like the other gods with heavily-unique casts, Demeter gets boons specifically for Crystal Beam, although one boon applies to any cast; namely Snow Burst, which causes Zagreus to emit a close-range pulse of 40 damage with Chill on top whenever he casts. Glacial Glare improves the duration and causes the Crystal Beam to inflict Chill, which means if it DOES get a lock on an enemy, it'll likely stay locked on.
Demeter also gets a large amount of duo boons for modifying casts. We've already seen Blizzard Shot (Poseidon duo), Ice Wine (Dionysus duo), and Freezing Vortex (Ares duo), and all of them are great and good and I like them. For modifying Crystal Beam, you either get Crystal Clarity (Artemis duo) to improve the tracking and damage, although fast enemies can still avoid it, or Cold Embrace (Aphrodite duo) which improves the duration by 4 seconds, boosts the damage, and forces the Crystal Beam to aim at Zagreus. Cold Embrace is especially handy against Greatshields or Theseus, since you can park all your casts on one side, move to the other, and flank your target.
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I really like Crystal Beam, because you can keep tossing them out there when the turret fades rather than waiting for them to pop out of your enemies. Paired up with the Hermes boon that brings your gems back to you automatically, you can just set up a crossfire for wherever you're going or send lasers flying wherever you're NOT going to be next so anything coming after you gets hit.
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I'm also a big fan of Crystal Beam, mostly because I just find it really fun. It really needs Glacial Glare to be powerful, but man, once you get that (and ideally one of the duos), it's extremely strong, especially against most bosses and mini-bosses, which tend to be big and slow. The other benefit of Crystal Beam is that because you're dropping the bloodstones rather than shooting them, you're much less likely to lose them around the map - although obviously that's only an issue with Infernal Soul.
I tend to avoid Trippy Shot, but I will say that one of my most successful runs was entirely focused around an Ice Wine build where I was doing ~1000 damage with each cast. I would just point at enemies and they'd die immediately.
I tend to avoid Trippy Shot, but I will say that one of my most successful runs was entirely focused around an Ice Wine build where I was doing ~1000 damage with each cast. I would just point at enemies and they'd die immediately.
My favorite companion is Mort, and I make sure to time it such that it tries damage the boss when they're invulnerable. 
Yo... This game is awesome man! Jeez, very addictive.
The huge wealth of dialogue does a lot for it. I'm always curious to see how the relationships develop and deepen
The huge wealth of dialogue does a lot for it. I'm always curious to see how the relationships develop and deepen
Have finally unlocked the epilogue quest. (there's a guide on the wiki here) You actually do need to raise relationships with gods and some have obscure requirements you might not come across naturally. I "had to" do two runs with the plume to get past Hermes recognizing I was wearing it, then opening up his last hearts - otherwise I only use the boon leveling one.
I only use Thanatos's and his seems to directly target the closest enemy. (normally, for me, just one boss enemy) His doesn't damage immediately so they can move. (boy, can they!) I've... never used the others so I otherwise can't say.
I think it varies by summon. I've used Meg and she does an AOE blast like in fights against her.
Finished the epilogue! (felt a little underproduced? not sure what I was expecting) I enjoyed this game on balance but I don't think I can ever totally love something this addictive. It just doesn't feel good to play like this for me. (understand it does for a lot of people) Also this game nearly gave me De Quervain's. lmao.
Don't remember notable dialogue but I did find it goofy how every Greek god is like, "I just respect your boundaries so much" and then Zagreus literally said that to Dusa at the end of their relationship chain. Corny. Often found it hard to savor the experience because this game is a repetitive loop that I played much of with a timer. Have no burning urge to exhaust every question mark or forge bonds with everyone. The dialogue chains in this game could finish faster! No need to have these people so frequently disappear.
Not to say I didn't broadly like the cast. They had charming character portraits and voices! How could I not? Anthropomorphizing your build options is very fun. The initial 10 escapes were satisfying. It feels weird you never see Earth again after that. Had a nice vibe!
It's extremely fun to happen onto overpowered builds but I think I'm good for now. Grateful I don't feel pressure to play a lot more to buy everything or try out heat 32. I'm glad this is a great experience for so many people and I really am glad to have played it! I think/hope I'm done but maybe I'll just go right back to it. Feel bad being critical but this is my truth...
Don't remember notable dialogue but I did find it goofy how every Greek god is like, "I just respect your boundaries so much" and then Zagreus literally said that to Dusa at the end of their relationship chain. Corny. Often found it hard to savor the experience because this game is a repetitive loop that I played much of with a timer. Have no burning urge to exhaust every question mark or forge bonds with everyone. The dialogue chains in this game could finish faster! No need to have these people so frequently disappear.
Not to say I didn't broadly like the cast. They had charming character portraits and voices! How could I not? Anthropomorphizing your build options is very fun. The initial 10 escapes were satisfying. It feels weird you never see Earth again after that. Had a nice vibe!
It's extremely fun to happen onto overpowered builds but I think I'm good for now. Grateful I don't feel pressure to play a lot more to buy everything or try out heat 32. I'm glad this is a great experience for so many people and I really am glad to have played it! I think/hope I'm done but maybe I'll just go right back to it. Feel bad being critical but this is my truth...
Oh, one last thing: for the Pierced Butterfly and Lambent Plume, encounters in the last dungeon are just the final rooms where you fight enemies. For the Pom Blossom, an encounter is any room where you fight enemies - mini rooms count. I'd been switching the Pom Blossom out for the Evergreen Acorn because I am pretty bad and need to be cautious but also didn't think it would be as powerful in the last dungeon. Nope, it's pretty good!
Maybe this already been mentioned! Well, I'll happily mention it again. A keepsake I liked... better than anticipated!
Maybe this already been mentioned! Well, I'll happily mention it again. A keepsake I liked... better than anticipated!
I reached the end boss on accident (but was slain), but I feel like I've barely scratched the surface in terms of collectables/weapons/partners. I kinda wish there was another area...
I made it to Elysium with the bow, a few Daedulus (sp?) upgrades, Artemis upgrades made it so I could get stuff like 1300+ damage on crits. Which is ah...kinda wild considering the most I had ever done prior to that was like...300? 200? A BIT OF AN INCREASE. It was super clunky to use, but you can't argue with the results. Ultimately the stop and charge nature of it made me lose because I couldn't get big damage off against a bunch of the fast enemies in Elysium, but man. What a cool game. I unlocked Aegis so I have all the starter weapons and am gonna give that a go in a bit...
I also just saw a cutscene where Zagreus learned something because he overheard the narrator say it and the narrator got flustered. THIS GAME IS INCREDIBLE
I also just saw a cutscene where Zagreus learned something because he overheard the narrator say it and the narrator got flustered. THIS GAME IS INCREDIBLE
Oh, speaking of the narrator, anyone have ideas on who it is? I'm thinking Homer, maybe.