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I have been playing Hades lately, not as much as I would have liked, but I can't seem to put it down when I start it. It seems to be too addictive and the gameplay makes you keep playing one more run, getting that one more upgrade on your mirror of the night or just collecting some gems for renovating some more chambers that will help you in your next runs.
There is always something to upgrade. I grinded a lot to collect 500 Darkness and spent it all to get another level of Death Defiance, now I can resurrect one more time, a total of two times during my run. This is such a game-changer and was worth the struggle to gather a whooping 500 Darkness.
I will be spending more Darkness on Thick Skin and Deep Pockets. I didn't realise how much extra 30-40 coins at the start of the run can make the run much more comfortable than starting with none.
I unlocked the last weapon, the Adamant Rail, but didn't like them. Range weapons aren't to my taste in this game, I do well with some good old melee weapons. I played a couple of runs with this last weapon but couldn't do much. Both of the times, I was defeated by the first boss only.
This completed one of the prophecies too and gave me some good rewards.
I think the game dynamically adjusts the difficulty for the bosses as well. Bone Hydra became much stronger as my character got stronger too.
Once Magera became easier to beat, the game replaced her with her sisters. This surprised me a lot and I didn't think the game would do that to me. This makes it a great game... the ability to make it a bit challenging by introducing these new and improved bosses was impressive.
Somehow they found a great way to introduce new characters without making the run too long filled with a lot of bosses one after the other.
Tisiphone was a good surprise for me. She proved to be a bit challenging as well. Yes, some of the attacks are similar to her sister Mag but they are much deadlier and I just finished learning all of Mag's attacks. Now, I got to learn her attack patterns along with another sister and relearn them because my muscle memory might make it a tad bit tougher. xD
She hits real hard though and once she thinks you are a murderer she won't leave you. She has no more dialogues, just this. Love it!
I felt dumb when I realised the new weapons could be further upgraded by spending Titan Blood. I wasted my titan blood by converting them to gems and Darkness earlier so I could do other upgrades.
I was left with just 1 in the tank and upgraded the Aspect of Zagreus on the Twin Fists (my current favourite weapon). It gave me some extra dodge chances but I do not much, I need to increase it further and have to unlock the other upgrades too.
Didn't know when this Malphon got unlocked, after getting the last legendary weapon?
Talking about some more things they pleasantly surprised me such as the entry of Death himself. I just killed the Bone Hydra and was feeling good. A few encounters after that I went into the next chamber and death came to greet me.
He challenged me to see if I could kill more enemies than him in a dual. If I had lost this, he would send me back to the House of Hades lol. I fought so hard to get as many kills as possible with my special-attack-oriented build and somehow managed to defeat it with ease.
It gave us some max health so maybe it was worth it. At least, he isn't too aggressive at killing those enemies during that encounter or I was gone right there.
I am having fun with Hades and can't wait to see what more it has to surprise me with. So far, I am impressed a lot and after I finish this I will go directly for Hades 2.
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