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ok nowhere else to drop all this so bear with me while I ramble about 100%ing things.

Hades II 100% challenge update: 137 nights to complete everything other than Spirit Mixer, but that includes the 34 chaos stone runs & 2 cursed surface nights. So 101 nights if all that is discounted but the 34 chaos runs were critical for getting plants grown so yeah.... in any case, took more than my random goal of 100 nights and not nearly done yet.

now as a callback to the original Hades equivalent, in September I decided to go for getting top level in Hades' "Resource Director" which I'd never done before. And i completed it (literally just in time, I think the night before H2 1.0 released), 175 escape attempts after winning starting on 4th night & every consecutive night thereafter, only doing 0 heat runs to mine as much darkness as possible (other than a couple high-heats with the bow just to unlock the statues). Pretty dumb grind but I still love it. So in theory 100%ing Hades would require like, at least 118 more runs on top of those 175 to clear 1 through 20 heat on 5 weapons and 3 through 20 on the 6th, but anyways...

Now doing similar grind in H2 and it's funny the parallels. Every run is fishing for Chaos from the wells and instead of rolling for Darkness%+, it's rolling for GatheringTool%+, lol. Way better to have 10 rolls instead of 4 plus whatever you'd get from keys, though.

Good news is despite the game not letting you recycle a bunch of items for kudos that would REALLY speed things along, Spirit Mixer completion is still way more easily achievable than Resource Director. 95,000 Kudos needed total and I can average around 2k on an unlucky run, much more if I get the good Chaos results. More than halfway through, updated challenge will be seeing if I can get it all done earlier than 175 nights for the Resource Director equivalent, lol.

Last note, and I guess a postgame spoiler so I'll block it off, but constantly doing underworld runs (for maximizing chances of Chaos gates, no wells on surface) highlighted a really bad oversight as far as line recycling goes: If Persephone is with Hades in the Tartarus NPC room which she is like 95% of the time, she literally cycles through only 3 possible lines of dialogue, paraphrasing them:

"We should tidy up this room sometime"
"You must have been an adorable little girl"
"Go show that possibility of Chronos what happens when he blah blah blah"

Literally that's it. I don't think I've ever gotten the same line in back to back runs but I KNOW I've gotten the same line twice in 3 runs. There really should be more than 3 lines there? Let Hades say one of his default lines even if Persephone is standing there with him - I know he has plenty from my 500+ EA runs, which could still be relevant even in the post-game?? I guess they wanted to give her the line since Hades gives a line when you enter Tartarus room V but man, the repetition is really noticeable and there really should be a pool of more than three lines there.