Board 8 > B8 Hadespinions Day 36 (Final): Favorite Thing About the Game (write-in day)

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Yesterday - More like two weeks ago! But anyway Zagreus won! Interesting fact: the voice actor of Zagreus is Darren Korb, who's the game's composer as well. IIRC initially he voiced Zagreus as placeholder but people liked it so he voiced him for the full game as well lol. Oh, and he also voices Skelly and provides the singing voice for Orpheus!

Today - Well, here it is, the final day. At least for now! Hades has brought me (and I'm sure most of you in this topic) hours of great fun. It's a very well put together game with a lot to love - gameplay, story, characters, music, character design, voice acting, and so on.

For today: Write up to three aspects of the game that you like the most. It can be as broad as 'everything' and as detailed as a singular character or even a personal moment.

For me:

1. That feeling when a combination of boons work together really well
2. Zagreus
3. How smooth and responsive the game is

Previous Days
https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/B8_Hadespinions

Day 31 - Best Sisyphus Item
100 Obol - 65%
50-55 Darkness - 25%
Health (10%)

Day 32 - Best Eurydice Item
Ambrosia Delight - 41.67%
Refreshing Nectar - 33.33%
Pom Porridge (25%)

Day 33 - Best Patroclus Item
Kiss of Styx Premium - 66.67%
Cyclops Jerky Select - 20.83%
HydraLite Gold (12.5%)

Day 34 - Favorite Song/Track
In the Blood - 33.33%
God of the Dead, The Unseen Ones, Out of Tartarus - 11.11%
Through Asphodel, Wretched Shades, Out of Asphodel, Gates of Hell, On the Coast, Good Riddance - 5.56%

Day 35 - Favorite Voice Acting Performance
Zagreus - 27.6%
Hades, Artemis, Dionysus - 13.8%
Hermes, Megaera, Theseus (6.9%), Achilles, Poseidon (3.4%)


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1: Everything. Really. The story and gameplay are both top-notch and play into each other near flawlessly. The cast of characters is great and I always want to go around and talk to all of them after a run, whether or not they have nothing new to say. While the soundtrack might not have any songs I want to listen to in my off time it all fits the game so well that I enjoy it just for that.

2: Artemis. Best god, I'll fight you.

3: How fun the twin fists are to use. It's like they dropped a high tier fighting game character in as one of the weapon choices and hardly anything in the game knows how to deal with that.

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I started playing Hades about a month ago, I saw the Hadespinions topics but by the time I beat the game (or well, got to the point where all story stuff was done) figured I missed my shot at participating. So sneaking in on the last day here...

1: Everything, just to add on what Shonen_Bat said. I'm just so impressed they took such a simple concept (doing the same thing over and over again) and really made it an engrossing, entertaining experience. The characters, the dialogue, graphics, music, gameplay... I'm just really impressed all over the place. Everybody was hyping it up to me and I didn't believe it but now, really understand where everyone was coming from.

2: this is such a minor thing but it's one that's sticking with me right now. One of the possible quotes when you beat Hades is "Charon...take me home". The tone or the way it's delivered, the sense of resignation... something I hope I hear every time I beat him, even if it only ends up a fraction of the time. It's such a little thing in the grand scheme of things but I love it.

3: my completely broken strategy of Aspect of Zeus with Ares Special, Dire Misfortune (doom boost), and Charged Shot (Bull Rush fires projectile). I got so good with manipulating the shield's movement around the field, Blitz Disc dooming everything in sight, pretty well invincible in final battle, beat 20 Heat without breaking a sweat. By far my favourite weapon & aspect to use (Aspect of Chiron 2nd best and working up to 20 Heat on that one)

1. The fancy visual effects on the weapons
2. I have a crush on Megaera
3. The jokes that appear at the top of the screen each time you present the food to Cerberus

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Epyo posted...

The jokes that appear at the top of the screen each time you present the food to Cerberus

it's tempting to replace one of mine with this

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Everything about the writing stands out the most to me. The voice acting is tremendous, the quality of the writing is great and relatable (zagreus slipping up sometimes and saying inappropriate things is something people do sometimes) and the amount of dialogue in the game is just tremendous. I don't know how many escape attempts I'm at but I've beaten all weapons on at least 7 heat, one at a time upwards and I'm still getting new dialogue.

The way they slow feed you new things throughout the game, even after what seems like a long time, really keeps a good taste in your mouth of "oh man I wonder if there's something else I still haven't done here?" It really helps to offset the nature of the game which done not-well has the potential to just feel really repetitive. This is not that at all.
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