![]() You can give them and other supporting characters gifts, and they’ll give you a power-up that you can choose to wear in future playthroughs. Your interactions with the Roman gods – Zeus, Athena, Ares and the rest of the gang – change as you make repeated playthroughs. The point is, even with death and even with starting back at the beginning, you are actually making progress. The core gameplay, by the way, is isometric-style action with randomly generated rooms for every playthrough – a roguelite requirement – with various power-ups to make you stronger or keep you alive, and a growing variety of enemies. What’s the point of making all that progress to just see it all disappear with one misplaced dodge or missed attack? It’s an almost incomprehensible challenge for everyone who has never played a roguelite such as myself. That challenge is, for the uninitiated, to get from the lowest depths of hell to the surface and meet with the gods of Olympus, without dying. No real use of the pressure feedback-capable R2 and L2 triggers. The game also has some slight use of haptic feedback like when you’re petting hell-dog Cerberus. There are so many levels on which the game succeeds.Ī technical note: the game runs great at 4K 60fps on the PS5. ![]() ![]() Although I suppose it’s a matter of preference, I speak on behalf of couch or bed gamers that the frustration the game is known for inducing is much more tolerable while lying in a comfortable position. Now that Hades is on console, I don’t have to, and I’m happy to report that Hades is an amazing couch experience. I’ve played it on PC, and while I could have hooked up my computer to a TV…well, I didn’t. I’m personally glad to see Hades on the PS5. Of course, discussing and comparing the merits of both would require its own article. And if replayability and pure gameplay were the only things in considerations, it would not have been a reach to make a case for Hades as game of the year over The Last of Us Part II in The Game Awards. Just to be clear, the game is an absolute masterpiece, worthy of all the accolades that it garnered last year. Forgive me for the clickbait-y headline but that’s how I’ve exactly felt over Hades in my time playing it. It’s how I felt about Apex Legends, and to this day, Apex has to be my most-played title.
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