Hades

Yeah I had a quick go before works, feels great to play already.

From what I hear it takes a few runs until you realise just how good it is.

From playing on PC... I'd say you should try to unlock a few of the different weapons. I made the mistake of just sticking with the sword for too long - it's probably the most boring way to play. The bow will feel rancid at first, but there are some fantastic builds with it.

Stuck around 55 hours into it on PC. Very good, though perhaps not the Jesus-game it was hyped as by some reviews.

Hype and expectation is a funny thing. I'm hoping I don't feel like is this it?

You probably will for a while. It took me 10 hours or so to click with it. I then had 40 hours of really, really liking it, before feeling I'd seen the bulk of what it had to offer.

The game only really starts after your first successful run.

Aye I'll give it a bit and see if it clicks. There's enough there to interest me so far anyway.

Yes and no. There are some obvious similarities, with the perspective and the overall pace of combat. But there's a much, much bigger emphasis here on keeping the damage you take to an absolute minimum - replenishing it is much harder than in Diablo. It's also heavily based around a 4-button system - attack, special, magic, dodge - which feels quite different from Diablo.

Plus it's far more optimised for controller play. Even on PC, I wouldn't use mouse/kb.

Interesting. I'll give it a dl later.

Decided to give if a whirl again. Played it on PC and finished it a few times before drifting away from it.

I'm utterly shit at it now and I've forgotten which rooms to go for/avoid. Ended up turning God mode on (which isn't as bad as it sounds)

It's generally not much more than 30 mins even for a full, successful run. That puts it for me in about the right place for a roguelike. It's also very much roguelite more than roguelike - you can carry over a hell of a lot between runs.

Played 5 mins of it on PC and then never touched it again, will probably buy it on PS5

I love to waste money me.

It's definitely getting its claws back into me... You can have very "meh" runs where you don't really give a shit if you fail, then on another run you get a couple of boons that just click and all you want to do is find the next pom of power to get them levelled up as high as you can.

In the middle of a bow run with Dionysus' special DOT boon that's making for a fun playstyle.

And you can pet the dog