Hades

I loved the music, and the Orpheus and Eurydice "moment" gave me genuine chills. Each to their own I guess eh.

I suspect the bass-noodling is a consequence of the dynamic music, which often only leaves the bass during quiet, non-combat moments in a run, with the melody only kicking in during combat. In general, the music sounded like they really wanted to do something different with the music than the usual "ethnic" vibe. (I don't know what else to call it, I don't know music.) Electric guitars really weren't a thing in previous Supergiant soundtracks, but every combat track in Hades throws in a whole rock band. Hell, when the guitars kick in on The King and the Bull, it sounds like they came straight from Doom E1M1! 

The tracks with vocals sound very different too because of the high-pitched singing voice Darren uses for Orpheus, which makes the whole thing sound quite different to me. I'm not the biggest fan of it, but maybe they chose that because it was thematically appropriate or something. Did the Ancient Greeks sing in a high voice? Is it even possible to know that?

It's all good mate.

It took me just under 90 attempts to beat Hades, but rubbish as I am there'senough meta progression tyo make you feel that you are progressing.

In other news I just discovered that you can fight Charon - I won the first fight and there's a decent reward, but it seems that I have started something.

Defeat Megaera for the first time, then like a complete cabbage walk into the lava on the first chamber of Asphodel and die. What a twat

I swear whenever I enable Heightened Security I find myself standing in lava unnecessarily.

Still terrible at this, but improving. Out of around 25 runs I have beat Megaera five times and finally reached the second boss this morning. Gave it a good go, but got killed pretty quickly when the second round of additional enemies appeared and the bullet hell attacks started.

I've read back through the thread for tips. It seems that I have wasted my meagre supply of blood on the sword instead of unlocking the aspects.

I have found the cast can be pretty good. Got a Zeus chain lightening boon for it that was really good for clearing weaker enemies, paired it with a couple of others and was able to spam it to great effect through Tartarus and Asphodel.

I rarely use the call, it doesn't seem to last long enough to be really worthwhile. Am I missing something here?

Call is good for burst damage and ‘get off me’ moments. Some are better than others, though. I don’t think it’s considered that strong but I do always tend to take Athena’s just because it’s a good finishing move.

One of the more fun builds I had was Athena’s call and a duo boon that caps your god gauge at 25% but constantly and quickly refills it. It was like having another cast, it was really cool.

I find call most useful for opening the door to the Legendary and Duo boons when you don't want to change the boon you already have on attack/special/cast/dash, eg. I almost always look for Athena on dash, so any boon before/after that with a choice of dash or call I'd take call. But otherwise its just a bonus for the bosses (and don't forget the trophy for using call against the same god in the trials).

Speaking of trophies I'm about 75% of the way to the platinum, but it's starting to get really grindy. Maxing out all the keepsakes is the worst. I think I'm at about the playtime when I finally managed to stop on PC.

I played this via game pass. I normally hate this type of insta death bollocks, but the god mode makes it so much more accessible that its probably my most played game of the year. I love using the lightning gauntlets for super zappy fun.

Just bought a new pad for my PC because this exact thing was happening.

Finally completed a second run after 112 goes - I'm just a bit rubbish and wish I'd put god mode on from the start. I'm still enjoying it though, but would like to see the end soon :-) How many completions are needed to see the story play out?

I am doing now :-)

I think the only way I made progress honestly was waiting for God mode to reach max. When it got to that stage I was able to complete the game.