Hades

Yeah it's really nice for my current skill level. It's giving me that extra second or two I'd have otherwise taken a bit of damage in to get my shit together.

Yep. "I'll just get through to the next room and save" has been the plan about 50 times this evening. Finally dragged myself off it.

I'm absolutely shite with that shield. I like the knockback/cornered effect but I'm a total liability with it.

The fist are definitely my favourite at the minute.

Beat the 1st boss on my 3rd encounter, then beat the 2nd boss on my 1st encounter. Smashing my way through this with the spear.

The aspect where you increase your damage by mortaring yourself is pretty great.

It's worth unlocking all the weapons as quickly as possible as you can then upgrade them.

Wait, you can upgrade them??

Fuck sakeeee

Haha, that's been my exact mindset. Become one with the spear and get just good enough with it to scrape through to a completion.

To think I've been pissing my keys away at the mirror.

It's not as tough as a Souls game (as evidenced by me being able to beat it). I'd put it closer to something like Isaac, but a bit more forgiving.

Anyway, I was useless with the Sword and the Spear. I think the fists are the most fun (just hold the attack button down and dash everywhere), the shield is the easiest to win with, and the bow/railgun are the most potentially OP weapons.

My biggest face melting builds were always Adamant Rail with Aspect of Eris and the two Daedalus hammers that give you rockets + 5x respectively.

It was also the point I finally managed to stop playing on PC, as every run became focused on searching for this build then spamming special, which got boring pretty fast. I'll be back on PS5 soon...

For some reason I've been struggling with Meg, died to her quite a few times even after beating her with the shield. Think I've got the hang of her now though. And the second area boss fell on the second attempt, with the Adamant Rail gun. I find the main attack of the gun annoying, but the special with a buff to fire three bombs at once absolutely wrecked anything that couldn't get out of the way.

Also quite enjoyed the snide comments by some of the characters about using a gun. Like sure, a shield that bounces off enemies or a bow that fires volleys is fine, but bullets and bombs are kind of tacky.

I ploughed my first 2 Titan bloods into the Aspect of Zeus on the shield and then didn't really get on with it... haven't really settled on a favourite weapon yet because I'm still trying to get good with all of them by always picking the one that has bonus darkness

Yeah, the third area is where runs go to die. The last area isn't nearly as annoying imo.

The last area is where you hoover power ups for the final boss or enough money to get a diamond.

The 3rd boss is basically the point at which you know whether you are going to succeed on your run. I usually design my build to get through the 3rd boss and if I get through, I'm pretty much guaranteed to do the last boss.

Nah, you only have to go until you find the food for Cerberus. Stuff beyond that is optional.