How do you like Melinoe compared to Zagreus?

[Sandy]

I feel like Zagreus was a lot more interesting. With significantly better writing.

Melinoe is very basic. She feels like a mary sue with nothing interesting going on about her personality.

[BrattyPhoebe]

*blinks and keeps blinking* she has a ton going on are you even talking to people. Also just because a character is a girl does not make her a Mary Sue. Christ on a bike just go touch grass, clearly you are lacking in definition of reality.

['Strict]

I do like the Zagreus story more so far, but I have no issues with the new main char, some decent writing so far that I've seen/heard and I'm not that far into the story yet.

[Descending Minor Key Line Cliche]

I skip all the dialogue in roguelites but she's much cooler than Zag in terms of abilities, less cool in terms of personality, and equally cool in terms of appearance/design. So I like her basically just as much.

[Shield]

Originally posted by Sandy:

I feel like Zagreus was a lot more interesting. With significantly better writing.

Melinoe is very basic. She feels like a mary sue with nothing interesting going on about her personality.

damn bro this aint even the first thread i seen you make
you are HUNGRY for those jesters sheesh

[GrimAtrament]

I like melinoe more she's a loveable dork and has a bit more compelling story then zagreus being a rebellious teenager.

[Jaynoble55]

Originally posted by Sandy:

I feel like Zagreus was a lot more interesting. With significantly better writing.

Melinoe is very basic. She feels like a mary sue with nothing interesting going on about her personality.

Zag was and is better. I could care less about the woke stuff people are complaining about. But the fact we dont get to use Zag in any fashion bothers me. Ill still play it however.

[Calamity Heart]

I need more time with her, but I like her so far.

She's not in Zag's exact situation, but personally, I haven't found her too different from Zag, either. As far as her writing goes, it seems clean and sharp so far, I don't really see what's wrong with it. She's immensely goal-driven, but she doesn't let her goal necessarily distract her from the people around her and her connection to them. Zagreus was the same. That was the foundation of his intrigue as far as how he went about interacting with the other characters, at least to me, thinking about it now, and it's the exact same for Melinoe. She's open-hearted with her friends and allies and snarky at best/menacing at worst to her enemies.

Seems good to me.

[Honey Master]

Originally posted by Sandy:

I feel like Zagreus was a lot more interesting. With significantly better writing.

Melinoe is very basic. She feels like a mary sue with nothing interesting going on about her personality.

I feel like Zag was really boring. He has daddy issues but he's always kind and everyone else really likes him. Mel seems to at least have more interesting relationships with each individual character.

[GrimAtrament]

Originally posted by Jaynoble55:

Originally posted by Sandy:

I feel like Zagreus was a lot more interesting. With significantly better writing.

Melinoe is very basic. She feels like a mary sue with nothing interesting going on about her personality.

Zag was and is better. I could care less about the woke stuff people are complaining about. But the fact we dont get to use Zag in any fashion bothers me. Ill still play it however.

Plenty of series change main characters between games. You going to complain that we are playing as hornet in the next hollow knight game?

Or how about MegaMan where we go from x to zero to alie/vent or ash and grey. Your not the same Pokemon protagonist in any of the games.
Your not the same cast in each tales of game or final fantasy game.

This is nitpicking at minimum and intellectualy dishonest at worst.

[😎Astran😾]

Melinoe is excellent, I've purchased the game specifically for the female protagonist and she did not disappoint

[BrattyPhoebe]

Originally posted by Astran:

Melinoe is excellent, I've purchased the game specifically for the female protagonist and she did not disappoint :lunar2019piginablanket:

Definite mood <3. I loved aesthetic of Hades, but could not play because you were a male. Now I can enjoy the Universe.

[Shiori]

i really like her, and i also really liked zag, they are different, they are both great

from a writing perspective, hades 2 is even better than hades 1, and hades 1 is one of my all time favorite games.

on another note.
the amount of people who get upset because its a female lead, yet tell people to deal with male leads because it fits the story, yet when its a girl, they get upset.

[Wasted_46]

Melinoe is way too serious, I liked Zag's attitude better.
Mechanically, Zag again prevails since he's more mobile. With Mel you cannot dash out of animations which hurts.

[Nemo]

Originally posted by PaladinQuinn:

*blinks and keeps blinking* she has a ton going on are you even talking to people. Also just because a character is a girl does not make her a Mary Sue. Christ on a bike just go touch grass, clearly you are lacking in definition of reality.

no wonder, with that steam description, that you're feeling attacked

[😎Astran😾]

Originally posted by PaladinQuinn:

Originally posted by Astran:

Melinoe is excellent, I've purchased the game specifically for the female protagonist and she did not disappoint

Definite mood <3. I loved aesthetic of Hades, but could not play because you were a male. Now I can enjoy the Universe.

Exactly, I've read so many praising articles about the first game but could not force myself upon watching a male's pixel arse day-long...

If anything any modern day game designer should allow gender selection, it cost pennies (compared to the overall game development cost) and bring them 15-30% higher sales from people who are uncomfortable to watch same/opposite-sex arse in the center of their screen for days