Art, dialogue and overall atmosphere SO MUCH worse than Hades 1.

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Why do even the old characters look worse than in the first game? Zeus, Aphrodite, Hermes look somehow soft and expressionless. Artemis looks to be on the same level as before. Chaos turned into some metrosexual in an elegant suit, WHAT? I don’t care about all this SJW and other WOKE topics. I don't care about that at all. I was just expecting the same high level of art design, but what I got was crap.

Now about the atmosphere and design of the hub. WHAT THE ♥♥♥♥ IS THIS SHREK'S SWAMP? In the first game I enjoyed every visit to the house of Hades after Zagreus died, but now I feel sick during gameplay due to the clunky controls and lack of double dash and after death I feel sick because of the nasty green swamp instead of a normal hub. I no longer feel cozy and comfortable while playing due to the overly serious and oppressive atmosphere. All the new characters feel like fan fiction from people suffering from severe depression. Everyone is grey, sad, apathetic and primitive. I don’t want to give gifts to anyone anymore, because no one is interesting to me.

Dialogues have become overly flat and monotonous. "Well...we need to kill Kronos...death to Kronos!" Is this serious? I don't even want to talk about the ugly dialog box - it looks cheap and unprofessional.

The gameplay is absolutely dull and long. In the first game, even without leveling up, each run felt like a fun and enjoyable adventure. In Hades 2, even after opening most of the Tarot cards, the character feels not like a god, but like some kind of nonentity. Every time I play Hades 2 I feel like I'm playing something like Dark Souls. No more pleasure and feeling of power from boons or the hammer of Daedalus, only memorizing boss patterns and hoping for luck and random. I understand that the developers wanted to show that Melinoe is not a super-strong damage dealer, but a fragile witch, but why then does she only have one dash and a clumsy sprint? If she has significantly less HP and damage than Zagreus, then why not make her more agile? Enemies in Hades 2 spam AOE attacks nonstop, and the Melinoe has only become weaker and slower. This is an unbalanced and reckless decision.

I love Hades 1 and consider it the best game for me. I played with pleasure for dozens of hours on end. In Hades 2, I can't even bring myself to do 2 runs in a row, or sometimes even finish one run. This isn't a leveling or skill issue, the game just feels slow, overly serious, dark and shallow. Because of all of the above shortcomings, I'm having a really hard time getting myself to continue playing Hades 2.

If you have anything to add to what I said, I'd be glad to hear it.