Final boss ruins the rest of the game for me *spoilers*

[Toad]

Overall I think this is a pretty solid sequel, I'm not here to leave a review. I really enjoy gradually collecting resources and new abilities so I can slowly get stronger and beat Chronos. I know not every run has to be a win and it's about the journey and growing in strength.

None of this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ matters because I've gotten broken runs, I've gotten good at dodging projectiles, and timing the new dash i-frames. Chronos phase 2 will just kill you in 1 hit every time. Even going in with a couple death defies it literally doesn't matter cause he has a move that 1 shots you if you don't get to this one specific spot in time and it's halfway across the room and there's 3 other attacks going on at the same time, so your options are take a death, or take 50+ damage to avoid a death.

Most recent run was doing amazing just for him to spawn an hourglass directly over the safe zone so I get frozen in the bubble, inches away from safety. Nothing I can do but lose and waste another 45 minutes to get back there just for him to 1 shot me again. Fun

[UNBREAKABLE]

Vent to Frinos and try again.

[Wabbajack]

You can do it. I believe in you.

[Ice-Nine]

"I am bad and this ruined the game for me."

Oh well. Can't win 'em all!

[Tueur_De_Tortues]

personally I find phase 2 to be like a hundred times easier than phase 1 but thats just me

[Toad]

Originally posted by Ice-Nine:

"I am bad and this ruined the game for me."

Oh well. Can't win 'em all!

He quite literally created a scenario where I had no option other than death and losing my run. I 100% hades 1 so lick my taint

[Awedish]

Originally posted by Toad:

Originally posted by Ice-Nine:

"I am bad and this ruined the game for me."

Oh well. Can't win 'em all!

He quite literally created a scenario where I had no option other than death and losing my run. I 100% hades 1 so lick my taint

how is this possible? you can i-frame the one shot move with your dash. i can only see this happening if you walk into a time prism from one of the hourglasses exploding, in which case it was your damage that killed the hourglass, and your fault for being beside it when it died.

[SillyCritterz_]

Originally posted by Toad:

Originally posted by Ice-Nine:

"I am bad and this ruined the game for me."

Oh well. Can't win 'em all!

He quite literally created a scenario where I had no option other than death and losing my run. I 100% hades 1 so lick my taint

There IS a way to avoid it though. It's not an unavoidable attack. It definitely takes you off guard at first, it too me off guard too, but it's not unavoidable or unbeatable

[Songbird]

Originally posted by Tueur_De_Tortues:

personally I find phase 2 to be like a hundred times easier than phase 1 but thats just me

Phase 2 part 1 is possibly a little easier because he can't summon the ring of spheres around himself that both hugely increases the threat area of his charges and makes it really hard to damage him. But it's really not much different from phase 1 part 1.

Phase 2 part 2 is definitely much harder than phase 1, because not only do you have the threat of the tempus adds, you also have him doing the same three-attack combos as phase 1 part 2, but with clock hands or the shrinking rings going on at the same time. The only thing easier about it is that it has no 3/4 health invincibility.

The one-shot attacks are completely, totally free. even with max enemy speed, unless you get caught in a time bubble. It's mostly just the combination of Chrono's normal swings with the stage attacks that is threatening.

[Lightgazer]

i've always found phase 2 to be so much easier than phase 1 - you have an entire room instead of a hallway, plenty of room to run and avoid almost everything, while dropping any attack you want, or waiting for that one moment. his unavoidable attack, caught me off-guard.. once. then i avoided it every time. except once more, except that was different.

that time i actually dash/dodged it. i couldn't believe i did it, but i managed to dash through the attack. it takes timing to do, im sorely tempted to just practice the timing so i can avoid it all the time. other than that, i'd either nuke the adds, or leave them alone (those adds suck for casts, but i still manage).

he's incredibly vulnerable to a cast when he's doing that though. the moment phase 2 starts i drop a cast, then run to the spot. he gets hit for a lot every single time. then it's run, hit, run run hit, second part wait for the invulnerability to wear off, try to nuke a few of the adds as i can, worry about boss, repeat everything. always paying attention for the nuke everything he does and hope to goodness i didn't obliterate an hourglass at the single safe spot. if i can, i drop another cast on him.

[Toquevi||e]

OP's experience of Chronos p2 has not been my experience of Chronos p2. It's a pretty good fight, though I did find the bosses in Hades 2 a bit easier than Hades 1 on the whole - perhaps partly because I'm used to the gameplay from Hades 1, but I think also in part because Melinoe has more tools at her disposal than Zag, so there's a lot more potential for broken builds in Hades 2.

General tip to OP: if an hourglass (very unluckily) spawns on your safezone just at the wrong moment, then don't kill it. Hourglasses, if left alive, are pretty harmless until there are about 10 of them on the screen all sending an ocean of swirley purple goop at you.

[Toad]

I just beat chronos for the first time and I still just hate the attack conceptually. Nothing else in this game has an "execute" where lives are so so precious in roguelikes. And when sometimes dodging that execute means still taking a huge hit. Cerberus does similar ♥♥♥♥ where he'll make the only safe zone directly around him while you're on the other end of the arena., but at least I'm only taking 20-30 damage there, not an entire death defy

[JimbleSaurusRex]

sounds like a skill issue

[Agent Soul X3]

OP, could you reflect for a moment, and think about perhaps why other people aren't complaining about this? Do you think we are all getting one-shot and fine with it? Because in my ~35 hours I have only ever died to the one-shot move once. I'm not even bragging, I've only gone to 12 fear so far. I have much bigger challenges with the Chronos fight than his slow one shot lol, his rapid attacks are what gets me

[Broseidon]

not to be rude but chronos roomwide oneshot attack is imo the absolute easiest attack to dodge that he has. you have so much time to get in that circle that there is no excuse to not be able to get in.
I got hit by it exactly once, the very first time he used it because i didn't know what it was and the circle was offscreen. that was before they changed the colors.

if you get hit so consistently by it that you felt the need to create this post, i think it's more of a you-problem than a game-problem.

[Wikingking]

Originally posted by Toad:

Overall I think this is a pretty solid sequel, I'm not here to leave a review. I really enjoy gradually collecting resources and new abilities so I can slowly get stronger and beat Chronos. I know not every run has to be a win and it's about the journey and growing in strength.

None of this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ matters because I've gotten broken runs, I've gotten good at dodging projectiles, and timing the new dash i-frames. Chronos phase 2 will just kill you in 1 hit every time. Even going in with a couple death defies it literally doesn't matter cause he has a move that 1 shots you if you don't get to this one specific spot in time and it's halfway across the room and there's 3 other attacks going on at the same time, so your options are take a death, or take 50+ damage to avoid a death.

Most recent run was doing amazing just for him to spawn an hourglass directly over the safe zone so I get frozen in the bubble, inches away from safety. Nothing I can do but lose and waste another 45 minutes to get back there just for him to 1 shot me again. Fun

Took me 25-ish runs to reach chronos 5x. Of these, my second or third attempt got me to phase 2 where I instantly died (not being able to make it into the safezone).
My final and ultimately winning build was using the Moon aspect where you can resurrect a fallen enemy as an ally. I maxed out Moon that night and it was in-sa-ha-ha-ha-nly OP. By that way the resurrected enemy profited from all of my Boons, so when Chronos hit him (and he did it a lot) Zeus and other revenge boons worked like a charm. I basically just dodged and shot Chronos whenever (I use twin flames, got Hephaestus Vent and explosion, insane...) and his HP melted due to him overaggroing the resurrected (and almost unkillable) ally.
You can do it!