Early Access first impressions

[4 year special operation]

Here is mine. Played my first hour. Feeling is little disappointing so far.
I hope this is just the beginning, since the game feels like they mostly just copy pasted Hades 1 and changed story, which would be ok if the story was more engaging and interesting.

Anyways collected some pros and cons

Pros:
-New Hades new story
-Some nice ideas with the spells.
-Works well on steam deck.

Cons:
-Feels like Hades 1. I played Hades 1 until I got bored, so I was already partially bored when I saw the same icons, perks etc.
-Game looks like its made for girls (colors, theme etc).
-Audio world and audio gameplay feels bit off/unfinished.
-Also fighting the enemies is sometimes little boring. The Ghosts and their scream was nice though. Something new.

[Crow Buddy]

May I suggest rethinking or re-wording comments like, "Game looks like its made for girls (colors, theme etc)."

You've only played for an hour. That's a weird criticism and conclusion to draw with such a limited scope of the overall game, characters, plot, etc.

For example, you haven't seen or met Heracles yet. He's about as gigachad as it gets. Dude is a walking masculinity factory.

When Heracles roars like a DBZ character and launches himself into the heavens like Superman, you may rethink criticisms like "it's made for girls."

[Neo NiGHTS ®]

Originally posted by Crow Buddy:

May I suggest rethinking or re-wording comments like, "Game looks like its made for girls (colors, theme etc)."

You've only played for an hour. That's a weird criticism and conclusion to draw with such a limited scope of the overall game, characters, plot, etc.

For example, you haven't seen or met Heracles yet. He's about as gigachad as it gets. Dude is a walking masculinity factory.

When Heracles roars like a DBZ character and launches himself into the heavens like Superman, you may rethink criticisms like "it's made for girls."

I don't know. When someone plays for just an hour and already comes to conclusions like "it's made for girls" I think it's not even worth to start a conversation...
(but I hope I'm wrong and I am the one who got the wrong impression 😬)

[Crow Buddy]

Originally posted by Neo NiGHTS ®:

I don't know. When someone plays for just an hour and already comes to conclusions like "it's made for girls" I think it's not even worth to start a conversation...
(but I hope I'm wrong and I am the one who got the wrong impression 😬)

You know what, I'm gonna listen to you this time, lol thanks

[4 year special operation]

Originally posted by Neo NiGHTS ®:

Originally posted by Crow Buddy:

May I suggest rethinking or re-wording comments like, "Game looks like its made for girls (colors, theme etc)."

You've only played for an hour. That's a weird criticism and conclusion to draw with such a limited scope of the overall game, characters, plot, etc.

For example, you haven't seen or met Heracles yet. He's about as gigachad as it gets. Dude is a walking masculinity factory.

When Heracles roars like a DBZ character and launches himself into the heavens like Superman, you may rethink criticisms like "it's made for girls."

I don't know. When someone plays for just an hour and already comes to conclusions like "it's made for girls" I think it's not even worth to start a conversation...
(but I hope I'm wrong and I am the one who got the wrong impression 😬)

I have been playing this a little bit more and I still feel like it. Even the music sounds what my sisters friend is listening. Please note I have been filling my Hades void with Redacted which goes out of the barbie territory completely.

Also if there is a giga chad doesn't mean its made for guys. Similar to barbies where the ken is the ultimate perfect boyfriend. I did not get this feeling with Hades one where the base wasn't filled with teenage girls dream witchery. Feel free to disagree, but I cannot shake the feeling.

My hunch is that there is woman art designer or worse woke trans designer leading the show and thats the reason

[starrybun]

Originally posted by 3 year special operation:

-Audio world and audio gameplay feels bit off/unfinished.

it's early acess dude

[Neo NiGHTS ®]

I'm not one that tries to control someone else's feelings. If you are feeling thatthe game is too girly for you, then... Hope you can refund before it's too late.

Some games click with us. Some don't.

[Calamity Heart]

Originally posted by 3 year special operation:

My hunch is that there is woman art designer or worse woke trans designer leading the show and thats the reason

Careful now. There are plenty of valid, articulate reasons to not vibe with the artstyle, character choices, music direction, etc. "I bet it's because a woman or trans person drew it." is not a respectable ballpark to swing in.

Form rational opinions if you're going to voice them, don't just throw out questionable 'hunches'. Personally, I don't think the music or artstyle is too significantly different from the first game, nor do I think it's particularly 'girly'. I think what there is, that might be throwing you off the vibe and giving you that girly impression, is just... a lot of girls.

Not counting the Olympian gods that you steadily get boons from, in your first hour, you'll probably have meaningfully interacted with a lot more female characters than male characters. In total across the entire game, it's probably close to an even spread, but the game is undeniably frontloaded with girls. So it'd be understandable, if a little silly, imo, if that's not really your cup of tea. The actual themes are pretty innocuous, though. Not seeing anything 'Barbie' about the things presented in-game, even with the high female cast to start.

[Crow Buddy]

Originally posted by Calamity Heart:

Originally posted by 3 year special operation:

My hunch is that there is woman art designer or worse woke trans designer leading the show and thats the reason

Careful now. There are plenty of valid, articulate reasons to not vibe with the artstyle, character choices, music direction, etc. "I bet it's because a woman or trans person drew it." is not a respectable ballpark to swing in.

This, this, this. One thousand percent this.

[Biscuits! Werewolves!]

Well it didn't take long for the dipsh*t to display his dipsh*ttery.

I'm a 40-something straight hetero family man and I like this game a lot. And as much I love the full-on metal soundtrack of Hades 1 I absolutely love the spooky siren stuff from Oceanus and the off-beat, quirky music from Ephyra. Variety is the spice of life, yo.

[Songbird]

Steam forums really need a way to automatically detect people who use the word "woke" to complain about games and instantly permanently ban them from every single forum. There's literally 0 cases where they're not irredeemable pieces of refuse.

[Neo NiGHTS ®]

Originally posted by Songbird:

Steam forums really need a way to automatically detect people who use the word "woke" to complain about games and instantly permanently ban them from every single forum. There's literally 0 cases where they're not irredeemable pieces of refuse.

Take my award.

[4 year special operation]

I have been playing more. The game is good as long as I use the axe. The other weapons I have encountered are bit "meh". Yeah it gets less girly as you progress. Yeah sorry for being woke police, but its horrible when game series gets totally blown to ♥♥♥♥♥ because of politics. I'm super sensitive to having any politics in games where they don't belong to

[Crow Buddy]

Nice, I'm glad you're playing more and enjoying the Moonstone axe! It's my favorite weapon by far, too.

[Fire walk with me]

Gender and sexual identity are not politics. Just gonna throw that out there.

[Biscuits! Werewolves!]

Originally posted by Fire walk with me:

Gender and sexual identity are not politics. Just gonna throw that out there.

Word. Also, Hades 2 is no more or less "political" than Hades 1, which is just stuffed with representation too. There's just a few less girls.

But hey - I like girls. I like fems like Mel and I like buff gals that would break me like Nem. Human shapes come in all sorts of varieties and that's a /good/ thing.