The game is great.
Story and dialogue expected of SuperGiant.
Some pretty rough readability issues that get much worse the higher the nightmares you have active.
Overall really good

So far the game is phenomenal. In my opinion, it's a drastic improvement on the original's formula with a story that is much wider in scope while still maintaining the original's charm. I'm also genuinely shocked by just how much content is already available and pretty fleshed out for a game that is still in early access. The combat feels great and there's so much that is iterated upon from the original Hades that it doesn't feel like I'm just playing the same game again. The map design is also pretty interesting when compared to the Hades, taking more liberties with how you progress through each area and making each location feel unique in more than just aesthetic. There's also just a lot of little things this game offers that sets it apart from Hades for me, like the new ways to interact with NPCs, the Arcana system, the familiars, the gardening, overall the game is a drastic improvement compared to the first. That said, there are some early access growing pains that I hope get addressed before ver. 1.0...


The journey to Olympus, in it's current state, is just not as engaging or fun as the trip to Chronos. Everything is significantly harder, damage becomes both harder to avoid and less telegraphed, the bosses are damage sponges that honestly rival Chronos despite only being a single phase, the damage numbers are way too high, and overall the experience just isn't as satisfying. I can beat Chronos, the main villain of the game, with my eyes closed, but I don't even know what most of the content after Prometheus looks like. I get that the point of Olympus is to add more challenge to the game, not just to be another area you can steamroll over, but even with that in mind, in its current state, the experience feels pretty overtuned.

I also just want to specifically address one change I would really like to see over anything else: a change to Prometheus' memory attack. I would either like to see the attack reworked to function differently, or I would like an accessibility option added for players like me with short term memory issues. A lot of visual information is thrown at the player very suddenly with little to no room for error, and for people like me with ADHD or other conditions that make memory challenges like this difficult, that attack can just feel like an unfair and unavoidable tax on your Death Defiance.

If these memory challenges were a bigger part of the game, I probably wouldn't bother saying anything, but since this is the only area where it really comes up in the entire game, It just feels like a small enough part of the experience that it can be reworked with little to no effect on the average player's fun, while also making the game more accessible. (Honestly while I'm talking about accessibility, I get that it may not be a big priority right now but it would also be nice to see more accessibility options in the future. Hades II is the exact kind of game that would benefit from some in-depth accessibility options like those found in Celeste.)

there should be another category of early access to describe this. premium tier.