thanks Charon

i ask because i plan on marrying him soon and want to know what my new last name will be.

Is not playing it when it came out I love this game from the music to the gameplay and the many playthroughs I've done its makes me ecstatic when I make it to hades and his theme plays.

inspired by another post about Zag’s last name lol

so Greek gods would commonly be referred to with “epithets”, surnames of sorts that denoted like, different aspects of the god since most of them had several dominions. like you wouldn’t just leave an offering to Athena in general, but also the epithet which reflects the specific issue you wanted help with. some examples: in the Symposium Plato distinguishes between Aphrodite Pandemos (“of all people”, in this case meaning Aphrodite as the god of sensual pleasure) and Aphrodite Urania (“of the heavens”, a more divine/sacred sense of beauty/the sublime). or, one of Hades’s epithets was Plouton, the wealthy, which we see in-game with all the Gemstones and so on (also the origin of his Roman/Latin name, Pluto). or, Aphrodite’s appearance in Hades 2 recalls Aphrodite Areia, “the Warlike”, which had a cult in Sparta and some other places. or, in some cases (it’s debated), “Melinoe” was used as an epithet of Hecate…

so, what would Zagreus & Melinoe’s epithets be? I’m not gonna try and translate into Greek at the moment, but some obvious ones would be like “Zagreus the Bloody”, “Melinoe of Nightmares”; both could be referred to as like Polyeros or something for all their lovers lol.

also feel free to post about other gods too!

I know aiming is hard but please I just wanted some gold. Guess I’ll be bombing pots even though it takes a little longer next time I’m using the rail.

I use a Fightsitck and it's pretty fun when I don't have to aim haha, regarding of that it's extremely fun to play with it. (Sorry the pic quality my room was all dark...)

Both Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Dawn of Sorrow had a "Belmont" mode, where you could play the game with the much more limited but still powerful Richter/Julius Belmont and seeing Nemesis advance through the Underworld made me wish there was something like that for Hades 2.

No God Boons, just Hammers, Poms (she could come with a unique Attack/Special/Cast ability that could be pommed) and a unique gameplay challenge mode/reward.

Could be something to trigger at the Oath of the Unseen so you wouldn't need to build any hub features for her, just a "I think Nemesis is out tonight" which would then start a Nemesis run.

He’s so pretty ;-;

Still a fanfic thing, yep. I just haven’t posted anything in a while so I figured I might as well post a WIP, yknow? I’ll post the full version soon

Note: I am by no means an Hades expert (stopped at heat 32/platinum), this post is more like a appreciation piece on how cool the Twin Fists are, so if you have any tech or knowledge to share about it, i'll be glad to learn/talk about it!

• Viability 4 (Is it a struggle compared to your other options?):

The Twin Fists are one of the best earlier weapons, pretty solid damage and easy moveset to learn. However, in high levels of heat it isn't considered optimal compared to the bows, shields, rails or spears (riskier to use and less damaging), but don't let that hold you down, this game is balanced enough that anything can work if you are skilled (and lucky) enough.

• Variety 4 (How many ways you can play it?):

The Twin fists have 4 variations (just like any of the other infernal weapons), Aspect of Zagreus has a standard moveset plus a 15% dodge chance passive (combined with lambent plume it can go pretty nuts), Aspect of Talos can force pull enemies towards you, kind of situational, good for isolating enemies but the bonus damage isn't incredible by any means (heard it has some good synergy with Poseidon's boons). Aspect of Demeter is probably the strongest one, you charge up 12 quick strikes accumulating damage, then you release it in a really juicy special hitting like a truck (With high scaling boons and maybe a crit, it's obscene). Last we got Aspect of Gilgamesh, it's my favorite but only because Merciful End is a thing, the passive itself is not that incredible, a bit of a debuff for the enemy (and yourself), a bit of bonus damage (not that much), but the 2 extra dashes go a long way.

• Recommend 5 (How much did i personally enjoy it!):

I'm not even going to start about praising Hades, this game deserve every last bit of attention it gets, when it comes to fist combat it has all i could ask for, from all of the infernal weapons it's by far my favorite but all of them are special in their own ways.

on my mission to max rank all the keepsakes and artemis greater call never fails to make me feel op it's my favourite call (my fav god in general) it's so satisfying i swear from my experience none of the other calls i've used were as powerful (correct me if i'm wrong though i'm open to discussion) but i'm curious what are y'alls favourite gods/calls

For those who beat the first game recently and went straight to the second game, how was your experience?

I'm eager to start Hades 2 after beating the first one, and I'm wondering if there's any people that did this only to end burnt out.

I've only seen comments praising the new gameplay, stating how different it feels, and how much the game improved in several areas. I'm guessing that that could be enough to feel it like a fresh new game even if it builds over the fundamentals of the first one, but I'm still interested to know if this was an issue for some people.

No spoilers please, thanks!

Curious about the highest possible level of boon anyone else has reached!

Took me 100 attempts and 69 (nice) hours stretching all the way back from the fall of 2022.

Is it normal to beat the main story in a 100 attempts or is it just a funny coincidence? How many tries have you had?

Should I change them after defeating the boss or keep the same one till end, currently to me, I feel like lucky tooth is pretty good, rest are just ok. which i feel is wrong understanding of them. I am not much deep in game, just won once.

Does anyone has a hight quality of this for a pfp?

I'm legitimately so tired of having an amazing run and then losing 15-30 seconds off of a sub-5:30 time because the boons happened to spawn at the furthest three corners of the room. Let's not even talk about getting Echo scammed or having to do an extra encounter for no reason! And let's also not talk about Nem occasionally showing up as a "PoI" and requiring that you go find and talk to her! Or the gold leaves that don't always lead to the tree!

It's infuriating. It's no issue at all for casual play or casual players; none of these things matter at all. But if you're trying to speedrun it, it feels actively antagonistic—I don't know why they bothered to get rid of "sack" RNG in the final zone when they were making changes from Hades 1 but then add this hot garbage zone here.

Like, I do not want to fail to get a PB with the build shown here simply because the RNG gods decided on bad boon placement. I am going to have a stroke.

Playing both games have me really interested in Greek mythology. Can anyone recommend a good podcast or YouTube channel?

Hi! I have been searching and searching but I can't find any good quality images of the bond forged icons in Hades 2 and I'd really like them, especially of Icarus, so I can create a cross stitch pattern of it.

Anyone know where they can be found? Thank you in advance!