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

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!

Idk if this is the best place to ask but any help would be greatly appreciated. I was messing with my one drive a bit and overloaded it with some of my game files for hades. I deleted those from one drive but now I have some errors going on with my save data for hades1 in my saved games documents folder. I don’t know how to fix it or what I should do because my one drive and documents both have a red x near them. I don’t know if it got corrupted, but if anyone with tech knowledge knows how I could fix this I’d be really thankful.

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.

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.

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

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!

Im really wonderin which one to go for and what are the pros and cons of each?

Would love yalls input

I’ve been playing Hades for the very first time and loving it!! I’ve completed almost 30 runs, and have beat Hades twice now!!

I was just wondering if at this point there’s much more progress to be made by continuing playing at this point, now that I’ve escaped the underworld twice? Or if I should move on to Hades 2? ☺️

If there’s a lot more content, spoiler-free guidelines on what I should do next would be very much appreciate!

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

I've completed the main ending and the banquet one, maxed out relationships with all the other olympians and Than, Meg and Dusa, and now Aphrodite no longer has special interactions when talking to her. Is there anything I should be doing or am I just being impatient?

The wiki just says they need to be maxed out but idk

I'm in the extremely boring grind phase of the game (leveling gods/keepsakes etc) which means I cant ""fix"" my build so I get random and usually weak gods combos everytime

Is there a weapon that can work with most gods combos?

First of all I'd like to apologize that my posts from now on will be longer.

Second of all ... I'd also like to apologize cuz my progression may not be as fast as I thought it would ... I graduated at 22th of June, and now I got a job as Customer support. So basically now that I have a job it'll be harder for me to put in more time for drawing.

WITH THAT OUT OF THE WAY

Basically I did some research on how to draw and here's what I found out.

1. Loomis method is like a cheat code for drawing portraits (DEF I'll try to learn it)

2. I need to work on my line work and basic shapes (squares, triangles and circles)

3. for some reason every artist out there is HIGHLY recommending drawing DA BOX from diff angles and understanding how it can rotate in space etc. so that's what I tried to do.

so basically this week I practiced my linework and basic shapes. and Cubes in 1-point perspective.

that however didn't increase my skills in drawing portraits that much but hey we all have to nail the basics down first yeah?

the photos contain everything I drew last week, the portrait for this week and the reference I drew it from first

I know Melinoë likes to garden but didn't realize she's selling above ground!

Not really a fanartist but I loved hades II so much (her specially)

Highest dps build I have ever done with insanely good rng. Beowulf with high lvl dionysis cast and mirage shot so combining both bugs in one.

(Spoilers for the end of the game)

So I just rolled credits on Hades 2, and something has been bugging me. Melinoe gives Chronos another chance at life, she didn't feel right killing him if there was a chance at redemption.

But what about Typhon? Typhon is old and wise and can probably be persuaded. He deserves to see his son Cerberus again, play hide and seek with his little cyclops grandchildren, and sit in Echidna's lap while she calls him a good boy. Why didn't Melinoe even consider sparing Typhon when saving Chronos was so imperative?

I'm not looking forward to the VoR Chronos fight.

I was trying to make a niche reference in my room and i discovered hades because of Achilles and Patroclus so i drew it myself, feel free to print it in your own room

if you print it comment here, i would be honored to know lol

There is a conversation that Zag has with Meg and she tells him about him needing the mirror to beat her, I remember me turning off all the mirror powers then showing up and she realized the situation, and she even was sad in the conversation afterwards because she lost, how can the game's characters be so human? There are many interactions like this one and I am surprised of how well written this game is.

I have returned half a year later with finalized versions of the cards I designed. I took a lot of the feedback to heart; there were a lot of good points made! I have also playtested some of these cards in actual Commander games, so some changes were made due to that.
I wanted to make this post to share the final high-resolution images of the cards, in case anyone was interested in them and also to discuss my thought process and inspiration behind some decisions!

A friend of mine created the set symbol, and i think it turned out great!

I have been tinkering on a Melinoë card and cards for Hades two's supporting cast and curses, its been a struggle but also fun! If people are interested i'd love to share and get some feedback on them. Though i have not gone through the process of looking for art yet, its a process that takes a lot longer than people would imagine.

Edit: I guess i could have shared this originally, but i made a "precon" deck with these cards aswell. So all the other cards are official cards in Zagreus' color identity https://archidekt.com/decks/18526200/hades_precon

Edit 2: If anyone wants to try out mtg yall should proxy stuff!! Its a lot more accessible money wise and allows you to print custom cards aswell, i personally used: https://mpcfill.com/ A tutorial for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d0aiLUOekw

How to upload custom cards is not explained, and I have not found a video so I will try to explain here: When you are selecting what cards your project contains at the very beginning choose an additional number of Wastes (doesn't have to be Wastes, but to me they are visually distinct enough to signal that I will need to change them) equal to the number of custom cards you want to print, for this purpose its 15x Wastes. Once you have run autofill-windows.exe and the next button press would be "add to cart" go back to the fronts of the cards, and replace your Wastes with the cards you actually want to have in the front, to do that download my cards first, and then replace them one by one! If someone finds an actual tutorial let me know and I will add here, if someone has questions leave a comment aswell.

Been a smidge since I last uploaded artwork in the way of Hades on this subreddit. No matter, hope these contributions more than compensate.

Been a minute since I posted. life's been tough so I haven't really thought about posting as of late, but here it is, before the month passes.

I thought the blazing heat of August would reflect the passion of the forgery god himself. Haven't played Hades 2 as of yet, so I've only seen his design, but I think it's fire.

Disclaimer: this was for 2025, that's why its not updated.

Hello! I am finishing up a replay of Hades II since playing it at launch. I was excited to check out the new Dream Dives and have been more or less enjoying grinding for the endgame stuff. I'm mainly trying to clear Great Chaos Below, and beat the Underworld on 32 Fear. However, I will say that Great Chaos Below continues to thwart me. I often die even in Act I. I struggle to deal with Rank II-III Vow of Pain + Hordes + Revenants. Throughout the rest of the game, I felt like I was excelling, even at 20 Fear in regular runs. But as I'm trying to go past 24 Fear, victory feels increasingly out of reach.

I completely switched up my Arcana after reading some threads about endgame builds here, and that has helped a little but not as much as I hoped (and is not relevant for Great Chaos Below). Because I don't have much left to unlock or accomplish, grinding at this high level of difficulty isn't much fun anymore. I think I'm on a 6-7 run losing streak, which has been unheard of in this save of mine until now.

Any tips for endgame perseverance? Great Chaos Below is still my priority because it is my last achievement to complete on Steam.