Why i HATE Hades II - Boring Game

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Hades 2, the sequel to the original Hades

top-down roguelike game, and as an avid

fan of the original game and roguelikes in

general, I knew I just had to play this

game. Unfortunately, so far it's been kind

of bland, boring, and uninspired. It's

lacking a certain kind of lustre, you

might say. So as far as the art design and

the voice acting and the style of the game

goes, I think it's okay. It's not amazing,

it's not top of the line, top of the grade

like other games such as Cult of the Lamb

or Dead Cells, but it It is quite a

striking visual attempt at making a good

stylish looking game. But the game kind of

falls flat and starts to fall apart at the

seams after you look past the flashy

visuals. So the game basically revolves

around entering these different arenas and

fighting waves of enemies. So they start

off very basic, they just kind of wander

around whilst you whack them with your

melee weapon or your staff. And then you

go into the next area after you've

defeated every wave and you can choose

different portals to go into. So if you

want health, you can go into a portal with

a heart, if you want some kind of item or

like a shop area, then you go into that

portal with the symbol on it. It's very

basic, very simple, and easy to

understand. Unfortunately, the gameplay is

just kind of boring. You just run around,

dodge, spam dodge as much as you can, and

just whack enemies with your basic attack

and maybe use your special attack if they

are a bit tougher. So you've got 2

attacks. You've got left mouse button,

which does your basic attack. If you hold

down left mouse button, it charges up a

heavy basic attack. And the right mouse

button basically charges up your special

move, and the longer you hold it down,

the more powerful it will get. And as you

go through the levels, you get these

little power-ups which give you an option.

You get to choose between 3 different

upgrades, and there's loads of different

upgrades. For example, you could boost

your basic attack, or you could boost your

special attack, or you can have bonuses

when you dodge, or speed bonuses, or dodge

bonuses, that kind of stuff. So it's up to

you and your playstyle. If you want to do

pure damage, you can choose upgrades to

fit that playstyle. If you want more of a

defensive playstyle or magical attack

playstyle, it's basically up to you

depending on what kind of power-ups you

get after you defeat each area. So you do

get quite a lot of variety, and I didn't

find myself getting bored in the regards

of variety of different ways to fight the

enemy. There's quite a lot of weapons,

and you do feel quite incentivized to keep

playing the game because you want to

unlock the other weapons. In the

beginning, you only get this staff, which

is like a magical attack thing. Then later

you get this kind of axe-dagger combo,

and then you can do melee attacks. And you

also have lots of different kind of

resources you need to farm and minerals so

you can upgrade things back at the base.

So there's the kind of like addictive

style gameplay there that keeps you

playing, but the problem is it does feel

very repetitive and grindy as a game.

It's kind of like you're playing an MMO

but in like a very short-form style. So

instead of leveling your character from

level 1 to 100 and just keep questing and

questing, you've got like basically

endless waves of fighting and you're just

trying to last as long as you can without

dying so you can get the more powerful

power-ups. And then you get to the boss at

the end of a stage. Now the bosses are

quite difficult at first because you'll be

very underpowered and underleveled, but

you'll keep dying, you keep fighting them,

you keep leveling up as you go back to the

main base every time you die, and then

you've got to restart the entire level

from the beginning to fight your way back

to the end level boss. I found it kind of

frustrating because to get back to the

boss, if you fail the boss, you've got to

go through the entire level all again from

the very beginning, go through all the

different stages, fight all the enemies

again. It is very repetitive and tedious.

So after you finish the first boss,

Headmistress Hecate or something, you then

get to proceed on to the next level, and

then you keep fighting and fighting, but

the next level is insanely difficult once

you first start there because you're not

powerful enough, and then you'll die. And

then to get back to the next level,

you've got to go through the first level

and defeat the first boss again, the

Headmistress Hecate. I don't know if

there's a way to just skip directly to

level 2 after you finish level 1, or do

you have to start off at level 1 every

time? Because that'd be kind of annoying.

Imagine you're trying to get to level 5,

and every time you die and you want to

reattempt level 5, you've got to start all

the way back at the beginning at level 1

and do all the bosses all over again.

It's extremely frustrating. Once you've

defeated a boss, you don't really feel

like you want to fight them again. You

just want to be done with them. And also,

after you defeat a boss, next time you

fight them, it's just easier and easier

and easier because your character gets

more and more powerful with new abilities

and new weapons and upgrades you've done

after grinding a bit. So Headmistress

Hecate was really hard for me in the

beginning, but now I can just easily

nearly one-shot her in the first phase

just because I can do so much insane

damage. So as you can see, I'm fighting

Headmistress Hecate again for like the 3rd

or 4th time after already defeating her

twice, and you can see how much damage I'm

doing just in the first phase alone. I'm

already doing like 25% of her health bar

already because I'm doing so much damage.

So the bosses do become just a joke after

a while because you've leveled up so much

and you've become much powerful, but then

you have to keep doing them over and over

again. It's really frustrating. I don't

know if there's a way to skip them or not

have to fight them over and over again.

You do get increasingly interesting

resources from the bosses, so I guess it's

not a complete waste of time doing the

bosses a 3rd or 4th or 5th time because

you get those resources which can upgrade

your character even more. So if you're

someone who gets bored easily and doesn't

like grinding or tedious repetitive

gameplay, then I don't think this game is

really going to be for you. I got bored

pretty quickly because I realized what the

gameplay pattern and what the gameplay

loop was, and it just kind of felt a bit

dull. Now the game is in early access and

it's only £25, so it's not an insanely

expensive game. So if you want to give it

a try, you might not really be too

bothered about spending £25, but for £25,

I'd expect a little bit more from my

gameplay. And I was a bit disappointed

with the sequel because I did enjoy the

first game, Hades 1, quite a lot, and I

played quite a lot of that game. And I was

expecting just a little bit more from the

sequel, maybe a bit more variation and

variety rather than just like a rehash of

the first game. It basically feels

basically just like the first game. So

basically it's the same game but version

2, part 2 of the first game. So

unfortunately, as much as I wanted to like

this game, I'm gonna have to give it a 6.2

out of 10. I give the graphics 8 out of 10

because I do quite like the 2D stylized

visualized art style, which I think looks

kind of cool. The music is actually pretty

good in the game as well. During the boss

fights, you get some cool heavy metal type

of songs. But yeah, apart from that, it's

not that much of a great game. I think

it's okay, it's mediocre at best.