Why i HATE Hades - Boring Game

Hello, welcome back to a new video game

review. So recently I've been playing

Hades, and it's kind of like a top-down

action RPG game, and I thought I'd make a

video about why it's not very good. So the

concept of the game is you're the son of

some Greek god and you're trying to escape

the palace. You're trying to escape the

area where your dad is and all of his

servants, and you've got to fight all

these monsters and demons and ghosts and

things and trying to progress to the next

room. And the game gets harder and harder

as you go on. Eventually it'll get too

hard and and you'll die, and then you'll

get returned back to the palace place

where you start off. Now, needless to say,

the game is extremely repetitive and

grindy. You basically do the same thing

over and over again, trying to get a bit

further than you got last time. I just

find it really frustrating when every time

you fail in a game, you get sent all the

way back to the starting point. There's no

save points, there's no checkpoints, and I

found the game to be incredibly boring. I

don't know how they expect you not to get

bored. When it feels like you're just

wasting all this time only to be sent

straight back to the beginning. And I

guess that's where the main challenge of

the game is. The challenge is you've got

to try and see how far you can get before

being sent back to the starting zone. And

every time you get sent back to the

starting zone, you might get a little bit

stronger, you might have some money, then

you can unlock some new weapons, new

skills, which would hopefully make your

next run a little bit easier and you can

make it a bit further than before. It kind

of reminds me of those movies, Groundhog

Day or the Tom Cruise one, where he's in

some kind of war and they're trying to get

to a place and they keep dying, they keep

getting sent back to the beginning of the

day. It's just really frustrating and

annoying as a gameplay mechanic. So the

gameplay in itself is also not really that

engaging. It's very shallow. It kind of

feels like a mobile game, and I wouldn't

even be surprised if I saw this on the

mobile app store. So the gameplay mainly

involves you spamming the left mouse

button and sometimes the right mouse

button for an ability, and then you also

get an ability binded to the Q button,

and you'll do a lot of dodging using the

spacebar. That's pretty much it. The

gameplay is very basic, not very in-depth

or complex. There's no blocking, there's

no jumping, you don't really have a huge

amount of skills you can choose from, and

the weapons aren't really very original.

You get a big sword, you get a spear, you

get a bow and arrow, and you get some

spells you can cast. I just found the

gameplay to be very hack-and-slashy, not

very satisfying, and just a bit boring. I

just found myself spamming the mouse

button over and over again with some

dodging. And you have a whole variety of

different enemy types, and they all have

this pattern that they do. Once you learn

the pattern, they're very easy to take

down. It's very easy to avoid the attacks

because you can see it charging up. And

the further you get in the game, the more

and more enemy types will start spawning

and eventually overwhelm you to the point

where eventually you'll be taken down,

and then you have to go all the way back

to the beginning and do the whole thing

all over again. Over and over and over

until you get bored. And unfortunately, I

got bored within about half an hour. The

gameplay just didn't really grab me. It

didn't really hook me in. It didn't really

compel me to want to keep playing it. And

to make matters worse, the game is full of

these kind of cheesy characters that have

very cheesy one-liners, and the voice

acting is okay, but again, it's very,

very cheesy. As for the graphics of the

game, I wasn't really impressed either.

They're very 2D, very flat looking. Very

colorful and saturated, which is fine if

that's what you're into, but the graphic

art style and the character design didn't

really grab me, and I didn't really like

it very much. I think the main problem

with the game is they sacrificed

everything that makes other games good,

and they focused the whole gameplay around

the skill-based gameplay aspect, which is

basically just moving your mouse around

and trying to be accurate to get hits on

the enemies whilst dodging and rolling at

the same time. And that's fine and

everything if you enjoy the gameplay, but

if you don't enjoy the gameplay, then the

skill-based gameplay mechanics just

becomes very frustrating. It kind of

reminds me of that other game Binding of

Isaac, which was very popular back in the

day. And that game also was kind of the

same. You just went from room to room and

more and more enemies would spawn. You had

to dodge all of the floating flying

gunfire and projectiles. And you'd

collect some kind of points and gems and

crystals to power up so that when you die

and restart, you can get a bit further in

the game. And that just seems like the

whole gimmick of the game. Without that,

I mean, there's not really much to the

game, is there? So after you've progressed

quite far in the game and you've defeated

a few of the rooms, you eventually come

across bosses that were sent by your dad,

and they'll try and stop you and send you

back to your room, and then you gotta

fight them. And these bosses are very

frustrating to fight as well. It's your

typical RPG kind of boss system where

they've got a huge health bar and they've

got all these different attack patterns.

And if it's your first attempt on the

boss, you'll probably die and then get

sent straight back to the beginning

because the only way you can effectively

defeat bosses is by learning their attack

patterns so you know how to dodge them.

And it will take several attempts to learn

these attack patterns unless you cheat and

go onto YouTube and watch a video. But

it's more likely that you'll get defeated

by the boss a few times before you

eventually learn how to take it down. And

then you've got to start all the way from

the beginning, defeat all those rooms

again, make your way to the boss again to

have another go, only to be defeated and

then sent straight back to the beginning.

It's extremely annoying gameplay. So yeah,

I didn't really like the game, didn't

really find it very fun. I don't really

understand why it's so popular. It's on

some kind of discount on Steam right now,

which is why I decided to give it a try.

Unfortunately, I don't think I could

recommend this game even with the price

drop. And the discounts, it's just not

really fun enough to be able to recommend,

and I'll have to give it a score of 2.4

out of 10.