Jello Reviews - Hades + Hades II (Patreon)

It's a review of Supergiant's two mega-hit roguelikes, Hades and Hades II!

I spent way too much time on this in every aspect. 250 hours on the first game, 120 hours on the second, and probably 25 hours tinkering with this audio and well as the giant in-depth mechanics chart I made (see below).

TIMESTAMPS:

1:53 - Transgender Law Center Donation Shout Outs2:39 - Hades (Spoilers)30:45 - Stuff Hades Does Bad58:02 - Start of Economy Problem1:10:08 - Hades II (Spoiler-Free)1:35:20 - Special anti-shout-out to the worst thing in all of the first game real quick1:38:33 - Hades II (Spoilers, a.k.a. "The Ending Was Always Good Actually")2:32:16 - They Updated the Ending and Everybody Clapped (It's the Same Ending) 2:48:44 - Extras and the True Post-Game Ending (Mega Spoilers)3:02:42 - Stuff Hades II Does Bad

I spend a lot of this review talking about the themes of the games and what I think they do well and what they don't. I do not spend a lot of time talking about the nitty-gritty mechanics.

If you want to hear about that, don't worry, because I decided to spend WAY TO MUCH TIME setting up a giant document covering both games' God Boons, Keepsakes, Moon Powers, Heat, Fear, and more. This one is so big you actually can't see the whole thing even if you zoom out all the way. Yippie!

Remember that you can mouse over any cell with a black triangle in the upper-right corner for my notes. And if you like reading boring notes on video game design, you can check out the other charts like this one that I've made for games like Octopath Traveler and Wargroove by searching for "Tier Lists" in tags on this post.

I'm going to try and get another audio review out in the next week or so covering a dozen or so animated films I've watched in the last few months. No promises that it'll be out by the end of the month, though! Amy and I are trying to replace our old car which we sold back in August and it's also our 4th anniversary on Halloween.

I'm about 28 minutes of editing through the Fire Emblem video. Either that or the Lemonade edit-down will be next. I for sure want the Lemonade video out by the end of this year, so I'll probably pivot to that a little ways into November unless I absolutely start GUNNING IT on the Fire Emblem vid.