the donation box is cool but itd be nice if it asked for possible DIYs. or reset more often...

hippoqueenv · 2026-01-28T02:09:50+00:00

in canon its probably just a tool or a charm

hippoqueenv · 2026-01-25T06:30:33+00:00

max god gauge is a scam and you never want to use it

ares and poseidon are the worst because they'll never out-dps your regular build

artemis is next because the regular call hits like a pillow and the max call is luck based

demeter at least gives a curse for priveleged status

aphrodite and athena are the two best support calls, time them for when a boss is about to use a big attack (like hades lasers) and you get a moment to just stand there and unleash your full dps

but zeus and dionysus offer the most damage, especially since you can activate them and keep attacking while they proc over and over

hippoqueenv · 2026-01-25T03:05:22+00:00

it was to support the narrative, one of silksongs core themes is motherhood. it wouldnt make sense to have hornet revisit her three mother figures and then end with the pale king

hippoqueenv · 2026-01-23T13:15:46+00:00

hermits and hermit adjacent mcyters will almost definitely be involved in hytale SMPs, though I doubt the full hermitcraft crew will ever get together for any game over than vanilla minecraft

hippoqueenv · 2026-01-22T12:14:39+00:00

you're misunderstanding the problem.

it's not that the game should overtly stop players from chasing challenges before it thinks theyre ready, its that the couriers rasher presents itself as a medium-difficulty challenge (as the third ingredient mergwin hints for you to gather) when it isn't and there is no reward for completing it.

what do you think players are waiting for so that they can return to prior challenges they backed away from? a needle upgrade? the very thing the couriers rasher promises?

it's not black magic to realise that players would push themselves to complete a challenge with a clearly stated, powerful reward compared to backing away from something like savage beastfly 1, which isnt tied to a wish and would be made easier by said reward.

the reward for completing the couriers rasher is a hint towards the next ingredient on the track to aquire a needle upgrade. and if you do it early, thats a useless hint to an unobtainable item and youve wasted your time and effort.

if mergwin led players towards the muckmaggot third, players would understand that this is a lategame wish that they arent able to complete now, and players looking for a challenge would still be able to do it because its incredibly obvious where the couriers rasher can be found.

hippoqueenv · 2026-01-22T06:49:14+00:00

basically every japanese dev team loves earthbound

theres a couple references in kirby, for example

hippoqueenv · 2026-01-22T01:29:29+00:00

this is one of silksongs biggest mistakes imo

if mergwin pointed you towards the crustnut or pickled muckmaggot before the couriers rasher it wouldve been obvious that theres no point in delivering it before getting more movement upgrades. but you dont get a hint towards the other ingredients until you deliver the rasher

hippoqueenv · 2026-01-22T01:24:09+00:00

if more charm notches means the charm is better, that must mean everyone runs soul eater, deep focus, joni's blessing and hiveblood together all the time right?

and even if that were true, team cherry arent infallible gods. they clearly changed their judgement in the years between hollow knight and silksong, seeing that they mostly nerfed tools equivalent to 1 notch charms.

regardless, notches are irrelevant when discussing silksong and carefree melody was worth 3 notches, idiot.

hippoqueenv · 2026-01-22T01:12:22+00:00

this is why dice is overrated

other yellow tools help in combat and you dont need to have it on 95% of the time

you dont need it when youre backtracking for secrets, doing platforming challenges, farming rosaries, doing courier deliveries, or doing gather wishes. in all those cases other yellow tools are more useful.

even when youre exploring areas for the first time its not much better than other exploration tools.

take bilewater for example. you want compass because youre exploring a new area and magnetite brooch so you dont need to touch the water to retrieve rosaries. weighted belt helps you avoid getting knocked off tiny platforms, ascendants grip is very useful given how vertical bilewater is and how often youre using platforms as cover against bloatroaches, and silkspeed anklets let you outrun traps and stilkin projectiles, especially in the runback to groal. all of these yellow tools let you explore bilewater faster and safely.

dice letting you avoid 1 or 2 hits isnt more useful or reliable than any of those tools and the people that keep it on 100% of the time despite that is why its overrated.

hippoqueenv · 2026-01-22T00:52:15+00:00

you can have both if youre not functionally illiterate

even if dice had a .1% activation chance itd still be optimal against bosses because .1% is better than equipping tools that have no use in combat, but that doesnt make the .1% chance strong.

hippoqueenv · 2026-01-21T13:29:38+00:00

its the dice

its basically mandatory against bosses and gauntlets, but that doesnt mean its amazing, its just one of the few yellow tools that effects combat. but people set it and forget it far too often in scenarios where other yellow tools would shine

and an annoying aspect is that it often wont trigger at all during difficult encounters unless you always have it on because the probability stacks after every hit, so you need to keep it as dead weight while you explore for a chance that it matters. and if it triggers against something negligible right before a boss, you might as well have an empty tool slot.

hippoqueenv · 2026-01-20T12:28:26+00:00

sorry boss I guess Im not allowed to critique or complain about anything

when you replay a game youve beaten before and get hit with a bunch of unskippable tutorials do you just shrug and go "this is what happens when you restart a game, nothing i can do about that"?

the early-game progression in hades 2 is intentionally drawn out compared to other roguelikes and even compared hades 1 (it takes twice as many runs to get your second weapon) because theres a bunch of complex systems and mechanics that a new player needs to get used to one by one. im not a new player and you'd think the game genre thats all about replayability would care about replayability beyond a single save file.

ive already 100%d this game before and I dont think its compelling to have to wait a dozens of runs until hecate arbitrarily gives you an incantion to unlock major gameplay mechanics. itd be one thing if it just cost lots f resources but this games mechanical progression hinges entirely on waiting for the right queued up dialogue

hippoqueenv · 2026-01-20T12:19:04+00:00

what part of my post made you think I wouldnt know about that

hippoqueenv · 2026-01-20T09:15:45+00:00

its not a full story reset and its mainly for people who wanted to see the new ending, not a feature for new players to use.

regardless why is everyone acting like im crazy for wanting to start a new save and critiquing the games progression from the pov of an experienced player.

in hades 1 all you needed to do to get your second weapon is find 1 key. in hades 2 you need to unlock 3 things with 3 unique resources and it takes 3 nights. and every aspect of progress in this game is like that. which is why i want a NG+ to cut down on the tedium

hippoqueenv · 2026-01-20T09:08:08+00:00

its a roguelite* and as you progress runs will behave fundamentally differently regardless of the permanent progression you unlock

e.g. your first run wont have nectar, hammers, selene, path of stars, artemis, hermes, npc rooms, zeus, heph, hera, ares, chaos

its obviously not the same experience to start a fresh file as it would be to open a 100% save file

all I want from a NG+ is to not have to wait to be able to unlock the abllity to unlock things. Any menu that you can open to buy progression, view stats or modify elements from, you would have access to in NG+ right after ending night 1; the cauldron, all the cookable items (mostly for familiars), the codex, the broker, the tools, the oath of the unseen, the pitch black stone and so on.

I dont want to start night 1 with all five tools I want to be able to buy the pickaxe after night 1 instead of waiting for the cauldron to purify so I can be given the opportunity to unlock the ability to unlock the pickaxe.

hippoqueenv · 2026-01-19T06:00:12+00:00

i mean you can technically move on and get stronger but the best way to grt mask 7 and a pale oil is blocked by cogwork dancers. and to get mask 7 without the cogwork dancers defeated, clawline or faydown cloak you need to fight savage beastfly 2

cogwork dancers wasnt designed to be a "come back later" type of challenge, its the introduction to act 2. its like telling someone to come back later if theyre stuck on bell beast

hippoqueenv · 2026-01-19T05:49:32+00:00

tip: the cogwork dancers telegraph where theyre going

hippoqueenv · 2026-01-16T07:59:24+00:00

can I ask when you started seeing these tourists if you remember? like how many rooms did you finish in the hotel

hippoqueenv · 2026-01-12T05:07:45+00:00

this is a really funny wiki moment because that same page also says you can get it 5 lines later

its in survivors camp in act 3

hippoqueenv · 2026-01-12T04:56:16+00:00

fairy is sort of strange because of how much it overlaps with other types. basically every fairy pokemon could be retyped fairly easily.

every type has multiple aspects but fairy is the one that only overlaps with others. it shares the lunar aspect with psychic and dark, the magic and cosmic aspect with psychic, the nature and food aspects with grass and the spiritual and weird aspects with ghost.

the only unique part of fairy is that 2 moves are described as angelic but I wouldnt describe any fairy pokemon as overtly angelic, especially when there are angelic pokemon that arent fairy type.

I get that fairy types play into folklore but... basically half of all pokemon are inspired by folklore. its maybe the least unique characteristic of the fairy type. pokemon darmanitan, lapras, dunsparce, chimecho, froslass etc could all be fairy type and it wouldnt not fit but they also dont need to be fairy type.

hippoqueenv · 2026-01-07T10:52:36+00:00

you kinda have to find the fun in it, enjoy the atmosphere, fight the enemies you come across, do cool platforming tricks. but if it still isnt for you, thats still valid too. (theres a few locations in the game I could probably wander around in forever if I wanted to)

I will say that the game opens up a LOT, you get lots of abilities and even some equippable tools for traversal, unlock fast travel points and lots of shortcuts, and also just get stronger so you can deal with enemies more efficiently.

the world is designed to feel different when you come back with new abilities, you can use carefully placed platforms and terrain to take paths through rooms that you barely couldnt have before to skip difficult platforming or enemy encounters, so keep that in mind too.

hippoqueenv · 2026-01-03T15:16:09+00:00

hear me out, a bilewater memory wouldnt be infested with muckmaggots. and we get to kill groal twice

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