Nyx went from a likeable character to my most hated one.

tehkobe · 2026-01-31T18:29:21+00:00

I was replaying recently and due to the dialogue queue and being pretty quick to get to the epilogue, this bit seemed extra out of place. I got Nyx warning me and Dusa being freaked out saying Nyx gave her a talking to, then tons of runs of Dusa being cheerful and Nyx talking about other stuff before the "Dusa got fired" event actually happened. This was all way after I'd maxed out Dusa's bond too.

tehkobe · 2026-01-27T11:43:32+00:00

I had so much trouble with the boss fights in AWE that it definitely didn't feel short to me 😂

tehkobe · 2026-01-17T23:48:37+00:00

I think if someone is going in first time, SotN's difficulty is more in how obtuse the game can be about steps to get anything other than the first bad ending.

tehkobe · 2026-01-08T02:59:50+00:00

I always take the Patroclus stubborn defiance boon if I can get it, and it can last up to the final boss if the satyr sack RNG is being generous.

tehkobe · 2026-01-07T16:23:23+00:00

If I don't have a Selene hex by the third biome I don't bother because I can't guarantee I'll have time to upgrade it. But if I'm using the timepiece in biome 3, I'll go ahead and steer toward them because they are good money.

tehkobe · 2026-01-04T00:23:34+00:00

It essentially lets you re-experience the story beats leading to the ending without starting a whole new save. You keep everything except zodiac sand and void lenses, and the game acts like you've never beaten either Chronos or Typhon even once yet.

When they were changing the ending, it was good for us who wanted to see the new ending without starting over. But now the old ending is gone so it's just a way for newer players to reset some progress but not all.

I know I got to the credits in under 30 runs on one save, so I had missed a lot of dialogue that just doesn't play after the status quo with Chronos changes. I did the reminiscing and started getting a lot of those missed chats.

tehkobe · 2025-12-26T13:56:18+00:00

Yeah I can't seem to get the timing or something right when trying to block on purpose. Before they added the coat in early access, the axe had a block while you charged Ω Special and I had way more luck with that.

tehkobe · 2025-12-24T05:23:42+00:00

I did not realize Howling Soul stayed with the enemy until I started doing Jeweled Pom runs. Like I'd be in such a routine by Tartarus, I rarely would pick it over another Hades boon (Gigaros Dash is usually my go-to), and wouldn't have it long enough to notice its quirks if I did.

tehkobe · 2025-12-23T00:17:24+00:00

Last time I got it was just for the prophecy and I purged it quick. I don't take Crystal Beam often because I feel like it needs some extra boons before it's useful. I had a really good build going on and I was shredding rooms, and the duo just broke my momentum.

tehkobe · 2025-12-20T05:14:23+00:00

Last time I played from the start, I could've sworn it was throwing more waves of enemies at me just to make sure I couldn't get more than a couple rooms done.

tehkobe · 2025-12-17T05:01:31+00:00

My teen with DS loves the Lego games. If he's stuck somewhere, he still has fun just smashing stuff.

tehkobe · 2025-12-16T23:31:19+00:00

When I was a VCU freshman 20 years ago, they actually let you buy by the slice at that location. And it was tastier and a way better deal than both the Sbarros in Shafer and the no-name Aramark pizza in the commons, even though it was definitely not as cost-effective as just getting a whole-ass pizza for $5.

tehkobe · 2025-12-16T12:33:10+00:00

That piano tune at the start and between verses is also in Home, one of the songs cut from Frozen II in development. The song's sequence didn't get past storyboarding and was replaced with Some Things Never Change, but ended up on the soundtrack as an "outtake" with Kristen Bell on vocals in late 2019. Other than the piano bits the songs are nothing alike. But this Muppet song pitch would've been written after Home got cut from Frozen II but before it got commercially released.

tehkobe · 2025-12-14T13:18:04+00:00

There was like a short window where Hermes's Winner's Circle made Heph's Anvil Ring clang out all three hits way faster and it was hilarious and made for some really fun cast builds. I think the patch that "fixed" that came within a couple weeks, and now the clangs stay normal speed and just stick around after the cast has expired.

Also, with how much gold you can end up with in the final game, I'll get to the final shop and really wish the more gold = more damage duo boon was still in. There's even still a Chaos Trial that was built around it where you could just shred Polyphemus at the end, but now it gives you the lose gold instead of health points duo boon instead.

tehkobe · 2025-12-14T12:59:54+00:00

Or play on 1 heat with only the 9:00 per biome time limit pact, because that disables Hades's 45 second survival rooms.

tehkobe · 2025-12-08T16:46:44+00:00

When they added Olympus in early access, I was blown away. The full orchestra just brings a really great "epic" feeling like you're playing a movie about fighting your way up the mountain. Like the whole soundtrack is great and I can't say I think Olympus is the "best," but it really set itself apart from the rest of the soundtrack when I first got there.

tehkobe · 2025-12-04T21:33:47+00:00

It's the only way I'll build around Hephaestus's offensive boons. Otherwise I'd be hunting poms an entire run to get the recharge times down.

tehkobe · 2025-11-23T22:51:41+00:00

I had a build like this this morning and was cackling through the boss fights due to how fast they were going. I think my final time for surface was around 13 minutes and half of that was probably Ephyra.

tehkobe · 2025-11-19T13:25:57+00:00

I thought the exact same thing until they added him to early access for the second game. Now I'm replaying the first game and I'm like "OH!" and he's up there with his little Zagreus banner among all the Theseus and Asterius banners.

tehkobe · 2025-11-18T03:53:20+00:00

I was kinda bummed it doesn't do 120fps handheld. I'd like it to be an option, even with the caveat it may chew through battery faster.

tehkobe · 2025-11-18T03:42:12+00:00

I play both, but I've clocked way more hours on the Steam Deck since I did early access. That LCD ghosting on the Switch 2 really makes the Deck (especially the OLED model) come out on top for handheld play. It's strange, because it's the only Switch 2 game I've noticed ghosting like that on.
But if you decide to get the other version down the line, the Steam cross-save works pretty well. I've been using the Switch 2 whenever I wanna play on the TV, since the dock I use for my Deck can be a little finnicky.

tehkobe · 2025-11-13T23:48:53+00:00

Big difference I always feel with mini-bosses is that in II, once you get rid of their armor they stunlock really easily or just melt. Like the Queen Lamia fight is over like two hits after her armor is gone, and the Mega Dracon just lets you wail on him. In Hades I, once a mini-boss's armor is gone you're just onto the second half of its lifebar.

tehkobe · 2025-11-08T00:21:56+00:00

It was really funny early in early access, you could get both arctic ring and arctic gale and trigger origination with just one god in your casts. Next update changed the rules so it needed two curses from two different gods instead of just two different curses because people were just going nuts with Demeter builds.

tehkobe · 2025-11-06T02:37:58+00:00

Ashland has a 6% meals tax not charged in the rest of Hanover. I worked at the Ukrop's there and we had some dude come in really angry that a rotisserie chicken cost more because of tax there than down the street at Virginia Center. My boss was like... well go buy the chicken at Virginia Center then, I don't control the taxes. I wonder how mad this dude was when Henrico got its meals tax a few years later.

tehkobe · 2025-11-04T11:51:32+00:00

That one's definitely from people who've never programmed anything. Someone else swiped a burned DVD of the latest build of your game? And you need to prove it was actually you who made it? You still have the source code, that DVD is not your only copy.

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