{"id":8516,"date":"2025-01-05T21:06:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T11:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/?p=8516"},"modified":"2026-04-12T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:00:08","slug":"hades-2-early-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/2025\/01\/05\/hades-2-early-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Hades 2 early access"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Spoilers ahead!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Ok, so I wasn’t supposed to buy early access; I originally wanted to wait till full release and then take leave from work to binge on the game, but fate had other ideas. I one day accidentally opened Steam, then scrolled down the front page, accidentally saw a Hades 2 video, accidentally watched it, then accidentally purchased it…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perfect timing though, the Christmas break was perfect for having a hardcore gaming session! First Windblown<\/a>, now Hades 2! So epic, I haven’t had a session like this in ages! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a bit difficult to compare Windblown to Hades 2 since they’re about 6 months apart in regards to development, but my goodness Hades 2 has so. much. more. content!!! It’s way more involved than original Hades, it’s same same but very different – so enjoyable! It also turns out that almost 1000 hours in Dead Cells and a reply of Hades 1 way back when to achieve 32 heat really paid off; it was much easier to beat the game faster, which actually had an odd effect of making collecting materials for upgrades much more of a grind! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyways here are some victory screenshots including a personal best so far of 12 heat on Chronos:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also, Prometheus is difficult<\/em>. I found it extremely hard to increase the difficulty because he just sticks on you almost all the time, and I don’t deal well with that without a shield (once I took 900 damage from just him!!). But, 4 Fear is good enough for now and I’ll keep working on him until they release the final boss on the Surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And of course the romance! I started with Nemesis exclusively but then I decided Moros was pretty good looking too, so I expect that I’ll get another trio romance! Leaving Dora for now cause shades aren’t my thing XD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can’t wait to see what achievements they release when the game is done, cause that’ll be another grind session to get them all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spoilers ahead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[618,619,620,946,1244,2064],"class_list":["post-8516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-hades-2","tag-hades-2-early-access","tag-hades-2-is-so-good","tag-i-love-supergiant-games","tag-looks-like-action-roguelites-are-my-niche","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8831,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions\/8831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}