[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

hours played: 68. Hades 2 improves on the original hades by taking its mechanics and developing them even further. The biggest example of this is the addition of omega attacks that let you channel mana through your normal attack and special attack for stronger versions of attacks whereas in the first hades the player only had an attack and a chargeable special. The cast mechanic was also improved in hades 2 changing it from a single projectile you can fire into a circle that will trap and damage enemies making it infinitely more useful for fighting many enemies at once. Having the new mana system and omega attack system lets there be a variety of new builds that simply were not possible in the first game letting the player experiment with new builds and playstyles. The revamped keepsake system also adds to this new variety by offering various effects for the player to experiment with. One new example is the change to the god keepsakes, in the first game these keepsakes would force that god to appear and then be useless after the fact but now in hades 2 the keepsakes let you upgrade a boons rarity in addition to forcing a god which gives them a lot more value. The new weapons are all extremely unique with a variety of attacks and effects. Like the first game each weapon has four different aspects each with their own variation of the weapons attacks giving each weapon a sense of uniqueness so there's something each player can find fun about them. In hades two unlike its predecessor​​ Hades two features two different routes for the player to take whereas in the first game the player could only do one route. In hades two the player starts with the underworld route that is structured like hades 1 areas being made up of four areas that all contain different biomes and each room gives the player a choice of the next reward just like hades 1. However, hades 2 offers a change to this formula by adding different ways to pick rewards. one example is in Oceanus where they lock different routes behind enemy's that you must defeat to unlock. The other route is the surface where the player travels up to Olympus and in the first area the player is shown all possible rewards and the player can only pick 6 forcing them to think and plan their build ​I believe that these mechanics would be easy enough to learn for new players and work well with the style of the game. I would personally recommend this game to my friend* I would like to see multiplier added in the future as then I could try and convince my friend to play it with me.

A solid for any library, the beauty of Hades 2 is that it takes every aspect of the original Hades and make it 10x better. More options in game play, more weapons to use, great boss fights. A perfect game to sink 100 hours into. The music was phenomenal, it was super fun to max out all of the aspects and the natural progression to being able to do harder oath of the unseen challenges felt like a great reward.