Hades Nighty Night replace consists of punchy gloves and a tiny rat

Grecian roguelike Hades has taken yet another step in the direction of leaving early entry hell. The Nighty Night replace got here out final evening, unleashing some new spikey gloves, a visit to a library, and a tiny, evil, rat. There’s hundreds extra moreover, however that new weapon, the Twin Fists of Malphon, is the spotlight. I’m trying ahead to punching small malevolent rodents.

Here are the Twin Fists of Mouthful in motion. I’m hoping they’re a high-damage, high-risk possibility, as a result of whereas Hades is in any other case enchanting most weapons do are inclined to wind up feeling piddly.

The large mirror that dishes out Talents has been overhauled, now letting you select between two results for every buff. The one that provides you bonus injury in the event you dodge simply earlier than being hit sounds attractive, and will have a huge impact on how I play.

Also new is the Aspect of Arthur, which helps you to imbue the Stygian Blade with the facility of Excalibur. Zagreus finds this puzzlingly futuristic, which is enjoyable. I’m properly up for Arthur himself making an look at a later date.

One of essentially the most spectacular elements of Hades is the way it integrates its story right into a roguelike construction, so I’m additionally glad to see builders Supergiant have wrangled in “hours of added narrative featuring Nyx, Chaos, Artemis, Zeus, and more”. There’s a brand new room known as the Administrative Chamber within the beginning space, the place you may “access your Permanent Record beyond a mysterious locked door”. There are new occasions, too, like Zag’s dad coping with a line of ghosts who’ve come to the lord of the underworld with their requests.

There’s hundreds I haven’t talked about, from improved visible results to rejigged fight encounters, together with that rat-based “terrifying new mini-boss”. Pretty a lot every part has been twiddled with. Here are the patch notes in full.

Hades is superb. According to Jay Castello, it will get even higher as soon as you embrace the joy of purposefully losing runs.

You can seize the game from the Epic Store or Steam for £19/$25/€21.