The more and more nice roguelite dungeon crawl Hades has simply rolled out one other early entry replace. The High Speed Update is targeted on Hermes, messenger of the gods. He’s quick, however builders Supergiant need you to decelerate and ruminate slightly on their efforts, so that they bought voice-of-gold Logan Cunningham to learn the whole patch notes in character as The Storyteller. Personally I’d have requested for him to carry again Rucks from Bastion or the Sword Boyfriend from Transistor, however the video under continues to be an pleasurable twelve minutes of raspy ASMR-adjacent tech speak.
While not a large replace, there’s sufficient new stuff right here to make a couple of extra runs by way of mythic Greek hell attention-grabbing and contemporary once more. Hermes is the brand new Olympian of the day, providing speed-upgrading boons. They’ve additionally added a bunch extra selection to Elysium, the punishing (if idyllic) late-game zone. The new Soul Catcher and Flame Wheel enemies (oh god, Dark Souls flashbacks) sound imply, and there’s much more selection to Elysium’s room designs. They’ve additionally given Thanatos his personal musical theme. He’s positively cool sufficient for one.
And right here’s an hour of developer stream, giving us an insightful, in-depth take a look at how Hermes works in-game.
Hermes, as talked about within the stream, works a bit completely different to different gods. All of his boons for you’re additive, not taking on slots in your perk bar. This signifies that he can take the talents from different gods and simply make them quicker, stronger and higher total. I’d like to see Poseidon’s aggressive sprint boon paired with Hermes’ quick triple-dash. It’s only one extra layer of tactical nuance on high of an already deep game. As Jay wrote, the game is strong enough to keep her coming back, even when “early access” and “roguelite” would usually flip her away.
The subsequent replace sounds prefer it’s going to be one of many greatest but, including no matter setting comes after Elysium. It’s an enormous enterprise, and Supergiant reckon it’ll take them one other two months. You can see the countdown on the game’s foremost menu.
Hades continues to be in early entry, and usually £15.49/€17.49/$19.99 on the Epic Games Store. At the time of writing, the flat sale £10/€10/$10 low cost nonetheless applies, making it far cheaper, though that’s prone to expire immediately. Bargain hunters, make like Hermes and hustle.
