In true roguelike fashion, death is the key to unlocking Hades 2. I've spent a frankly ludicrous amount of time playing it in Early Access – 134 hours, to be specific – and I always tell myself that this will be my last trip to Mount Olympus or Tartarus before the v1.0 launch. So far, I've proven myself a liar over 105 runs and counting.
But just when I thought I'd wrung every last drop of deific glory out of the game, save for a handful of relationship and Fated List objectives I'd written off as likely bugged after the most recent patch, a doomed encounter set me straight. It turned out breaking my own winning streak was all I needed to get hyper invested in Melinoe's adventure all over again – even if I had to eat humble pie in the process.
