Hades 2 caps off a frankly ridiculous month of gaming releases, bringing the full launch version to players on PC and Nintendo Switch 2. I spent the last year or so exercising restraint with regard to Hades 2, holding off on checking out early access in the hope that the final version would be all the more impressive after the many, many updates from Supergiant Games. I’m extremely glad I held off, as jumping into Hades 2 for the first time has been precisely what I needed to pull myself away from Hollow Knight: Silksong (for now, at least).
There’s heaps of stuff to do from the very outset of Hades 2, including a wildly varied suite of weapons that each takes a lot of practice to get to grips with. This initially threw me off balance, as I tried to decide whether I wanted to spend my early hours with the starting weapon or give the other, decidedly weirder options a go.
