They made the "call" boons be something given by one god on its own rather than being given by the others. Its kinda neat to have the "ultimates" be something more unique.
RIGHT?!?!?! MY MIND WAS BLOWN!!!!! and Artemis showing up?!?!?? So we'll have her instead of Death encounters?!? (I LOVE Death encounters but seeing how theyre doing the same idea so differently is so exciting and clever!!!) THAT IS SO FREAKING COOOOOL!!!!!
I like that Selene’s boon works differently from those of the Olympians’, she is a Titan after all. They are both gods, but the Titans are from another generation.
Her boons will fill the slit equivalent from the calls/aids of the first game it seems. Also she is sometimes refered as a regular god but theres actually too few legends and documents about her, she was syncretized into Artemis like Helios was later to Apollo, although Helios himself is mentioned more often than her hence why he is a bit more known as himself and media more often remember to make him and Apollo 2 separated beings.
I am loving the mythology, Selene (Seh-Leh-Neh) was so out of left field, she’s basically the titan version of Artemis, where Apollo and Artemis are considered sun and moon deities, Selene and Helios are like titan manifestations of the sun and moon. So cool Also, Selene, Artemis and Hecate are all three considered goddesses of the moon.
Greek pronunciation is Seh-Lii-Nii for whatever that's worth, it will be fun to see everyone try to pronounce her differently and have this comment be spammed, only to have the streamers butcher it even further.
Sometimes Apollo and Selene are said to be regular Gods like the olympians just separated which justifies why they werent hunted down and killed like the others, but myths and legends are the most convoluted can of worms ever because theyre baaically hundreds to thousand year old cult fanfictions written by dozen diferent people in diferent time periods and diferent regions of their corresponding civilization but very diferent from each other. Its like trying to combine the cannon of hundreds of harry potter fanfictions or just doujins (doujin doesnt mean eroge, just indie) from whathever series of your choice is, you will find connections and common points but a many MANY diferences of things under the same name. In short, they were thought to be the og sun and moon simblings before being syncretized into artemis and apollo.
Arachne?! She’s so adorable and is still weaving her silk threads even as a spider. For those who aren’t familiar with her lore, she was turned as a Spider as punishment of Athena.
One thing I liked about Hades is how it touched upon classic Greek tragedies but still gave them its own optimistic spin of how they actually played out in the long run.
@@YorkJonhson Like Sisyphus who went from 'eternal torment and symbol of futility' to 'humbled guy who's found a new, optimistic view on life and grown from his past mistakes. Becoming a symbol of tenacity in the face of hardship'
@@Randomyoutuber-4831i imagine that the sisyphus we meet is him after like, centuries or who knows how long serving his sentence, which ultimately was to make him think about futile and inevitable outcomes of actions like trying to cheat death.
Selene, Moon Incarnate... She's gorgeous. Artemis may have been my favorite goddess of the Olympian gods, but Selene's character art is sooo good i can't wait to try her boons out on full release
She's also Helios' sister, and Helios is Demeter's dad in this game, i doubt we'll see Helios tho, since he's the Sun Incarnate and Apollo seems to have taken the god of sun title
@@ImNotGoodAtAnimationDemeters dad is Hyperion, who married Theia and is the father of Helios, Selene and Eos (dawn incarnate/god), at least thats the IRL myth source, Hades decided to neuter a big portion of the incest by separating the original 3 female olympians into being the daughters of Hyperion and Theia. Worth noting that unless they did further changes theres a bunch of incest among the titans still, but specially among the first ones that sprung from Chaos, its not really incest when they were all kinda poofed into existence by the latter so its not that they are REALLY relatives. Same with Nyx, we had this whole thing in the first game were Chaos was kinda her dad (does he even have a gender? I think he has supermassive blackholes that created the galaxies under his cosmic pants) but its not really correct to say so either.
@Haelian I'm sorry that you had to learn this this way but uhhh... Yeah there's a nonzero chance chronos ate hades, zagreus and persephone alive. On the plus side they're probably? Alive in there, because for some reason everyone chronos ate in those old myths never died inside them
Bruh, smol Mel and Arachne are so cute. I love how Mel seems to already be acquainted and friendly with so many characters already since she's been running in erebus all her life. Zagreus either had strained relationships with most folks outside the House, or got to know them during the attempts. In here it feels like Mel is in her element and it's very charming
artemis, hecate and selene are all regarded as facets of the same entity in post classical greek myth. i think its interesting that they all seem core to melinoë's story. excited to see where this goes.
I am trying to pace myself in watching your new videos, to get more excitement out if them for longer. I also checked out some other streamers hades II discovery video. I gotta say; I really appreciate how much you talk, analyse, muse, get excited and generally take us on this journey with you. Others are just kinda rushing through it, not talking much about anything, bit with you it is so much fun! 😃
This game is looking so great it just builds so well onto a already really good game. I got access to the Playtest and can confirm it feels very satisfying to play. A couple of my friends didn't get access so I lent my steam account to them so they could play too haha
I don't really wanna _um, aktschually_ you here so i hope I can do this kindly, especially since my knowledge might also be a bit spotty. From what i recall the replacement happened with the Romans so technically Artemis and Selene kinda combined to make Diana, since Artemis herself never had any epithets or affiliations with the moon. Fun? Fact? Selene has like 50 Children, loads of Girls but also for example Narcissus ^^
@@siph0r154 Um, aktschually (:P) Helios (or Sol) & his sister Selene were Titans. After the Titanomachy, Apollo & his sister Artemis got their jobs. In fact, it was just some grec philospher rebranding those olders gods with new cool olympian stories to keep the young interested in their rambling if I would take a guess. And the peoples (those who didn't go to school to feed their family) who have no clue at what was the trend nowadays were just very confused about the change. So yeah, for the mass, they were the same because they were just both Sun Gods & Moon Goddess.
@@kiorodjirane8517 There are no historical greek references that relate Artemis to being a personification of the moon though like the Roman version, Helios gets replaced by Apollo but Selene stayed. When the Roman's adopted it Selene was then replaced by Artemis to keep the sibling relationship between the sun and moon. Artemis, like Hecate, was associated with the moon but wasn't a moon goddess.
All the above is basically correct. The only difference between titans and Olympians is the title. They’re all gods and in fact, zeus and his family are titans just rebranded after defeating chronos. Selene and Helios were the titan Sun and moon. Artemis was definitely more affiliated with the moon as a symbol for her, not her domain of rule. While Apollo did take over the Sun role from Helios. Selene remained the moon goddess for some reason.
@@Rawrmuffin0 One possible reason is the incongruence between Artemis as a virgin Goddess and Selene's liberal interpretation of consent with the predictable consequences... Again 50 kids ^^'
so glad your hades 2 videos are popping off sir, absolutely deserved. i found you because of the balatro content, which has been amazing to watch (even though hades is one of my favourite games ever). you're just a really chill guy to watch and i like that you will literally sing anything at any given opportunity. can't wait to enjoy early access and the full release with you! :)
oh man... i never played much hades even though i bought it years ago. i had like 3 hours in the game. but seeing hades 2 gameplay made me try hades again, and i already have like 5 more hours and im LOVING it!
Same here. I finally beat the final boss in Hades for the first time today and it was so amazing! I hope to get even better at the game before Hades II comes out, so I've been grinding it and having so much fun
I thought I couldn't get as fascinated as much I was with Hades. Boy, was I wrong. This game looks gorgeous and I love that nearly every mechanic has seen some significant changes.
Given that he dies if he stays on the surface for too long, he doesn't really have much of a choice. If anyone should have been able to escape its Persephone. At least she can survive leaving.
@@CheshTheTheorist That's assuming they're actually free to try and escape For all we know, either/both of them may be as chained up as Hades is right now, if that image of him in the reveal trailer is anything to go by
@@Omegafire17 Or worse: Zag proved to be too slippery for conventional imprisonment, so Chronos has him caught in a time loop of fighting and dying to the same opponents over and over again.
chronos is the personification of time. you can try, but in theory he'd just rewind it back to when you never did. or he'd stop your time to prevent you from trying.
Probably, but Chronos could just trap him in Zeno's paradox. So even though he's strong enough to defeat Chronos, he will never actually reach him because time powers.
Selene is a very known God, or rather Moon incarnate. She’s one of the older ones before the Olympian generations, but younger than Chaos. And I believe younger than Nyx?
I wonder if they're setting up The Fates as a sort of Chaos counterpart. A primordial force that isn't going to be affected by the outcome of the game but chooses to help while still being indifferent and slowly growing more fond of the protagonist. Could even have the same mechanic of giving boons that have a limited room downside, that'd kinda be in line with the fates as well, making even those they help struggle for and earn their victories. Also kinda curious if Chaos itself is going to play a role since Titans seem MUCH more important to the story of this game as a whole. Pretty sure Chaos is basically the father of all titans right?
Um, kinda? Chaos birthed Gaia and Uranus. The Titans are the children of Gaia and Uranus and similarly to the Gods that followed after, the Titans waged war against Uranus and overthrew him, hacking of his testicles and throwing them into the sea (which is part of one of Aphrodites origin stories)
Hecate is also associated with the triple moon insignia. Selene being the moon incarnate wasn't super obvious. Even Artemis had moon symbolism on her design in the first game!
I want to watch so bad, but I gotta wait to experience it myself. Commenting and liking for the algorithm to support all that DampDadDan does for us, but I can't watch!
I think it's important that everyone knows that Hecate was voiced by the same lady who voiced the narrator in Baldur's Gate 3. Not really a point to make there. Just... seems nice to know
I’ll be completely honest I saw the technical test and I lost it I can’t see any more of this game so I dropped the like and I’m on the team but I can’t see anymore 😢. But I will say I will be there to play as soon as possible because I NEED justice for my boy Hypnos God of War style and that is final! You don’t hurt my boy!
Im pretty sure that Weapon Stand had moon phases under weapons so maybe Selene Boons Get stronger based on moon phase of boon and weapon Before you departed your staff had full moon underneath and Moon Beam had full moon sign which might have gave it extra dmg
Truthfully I feel like there is a lot new which is great but the final release will need to have a gradual onboarding of all this stuff so it doesn't feel overwhelming at first. I otherwise completely welcome the new elements of this game, it looks SO good.
So at this point, the gods and deities helping Melinoe defeat Chronos are (returning) Aphrodite, Poseidon, Demeter, Charon, and (new) Apollo, Hestia, Hephaestus, and Selene (originally a god, but a Titan in this game)
For anyone wondering, Helios is the sun god and Selene the moon goddess in mythology. Apollo and Artemis were only considered as such in philosophy. But they never took the role of Helios and Selene.
Very curious on how they'll make the story work with the gameplay loop assuming that it'll go the same way as the first game. But aside from that I'm super stoked to play this once it comes out! Haven't got the original, either, but might give it a go once the funds are enough.
@@Haelian oh wow that's longer than I expected, hopefully I'll get a chance to play the technical test/early access. Was the latter available to anyone who wanted to play it or was there some kind of selection process?
So, the winter coat 18:41 and the other defensive boon remind me of the perks in super auto Pets. Winter boon is like Melon 🍈 and the other one is like garlic 🧄
during the shadow spinner fight, your magick was regenerating when you were out of combat, but moving around. was that am effect from the armor or the demeter boon? or both?
This is EXACTLY what I wanted from Hades 2. A game sized expansion like New Vegas or Silksong. New everything (most importantly, Gods and other allies), but same fundamental core.
no way i love rare crop lol. i'm not a fan of demeter's boons in general, the slowdown always screws me up, so i take rare crop pretty often. esp if i get it early it can be a beast. but i accept my clown title.
Might be a stretch but hear me out......this is about chronos the titan of time.....what if hecate is the first time Mel fought Chronos and lost something happend and now she goes back in time to train herself to beat Chronos.......so Hecate is Mel from the future.....why else would they write a story with titan of time without timetravel even god of war 2 did it
Technically speaking only Hades owns the infernal arms, and there are only users of those weapons. When Zag used the stygian blade, it was the aspect of Nemesis. Aspects reveal previous strengths and forms of the weapons user, so Zag was using Nemesis's form of the sword or Poseidon's (if its the aspect of Poseidon). The sword Nemesis has in her art could actually be her own, or somehow she retrieved the stygian blade after the events of Hades. That could mean that Nemesis got her sword back after Zag used it for a short while.
All I know is that I´m going to die, die, die... and die a bit more!! This is what makes HADES so rewarding, so challenging! Day one buy, oh yeah baby! :) BTW, the Lunar Ray = Kamehameha!! :P
Selene is essentialy, "What if Nyx could give you boons?"
They made the "call" boons be something given by one god on its own rather than being given by the others. Its kinda neat to have the "ultimates" be something more unique.
Just noticed that the sword Nemesis is holding is the aspect of Nemesis blade from the first game. Artwork looking great!
Ahhh that's amazing! I love using that Aspect!
OMG Homer is the narrator?? The EXCITEMENT that just went through me, holy crap-- Baby Melinoe is the cutest thing.
Homer has been the narrator since Hades 1 though?
@@jenchang4737 I didn’t know it was Homer specifically 😅
They even fit Homer of the Odyssey in this story and it was under our nose the whole time!
Wow!!
RIGHT?!?!?! MY MIND WAS BLOWN!!!!! and Artemis showing up?!?!?? So we'll have her instead of Death encounters?!? (I LOVE Death encounters but seeing how theyre doing the same idea so differently is so exciting and clever!!!) THAT IS SO FREAKING COOOOOL!!!!!
I like that Selene’s boon works differently from those of the Olympians’, she is a Titan after all. They are both gods, but the Titans are from another generation.
Her boons will fill the slit equivalent from the calls/aids of the first game it seems.
Also she is sometimes refered as a regular god but theres actually too few legends and documents about her, she was syncretized into Artemis like Helios was later to Apollo, although Helios himself is mentioned more often than her hence why he is a bit more known as himself and media more often remember to make him and Apollo 2 separated beings.
I am loving the mythology, Selene (Seh-Leh-Neh) was so out of left field, she’s basically the titan version of Artemis, where Apollo and Artemis are considered sun and moon deities, Selene and Helios are like titan manifestations of the sun and moon. So cool
Also, Selene, Artemis and Hecate are all three considered goddesses of the moon.
Greek pronunciation is Seh-Lii-Nii for whatever that's worth, it will be fun to see everyone try to pronounce her differently and have this comment be spammed, only to have the streamers butcher it even further.
Sometimes Apollo and Selene are said to be regular Gods like the olympians just separated which justifies why they werent hunted down and killed like the others, but myths and legends are the most convoluted can of worms ever because theyre baaically hundreds to thousand year old cult fanfictions written by dozen diferent people in diferent time periods and diferent regions of their corresponding civilization but very diferent from each other.
Its like trying to combine the cannon of hundreds of harry potter fanfictions or just doujins (doujin doesnt mean eroge, just indie) from whathever series of your choice is, you will find connections and common points but a many MANY diferences of things under the same name.
In short, they were thought to be the og sun and moon simblings before being syncretized into artemis and apollo.
Helios and Selene are the sun and moon. Apollo and Artemis are only connected to the sun and moon in philosofical discussions.
Arachne?! She’s so adorable and is still weaving her silk threads even as a spider. For those who aren’t familiar with her lore, she was turned as a Spider as punishment of Athena.
One thing I liked about Hades is how it touched upon classic Greek tragedies but still gave them its own optimistic spin of how they actually played out in the long run.
@@YorkJonhson Like Sisyphus who went from 'eternal torment and symbol of futility' to 'humbled guy who's found a new, optimistic view on life and grown from his past mistakes. Becoming a symbol of tenacity in the face of hardship'
I wonder if Athena will have commentary if you activate her boons with Arachne’s armor on…
@@Randomyoutuber-4831 well one must imagine him happy
@@Randomyoutuber-4831i imagine that the sisyphus we meet is him after like, centuries or who knows how long serving his sentence, which ultimately was to make him think about futile and inevitable outcomes of actions like trying to cheat death.
Selene, Moon Incarnate... She's gorgeous. Artemis may have been my favorite goddess of the Olympian gods, but Selene's character art is sooo good i can't wait to try her boons out on full release
Melinoe: "My girlfriend is the moon."
Zagreus: "That's great buddy!"
She's also Helios' sister, and Helios is Demeter's dad in this game, i doubt we'll see Helios tho, since he's the Sun Incarnate and Apollo seems to have taken the god of sun title
@@ImNotGoodAtAnimationDemeters dad is Hyperion, who married Theia and is the father of Helios, Selene and Eos (dawn incarnate/god), at least thats the IRL myth source, Hades decided to neuter a big portion of the incest by separating the original 3 female olympians into being the daughters of Hyperion and Theia. Worth noting that unless they did further changes theres a bunch of incest among the titans still, but specially among the first ones that sprung from Chaos, its not really incest when they were all kinda poofed into existence by the latter so its not that they are REALLY relatives. Same with Nyx, we had this whole thing in the first game were Chaos was kinda her dad (does he even have a gender? I think he has supermassive blackholes that created the galaxies under his cosmic pants) but its not really correct to say so either.
@@unkindled6410 oop i got it wrong
Haelian: "OMG she's so ADORABLE!"
Athena: "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO SHE IS?!" 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Anabeth: *Unholy Screeching*
Medusa: "New do, who dis?"
Who's gonna tell Haelian that Chronos vored a lot of people in greek history
you i geuss
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@Haelian I'm sorry that you had to learn this this way but uhhh...
Yeah there's a nonzero chance chronos ate hades, zagreus and persephone alive. On the plus side they're probably? Alive in there, because for some reason everyone chronos ate in those old myths never died inside them
@@princequincy5421I like god of war's explanation for that. He's just really really big.
@@TheBillingerCrew fair enough, still a pretty miserable experience
Man I’m so hyped for this game
Thats just Sokka's Ex ... xD
Bro. Best coment ever.
Bro. Best coment ever.
That’s rough, buddy
@@kayserzoze2459Bro. Best coment ever.
Bruh, smol Mel and Arachne are so cute. I love how Mel seems to already be acquainted and friendly with so many characters already since she's been running in erebus all her life. Zagreus either had strained relationships with most folks outside the House, or got to know them during the attempts. In here it feels like Mel is in her element and it's very charming
I like the scene where the smol mel interrupt the narrator midway lul 😂 i dont think we have that breaking 4th wall before in hades 1
@@spicynoodle101 I'm pretty sure we already had it in hades 1
@@Rooxguitar mb, i either forgot about it or simply dont have enough run to reach that
artemis, hecate and selene are all regarded as facets of the same entity in post classical greek myth. i think its interesting that they all seem core to melinoë's story. excited to see where this goes.
Me in 2018: “ This is easily one of the greatest games I’ve ever played, realistically impossible for it to have been better”
hades 2:😎
me in 2024:😮
Real and true
Death to Chronos. He was stupid in space jam 2, and now he does it again.
Death to Chronos! ☠️🕛☠️
The extra mechanic of the moons with the upgrades made me grin ear to ear I wonder what that’s gonna be all about.
its like a jumpscare everytime haelian looks straight to the camera and into my soul
I am trying to pace myself in watching your new videos, to get more excitement out if them for longer. I also checked out some other streamers hades II discovery video. I gotta say; I really appreciate how much you talk, analyse, muse, get excited and generally take us on this journey with you. Others are just kinda rushing through it, not talking much about anything, bit with you it is so much fun! 😃
This game is looking so great it just builds so well onto a already really good game. I got access to the Playtest and can confirm it feels very satisfying to play. A couple of my friends didn't get access so I lent my steam account to them so they could play too haha
Selene literaly means moon. So when people study the mineral composition and structure of the Moon it's called selenology (as opposed to geology.)
Selene, so the person Artemis replaced as moon goddess
I don't really wanna _um, aktschually_ you here so i hope I can do this kindly, especially since my knowledge might also be a bit spotty.
From what i recall the replacement happened with the Romans so technically Artemis and Selene kinda combined to make Diana, since Artemis herself never had any epithets or affiliations with the moon.
Fun? Fact? Selene has like 50 Children, loads of Girls but also for example Narcissus ^^
@@siph0r154 Um, aktschually (:P) Helios (or Sol) & his sister Selene were Titans. After the Titanomachy, Apollo & his sister Artemis got their jobs. In fact, it was just some grec philospher rebranding those olders gods with new cool olympian stories to keep the young interested in their rambling if I would take a guess. And the peoples (those who didn't go to school to feed their family) who have no clue at what was the trend nowadays were just very confused about the change. So yeah, for the mass, they were the same because they were just both Sun Gods & Moon Goddess.
@@kiorodjirane8517 There are no historical greek references that relate Artemis to being a personification of the moon though like the Roman version, Helios gets replaced by Apollo but Selene stayed. When the Roman's adopted it Selene was then replaced by Artemis to keep the sibling relationship between the sun and moon. Artemis, like Hecate, was associated with the moon but wasn't a moon goddess.
All the above is basically correct. The only difference between titans and Olympians is the title. They’re all gods and in fact, zeus and his family are titans just rebranded after defeating chronos.
Selene and Helios were the titan Sun and moon. Artemis was definitely more affiliated with the moon as a symbol for her, not her domain of rule. While Apollo did take over the Sun role from Helios. Selene remained the moon goddess for some reason.
@@Rawrmuffin0 One possible reason is the incongruence between Artemis as a virgin Goddess and Selene's liberal interpretation of consent with the predictable consequences... Again 50 kids ^^'
Was gonna have an early one but then Harlan uploaded HADES II CONTENT WOOO
Harlan 💀
The long stare after the "I'm incapable of turning anything/one off" had me howling
so glad your hades 2 videos are popping off sir, absolutely deserved. i found you because of the balatro content, which has been amazing to watch (even though hades is one of my favourite games ever). you're just a really chill guy to watch and i like that you will literally sing anything at any given opportunity. can't wait to enjoy early access and the full release with you! :)
Anyone else notice that young Mel has the Mom-Pom attached to her sash? That’s adorable.
Im reinstalling Hades now, im so hyped for this
Haelian: "Boons that require you to stand still aren't good in a game as hectic as this."
Also Haelian: * Defeats Hades by doing absolutely nothing *
Ultra Instinct Zagreus 😂
What video was that in?
oh man... i never played much hades even though i bought it years ago. i had like 3 hours in the game. but seeing hades 2 gameplay made me try hades again, and i already have like 5 more hours and im LOVING it!
Same here. I finally beat the final boss in Hades for the first time today and it was so amazing! I hope to get even better at the game before Hades II comes out, so I've been grinding it and having so much fun
I thought I couldn't get as fascinated as much I was with Hades. Boy, was I wrong. This game looks gorgeous and I love that nearly every mechanic has seen some significant changes.
Zagreus is the king of escaping. How has it taken him so long to escape chronos?
Given that he dies if he stays on the surface for too long, he doesn't really have much of a choice. If anyone should have been able to escape its Persephone. At least she can survive leaving.
plot
@@CheshTheTheorist That's assuming they're actually free to try and escape
For all we know, either/both of them may be as chained up as Hades is right now, if that image of him in the reveal trailer is anything to go by
@@Omegafire17 Or worse: Zag proved to be too slippery for conventional imprisonment, so Chronos has him caught in a time loop of fighting and dying to the same opponents over and over again.
@@Randomyoutuber-4831 That would sound exactly like Zag; getting stuck in a rougelite while offscreen.
it feels like after all those countless escapes Zag should have messed the Chronos up pretty easily…
chronos is the personification of time. you can try, but in theory he'd just rewind it back to when you never did. or he'd stop your time to prevent you from trying.
@@realtalk13but how could Melinoë beat him if that was the case?
@@BlastOffer magic i think
Probably, but Chronos could just trap him in Zeno's paradox.
So even though he's strong enough to defeat Chronos, he will never actually reach him because time powers.
So like the Dahaka from Prince of Persia?
Selene is a very known God, or rather Moon incarnate.
She’s one of the older ones before the Olympian generations, but younger than Chaos. And I believe younger than Nyx?
I'm not gonna be able to think about anything aside from this game until I can play it lmao
Loved your vids during my time playing Hades 1 a while ago. Back here now and excited for II. :D
I wonder if they're setting up The Fates as a sort of Chaos counterpart. A primordial force that isn't going to be affected by the outcome of the game but chooses to help while still being indifferent and slowly growing more fond of the protagonist. Could even have the same mechanic of giving boons that have a limited room downside, that'd kinda be in line with the fates as well, making even those they help struggle for and earn their victories.
Also kinda curious if Chaos itself is going to play a role since Titans seem MUCH more important to the story of this game as a whole. Pretty sure Chaos is basically the father of all titans right?
Um, kinda? Chaos birthed Gaia and Uranus. The Titans are the children of Gaia and Uranus and similarly to the Gods that followed after, the Titans waged war against Uranus and overthrew him, hacking of his testicles and throwing them into the sea (which is part of one of Aphrodites origin stories)
0:37 Oh, Selene!! At last!!
And she's her great aunt, as Helios, Eos and Selene are Demeter, Hera's and Hestia's sister!!
My ship sunk before leaving port 😢
Like the fun possible detail of Mel’s outfit being fashioned out of her baby blanket
Amazing showcase! What a time to be alive
With all these new gods I kinda hope they have a way for us to pick who shows up, like the ability to have no Zeus boons and such,
Homer was a dead ringer for the Narrator in Bastion. Assume it’s the same VA.
oh yeah they are both Logan haha
Bro first Nemesis and now Selene, I'm fkn cooked bro 🥴🥴🥴
Time traveled just to said that the release date is on February 15th
You welcome haelian 👍
That's way too loooong
The running has gotta be super valuable. Like the bit about the sound cue being too similar to the losing death defiance sound cue from Hades
so happy i found this channel right after I watched the hades 2 live
1:00 "hoooly shit... left field!"
Not to be rude but dawg there are moons on every decorable surface in this game lol
the moon could jus be for artemis as well. it being a titan was unexpected kinda
Hecate is also associated with the triple moon insignia. Selene being the moon incarnate wasn't super obvious. Even Artemis had moon symbolism on her design in the first game!
I genuinely did not expect other Titans to give Mel boons as well I'm so excited
really exited to see helios :), sun titan :)
I want to watch so bad, but I gotta wait to experience it myself.
Commenting and liking for the algorithm to support all that DampDadDan does for us, but I can't watch!
I think it's important that everyone knows that Hecate was voiced by the same lady who voiced the narrator in Baldur's Gate 3.
Not really a point to make there. Just... seems nice to know
Damn, that flashback section gives intense Bayonetta Origins vibes.
You're so lucky you got in!! I'm here waiting forlornly for my entry email 😭😂🤣
Anyone else notice melinoës' arm isn't green and spectral as a child
I’ll be completely honest I saw the technical test and I lost it I can’t see any more of this game so I dropped the like and I’m on the team but I can’t see anymore 😢. But I will say I will be there to play as soon as possible because I NEED justice for my boy Hypnos God of War style and that is final! You don’t hurt my boy!
Im pretty sure that Weapon Stand had moon phases under weapons so maybe Selene Boons Get stronger based on moon phase of boon and weapon
Before you departed your staff had full moon underneath and Moon Beam had full moon sign which might have gave it extra dmg
Truthfully I feel like there is a lot new which is great but the final release will need to have a gradual onboarding of all this stuff so it doesn't feel overwhelming at first. I otherwise completely welcome the new elements of this game, it looks SO good.
Ooooh, they're adding TITANS
Am I the only one who sees their encampment as a cult? They even have their own salute lol
So at this point, the gods and deities helping Melinoe defeat Chronos are (returning) Aphrodite, Poseidon, Demeter, Charon, and (new) Apollo, Hestia, Hephaestus, and Selene (originally a god, but a Titan in this game)
For anyone wondering, Helios is the sun god and Selene the moon goddess in mythology. Apollo and Artemis were only considered as such in philosophy. But they never took the role of Helios and Selene.
selene is a titan who are sort of the parents of the gods
I like how he says the damage from the special isnt very high while killing the whole room with it faster than in any previous run
Hades II cuteness level is going to explode.
So Selene gives you the Kamehameha? I’m already in love!
Very curious on how they'll make the story work with the gameplay loop assuming that it'll go the same way as the first game. But aside from that I'm super stoked to play this once it comes out! Haven't got the original, either, but might give it a go once the funds are enough.
I wasnt sure that was the same skelly but i was playing today and he called him schelemeus when i walked into the training room
I bet Arachne plushie is already in their roadmap.
Is there any news on what the timeline is for technical test -> early access -> full release? What was the timeline like for the first game?
early acess is "more than a week but less than a month" away from what i kniw
Early access for Hades 1 took almost 2 years. Not sure if they're a little further ahead in development of this one or not yet.
@@Haelian oh wow that's longer than I expected, hopefully I'll get a chance to play the technical test/early access. Was the latter available to anyone who wanted to play it or was there some kind of selection process?
So, the winter coat 18:41 and the other defensive boon remind me of the perks in super auto Pets. Winter boon is like Melon 🍈 and the other one is like garlic 🧄
Damn, Odysseus could get it any time he wanted it.
I seriously can't wait!
Selene is the Titan and Goddess of the moon for anyone who didn't know
This game has me SO FRICKIN HYPE!!!!!
SGG is insane. an indie game shouldn't even exists in this caliber. i'm playing this day 1 available
I call it right now, Zagreus will be playable at some point.
Warning! Sweet Baby Inc Detected!!!
god I love Selene! She's one of my favorite titans and her only love story is so sad
during the shadow spinner fight, your magick was regenerating when you were out of combat, but moving around. was that am effect from the armor or the demeter boon? or both?
This is EXACTLY what I wanted from Hades 2. A game sized expansion like New Vegas or Silksong. New everything (most importantly, Gods and other allies), but same fundamental core.
I rly hope they add more titan characters /boons
Instant complaint - Demeter isn't wearing Demeter's Fists
Ayo, why you screaming?) XD Regarding Hades 2, can't wait to play the full game. Still revisit Hades from time to time, it's so much fun! ^^
Rare crop was great if you got it early
no way i love rare crop lol. i'm not a fan of demeter's boons in general, the slowdown always screws me up, so i take rare crop pretty often. esp if i get it early it can be a beast. but i accept my clown title.
That special build was just DBZ😂
Hekate was a titan before she was a goddess
“Our cycles are now intertwined”…is that a period joke?
Might be a stretch but hear me out......this is about chronos the titan of time.....what if hecate is the first time Mel fought Chronos and lost something happend and now she goes back in time to train herself to beat Chronos.......so Hecate is Mel from the future.....why else would they write a story with titan of time without timetravel even god of war 2 did it
also the left eye of Hecate is hidden the eye that would give out that she is Mel
I think Helios is going to be a boss or a prisioner
You have Apollo has a Sun, Selene the Moon
Is a nonsense he is not in the game
Nemesis has Zag's sword!!
Technically speaking only Hades owns the infernal arms, and there are only users of those weapons.
When Zag used the stygian blade, it was the aspect of Nemesis. Aspects reveal previous strengths and forms of the weapons user, so Zag was using Nemesis's form of the sword or Poseidon's (if its the aspect of Poseidon).
The sword Nemesis has in her art could actually be her own, or somehow she retrieved the stygian blade after the events of Hades. That could mean that Nemesis got her sword back after Zag used it for a short while.
GOONING
30:26 That is not my Itacian hero until they upgrade him into having a glorious beard.
All I know is that I´m going to die, die, die... and die a bit more!! This is what makes HADES so rewarding, so challenging! Day one buy, oh yeah baby! :) BTW, the Lunar Ray = Kamehameha!! :P
obligatory o7 to Toriyama, an absolute legend
Im on the same boat with you, getting Hades 2 on console ASAP if it releases on there
Best part is that it’s only $30
Dude im so sad for being a console player hope it gets on the switch
Selene 😢❤
7:25 This aged not well
So Hecate is a moon goddess and Selene is moon goddess?
Selene IS the moon
@@LucyVi_ That's rough buddy
Where is nyx in all of this, isnt she stronger than hades
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Absolutely repulsive what thhey did to Athena