Last night at Game AwardWe’ve learned that there won’t be only one underworld 2, but it would make the absolutely correct choice of letting Zagreus step aside to make room for a new protagonist. This time we will play as Melinoë, modeled after the Greek goddess of nightmares and madness. She’s also Zag’s half-sister – yet another of Hades’ dozens of children, stepchildren and adopted children knocking on the door – which brings me to my main point from newly confirmed existence of a Hell sequel: the title character is a really bad father.
The first game doesn’t exactly showcase Hades’ parenting skills in the most obvious way, but the fact that there’s a Hades 2 with another protagonist who is also one of his children brings many facets. New edge to the problem. Zagreus’s story confirms that Hades was a rather laid-back father. I mean, Zag happily alternates between fighting to the death with his step-siblings and sniffing them, and if dad doesn’t step in to stop that, what triggers his intervention? mom?
But throwing in a second child also possessed a burning rage that could only be dealt with through a strenuous mode of crawling in roguelike-like dungeons, and now suddenly… Painting is a guy whose adult children all have feuds. That’s not healthy, Hades! Talk to your child about their problems before They develop into a blood feud! Make sure they understand that not all negative emotions need to be dealt with by chopping and/or slashing! Honestly, at this point, I hope that Hades 3 allows us to step into the big man’s shoes to take a parenting class in the underworld. It can still be a roguelike! We can work to fight inside devil, huh, Hades?
It’s worth noting, however, that Melinoë’s beef doesn’t actually stay with her biological father like Zag’s; she dedicates it to Chronos, the Time Titan instead. She might actually be a daddy’s girl, as the trailer makes it sound like she swears to help her old man out of a predicament, which is in stark contrast to her brother’s rebellious feelings. her to him. Maybe Hades is one of those dads that is scary to most people but a big teddy bear to his daughters? Actually, that would be a cute development, although I’m not advocating different treatment of your children on the basis of gender, so I’m still calling on Hades to tackle the issue together. .
So, do we know anything else about the new girl Melinoë? Well, I was convinced that she would turn out to be a strange disaster just like her brother. Not only do Supergiant certainly want to continue building their reputation with top-notch LGBTQ+ storytelling in the game, but just looking at Nemesis in that trailer is definitely enough to make any lingering illusions about sex go away. The rigid opposite sex vanished in a puff of smoke.
That authoritarian stance. That piercing look. Those arms, dear gods, these arm. Honestly, my view of Hades 2 being alive or dead is not about whether Hades can step up and be a better father, but on whether we can romance Nemesis. . Scrolling through Twitter this morning shows I’m not the only one. If she is romantic, though? GOTY automatically, others can go home. Including Hades himself.
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