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Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 25d

New autumn #promosky pin! 🍂

🕹️ RPGs, story-rich games
🕹️ Indie games, visual novels
🕹️ Achievement hunting

🎮 Like a Dragon
🎮 Final Fantasy, Tales of
🎮 Witcher, BG3
🎮 Horizon
🎮 Hades
🎮 Pokémon
🎮 Cyberpunk

📺 Game of Thrones
📺 90s anime, DBZ, YGO, Sailor Moon

❤️‍🔥 media analysis
❤️‍🔥 DnD
❤️‍🔥 cats

See you! 🫶

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Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 4h

🎈 Hey, happy birthday!! 🎈

Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 4h

The Playstation 2 turns 25 today. These 4 games are my favorite from that console. 🙂

Choosing 4 is futile, but here we go. All experienced at different points in my life.

🐐 TR Legend: First played with a friend in 2008.
🐐 Shadow of the Colossus: Online 2010-ish.
🐐 FFX: 2022.
🐐 Okami: This year.

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Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 5h

Such an iconic console...

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Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 5h

Me too man. And the weekend is the worst time for those to hit 😭 The one time we can really play.

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Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 5h

Not to mention... it's not even an outstandingly gorgeous cat picture they generated?? The symmetry in the whiskers is off and striped and patterns are nothing unusual. Just a total waste of resources.

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Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 5h

Congrats on the 100% !! 🎉

Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 9h

Sunday Morning Setup 🎮☕

No idea what to play yet today as I'm stilling recovering in the Hades II afterglow. Typical post-game behavior before committing to a new game. But a woman's staying hydrated with coffee and tea at the ready, so we'll manage.

Enjoy your Sunday wherever you are, friends.

Items sitting on grey checkered placemats on a white table. A Steam Deck, a cup of coffee, black chunky headphones, a glass teapot with yellow-shining tea inside, and a green teacup with a white flower pattern.

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Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 9h

God i'm so tempted to get this considering how looong I've been waiting for this... I know it's going to be underwhelming but the temptation is so great... As you recommended, basically waiting for a sale.

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Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 1d

Never seen Dial of Destiny but it blows my mind that it's supposed to be worse than Kingdom of the f*cking Crystal Skull. 😦 Still a cool series rewatch though!

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Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 1d

You don't have to, the story and gameplay are 100% enjoyable without having played Hades 1. Just know that there will be spoilers about some Hades 1 characters in Hades 2, so you'll lose out on a few surprises and suspense element if you ever decide to check out the first game. But no worries.

Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 1d

That's cool to hear! I usually hate roguelikes too, because losing all your progress over and over is so unsatisfying. But with Hades 1 and 2 I always looked forward to dying in a run because it meant the story would progress!

Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 1d

(11/11) ... in a way that makes me genuinely believe that these characters are the embodiment of strife and retribution, love that they cast Amelia Tyler - the narrator in Baldur’s Gate 3 - as the voice of Hecate, love the animal familiars and would by plushies of all of them. Thanks!

Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 1d

(10/11) ... love the ending to Arachne’s and Odysseus’ stories which make sense for their respective characters and Greek tragedies as a whole, love how Scylla sings her own boss music, love how Eris and Nemesis are written ...

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Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 1d

(9/11) To end it on a positive note: All of the new characters are awesome. Love how snide Hera is, love it when Apollo calls me Sunshine, love how different Hephaestus’ boons play, love the new mechanic with Selene’s Hex, could listen to Moros complain about his sisters the Fates all day, ...

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Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 1d

(8/11) But half an hour of a weak-ish ending doesn’t ruin dozens of hours I genuinely loved and enjoyed for me, at least not in this game. So it’s all fine. I could gush about the game more and maybe will later, but for now that’s it. Until the first patch is released, at least.

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Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 1d

(7/11) The one thing I really didn’t enjoy was the main story’s ending, which in my mind didn’t fit the tone and build-up at all. But apparently they’re adding more content to the ending in the upcoming first patch, so I guess they got that feedback a lot.

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Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 1d

(6/11) Melinoe as the main character felt appropriately different from Zagreus as the protagonist, but not in a way I found jarring or arbitrary. While I love Zag more, Mel makes total sense for the game and story she’s in, which is much, much darker than the first game’s.

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Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 1d

(5/11) The writing sometimes made me forget that all the characters are only still images (with some animated particles for flavor), because the writing and acting was so crisp that they felt, again, very unique, three-dimensional and animated from the get-go.

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Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 1d

(4/11) I’m happy I could set the right challenge level for me! Full disclosure, my fingers are too slow to beat this game on standard mode, so I activated God Mode pretty early on and ended up beating it with maximum (80%) reduced damage. And I still died a lot. Judge me, I don’t care.

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Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 1d

(3/11) ... sky-high QoL features, top notch dialog writing and voice acting, expertly done character design, and an interesting interpretation of Greek mythology. Even after dozens of hours I didn’t get tired of starting another run through the “same” dungeon.

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Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 1d

(2/11) Supergiant Games basically kept all the parts that I already loved about the first game and wanted more of: Smooth gameplay, satisfying combat, that genuine feeling of progress that can make roguelikes incredibly frustrating if it’s missing, ...

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Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 1d

▫️GAME 18 of 2025 DONE: Hades II▫️

I vowed to play at least 1 game in 2025 that actually came out this year. The dice fell on Hades II because I was (am…) obsessed with the first one. One month and 100 hours later, I’m done and incredibly happy with my decision!

Spoiler-free final thoughts:
👇🧵(1/11)

Hades II cover art, Melinoe looking straight down at the camera with her weapons floating in front of her hands with a green glow

Hecate, a witch with a black cape, large black-rimmed head, metal and green glowing adornments all around her outfit, eyes glowing green as well.

"You've unlocked all achievements! 50/50 (100%)"

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Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 1d

We did it!!

Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 1d

Aw thanks 🤭

Ivy 🎮 Hades II 🖤🤍💜 @ivyinmyheart.bsky.social · 1d

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