I stopped playing this at the 10 hour mark after becoming bored with the repetition, and even after a break I have no desire to come back to it.
Hades makes a strong first impression with its high quality art and voice acting, but the gameplay has neither the variety nor the systemic depth to justify being a roguelike. You are simply grinding through the same levels, same enemies, same bosses - over and over and over - just to get drip-fed a little bit of story or horny dialogue.
Ultimately, the roguelike structure only serves to obnoxiously pad out the game's length. It takes a short, entertaining button-masher and stretches it out to a lengthy, gossamer-thin grindfest. I can put up with a lot of things in games, but I just can't abide boredom.
Hades makes a strong first impression with its high quality art and voice acting, but the gameplay has neither the variety nor the systemic depth to justify being a roguelike. You are simply grinding through the same levels, same enemies, same bosses - over and over and over - just to get drip-fed a little bit of story or horny dialogue.
Ultimately, the roguelike structure only serves to obnoxiously pad out the game's length. It takes a short, entertaining button-masher and stretches it out to a lengthy, gossamer-thin grindfest. I can put up with a lot of things in games, but I just can't abide boredom.