Hades this week launched The Long Winter Update, bringing more blessings and boons to help poor Zagreus escape the underworld. This time around the game is introducing us to Demeter, the goddess of seasons, who’ll be offering us her powers over the cold to fight back against the fires of hell.
That’s not all though, there’s a new weapon modification, new upgrades and story events, and there’s even fishing now too!
Let s take another look at Hades, the rogue-ish-action-hack-n-slash-n-chat-em-up by Supergiant Games, developers of Bastion and Transistor, in which you play Zagreus, the immortal son of the lord of the underworld on a quest to repeatedly run away from home. Home, in this case, is a giant-ass castle in helltown where the tortured souls of the deceased languish while they await processing, like an infernal waiting room or a less depressing version of Digbeth Coach Station. Yeah, that s right Birmingham, your dumb coach station is whatever the building equivalent of abject misery is. The toilets cost 30p and they don t give change. I once saw a rat eating a pigeon there.