Is the story or voice acting done tho? It was my understanding with the first one that basically all the story and stuff came as hades completed early access. I feel like you can't call it even 90% if the story isn't there or its going to change or is incomplete. And what i loved most about the first one was the storytelling. I'm pretty sure thats why most ppl loved it.

[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't know when the person above you played, but I didn't notice any of that (got it last week, binged it, 35ish hours). I didn't notice any missing graphics, and yes there are some spots where you can tell somethings coming, but it doesn't feel janky, it feels exciting. With game loop being all about upgrades, you can tell there's a few that aren't available, but there's so much meat their absence feels like part of the loop not part of the dev cycle.

The voice acting is all there, the mechanics are all there. I think I had like... One line of repeated dilouge? There's a good breadth of characters and they've got that same slow, well thought out progression they did in Hades I. With only one exception that I can't mention due to spoilers, you could tell me this a complete game with free DLC inbound.

Bug wise it's almost entirely free. I had some crashes but I think that was due to a bad HDMI cable repeatedly becoming unstable, and making the game freak out as to what screen it should be on. I haven't had an issue since I fixed the cable and it's the only bug I encountered.

I definitely feel like I got my money's worth.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

They've done the incomplete artwork well.

For example, a lot of the characters you meet along the way during your runs have the same hooded NPC model. Those are all incomplete.

When you actually talk to them, most of them have the static artwork done though.

[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for pointing out! I see what you mean now but didn't even notice.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

It took me dozens of runs to even realize that was happening. It really doesn't feel incomplete.