How Hades Was Made and Why its Early Concept Didn’t Work

Imagine being art director Gen Z

This game deserves its 98% overwhelmingly positive on steam

Jen Zee is an unfortunate name. She’s an incredible artist.

Back here watching this in 2024 after the early access release of Hades II. Absolutely fell in love with the first game when it was something I initially didn’t think I’d be drawn to. Now with hundreds of hours in it, it’s one of my all-time favorite games. Really looking forward to being involved with the early access dev process on the sequel!

Man, now hades 2 is out. This video shows a bunch of repeated ideals!

Hades is special. I usually detest Rogue-like games. But I love Hades... and everything Supergiant Games touch. They are just so talented.

Whenever you die in Hades, you probably zigged when you should have Zagged.

Man Hades has to be the most enjoyable early access I’ve gotten to play. Since 2019 the steam release it was a monthly surprise and as you mentioned the god mentioning new stuff in game was just awesome. ROR2 is a close second for best early access

Not even once I thought about the ethnicities of the gods, but thankfully you brought that point up, so we can finally stop focusing on race and eradicate racism.

If you see sarcasm, you already exceeded my expectations.

Theseus: NO FAIR THE GAME WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT ME AND ASTERIUS!!


Zagreus: Should've had a richer story for gameplay.


Theseus: Mounts Macedonian Tau Lambda and puts on mask

who else came back to this video after Hades 2 got released into early access?

Strange, I didnt hear anything about Hades 1 being "woke" by the time it was released, and yet it fits the criteria these people oh so complain about.

Kind of insane how far its come, from the original builds known as Minos all the way to Supergiant's first ever sequel. Crazy.

Anybody here after Hades 2?

The one thing I miss in the 2nd one since I've got almost 50 hours now is the sword, I'd say the fists but the daggers are very similar

I bought this game three times (Switch, EGS, Steam) and after dropping it 12 hours in twice out of frustration, I finally finished it on my third try yesterday.

funny to watch this now that Hades 2 is out

“The ancient Greeks were afraid of Hades, and so did not tell many stories about him.”

“Few tales are told of Hades…”

Jen Zee huh. Well, that name made perfect sense.

Am i the only one that read it as minors....

I am a simple man , i see video about Hades and i accept this message

Every time I hear "Jen Zee" I hear "Gen Z"

Im so glad they got such success on Hades
Well deserved, well😊 deserved

Spoiler, they figured out which game finally warranted a sequel.

Supergiant games indeed

I find it really ironic that Theseus went from being the center of the plot to the most hollow character/plot device in the game.

I'm here because I need to see if it was as hard as Hades 2 is currently right now Hades 2 is difficult, I'd go as far and say it's basically a souls-like right now.

okay but why some Greek goods are black ? They erased normal white color of skin from Hades of Pelinoe and gave them pale skin so why giving GREEEK gods BLACK skin ?

Stop putting political correcitivtnes everywhere please

How does one make 940K+ frames of character animations that's crazy

Hey, cool video!

Imagine being a millennial called Jen Zee, ironic

Fortunately it's very easy to ignore the injected "diversity" in this masterpiece of a game.

I have finished the game already....and only now, as you mentioned it, I noticed that the Gods are mixed race. The game, art and story telling felt so organic, it never occured to me. That game gets more awesome the more I learn about it.

Just wanted to say how well made this is. Definitely got a new sub

The ultrakill brain rot got me like: "MINOS??!?!?!!!?"

Aw dude the Theseus and labyrinth idea is PERFECT. I hope they come up with like a dlc or sequel with this concept

My reasoning on all the different ethnicity for the God's was that Zeus slept around.

The editing in this video is fantastic!!! Every single bit of the visuals fits the game!!!

HADES 2 just came out recently! I'd love to watch your video about the sequel ❤

to deepen the dyonisus part, its been colfirled that myceanan Dyonisus was a chtonic god. so when we comme across zagreus in the earliest part of the classical era, and that he share somme oroginal death and rebirth theme that dyonisus always had, its less a theory and more, we lack the dark age period that by definition is lost forever. so yeah the joke to orpheus is actualy the truth on the irl god.

i personally think they should have made a dlc for more enemies more room types and more levelling up systems, I mean the game works and it s really cool but when it comes to enemies and upgrades I don t know it doesn t feel quite right to me, too repetitive

Despite having gaming videos on my channel, I am most definitely a casual gamer and NOT a fan of rogue or rogue-like games.

But Hades changed that for me, similar to Breath of the Wild for open-world titles and Hollow Knight for Metroidvanias; they're so unbelievably polished and rich in worldbuilding in characters, but the combat system for all of them, and Hades in particular, has to be one of the best aspects of these games and why it makes them so fun to play and replay.