Early Access Final Boss Chronos - Hades 2 

once Chronos' redemption arc begins, he'll reverse the time anyway.

​@@toastee5421 Haha. The benefits of being a Time Lord. 😊

Fun fact if you seen mel dream when she control Hades you actually could see all the deco still present how we left them in first game 😂

We spent so many gems just for Chronos to do THIS

It’s not like Melinoe wanted answers. She just wanted him gone, even if temporarily.

@@kylestubbs8867 True, but I was mainly referring to how villains often exposition dump in fiction, in death or prior to their big plan unfolding. So seeing these characters not say shit is refreshing.

yes, but ancient egypt was also ancient to ancient egyptians, as in there was a pharaoh who put great effort into studying "the ancients", additionally greece and egypt existed side by side, yes for athenians the pyramids were ancient, but there were people in greece (can't remember the name) that made cities at the same time, for instance the ruins of knossos (I think that was the name) Also he really both should and shouldn't sound like that: -on one hand he was a murderous tyrant, terrified he would be overthrown by his own son like his father before him and so devoured his own children -on the other his reign was the golden age (of plenty, prosperity, peace and virtue), meanwhile the Olympians oversaw the silver age (kinda like the golden age on the surface but with a lot of betrayal, scheming and backstabbing on the inside, got so bad the Olympians called the flood to almost wipe out humanity), bronze age (the age of Heroes and monsters) and iron age (what ancient greeks believed they lived in)

@@cathulionetharn5139​​⁠ I believe the greeks you’re thinking of are either the Minoans or the Mycenaeans. Both were ancient compared to classical Greece and existed separately from each other alongside the different periods of ancient Egypt; for example, Mycenaeans existed alongside the middle kingdom, i believe, and Minoans existed alongside the early middle kingdom/late early kingdoms. I THINK. And Knossos was a Minoan palace. Pretty cool stuff, huh? Also I agree that his voice and overall design is meh. I expected him to have an extraordinarily “strict father”/“overbearingly patriarchal” vibe going on, kinda like if you mixed Hades’s design with this one. But I think it’ll grow on me

@@cathulionetharn5139ironically the “Iron Age” is now actually considered the golden age of Greece, and everything is just downhill after the Peloponnesian war then Rome.

Be fun if that was intentional. There’s one hades child left, and the only way I could see them expanding on this anymore is if they go beyond just Greek gods, and it either be the Norse or the Egyptian gods next. Norse is only worth it if Fenrir and Cerberus get to be friends

@@gameb9oy I always though after Hades they could've done a spiritual sequel in norse myths, perhaps Balder trying to climb out of Helheim and back to Asgard, only to fall to his brother Höd forced by the fates to keep him dead.

You have substantially improved my success rate without projectile speed reduction. Thank you.

Like a clock

He can swing his scythe counterclockwise but will always throw it clockwise. His little orbs also go clockwise

that's such a good design ngl

⁠@@fakhrulzainal5384 Genius observations of an indubitably astute individual, yes yes most certainly. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Wait really?

@@---li1oo yea, you can find a bunch of vids showcasing it, and there is a upgrade that takes away the ability and gives him new voice lines, my favorite is when he complains about you needing to go to the bathroom

​@@---li1oo yea. He always gets offended at the attempt too. There is an upgrade to allow pausing eventually tho

I found that out the hard way, paused the game to take a bathroom break and returned to a dead melinoë

The golden veins running through his design are also reminiscent of kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold. Pretty fitting for an entity who was broken apart and came back together under…suspicious circumstances.

It's known that the Greeks and Egyptian have history with each other. In the story of zues vs typhoon all the greek gods fled to Egypt to get away from the battle.

​@@tdenzel101Even the forgotten Indo-Greco era had these elements

also just: alexander the great as a whole how he broguht a lot of cultures in

It kinda makes sense considering how the civilizations of Greece and Egypt have had important historical relations throughout ancient times. Egyptian mythology once even got popular enough in Greece that there was a Greek cult dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis.

hah! and the only well-written character between the two

​@@Rakshaelthey're both very well written, get tomatoe'd 🍅🍅🍅

@@bravecereza Mary Sues are good writing these days? Tell me you don't know good writing without telling me you watch too much trash anime

​@@Rakshael How is Edelgard a Mary Sue??? She's the main antagonist, presented as wrong by the game's narrative, not particularly beloved by those in the cast during the latter half of the game, and gets outright decapitated or impaled by the main character on 3/4 routes. Something tells you've never played the game and don't know what you're talking about, which if that's the case is just pathetic

@@valarmis she thinks she's got some deep burden she's bearing but really just suffers from her own bad choices, succeeds where she shouldn't, has horrible ideas, is generally spouting corny nonsense... yeah you're just a fanboy, but nice assumptions

No last words directed to Melinoe.

He is time he does have it to spare.

I guess some tropes are… TIMEless Yeah I’ll see myself out

u cant pause while fightin him too

Heimdall moment

The basic Arcana that slows down time when you use omega attacks also seem neutered here. Can't tell for sure, my ass was flattened immediately.

​@@faustoelportugues5725 WhiteNight moment

​@@MnecraftEpicProCan confirm chronos bypasses that, though it still works on his goons

Uranos rising from the grave like: "Oi bitches where the fuck is ma junk"

Would be cool if you could play as both Zagreus and Melinoe then. See how they both interact with the old cast and new.

There's still a third kid attributed to Hades and Persephone if I remember the shaky mythos. Macariah or smth? Or they could go the adopted route which is Adonis.

@@dragondream5997 hell na i aint using drake's son

@@dragondream5997 It is Makaria.

My bet is on stupidly low time limit once the fight starts, with maybe something fancy like gaining a second for every attack that lands on Chronos.

give him a DPS check like Young Xehanort's desperation move in KH3 and DDD where if you cant end the phase fast enough the fight restarts from the beginning

​@@MrAzulmagiaLike Marluxia's Fight from Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Remix

They could just do what they did in the first game and give him a third phase

@@dumbsterdivesomg that would be so cruel, especially if Melinoe doesn’t get any health or death defiances back

stop watch

mirror of night maybe?

You have to remember in Greek lore Kronos defeated his father who was the sky

​@@zerox23454with the help of Gaia and other titans

They did not even fight and he survived that

A titan is closer to the primordial to the point that the only difference is 1%

Not even primordials are universal components that make it up so as long as the universe exists they can’t die

That one attack where he freezes in place and starts moving his scythe in a weird way while one place on the map gets highlighted is an instakill move, you need to move to that spot as soon as you can

@burntficus9340 Yeah, I realized the run after, very cheap move.

It's Mel's dash, she is a lot slower than Zag and you have to be more deliberate with her.

Both Chronos and Eris fights are kinda unfair. Imho the Eris +100% / +200% damage debuff should be tuned because she ends up oneshotting an entire death defiance. Same with Chronos, they should adjust the damage a bit and fergedsakes, make his charges / slashes / whatnot telegraphed on the ground. All other fights gave you a measure of what to expect before the attack came. The difficulty ramp up is ridiculous and unfair against what the game has given up to that point.

Because she is a mage/witch so she’s not that good physically compared to zag. I mean zag dash had almost no Cooldown and then later ingame you could dash multiple time before cooldown. You need to let it sink in that mel is a mage while zag is a warrior

@@PhilipAlexanderHassialis My biggest problem right now with Chronos isn't the bossfight itself, rather how long it takes to get to him. It takes so long to get there, even with a powerful build, that I forget his attack patterns and end up dying rather quickly.

@@bebeusxl9842 My first kill was 40mins of playtime. Second one was 36mins. It only gets better as you learn more of the game. Sure, we cant all be like Sybore with his > 15min runs, but still. An average of ~30 mins or so a run is not too bad and should be achievable after some practice. That comes from someone who took 15+ times to get Chronos down and still hasn't beaten Eris.

That's probably because you're used to playing as max power Zag with a synergistic build. Optimal strats for maxing out Mel's damage aren't known yet.

@@SpiffierShindigsI find that Mel seems just more geared for more drawn out fights. Zag can get straight in the thick of it and survive with his instant dash and very fast attacks, Mel has her sprint and is more geared for getting in and out of the engagement than staying in their face the whole time.

Never challenge a master of time if you don’t have much of your own to waste.

So you hated Hades's fight as well in the OG?

@@prismus6520 not really? Hades doesn't come of as proud and looking down Zag, at least not to the same degree as Chronos. Chronos going on and on about how insignificant you are but starting the fight with his cheerleading sqad, idk, I expected it to be a 1 on 1 and didn't when it was Hades, don't really know why

I meant that both fights send summons against you. Only that while Hades sends wretches that are bound to him, Chronos sends cultists that worship him.

He's got some of that elden ring attack delay going on. Makes the first few runs really rough.

chronos or me? check the description, video is split a few times because I couldnt beat either phases the first time LOL

Colors of Anubis, shrewdness of Set… and the gold lines on his body suggest dismemberment and reassembly along the lines of Osiris.

No, not ironic. Fitting. The very least a master of time should be able to do is waste that of their enemies. It even extends to the player, since pausing the game won’t pause _him._

I can't wait for it, Extreme Measures was extremely fun on the first game, and this game with more bosses is gonna be fucking gooooood

*significantly* harder.

no don't even try it, he's into some freaky shit he'll try to eat you

AW HELL NAW BRO GOT PERKED UP

​@@thebaseandtriflingcreature174 even better i mean

He is very thin and gangly, his proportions are much more stretched out than the other gods.

Yes :) Logan Cunningham, their lead voice actor. He's also the voice of Hades, Poseidon and Homer.

Check description. I spliced the video like 3 times to show the dialogue you get when you first meet him, and because I couldn’t beat him the first time I got to his first and second phase LOL

@@FazFaz lmao my bad... Personally I still stuck here, I manage to get to chronos quite easily 2/3 tries, but I got him to phase 2 only once and got destroyed... Gotta grind more I guess ^^

no worries goat. you got this

Getting hit by any of the following: the clock hand beams, the circular blast with the small safe area, and the circular blast with rings of safety

Time can't be stopped, slaying Chronos just removes his physical body until he is able to regenerate again. So that thing at the center is simply what is left of him.

@@Teamfortressjunkie thank you; I had thought I could go into Zag’s room and still come back to the throne room, and I instantly regretted it once Homer started narrating lol

This game interpretation is that Chronos ans Cronus are the same, just like the first game making a reference to Zagreus and Dionysus being the same God according to some historians

@@andresdeleon2122 oh thank for explanation but still it is wrong

@@robopokorny2982 It's actually based off how in Orphic Mystery Cult mythology, Chronos and Cronus are one and the same. Orphic Hymns are the inspiration for the series in general.

@@fahholliday5374 idk that something new i learned

In an interview they said they most closely model the game’s mythology after that of the Orphic cult and they typically merged Chronos and Cronus

There's no ending yet, the story stops right in there early access (besides the surface levels which aren't done either). Just like Hades 1 the full story will probably be revealed in version 1.0.

Because the game's still in early access. I don't even think the Pact of Punishment equivalent's out yet

A: its early acess the devs have openly said they have not even written the full ending and only have an outline for how they want things to go. B: Chronos is the personfication of time. You cannot stop time, only delay and alter its rate of passing. To fully destroy Chronos would mean the destruction of linear time as a concept, which is not good for civilization.

​​@@ethanduncan1646after you beat him and talk to Hecate she hints at the possebility of sealing him. After that you'll find a new recepy in the cauldron with one rescource being z-sand which Chronos drops upon being defeated and one unknown rescource. So similar to the first game you'll have to beat the last boss multiple times to get the true ending. They'll probably let you seal him and then make up some excuse like "oh you have to still fight him to weaken him so that he doesn't break the seal" or something.

It is still Early access, design is bound to change

Tbh he has this scary aura sometimes its not about the looks. He has this trickster and dangerous vibe.

No you need to understand while hades is more intimidating because its fits his personality always angry and in a bad mood. And Chronos personality so far was Cunning and i think his design is very fittinh for that

Trust me, his fight is much harder than hades