Melinoe Meets the Gods - Hades 2, Early Access | Technical Test Gameplay. 

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The light of the Lampedes. Hecate often directed shades in the underworld that help lost souls to their rightful places, which are known by their eerie light the Lampedes.

Yeah, like, why the literal god of crafting, metallurgy and technology isn't giving you some pretty stuff?😊

We still use daedalus hammers for weapon specific upgrades. Perhaps Hephaestus will have boons that interact with the hammer rewards like we had for other room reward upgrades. Maybe he has a boon similar to rare crop/sunken treasure were it acts like the anvil of fates, you sacrifice one of your current hammer upgrades in exchange for another, with higher rarity giving multiple randon upgrades in exchange of only 1.

They probably ran out of either time or other resources. However it can be also explained with lore: Hephaestus does not like to mingle with other gods, as the ugly one. He prefers to be alone with his workshop. So he is pretty unlekily to help a child joining a party/social event

My biggest complaint for Hades 2 is that the main character is a girl. Suggesting that Zagreus was incapable of doing what this bich can. What a joke.

⁠@@HelloOnepieceThat’s precisely it. He didn’t want to meddle in godly affairs too much, almost as fed up with his family’s posturing as Persephone was. He’s probably have left too, if not for Aphrodite actually loving him in this iteration of the character. And for what it’s worth, he IS regretful he didn’t pitch in; I can only guess he got to know Zag after the fact, and quite liked the young lad.

Aphrodite as well!

I’d like to remind everyone that this is the same goddess who almost ended all life on earth to get her daughter back, Kronos might wanna stay in the underworld.

​@@julianius484we got Aphrodite Areia

​@julianius484 she brought out the old spear and warpaint As she is also a part time goddess of war

really hoping the goddess of discord and chaos ( eris ) makes an appearance! edit: MY GIRL CAME AND IVE NEVER BEEN MORE HAPPIER OH MY GODS

​@@daeity1 one of the rail aspects in the first game eas hers, and we had dialogue about her and that aspect with Thanatos, and im pretty sure Hecate mentions Eris as well, so she is likely to appear.

I hope Helios shows up. Seeing Selene gives me hope Apollo is not the sole sun deity in here.

@@unkindled6410 Yes! Maybe since Apollo is the God of Light in-game, Helios will be the God of the Sun!

@@jiggiesmalls9034 if i also remember correctly, didnt demeter mention helios? like how she blotted the sun out of complete spite or something? maybe we'll see helios in here.

hehehe

That or her appearance is deliberately hidden until a certain point in the story

Zagreus influnced her pretty hard i guess

She’s hot now

​@@uzuwi9782she is been hot already

Love how this outrider also stalk Chronos' minions here, in the lands, while other olympians defend their mountain.

I mean, did you expect any less???

If they weren't any hot as they were in the previous game, we finna riot! XD

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I expect nothing less

Let's just headcannon he went a little hard on the ambrosia the night before. Got caught off guard.

From what I understand- he was frozen in Stasis with a chunk of the household, As Chronos did not wish to 'involve' them. While a bit of a cop-out in my opinion, we have to remember that Zagreus's experience was trying to find ways to keep shades from breaking out and keep mortals fearing death, A titan that encompasses time, even with all the boons Zagreus has gained, would be too far outside his repertoire. Also, If I saw the scene correctly, he was stretched out with titan-slaying blade in hand, so he likely went down swinging.

@@joemomma2189 He fought hard but not that fast enough to reach Chronos, when Hades alerted with the jailbreak, he immediately sent Melinoe with Hecate before he makes for war preparation. Chronos however appear out of nowhere sitting on Hades's throne and the first one to strike is Zagreus while the others ready themselves for a fight only to be frozen in time by Chronos.

Maybe in the third game or whatever they're dong next we'll get to play both the siblings? Assuming that Zagreus is still around anyway.

Samee!

tbh im kinda disappointed that they didnt give her an actual sprite its just the recolor of charon (and even then i preferred charon in the first game he just looks better)

@@tabz906 if it is just a recolor of Charon then I am sure she will get her own sprite eventualy

@@mrfutrzaczek9127 oh thats good to hear, cant wait to see her design :)

@@tabz906 Yeah, she'll almost definitely have her own design. You just have to remember that we're still pre-Early Access.

Also a goddess of family, she is the sister every other god treasures. One of her brothers being in danger is one of the few things that would turn her to war.

It isn't a myth. They are our gods, and frown upon the non Greeks such as you.

Ares probably busy right now defending Olympus

It is probably because the Aphrodite we see here is Aphrodite Areia, an aspect that encompasses both love and war, and that's why you can see Ares's mask in Aphrodite

Maybe he got trapped in a jar again?

Well, after Hephaestus & Aphrodite got their divorce finalized, the guy got hitched almost inmediatly with one of the three graces, with whom he actually had a happy marriage and even had children. So depending on which era we're talking about, Hephaestus will be either pining and/or desiring Aphrodite (it was never known wheter he actually liked her or it was a simple show of power), being horrendously married with her or being amicable exes... since the guy did go and snatch her servant almost immediatly after the divorce only to actually have the happy marriage that the goddess of love couldn't have.

@@maximilianorousseau3799 Maybe it isn't that she can't have a happy marriage but that she simply doesn't want to be married? It's not like she got a choice in marrying Hephaestus after all.

A pretty cool princess imo.

Wouldn’t be surprised if it was the inspiration

She is getting closer... I can feel it...

Her past weapon is fucking war gloves, she sure know some things about beating shit out of people and tearing them apart like in Doom under berser buff 😅

Her design, and Charon’s design are a work in progress

Its a placeholder like Charons portrait.

the cloak is a place holder kinda like in the first game all the gods were hooded up before they had the designs

@@dudejoe24 the first game also had those? Was it this exact same cloak design or was it diferent? Im kinda curious.

I don't think he can die, that's the main premise of the first game.

personally I’m kinda hoping for a Zagreus boss fight where he’s under Kronos’ control and we gotta free him

@@indigostudio2245 That would be depressing because this is a roguelike, so we would be bound to beat him for an infinite amount of times without being able to save him.

​@@benjaminrecalde7628 they ended up changing the context of why you fight the final boss in the first game, cant see how they cant do the same here

First can be under control of Chronos, then for training.

yes!!! such good casting imo amelia tylers voice truly fits hecate as a character

She is sure not dumped strength attribute

Tysm!

thank you! But won't we get Athena Ares and Dionysus???

@@berilsevvalbekret772 I hope so. I also really want to see Nike make her debut in this game as well since she's a really cool goddess from the mythology

@berilsevvalbekret772 This is the technical test. Things are bound to change and they haven't revealed all the contents yet

Kronos ate her too as a baby so no.....

I'm assuming that they're more akin to "Sisterly bond" since Artemis from what I recall has a in-group of all girls.

Technically they are cousins, but as the comment before says, she is using "sister' as in sisterhood in either combat or friendship, considering in the first game Artemis and Zagreus establish a bond of friendship too (subtle nod to Zag being a god of hunting too in certain versions of his myth) maybe Melinoe got an even closer bond with Artemis.

It's like comrades calling each other as brother in arms

@@bazzjedimasterSelene at one point mentions the “silver sisters” which is most likely referring to Selene, Artemis, Hecate and Melinoë as the are all goddesses of the moon, so it’s most likely something related to that

@@percy2054 They all have a band with each other's colors on it, so that's probably it.

That's a great question 😁😁

It's a Hades game, everyone's super hot. (Even Hephaestus who, in the original greek myths, was thrown off Olympus at birth due to being ugly.)

Hera threw him down a mountain

​@@hexbug9737And he got a limb from that not missing a foot and stuck in a wheelchair.... Honestly the box ticking in these games is becoming annoying.

@@thehermit8723 not a limp a mangled foot

​@@thehermit8723 What do you mean?

homie i'm not sure they're the racist here

@@redmage5251 wights aren't allowed to have their own history, culture and folklore. The fact that me pointing it out seems racist to you, makes you a racist.

We don’t actually know that. This is just a glimpse of a much bigger game.

Aren't they siblings? I mean it can kinda make sense