The balance feels pretty spot on you’re never left with bad options. The thing is, every room reward is valuable to you in some way, so it can be a tough call between building your strength or acquiring something that’ll come in handy down the line. In addition to these, you might also pick up Darkness crystals, Gemstones, Keys.
They’re your bread and butter for getting stronger throughout a run, and each god’s unique set of Boons will stack with the others, resulting in some seriously potent effects. Boons are buffs handed down to you by the gods of Olympus, and these can imbue Zagreus with all kinds of stat boosts, elemental effects, and more. You might have multiple doorways to choose from, and your only decision will come from what reward you want after the impending fight. After defeating a handful of baddies, you’ll move into the next area. The action is generally very fast and, for the most part, taking damage feels dangerous you’ll be making liberal use of the dodge in order to preserve what little HP you have. You’ll hack and slash your way through hundreds of enemies in hand-crafted rooms that are randomly arranged. The main thrust of gameplay is with these escape attempts, and it all plays out like an isometric dungeon crawler. Fortunately, being a god of the Underworld, repeatedly dying and returning to his own home isn’t exactly a problem. Of course, his journey will be a tough one, and will involve numerous deaths as he tries again and again to make it that little bit further. Shunning his princely duties and with contempt for his uncaring father, he decides to leave home and escape to the surface - but to do that, he’ll first have to make it through the four treacherous regions between him and the fresh air above. You play as Zagreus, son of Hades, and he’s sick of his stuffy life in the Underworld.
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