Failure, and learning from failure, is part of the journey. Even in successfully escaping, Zagreus ultimately fails and must begin his quest anew. Zagreus is doomed to fail that’s the entire point of Hades. While some games are brutal in their punishment for death, and others allow you to just get back up and continue onwards, most games still dissuade the act of losing. That it means the game will perfectly balance itself for you over time is great design, but it’s thematically where God Mode truly shines. It’s not just the actual difficulty where God Mode shines though. God Mode allows things to get incrementally easier without various settings needing to be worked out. Supergiant Games is a small studio, and creating and balancing multiple difficulties, especially in a roguelite with different weapons and boons, adds an extra layer of developmental challenge. On a practical level, it’s an interesting way of implementing a difficulty mode.
Every failure matters, and that’s something Hades underlines.
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While the typical rougelite progression still happens in Hades – you fall to Megaera, you learn how to beat Megaera, etc – God Mode gives you an added incentive. It’s a roguelite, designed around the idea that you will lose, over and over again, before eventually getting better. Initially, you will lose a lot – even the best players do. This allows you to learn from the game by progressively getting stronger as you get better. With God Mode, every time you die, you get two percent stronger. While only one difficulty setting exists, the game includes God Mode. As childish as I think complaints about Abby having biceps in The Last of Us Part 2 are, I can at least understand on an academic level why people don’t want to play as an icky girl not designed from the ground up to be ogled.ĭifficulty in Hades is genius. It has become a strange measure of ‘gamerness’, a gatekeeping tool that rises as high as the current gatekeeper can manage the difficulty on – but no higher – and for no reason. Meaningful stories with – eThat I play on Normal, or Easy, or Games Journalist Mode doesn’t mean you can’t play on Super Hardcore or I Have A Massive Penis difficulty to prove your worthiness as a gamer.
That’s for the betterment of games as a whole, but you personally might find reason to be angry that games strive to tell meaningful stories now. If you love unbuttered white bread, play Mass Effect wrong, and only want to play as straight white male characters who never confront political or social issues, gaming becoming more mature than Duke Nukem must have been a shock to you.
‘Too many women, or too many queer characters’ at least comes from a place of personal experience. There are some pieces of toxic gaming discourse that I understand, toxic though they are. Difficulty is one of the most toxic of video game discourses, and it has no right to be. Meanwhile, those on jalfrezi would have been pressured to challenge themselves with madras, while the madras group would not have truly eaten curry until they’d eaten a vindaloo. Maybe you’d call it ‘video game journalist curry’, seeing as it’s not particularly difficult to eat. In the video game world, my curry is not a real curry. Everyone ate their own dish, enjoyed it, and went home. A jalfrezi, two madras, and a tikka masala were also ordered in our group. Two others, who had lost the vote to go elsewhere, ordered a plain korma. The last time my friends and I went out for a curry, I ordered something sweet and mild – a malayan.
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