Hades speedruns are incredibly difficult

I'm a former top 10 speedrunner for regular any%, and fresh file is definitely no joke. Nice job on beating it

Little correction for the Styx area. Normally in a speedrun you would take the paths with minibosses (marked with little skulls) first, since they are faster in comparison to the normal ones. The normal paths have a habit of spawning multiple waves of small enemies, which can take ages.

You shouldve mentioned that taking shops is almost always the best option in a speedrun. They arent a bonus room, they replace a room that wouldve had enemies, so not having to fight makes the shop the faster choice. You would only not take it if the other option was a fountain room or something.

hades has got to be the most rewarding and the most harsh game all rolled into a single pretty package

The Doom effect is a reference to the "Sword of Damocles" story. The TL;DR is that Damocles told his king he was very fortunate to have all that he does, to which his king offered to trade places with him for one day. He gave him everything he wanted, but hung a sword by a single horse hair over the throne, to simulate the looming threat from all the enemies he's made during his reign. Eventually the thought of the impending doom of the sword falling on his head was too much for Damocles to bear, and he switched back to being a servant

you didn’t thank your only Shade fan after the Theseus fight! love this game and this speed run blew my mind!

new file runs are always extremely challenging, you made it look almost like a walk in the park. huge props to you, i can tell how much you put into learning the game as fast as possible for people who dont know anything about Hades this probably just looks really cool, but for those of us who have played this game for hundreds of hours we can see just how precisely you've dissected the enemy patterns and luck pools. this was an absolutely insane run, congrats

Clicked on this video quicker than my first death in Hades

It’s my favorite video game. I KNOW it’s difficult as hell to speedrun.(pun not initially intended but now it is)

Trully one of the best games there is Also the one where the protag is an absolute chad and a absolute dork at the same time. Achilles, Patroclus and Nyx should be proud of their kid (because Hades did jacksh!t and Persephone.....was busy for spoiler reasons). Specially Achilles since he was the most present one (and Nyx for spoiler reasons)

how in the world is this guy so good at every game he plays? genuinely curious because some of the videos he makes is crazy.

He didn't thank the Shade....run invalid

it's so wholesome that an effective strat to help beat the game is hugging your dad. :)

gamedev: Makes a compelling story driven gameplay with many ways to experience the game from the players pov EazySpeezy: SO TODAY WE ARE-

Hades is SOOOO much fun to speed run but it is definitely difficult. Honestly surprised you did fresh file, since it’s not a very popular category. I prefer just the normal speedrun

ive been on/off doing fresh file runs to practice, so im gonna start one along with you. tell ya how it goes edit: forgot merciful end strats so reset time attempt 2 didnt go too well, got shredded by meg attempt 3 had an ares drought, might just post later attempts here attempt 4: no ares, died at asterius attempt 5: got merciful end for the first time, but got no healing in elysium final chamber, so the champions shredded me

gotta admit, I saw the art alot before, never knew it was a game though, pretty sick

I never realized that Theseus had different specials for the solo phase, I always got the Zeus attacks

Fresh file is very challenging. Huge congrats on the clear + thanks for plugging the guide I wrote!

Love this game. Fun facts 1 and 2, taking the boss routes in Styx is generally faster, since those areas stop spawning new enemies once you kill the boss, whereas the normal ones will just spawn continuous waves until they’re done. Also, when hades does his first 3 laser version of that attack, you can just dash through him and smack him from the other side. He can turn around, but it’s real slow so you’ll be fine. Also IMO Athena special is not the best in the game in its entirety. Usually it depends on your build, and Athena usually isn’t in the running. Probably the best for this speedrun though. At least the first iterations. The more you play the game, the more you go for big damage numbers rather than safety