Hades II Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/hades-ii/ Stories about Culture Tue, 16 Jul 2024 04:13:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://unwinnable.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-icon-1-32x32.jpg Hades II Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/hades-ii/ 32 32 Can You Kill the Dog? https://unwinnable.com/2024/07/16/can-you-kill-the-dog/ https://unwinnable.com/2024/07/16/can-you-kill-the-dog/#comments Tue, 16 Jul 2024 04:13:16 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=96425 If Cerberus’s anger is anything to go by, this may be a more nuanced look at the mythology the Hades games pull from.

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]]> https://unwinnable.com/2024/07/16/can-you-kill-the-dog/feed/ 1 Supergiant’s Scrappier, Better Underworld https://unwinnable.com/2024/06/06/supergiants-scrappier-better-underworld/ https://unwinnable.com/2024/06/06/supergiants-scrappier-better-underworld/#comments Thu, 06 Jun 2024 04:03:46 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=95897 So much of Hades, and by extension Hades II, can be seen in the primordial soup of Pyre.

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]]> https://unwinnable.com/2024/06/06/supergiants-scrappier-better-underworld/feed/ 1 The Triple Goddess Effect https://unwinnable.com/2023/02/02/the-triple-goddess-effect/ https://unwinnable.com/2023/02/02/the-triple-goddess-effect/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2023 05:03:20 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=90018 Like Hades protagonist Zagreus, Melinoë is also connected to an Orphic hymn, this time one that sings of her as a “saffron veil’d” nymph that inspires both night terrors and madness in people.

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