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Been playing Hades.
11 Dec 2020 08:07 pmLots and lots of Hades.
I did NaNoWriMo last month, and I wrote a hair over 50k words of a feminist retelling of the Siegfried/Sigurd legend. I was inspired by the retellings I've read recently, and, in format/style, at least, especially by The Penelopiad. I haven't looked at it since the 30th, so I can come back to it with fresher eyes when it's revision time. It's extremely niche, so I have no idea if there'd be any sort of audience for it. I had fun writing it, and that's what matters.
This month, I'm practicing reading Old Norse because a) it's fun and b) I want to be able to read the source texts (or at least refer to them).
I bought myself a cheap pair of outdoor skates so I feel less like I'm going to break my real (expensive) skates. They're currently out-gassing on the deck, because they're extremely cheap and have an odor. But they're cute, and if I break them, they're less expensive to replace than my real skates.
Because like everyone on the internet was talking about Hades (the videogame), I looked into it and decided it sounded like fun, so I bought it for the Switch. It's a LOT of fun! I turned on God mode because I couldn't get out of the first level without dying a lot, but that maxes out at 80% damage reduction. I've finished the main plot (Zagreus' plot), but there are still a ton of side plots to get through.
If you haven't heard of the game yet, you play Zagreus, Hades' son, and you're trying to escape from the realm of Hades. You have to battle through 4 levels (Tartarus, Asphodel, Elysium, and Styx), each with a boss at the end, and if (when) you die, you go back to the House, and there you talk to people and that sort of thing. Then you go out again and try again. Considering that I've played both fighting games and Dynasty Warriors-style games, and I like them a lot, this moderate repetition is fine. Someone on the internet quipped something like "why should I play one game for 300 hours when I can play the same 1-hr game 300 times?" and it me, as they say.
The art is gorgeous, the character designs are FAB, and the music is fuckin rad.
And now it's time for my nightly escape from Hades, so I will sign off.
I did NaNoWriMo last month, and I wrote a hair over 50k words of a feminist retelling of the Siegfried/Sigurd legend. I was inspired by the retellings I've read recently, and, in format/style, at least, especially by The Penelopiad. I haven't looked at it since the 30th, so I can come back to it with fresher eyes when it's revision time. It's extremely niche, so I have no idea if there'd be any sort of audience for it. I had fun writing it, and that's what matters.
This month, I'm practicing reading Old Norse because a) it's fun and b) I want to be able to read the source texts (or at least refer to them).
I bought myself a cheap pair of outdoor skates so I feel less like I'm going to break my real (expensive) skates. They're currently out-gassing on the deck, because they're extremely cheap and have an odor. But they're cute, and if I break them, they're less expensive to replace than my real skates.
Because like everyone on the internet was talking about Hades (the videogame), I looked into it and decided it sounded like fun, so I bought it for the Switch. It's a LOT of fun! I turned on God mode because I couldn't get out of the first level without dying a lot, but that maxes out at 80% damage reduction. I've finished the main plot (Zagreus' plot), but there are still a ton of side plots to get through.
If you haven't heard of the game yet, you play Zagreus, Hades' son, and you're trying to escape from the realm of Hades. You have to battle through 4 levels (Tartarus, Asphodel, Elysium, and Styx), each with a boss at the end, and if (when) you die, you go back to the House, and there you talk to people and that sort of thing. Then you go out again and try again. Considering that I've played both fighting games and Dynasty Warriors-style games, and I like them a lot, this moderate repetition is fine. Someone on the internet quipped something like "why should I play one game for 300 hours when I can play the same 1-hr game 300 times?" and it me, as they say.
The art is gorgeous, the character designs are FAB, and the music is fuckin rad.
And now it's time for my nightly escape from Hades, so I will sign off.
