As well as adding all of Hades 1 into Hades 2, the Zagreus' Journey mod now brings new boons, story beats, and more

Hell's bells and whistles

When Mark wrote astir Zagreus' Journey backmost successful December, the mod was already good connected its mode to completing its main goal: putting each of the archetypal Hades into Hades 2. In the months since, modder Nikkel Mollenhauer has gone mode beyond that target. The mod has officially deed 1.0 and it's added caller communicative beats, boons, and a tonne of caller cosmetics to beauteous up your lair.

In a precise authoritative looking caller trailer, you tin spot the scope of what Mollenhauer's achieved.

After you've installed the mod and booted it up, successful Melinoë's location basal astatine the crossroads, you'll find a portal that volition nonstop you down to Zagreus's location successful the Underworld. From determination you tin commencement a caller travel into Tartarus and connected to Asphodel, Elysium and the Temple of Styx. You'll brushwood each of the aged enemies and bosses, and, arsenic Mark wrote astir backmost successful December, you tin play done the archetypal story. When you participate dialog with a quality Zagreus speaks portion Melinoë hovers implicit his enarthrosis successful the background.

Now, truthful far, that's each arsenic was the lawsuit a fewer months ago. However successful this week's 1.0 release, Mollenhauer's folded successful caller cosmetics, boons, and communicative beats, arsenic good arsenic features' from immoderate different mods. For instance, Charon's Tip Jar lets you springiness the ferryman immoderate unspent gold, contributing it toward Obol points, and Flip The Arcana lets you walk the caller resources you tin lone find successful Zagreus' Journey to bargain radically antithetic Arcana cards. That past change, truly ties the 2 games together, and stops the jaunt into the archetypal Hades being conscionable a amusive travel down representation lane.

Another furniture Zagreus' Journey adds to the archetypal crippled are caller boons from characters similar Orpheus and Sisyphus. Orpheus' God of the Dead boon, for instance, gives immoderate force you slay a tiny accidental of coming backmost from the sedate and warring for you. A bully twist connected Aphrodite's Charm and 1 that's successful keeping with Orpheus bewitching music.

Zagreus' Journey has garnered a just spot of attraction already, successful that Supergiant person fixed it their ringing endorsement, saying they were "blown away" by the mod. You tin drawback the mod and installation instructions implicit here.

I've sunk galore many hours into Hades, but I'm inactive yet to play Hades 2. It would beryllium conscionable the silly benignant of happening I'd bash to instal the sequel and this mod and ne'er beforehand beyond Zagreus's journey…