Maddy Myers

not necessarily make it certainly help make it easier, but also make it what you want it to be.

There's a skill tree.

There's a sort of RPG skill tree where you can when you go back to base, there's a base Hades style.

There's a base that you return back to and you unlock things.

And that's been really helpful for me, given that every time I die, I'm like, OK, great.

I've got I've got a way to get stronger.

I can go talk to this AI computer and help it give me upgrades.

But we'll get into it.

But I do think that the game.

OK, so here's another thing about this.

I had sort of intended on playing it like a little bit on my Steam deck, like, you know, while Dina's watching a television show.

And usually if I'm doing that, I'm playing with the sound off.

I don't think you can play this game with the sound off.

I don't know if you two tried that, but it's way harder if it's completely silent because the sound design for the enemies is so...

expressive and creepy like they kind of make clicking noises they're like these sort of alien tentacled beings and in my headphones which i'm wearing right now which is how i've generally been playing the game when i do the best i have that kind of surround sound so i know exactly where they are and then i can use the dash mechanic which is lovely and the shield mechanic to make sure i'm you know absorbing projectiles correctly etc but also i know exactly where every enemy is behind me

via sound and i thought that was an interesting aspect of the game that i don't think i tried with returnal and i'm wondering if i went back to returnal would it be easier for me if i played it with my pretty expensive surround sound headphones so i've really been aware of sound while playing this game as being something that is helping me play better than i think i would otherwise

Or as one might call it, a death defiance, if one knows it from Hades.

Yeah, I finally got that on the run I was playing right before this call.

I'd love to hear that.

That was another thing that I Googled at one point.