Genuinely very few complaints about this masterpiece. Art direction is absurdly good it's hard to even imagine how they programmed it to look like you're playing through a storybook. Gameplay itself is phenomenal and they introduce all the game's concepts very well. With it already being a challenge to introduce story to a rougelike game, Hades pulls it off as it complements the events of each of your runs beautifully along with some of the best voice acting I've heard in a game ever. This was a wild time and a highlight of my time playing indie games.

Being my first ever traditional Zelda game, this was quite an interesting experience. Considering the necessity of book guides during the SNES days, I had assistance of my roommate to help guide me through this game. I was shocked to discover how much content was packed into such a retro title and I've now seen for my own eyes why people love the 2D Zelda formula and this game specifically so much. The dungeons were by far the most fun to plow through since you wouldn't really need any guides and it taught me the many "Zelda"-type puzzles to recognize in future titles. Some small gripes I had include: mediocre combat system, most of the items were very situational and most I don't even think I used more than twice, repetitive music and enemies, and just the fact I had to use a guide to help me so that I didn't have to spend more than 10 hours on the game. Overall, I had a very fun time with this game and will definitely be returning later.

Far and away some of the most fun I've had with a 2D Mario game since my first time playing 3 and World. Delightful art style, hilariously stylistic animations, polished level design, and stage variety all add up to extremely fun experience for both singleplayer and multiplayer. Some very small gripes that could easily be fixed that would allow me to see this as a 5 star would be: more variety in badges, a better difficulty balance late game, and a general shakeup of the formula would all serve this game beautifully. I haven't cared as much about the bosses as most people, seeing how bosses really have never been that important in the series (outside of NSMB DS having some excellent bosses), but I do feel that having new kinds of bosses wouldn't hurt. Overall, this was a very exciting experience. Hopefully Miyamoto will finally let the developers make fun games.

Most levels are decent, some levels suck and some levels do stand out. Almost all bosses are incredibly infuriating, especially the multiple final bosses which are some of the worst designed bosses I've ever attempted. The undeniable mentality I couldn't get over the entire game was: the difficulty feels unfair rather than challenging due to how badly I feel the game was designed/programmed in general. I spent most of my time angry and frustrated when playing. Only better than Sonic 1 for obvious reasons, but Sega really needs to give us something better than this.