A kaleidoscopic beauty of hand painted environments and lovingly crafted, impeccably voiced dialogue and character dynamics that take sensible liberties with Greek mythology. However, in practice, Hades just doesn't work as a game, because it's incredibly mindless. The combat has too little depth, and I never really had to put forth any effort to do well, even while constantly ramping up the difficulty. There needed to be more enemy types or different moves you could unlock for each weapon or something to spice things up aside from the underwhelming legendary aspects and keepsakes, especially because the story progression was far too slow paced for its own good. It may as well be a mobile game.