My addiction to Hades II and how it has made me reflect on learning!

I'm not really into playing this type of game, so much so that I haven't even played Hades 1, but I had the chance to play Hades II and I'm getting addicted. This game totally satisfies my addiction to speed and, to be honest, I haven't even made it past the beginning.

I've been enjoying Mélinoe and the characters that have been introduced so far. One of the things that really upsets me is losing one of the outfits I get from the spider lady. But, going back to the game, I feel like a huge failure when I lose, you can see that in Mélinoe, but she knows she'll get it one way or another, since time is on our side, I guess.

I've been enjoying the game's movement, something simple, fluid, and really reminds me of Devil May Cry, gameplay that is hard to find nowadays, only in some very specific games.

Look, I'm not the best expert on genres, I just play a lot and like to try new things, but it has been an adventure learning how to improve in Hades II.

The more I progressed the first time I played, the more I felt like a hero, and to be honest, since the game was in early access, in other words, not finished, I didn't pay much attention to the story, but the character designs that were appearing kept surprising me, because you could see the character's personality from just one picture, it was beautiful and along with the story, it became more and more epic.

Then I died for the first time and went back to where I started. I ignored everything and instead of paying attention to the tutorials, I ended up getting lost not knowing how to get back to the battle. Yes, I'm a complete failure when it comes to starting something, because as soon as I realized I was messing up, I snapped out of it and started reading what everyone around me was saying.

As I better understood what I was doing and where I was going, things changed, I became a little more confident and that's when I messed up. I let my guard down and quickly lost the game because I was jumping into battle like an idiot. After that, I just had to die about 10 more times to understand it better.

Shortly after, the other game features were introduced, things that could increase my powers in the long run and also some tools I could use, but that weren't for fighting. I ignored all of that again and went into battle, why? I'll tell you why: Why not? Soon I returned with my face more on the asphalt than when I went down there.

That's when I understood the card system that can be used and how they affect the character, having a maximum amount to use. Again I tried to go back there and the result was better.

Now I had managed to reach the first sub-boss of the game, which made me happy, even though I died to her shortly after, but what matters is the confidence and self-awareness that I created about myself.

When I went back to face the sub-boss, I came back stronger and managed to defeat her, which was great at first, but then came Mélinoe's master, Hécate. There's an interesting thing about some characters when they are introduced to us. The presentation can totally change the way we approach an enemy, or the way we approach our emotions. Upon realizing that I would have to fight against the character who trained my character, well, I nearly pooped myself.

She not only created clones of herself, but also became intangible, created other creatures that attacked me, not to mention the spell she cast, which if it hit me, I would turn into a sheep and the most I could do was take a little jump forward.

I even managed to stay alive for a short period of time, but I messed up shortly after, as I didn't know how to touch her. Although she had openings in several moments, she had quick attacks and I couldn't just do it any way I wanted.

Well, I died, but went back there with a strategy. I gathered the best buffs the game could give me up to that point, and went to Hécate to beat her up, and lost again. This time the problem wasn't exactly me running away from her like Light Yagami from Netflix when he saw the Shinigami. This time I would fight, even if she shaved my mustache the moment I got close.

It worked, until she turned me into a sheep, plucked my hair, and made me dance naked. That was sad, very sad. Now I was already frustrated, now I didn't have much to lose, I just started playing trying to understand what I was doing wrong, after a thousand attempts, feeling my insanity grow, and then I simply devoured the damn character's move set, because it was the only way to win, simple as that.

I'm loving this game, especially because it makes me learn every time I die, even though sometimes I get very frustrated, since I would definitely prefer a new Devil May Cry, because I don't like to leave my comfort zone, but this game is making me open up my experiences and that's really awesome!