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NEW EPISODE: The System Behind Hades' Astounding Dialogue
🕑 Added 2020-11-19 15:50:22 +0000 UTCWhen Supergiant announced it was working on an Early Access roguelike, a few eyebrows were raised. This is a studio best known for its incredible narrative experiences, with luxurious, often fully-voiced narration accompanying the player throughout their adventure.
How could that format translate into a genre that relies so heavily on randomness? And if players are going to be progressing at wildly different speeds, aren't some people going to end up having a worse experience, damned to hearing the same lines be repeated over and over again?
Well, if you've played Hades by now (and you should), you'll know it answered those questions and then some. But how? Let's take a peek behind the curtain.
