Self-described Hades “fucking legend” and speedrunner Jade, or AngeL1C, turned the primary recognized participant to finish the cult-favorite roguelike at its max issue settings on August 2, 10 days after roguelike content material creator Haelian stated it couldn’t be carried out in a July 25 YouTube video.
In Hades, turning your issue settings as much as the face-melting 64 Warmth requires gamers to modify on Hell Mode, weakening protagonist Zagreus, whereas, amongst different sport adjustments, turning regular enemies steel-strong and lightning-fast, and juicing up bosses via additional talents. With all this in thoughts, Haelian factored collectively the precise Boon upgrades a participant would wish, the time they’d should spend proving their run isn’t seeded (containing fastened selections), and different components essential to beating Hades on 64 Warmth; finally, Haelian declared the chances of somebody doing so to be “0.236643 %, or a measly one in 422 makes an attempt.”
“After which, even then,” he continued within the July 25 video with, on the time of writing, over 870,000 views, “in the event you handle to get previous this hellscape,” you’ll nonetheless have to race towards the clock to defeat Hades’ multi-stage ultimate boss, Hades, throughout the five-minute time restrict 64 Warmth allots per sport part. Not possible, proper?
However slightly over per week later, Jade uploaded a YouTube video that proved beating Hades at 64 Warmth in an unseeded, unmodded sport may very well be carried out, although it’s realistically a millennium away from what a mean participant can do with their thumbs.
“Welp,” Haelian stated on Reddit in response.
Jade, at the least, acknowledges the proper timing and uncooked ability obligatory to finish the historic run in her video’s description.
“51 minutes of makes an attempt, to get luck that’s arguably unachievable in hundreds of hours,” she wrote. “By no means say by no means I assume.”
In an August 3 response video, Haelian determined that Jade is among the solely Hades gamers on the planet able to tearing up 64 Warmth, and developer Supergiant Video games congratulated her for the “godlike feat” on Twitter.
“Zagreus is aware of there’s no higher motivation to realize one thing fairly like being instructed it’s not possible!” the developer stated.
