I have a love-hate relationship with live, die, repeat, rogue-style games, Dark Souls in particular (so pretty, so brutal).

Hades gives me a very different feeling though. Each time Zagreus returns to his father’s house he unlocks a little more story, a little more of his secret past, and each foray out into into the Technicolor Underworld brings encounters with characters from Greek mythology and the chance for romance with a Fury or a god of Death (one guess which I’m pursuing).
So much so that I often look forward to dying just in the hope that I’ll encounter Thanatos on his balcony.

The thing that seals the deal for me though is the music. Finding out that the composer, Darren Korb is also the voice of Zagreus really made it all sync up (and I dream of him narrating one of my audiobooks). That said, it’s Eurydice’s tune, Good Riddance, sung by Ashley Barrett, that haunts me. It has since I first encountered her in Asphodel: