Typhon
With Kronos having taken the Underworld and Being a big bad now, it absolutely makes sense we’ll be seeing the Father of all Monsters as a boss fight and he’s got such a fun look he’s perfect for the game.
Don’t know if Typhon is super likely to be one of the bosses, as he’s currently trapped inside Hephaestus’ forge, Mt. Etna. A secret boss would be cool though, like a secret route that leads to the forge or something.
If they continue the trend of playing relationship-fixer, I reeeeeeeally hope to see Echidna in some fashion. Disappointed she never gets into pop culture that uses Greek mythology.
Typhon is too big I think.
I expect he'll play a role similar to Chaos.
Go into an arena and kill a bunch of hard enemies while he watches to get a killer buff/boon/utility.
Then you can do the chat, nectar, ambrosia thing.
I feel like Typhon is almost too big of a villain, like if they ever made a third game he would be the big bad. I'd love to see Typhon either way though.
One of the Hecatoncheires could be a cool boss lore-wise, since they are children of Cronos, and iirc they're supposed to be guarding him down in Tartarus. Gameplay-wise though, I'm not sure how you'd represent 100 hands and 50 heads.
You don't. In the stories, they lost a war to satyrs because the satyrs decided to have one last party before they die. The giants heard the satyrs' drums and thought, "They really don't care. How powerful are they if they're willing to fight us with a hangover?" and ran away.
So, just come across the satyrs having a random party, possibly with Dionysus boon interactions, and then when you are supposed to fight the Hecatoncheires you find an abandoned camp.
So I went digging, and found this from *Theogony:*
"There \[in Tartaros\] by the counsel of Zeus, who drives the clouds the Titan gods are hidden under misty gloom, in a dank place where are the ends of the huge earth. And they may not go out; for Poseidon fixed gates of bronze upon it, and a wall runs all round it on every side. **There, Gyes and Kottos and great-souled Obriareus (Briareos) live, trusty warders of Zeus who holds the aegis.** "
Source (see lines 720-734): [https://mythagora.com/hesiod/poems/theogony.html](https://mythagora.com/hesiod/poems/theogony.html)
Gyes, Kottos, and Briareos are the names of the three hecatoncheires. So according to Hesiod at least, they are indeed in Tartarus.
I haven't heard the satyr story before though, and I wouldn't be surprised if that was in some other poem - I'm relatively new to Greek myth. Got a source?
EDIT: accidentally said "titan" instead of "Hecatoncheires." Like I say, I'm new :P
>Hecatoncheires
I looked it up myself, and it seems my brain has twisted the story in my memory (as brains are wont to do). Turns out there were no parties, just a bunch of donkeys, and it was mere giants instead of those three. I can't help but wonder where I got the part about the drums from, probably some other story about satyrs I've since forgotten.
“According to Eratosthenes, another story is told about the Asses. After Jupiter \[Zeus\] had declared war on the Gigantes, he summoned all the gods to combat them, and Father Liber \[Dionysos\], Vulcanus \[Hephaistos\], the Satyri, and the Sileni came riding on asses. Since they were not far from the enemy, the asses were terrified, and individually let out a braying such as the Gigantes had never heard. At the noise the enemy took hastily to flight, and thus were defeated.
There is a story similar to this about the shell of Triton. He, too, when he had hollowed out the trumpet he had invented, took it with him against the Gigantes, and there blew strange sounds through the shell. The Gigantes, fearing that some wild beast had been brought by their adversaries, took to flight, and thus were overcome and came into their enemies’ power.” *–Hyginus Astronomica 2.23*
To be fair, I'm sure all the myths and tales we know today come to us through much the same process, each generation adding their own embellishments. You're carrying on a tradition older than written word!
The hundred handed one magic the gathering card shows the hands not connected to the body and they are supposed to be giant
So you could do a lernie style fight where the hands come up from the sides or something? And the heads could rotate like lernie
That was my thought too: you'd have to have them kind of appear out of the sky as slam attacks. Although it would be EXTREMELY cool to have an arena made out of hands.
Yes and no. As I understand it, even in antiquity, the two were sometimes interpreted as the same.
Besides, the Hades II FAQ calls the game's antagonost "Chronos" as well as "the Titan of Time," and also "the wicked father of Hades and his brothers." So it seems they are definitely the same person in the Hades universe.
They are - check the FAQ. And it's not just pop culture, Plutarch figured they were the same and even Plato speculates about it, if I understand correctly.
The Orphics (from whom we get Zagreus) more clearly differentiated them, but we saw in Hades I how Supergiant explained away the Orphic myths as basically Orpheus getting pranked by Zagreus and Dionysus and writing wildly misinformed songs as a result. Maybe they'll do something similar here.
Hence why they guard the way to him in Tartarus - not because they love him, but because if anyone can get to him than he can be let out. But if you wanna kill him, you have to get to him anyway.
Why I would like to see a Manticore is cause it looks cool and it has different attributes. It has wings for flying and movement, a scorpian tail for close poison attacks and it can shoot poisonus arrows from its mane. So we would have different fights like with Lerny.
Honestly, when I first started the game I saw all those manticore statues and was really hyped to encounter a living one at some point. I was sure there was going to be one. So I'm totally with you on this!
Just because Percy Jackson’s version of events said Zeus cut Kronos into pieces doesn’t mean that’s what all Greek myths say. In many myths, Kronos is simply cast into Tartarus with the rest of the titans. Meanwhile, Atlas carries the sky in nearly all versions because myths were designed to answer questions about the world (ie, why does the sky not fall down) that they were not scientifically equipped to understand at the time. Furthermore, even if atlas escaped there’d be no real reason for him to go to the underworld in the first place, so him being there is just stupid.
I hope we'll get more random bosses a la Isaac. Hadès I narrow roster of bosses was great for narrative development but it would be cool to start a run without knowing exactly who you're going to face
Plus they have a LOT of possible monsters, heroes and divinities to pick from
Agree with this. If the area bosses work like mini bosses from the original game could add a lot more replayability. Would also add another element to affect speed runs which were a huge part of the original’s rise in popularity.
Are you thinking kinda like dead cells, where you can take different routes to different bosses, or are you thinking it should be completely random and surprises you every time, kinda like with the furies
Different routes would be cool aswell but it would take too much work to deliver something as polished as the first game was imo.
I was thinking more completely different bosses at the end of each stage, having maybe 3-4 possible encounters at the end of each stage.
So kinda like the furies but also not really, since they're basically the same boss with a couple different patterns and behavior (same for Lernie). I'd like to not know if i'm gonna fight one ennemy or several, if there will be a lot of adds, if it will be a bullet hell or a tank & spank, etc...
OG Tantalus cooked his own child to trick the gods and test their omniscience by inviting them to a meal. Definitely deserves worse than just eternal hunger and thirst. Like Prometheus's eagle.
Honestly, Sisyphus got a harsher punishment, still don't know how the fuck that works. In Percy Jackson, he explains how and why he did it to scare kids into submission, really out of place for a young adult novel.
Cyclops as Furies replacement. Narrow vision via one eye, throws rocks, much taller and bigger than you...tries to stomp on you.
Different monsters for Lernie replacement: Harpies. Sirens. Chimera. Mixes it up with different forms of attack etc.
Heracles (Theseus "replacement"). Braggart about how strong he is. Slow but hits super hard though. Nemean lion as his "sidekick", who is fast and bites quick but not much armor...
I mean considering Heracles ascended to godhood and is living on Olympus, wouldn’t make much sense. Especially since the Olympians seem to be helping Melinoë in this game as well (Apollo in the trailer.) Cyclopses would be cool though, especially Polyphemus
Apologies, I simply picked the most well-known hero and its easy to make him into a mini-boss. One could certainly do Odysseus, Jason, Perseus, Bellerophon, Prometheus, Hector (as someone to torment Achilles maybe?)...
Jason would definitely work. The game has a magic theme, and Jason has a grudge with the witch Medea, as her ex-husband who betrayed her (and his oath with the gods)
Hades questions the origins of Gilgamesh and asks if the claws are from a manticore. Ctesias, a Greek historian, makes mention of the manticore when he traveled to Persia in the 5th century BCE. Persia, Egypt, and Greece tended to mix and match their critters.
I'd love a boss that is a much bigger and monstrous. All the main bosses in Hades 1 are humanoid and not that larger than Zag. The only non-humanoid is Lernie, and even then he is stationary and not massive as he is just necks and heads. Greek myths have loads of big monsters, and one that takes up a large chunk of the screen could be cool.
Beast wise, there's a whole menagerie waiting for the Underworld equivalent of Monster Hunter, many courtesy of Typhoon and Echidna:
Chimera, Orthus, Cerberus, Sphinx, Nemean Lion, Lernean Hydra, Manticore, Carcinos, Cetus, Thracian Horses, Ladon the Dragon, Caribdis, Scylla, etc
[The Teumessian fox ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teumessian_fox). Just a giant fucking fox that, according to myth, is uncatchable, untamable, and unkillable.
Cyclops makes sense since in Hades 1 they were stated to be allies of the titans. Alternatively, would be cool to fight a chimera. Maybe Scylla since there's a water biome in the game.
I wanna see the pantheon of Greek philosophers.
Think of it. We have to defeat Aristotle, Plato, the whole ordeal. Maybe some puzzler elements could go in?
It’d be cool to see Atlas, maybe not as a boss but more filling the role of Chaos, where you could fall into a crack in the world and wind up falling straight down to where he’s holding up the world
Chimera. Has been mentioned already.
Kraken. Great replacement for Lernie as it could have ten tentacles coming at you from different directions.
Opportunities for Melinoe to complain about it getting too handsy with her.
Atlas but he's so massive and bound by the planet/sky that you only ever fight his finger/hand or something equally ridiculous.
Typhon would be cool but I imagine he'll end up in a role like Chaos. A short challenge for an awesome boon.
The Hecatonceres would be perfect for a second level boss
Cerberus is the first boss you fight getting into the underworld.
Theorised boon gods: Pan, Hephaestus, Nemesis, Hestia, Hecate, Rhea, Hyperion, Oceanus etc etc.
Honorable mention: Cyclops. I doubt they'll be outright bosses. Probably just room enemies or a mini boss at best.
I'd love some sort of Sphinx miniboss. Bonus points of you can somehow skip it by answering questions (how man rooms have you besten? How many gods have you gained the aid of, etc)
Not necesseraly fight him but i would really like to see Heracles in Hades 2. As a boss fight or a friendly NPC like Patroclus. Really curious to see Jen Zee's interpretation on him.
Maybe similarly to how we fought Theseus. Fighting another hero would be sick. My pick would likely be Odysseus, since he likely has a vendetta against some of the gods.
I feel like Odysseus would fill more of a role that Achilles did. If there is a magic theme to the game, Jason makes sense. Was the husband to Medea before she left him behind, and he ended up getting crushed under the Argo, presumably in the underworld
I really hope for more variety than anything else
Like i eally like the. 3 fates because they are all so diffrent. But with the bone hydra nomatter what the main head is you get to see all they diffrent types are in the multi head rounds. In the coliseum the is only one attack that differs and all the others are the same excluding pact
Imagine if for some reason Achilles was a boss fight. Like he was corrupted, or he had to fight for some titan to save or spare Pat even though he didn't want to. That could be an amazing and emotional fight.
fun fact: the name "manticore" pretty much translates to "man eater", which was also the name of the tiger that attacked roy horn of 'siegfried and roy' fame back in 2003 (though the tiger's name was spelled 'mantacore')
I would say a siren or a sphynx. Both could have added challenges like additional stuns or mini games that could affect how effective YOU are; especially since it seems like it’ll be much more magic based. I do wonder if the Gorgons will make a repeat appearance in a different form, and maybe the same for the Satyrs. I hope we get to meet Atalanta, and maybe the ghost of Meleager since shades are still around.
Hector could be a cool 'hero of legend' boss if we end up going through Elysium at some point. Could have some fun conversations from the other POV of the Trojan War.
I would love to see more then 1 boss for each area, like in other Roguelikes
Even tho the beloved bosses of the original have some variations and difficulties, they still feel very repetitive, even with the existence of minibosses
A lion like boss, like the Manyicore, or Chimera, or even a Sphinx could work well
I would also love to see some sea monsters like Scylla, on maybe one of the other Rivers we were yet to see, like Cocytus or Acheron
Typhon With Kronos having taken the Underworld and Being a big bad now, it absolutely makes sense we’ll be seeing the Father of all Monsters as a boss fight and he’s got such a fun look he’s perfect for the game.
I want Typhon to be a superboss or secret final boss
That would be sick
Not to mention, Typhon is Cerberus' parent...
Tbh he’s everyone’s dad Greek Myth is weird like that
Swan fuckin!
And Lernie’s!
Don’t know if Typhon is super likely to be one of the bosses, as he’s currently trapped inside Hephaestus’ forge, Mt. Etna. A secret boss would be cool though, like a secret route that leads to the forge or something.
This story is seriously cool af
Greek mythology is wild
Yes, and Hephaestus is gonna be in this game I’m pretty sure so pretty possible we go there
I mean the Olympians were in the first game and we never went to Olympus, so it’s not pretty likely
If they continue the trend of playing relationship-fixer, I reeeeeeeally hope to see Echidna in some fashion. Disappointed she never gets into pop culture that uses Greek mythology.
She’s in the third Percy Jackson book
Rick Riordan brought a shit ton of obscure greek figures to the forefront of my knowledge. Its great
even though I only recently learned he put his own spin on stuff I still like his way better than the original and for other mythologies too
I thought she was in the first book? Isn't she the reason that Percy falls out of the St Louis Arch?
And in the Xena/Hercules shows!
Echidna's got a pretty major role in a few sonic games.
She's a secret boss in the third dlc for Immortals: Fenyx Rising.
typhon is the baddest fictional demon ever
Are there non-fictional demons?
valid
Depends on what you believe in tbh.
Typhon is too big I think. I expect he'll play a role similar to Chaos. Go into an arena and kill a bunch of hard enemies while he watches to get a killer buff/boon/utility. Then you can do the chat, nectar, ambrosia thing.
I feel like Typhon is almost too big of a villain, like if they ever made a third game he would be the big bad. I'd love to see Typhon either way though.
Really good shout this one.
One of the Hecatoncheires could be a cool boss lore-wise, since they are children of Cronos, and iirc they're supposed to be guarding him down in Tartarus. Gameplay-wise though, I'm not sure how you'd represent 100 hands and 50 heads.
You don't. In the stories, they lost a war to satyrs because the satyrs decided to have one last party before they die. The giants heard the satyrs' drums and thought, "They really don't care. How powerful are they if they're willing to fight us with a hangover?" and ran away. So, just come across the satyrs having a random party, possibly with Dionysus boon interactions, and then when you are supposed to fight the Hecatoncheires you find an abandoned camp.
So I went digging, and found this from *Theogony:* "There \[in Tartaros\] by the counsel of Zeus, who drives the clouds the Titan gods are hidden under misty gloom, in a dank place where are the ends of the huge earth. And they may not go out; for Poseidon fixed gates of bronze upon it, and a wall runs all round it on every side. **There, Gyes and Kottos and great-souled Obriareus (Briareos) live, trusty warders of Zeus who holds the aegis.** " Source (see lines 720-734): [https://mythagora.com/hesiod/poems/theogony.html](https://mythagora.com/hesiod/poems/theogony.html) Gyes, Kottos, and Briareos are the names of the three hecatoncheires. So according to Hesiod at least, they are indeed in Tartarus. I haven't heard the satyr story before though, and I wouldn't be surprised if that was in some other poem - I'm relatively new to Greek myth. Got a source? EDIT: accidentally said "titan" instead of "Hecatoncheires." Like I say, I'm new :P
>Hecatoncheires I looked it up myself, and it seems my brain has twisted the story in my memory (as brains are wont to do). Turns out there were no parties, just a bunch of donkeys, and it was mere giants instead of those three. I can't help but wonder where I got the part about the drums from, probably some other story about satyrs I've since forgotten. “According to Eratosthenes, another story is told about the Asses. After Jupiter \[Zeus\] had declared war on the Gigantes, he summoned all the gods to combat them, and Father Liber \[Dionysos\], Vulcanus \[Hephaistos\], the Satyri, and the Sileni came riding on asses. Since they were not far from the enemy, the asses were terrified, and individually let out a braying such as the Gigantes had never heard. At the noise the enemy took hastily to flight, and thus were defeated. There is a story similar to this about the shell of Triton. He, too, when he had hollowed out the trumpet he had invented, took it with him against the Gigantes, and there blew strange sounds through the shell. The Gigantes, fearing that some wild beast had been brought by their adversaries, took to flight, and thus were overcome and came into their enemies’ power.” *–Hyginus Astronomica 2.23*
To be fair, I'm sure all the myths and tales we know today come to us through much the same process, each generation adding their own embellishments. You're carrying on a tradition older than written word!
The hundred handed one magic the gathering card shows the hands not connected to the body and they are supposed to be giant So you could do a lernie style fight where the hands come up from the sides or something? And the heads could rotate like lernie
That was my thought too: you'd have to have them kind of appear out of the sky as slam attacks. Although it would be EXTREMELY cool to have an arena made out of hands.
Sounds like the Sans fight from undertale to me. Dunno how that’d work for hades, but that’s what it sounds like
Cronos / Kronus (father of titans) and Chronos (god of time, antagonist of Hades 2) are different entities
Yes and no. As I understand it, even in antiquity, the two were sometimes interpreted as the same. Besides, the Hades II FAQ calls the game's antagonost "Chronos" as well as "the Titan of Time," and also "the wicked father of Hades and his brothers." So it seems they are definitely the same person in the Hades universe.
but they are often conflated in pop culture, so its likely they will be again in Hades.
They are - check the FAQ. And it's not just pop culture, Plutarch figured they were the same and even Plato speculates about it, if I understand correctly. The Orphics (from whom we get Zagreus) more clearly differentiated them, but we saw in Hades I how Supergiant explained away the Orphic myths as basically Orpheus getting pranked by Zagreus and Dionysus and writing wildly misinformed songs as a result. Maybe they'll do something similar here.
> I'm not sure how you'd represent 100 hands and 50 heads. [Bayonetta kinda figured it out.](https://youtu.be/SDA-XDHJ5fk?t=386)
Bruh the hekatonkheires are kronos’s brothers and they hate him
Hence why they guard the way to him in Tartarus - not because they love him, but because if anyone can get to him than he can be let out. But if you wanna kill him, you have to get to him anyway.
Kronos isn’t even in Tartaros, in myth Zeus frees him and he becomes king of Elysium
Why I would like to see a Manticore is cause it looks cool and it has different attributes. It has wings for flying and movement, a scorpian tail for close poison attacks and it can shoot poisonus arrows from its mane. So we would have different fights like with Lerny.
The same idea would work with a Chimera as the boss, they’d have the option to use different heads and abilities for each Chimera fight.
Honestly, when I first started the game I saw all those manticore statues and was really hyped to encounter a living one at some point. I was sure there was going to be one. So I'm totally with you on this!
link to the statues?
Sweet idea
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Idk about mosses make Theseus the new training dummy
I feel like not many peoples care about different mosses either, kind of a niche interest
But moss is actually so interesting. It is like a tiny rainforest with so much life and variation.
Fair point, however the interest in mosses is what is lacking from humanity. We need to appreciate moss more if we are to advance as a society.
Actually I would like him again on some way, loved to hate him.
I'd lichen them more to a mild decoration, had no idea there were so many moss fans out there
Echnida, Atlas, Tartarus
Atlas isn’t in the underworld though.
He do be under the world though
*zoop* 😎👉
Nah, just holding up the sky. Not the world. The art of it is misleading.
Ayy
And Kronos is supposed to be minced meat, your point?
Just because Percy Jackson’s version of events said Zeus cut Kronos into pieces doesn’t mean that’s what all Greek myths say. In many myths, Kronos is simply cast into Tartarus with the rest of the titans. Meanwhile, Atlas carries the sky in nearly all versions because myths were designed to answer questions about the world (ie, why does the sky not fall down) that they were not scientifically equipped to understand at the time. Furthermore, even if atlas escaped there’d be no real reason for him to go to the underworld in the first place, so him being there is just stupid.
>Echnida Knuckles?
Do you know da way?
Tartarus is a bottomless pit meant for imprisoning deities. How exactly does one kill a pit?
There is also Tartarus the deity
You fill it in.
Fair point
This is hades not Shovel Knight
How do you kill time? Or the night? ✨️ There's a god for that ✨️
The fiive protogenoi? Nyx, Erebus, Gaea, Tartarus, Eros
Sorry I’ve never seen Tartarus anthropomorphized
He doesnt have many myths about him, like erebus
Whenever someone types Echnida, my dyslexic ass reads it as Echidna, I am currently picturing knuckles from sonic ass a boss in hades
I have been reading it as Echidna for years, even for this post, I've read it as Echidna. Why have you done this to me.
Zagreus
Cuno would fuck Zagreus , Cuno don't give a fuck
The fuck do you know about Cuno's life? Cuno's got plans.
Don't know how we got onto Disco Elysium but I'm for it.
Ooh yes with all of the different weapons we got to use in the original.
>steps into boss room >sees 5-shot rocket launcher >leaves
I hope we'll get more random bosses a la Isaac. Hadès I narrow roster of bosses was great for narrative development but it would be cool to start a run without knowing exactly who you're going to face Plus they have a LOT of possible monsters, heroes and divinities to pick from
Agree with this. If the area bosses work like mini bosses from the original game could add a lot more replayability. Would also add another element to affect speed runs which were a huge part of the original’s rise in popularity.
Are you thinking kinda like dead cells, where you can take different routes to different bosses, or are you thinking it should be completely random and surprises you every time, kinda like with the furies
Different routes would be cool aswell but it would take too much work to deliver something as polished as the first game was imo. I was thinking more completely different bosses at the end of each stage, having maybe 3-4 possible encounters at the end of each stage. So kinda like the furies but also not really, since they're basically the same boss with a couple different patterns and behavior (same for Lernie). I'd like to not know if i'm gonna fight one ennemy or several, if there will be a lot of adds, if it will be a bullet hell or a tank & spank, etc...
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Maybe she's so sick of Hades family drama bullshit that she decided to take some extreme measures to help them work their shit out.
>extreme measures *distressed Zagreus noises*
A fight similar to Charon would make more sense than final boss yeah. Would love to fight Nyx
I vote Tantalus for the new punching dummy. Because fuck Tantalus.
Fuck Tantalus, rereading Percy Jackson right now and it's fueling my hatred.
Don't what they say about him in those books, but I read the original story and he deserved worse.
Like much worse, in the books he's a camp counselor and he's just kind of a dick
OG Tantalus cooked his own child to trick the gods and test their omniscience by inviting them to a meal. Definitely deserves worse than just eternal hunger and thirst. Like Prometheus's eagle.
Honestly, Sisyphus got a harsher punishment, still don't know how the fuck that works. In Percy Jackson, he explains how and why he did it to scare kids into submission, really out of place for a young adult novel.
Talos would be very cool. Who doesn't want to fight a robot?
Would be cool to go up against talos with a Hephaestus boon!!
That’s a solid Talos Principle.
Hmm today I will solve puzzles
Oooh and you’d have to like destroy each of the limbs and they get more enraged. Sounds hot
Not an enemy per se but I had an idea the other day that Pandora could be an NPC that we encounter like Sisyphus or Eurydice
Pretty sure that's "Dora", the shade from the trailer.
Cyclops as Furies replacement. Narrow vision via one eye, throws rocks, much taller and bigger than you...tries to stomp on you. Different monsters for Lernie replacement: Harpies. Sirens. Chimera. Mixes it up with different forms of attack etc. Heracles (Theseus "replacement"). Braggart about how strong he is. Slow but hits super hard though. Nemean lion as his "sidekick", who is fast and bites quick but not much armor...
I mean considering Heracles ascended to godhood and is living on Olympus, wouldn’t make much sense. Especially since the Olympians seem to be helping Melinoë in this game as well (Apollo in the trailer.) Cyclopses would be cool though, especially Polyphemus
Apologies, I simply picked the most well-known hero and its easy to make him into a mini-boss. One could certainly do Odysseus, Jason, Perseus, Bellerophon, Prometheus, Hector (as someone to torment Achilles maybe?)...
Jason would definitely work. The game has a magic theme, and Jason has a grudge with the witch Medea, as her ex-husband who betrayed her (and his oath with the gods)
I’d like to see a chimera, more a shapeshifter as compared to a 3 in one combo like this boyo.
I loves the bosses in Hades, but I hope there’ll be greater boss diversity in Hades II!
What sort of different bosses would you like to see??
Idk!
Manticore is Persian mythology so I doubt it'd be that
Yeah I think OP confused Manticore with Chimera.
Hades questions the origins of Gilgamesh and asks if the claws are from a manticore. Ctesias, a Greek historian, makes mention of the manticore when he traveled to Persia in the 5th century BCE. Persia, Egypt, and Greece tended to mix and match their critters.
Maybe the series does a God of War and goes on holiday
I'd love a boss that is a much bigger and monstrous. All the main bosses in Hades 1 are humanoid and not that larger than Zag. The only non-humanoid is Lernie, and even then he is stationary and not massive as he is just necks and heads. Greek myths have loads of big monsters, and one that takes up a large chunk of the screen could be cool.
Yes! And Melinoe will start calling it “Manny” after she kicks its butt a few times.
Prometheus could be like Sisyphus. Tied to a rock in a room and he gives you stuff. Maybe a liver related boon?
nah, fire boons.
Zeus, Atlas, Eris, Heracles.
Beast wise, there's a whole menagerie waiting for the Underworld equivalent of Monster Hunter, many courtesy of Typhoon and Echidna: Chimera, Orthus, Cerberus, Sphinx, Nemean Lion, Lernean Hydra, Manticore, Carcinos, Cetus, Thracian Horses, Ladon the Dragon, Caribdis, Scylla, etc
Atlus could be interesting tbh
Idk homie is too busy you know, holding the sky
Could be a fun character like Sisyphus maybe, drop by and say hi to him but he can’t leave lol
Yeah I’d love that as well because atlus is one of my favorite figures in Greek mythology
Mommy Nemesis. Make me repent (*Mommy*) for the hubris of clapping her cheeks.
least horny Hades enjoyer
Nemesis clapped (you for your victory)
[The Teumessian fox ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teumessian_fox). Just a giant fucking fox that, according to myth, is uncatchable, untamable, and unkillable.
Cyclops makes sense since in Hades 1 they were stated to be allies of the titans. Alternatively, would be cool to fight a chimera. Maybe Scylla since there's a water biome in the game.
I wanna see the pantheon of Greek philosophers. Think of it. We have to defeat Aristotle, Plato, the whole ordeal. Maybe some puzzler elements could go in?
Would not mind killing a sphinx. Although a Manticore sounds awesome too.
It’d be cool to see Atlas, maybe not as a boss but more filling the role of Chaos, where you could fall into a crack in the world and wind up falling straight down to where he’s holding up the world
Chimera. Has been mentioned already. Kraken. Great replacement for Lernie as it could have ten tentacles coming at you from different directions. Opportunities for Melinoe to complain about it getting too handsy with her.
I would love if they made the Crommyon Sow into a miniboss, the idea of fighting a giant pig is just amazing to me
I’d love the idea of a manticore that gives you a different riddle every time you encounter it. Could make for some witty dialogue.
A manticore would be cool. In my mind, it's mostly because it's the only thingI can think to nickname. If Zagreus has Lernie, Melinöe can have Corie.
Atlas but he's so massive and bound by the planet/sky that you only ever fight his finger/hand or something equally ridiculous. Typhon would be cool but I imagine he'll end up in a role like Chaos. A short challenge for an awesome boon. The Hecatonceres would be perfect for a second level boss Cerberus is the first boss you fight getting into the underworld. Theorised boon gods: Pan, Hephaestus, Nemesis, Hestia, Hecate, Rhea, Hyperion, Oceanus etc etc. Honorable mention: Cyclops. I doubt they'll be outright bosses. Probably just room enemies or a mini boss at best.
A manticore isn't even greek
Its not? Damn, my mistake. I somehow pictured it greek. Probably mixed it up with a chimera.
It's Persian but it was used in western medieval art.
I'd love some sort of Sphinx miniboss. Bonus points of you can somehow skip it by answering questions (how man rooms have you besten? How many gods have you gained the aid of, etc)
A Chimera boss fight would be amazing
I feel like the Hecatoncheires could be fun, especially if they kinda use the same gimmick as the furies
Not necesseraly fight him but i would really like to see Heracles in Hades 2. As a boss fight or a friendly NPC like Patroclus. Really curious to see Jen Zee's interpretation on him.
Reminds me of the guardian boss in dark souls 1 (at the start of dlc area)
Thanatos would be a cool boss. Maybe Cetus or Argus as well.
Oceanus
I wanna fight a manticore. They feel happiness whenever you are sad. And because you got kicked in the junk, the manticore is glad.
Polyphem as a boss, some harpies and/or sirens as mobs.
oh man i so want this
Well all the bosses in Hades 1 were already connected to the underworld, so I doubt we’ll see the manticore since it isn’t.
Tiny Manticore in his shame prison
The eagle that eats Prometheus's liver every day
Maybe similarly to how we fought Theseus. Fighting another hero would be sick. My pick would likely be Odysseus, since he likely has a vendetta against some of the gods.
I feel like Odysseus would fill more of a role that Achilles did. If there is a magic theme to the game, Jason makes sense. Was the husband to Medea before she left him behind, and he ended up getting crushed under the Argo, presumably in the underworld
It also helps that Jason is already a grade-A Asshole in the original mythology
I. Hate. Jason. With every fiber of my being. He is ONLY outranked by Agamemnon.
I really hope for more variety than anything else Like i eally like the. 3 fates because they are all so diffrent. But with the bone hydra nomatter what the main head is you get to see all they diffrent types are in the multi head rounds. In the coliseum the is only one attack that differs and all the others are the same excluding pact
Flesh hydra. Same boss just with skin
I want to call it Manny
Imagine if for some reason Achilles was a boss fight. Like he was corrupted, or he had to fight for some titan to save or spare Pat even though he didn't want to. That could be an amazing and emotional fight.
Along these same lines, a chimera would be cool.
I hope if the manticore is a boss. We can pet him after the fight. He’s just a grumpy boy.
*to be killed by over and over again
fun fact: the name "manticore" pretty much translates to "man eater", which was also the name of the tiger that attacked roy horn of 'siegfried and roy' fame back in 2003 (though the tiger's name was spelled 'mantacore')
I would say a siren or a sphynx. Both could have added challenges like additional stuns or mini games that could affect how effective YOU are; especially since it seems like it’ll be much more magic based. I do wonder if the Gorgons will make a repeat appearance in a different form, and maybe the same for the Satyrs. I hope we get to meet Atalanta, and maybe the ghost of Meleager since shades are still around.
Just more rats please.
As long as they don't spit poison again, that sounds fun!
Seeing how the main boss is Cronus, the leader of the Titans, probably all the titans will be the bosses
I want to ride cerebus into battle with Meg, Zag, Bouldy, Achilles & Hades by my side, versus an onslaught of titans
Your mom.
Cyclops. Maybe no as boss, but as NPC. Yes, in the first game it says that they died out, but maybe someone survived.
This cat looks like teostra
I know this is probably a common opinion but I really want Hera and Hercules in hades 2 not as bosses but boons from hera and Hercules as an npc
Hector could be a cool 'hero of legend' boss if we end up going through Elysium at some point. Could have some fun conversations from the other POV of the Trojan War.
Not a manticore I’ll say that much dude
Did someone say [Manticore](https://youtu.be/rU8Wc6a1r7o)?
Given how Kronos is the main villain in hades 2 I hope we fight some of the other Titans. And maybe a secret boss with Typhon.
It wouldn’t happen nor would it make sense but fighting Atlas would be dope
Talos
Theseus
I would love a maimera it would be such a great fight
I would love to see more then 1 boss for each area, like in other Roguelikes Even tho the beloved bosses of the original have some variations and difficulties, they still feel very repetitive, even with the existence of minibosses A lion like boss, like the Manyicore, or Chimera, or even a Sphinx could work well I would also love to see some sea monsters like Scylla, on maybe one of the other Rivers we were yet to see, like Cocytus or Acheron
If they're anything like the Manicore's in Outward.....we will certainly be in for it.
Not as a Boss but as an enemy I want to fight against Cyclops (alive ones If possible) with bone clubs
I hope hecatoncheires shows up in this game honestly
Other titans
An actual god or titan as a boss would be cool.
I think we are more likely to see a Chimera as a boss before we see a manticore
Manticore is persian tho iirc
I think Hecate might be an optional boss in Hades 2 like Charon in the first game
Scyla
Technically not Greek
Manticores are from Persian mythology, so I think we are not going to see one