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“They stayed up late, texting and posting on social media and watching videos on YouTube. They stayed indoors playing games online, inhabiting multiple roles in massive multiplayer virtual realities ... hearts pounding, adrenaline pumping, narrowly avoiding permadeath as they tried simply to survive, and this was on top of their afterschool activities, their music lessons and soccer practice. No wonder they were tired.”

As a non-roguelike-lover, Hades took the biggest thing that I really don’t like about roguelikes—the permadeath—and made it into something to look forward to.

The slick trick even allow a player to choose a permadeath option that will eliminate any currently used character if he dies, offering another layer of decision-making strategy to the recruiting process.

The older Fire Emblem games were famous for permadeath, which is the video game term for, uh, death.

In the standard mode the game still features permadeath, so you have to be careful.