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Kylee Mccandrew
The core gameplay of Hades is one of the best examples of one more run" in modern times. It never gets old as you slowly progress through the levels, working your way further into the game, defeating new bosses, meeting more NPCs, getting permanent upgrades, and learning more about the world and narrative as you understand the ins and outs of survival in the dangerous levels.
When it comes to roguelikes, you can have the most varied enemies, bosses, and the best visuals, but what sets Hades apart from the rest of the genre even more, is its slick fast-paced gameplay while dungeon crawling. Weapons, upgrades, strategizing on the go for how to build your character for that run, and more all play a part in how far you will reach.
I have zero complaints with the actual game on PC and modern consoles, and basically consider it perfect. It even has an accessibility mode that gives you a slight health boost on each death to make your progression easier through multiple runs. But how does it feel and look on mobile? I know the team has mentioned things like 60fps gameplay, customizable controls, controller support, and an uncompromised experience, but I needed to see it for myself.
I knew Hades would be great with a controller, but I specifically focused on playing it with touch controls. As with many games I cover, I found myself enjoying it with touch on the iPhone, but preferring a physical controller wirelessly on iPad. I used my Xbox Series X wireless controller and the 8BitDo I use to test and both worked perfectly. The game displays Xbox button prompts for both. With touch controls, I was surprised at how good they felt on iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 14 Plus. I recommend resizing the interaction button though because the default is a bit too small.
Hades does have cloud saves on Netflix and I tested this over 12 times back and forth while playing Hades on my iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 14 Plus, and iPad Pro. I only had one issue where there was a save conflict popup that got resolved by selecting the correct data. The syncing worked flawlessly outside that. I am disappointed to not be able to bring my Steam and Switch saves over since I play with syncing on both of those. Hopefully this can be considered for the future.
When it comes to Hades on PS5 and Xbox Series X, it has 4K 60fps support and a decent DualSense implementation. On Xbox it supported Quick Resume and had save syncing with the Windows version (non Steam) making it a good option for those who use that store. I ended up playing a lot more Hades on Xbox Series X with Quick Resume support though. None of them having cross save with Switch or Steam was disappointing.
As with other Netflix or Apple Arcade game reviews, the big caveat to the recommendation is that you need an active subscription to play the game in question. Just like with the GTA Trilogy, Hades is a killer app for Netflix, and one that is likely going to push people to subscribe to the service.
My friend Mary, who drove us to R-Place Restaurant, took her burger apart, eating meat, then toppings, then buns. The last bit of grease-soaked bread was too much for her, though. I ate mine the traditional way, and only made it through about a quarter.
Certainly, vegans can make a fair and compelling series about veganism. Starting in high school, I was trained as a journalist to believe in a neutral, objective approach to reporting, but have come to understand that is bullshit. It pretends journalists or documentarians alike do not have perspectives and are not making subjective decisions in their work, suggesting they are coming from literally nowhere, and is an idea that plagues journalism.
You Are What You Eat often uses appalling imagery, like chickens and pigs smashed together in cages, turtles caught in nets, large pools of blood, feces spraying in the air, salmon in farms with sores on their bodies.
I was annoyed by the lack of focus on the study. The subjects on the vegan diet losing muscle during the study was glossed over. How many calories were they consuming? What were the macros? How much were they exercising?
As a vegan of 5 years, speaking for myself I would have liked to see more scientific information myself, but as a tv viewer, I can attest that documentaries seldom offer Harvard references throughout to legitimise their claims, nor do other subjects often face the same scrutiny as veganism which triggers many omnivores.
There was elements in the documentary that did seem oversimplified and biased towards a plant based diet, but I would still argue that the environmental reasons outlined throughout are credible in their own right, and the fact that farmed animals outweigh natural wildlife 19x is astonishingly clear.
Supplements are often required to support a healthy vegan diet, and I take those as needed, but one fact ignored by carnivores or omnivores is often that the animals they consume are supplemented themselves. B12 levels in bovine are high because they are fed powder, soya production is predominantly done to feed livestock, and as is mentioned amongst other facts in the documentary, processed red meat consumption is listed as a type 1 carcinogen.
Yes, some meats are more processed than others, but the more highly processed meat is more affordable, consumed more often and increases risk of heart disease and cholesterol problems substantially compared with a plant based diet.
What I think is often overlooked is that whether an agenda is sewn throughout a documentary, study or whichever, you have to use your common sense to parse truth and not simply conflate intention with manipulation.
Far more money is spent on marketing to maintain the status quo of high animal consumption, ie more money spent on industrialised animal farming propaganda, than vegan propaganda, but when environmental scientists, nutritionists and moral philosophy points towards a clear cut answer, arguing for small details in an overwhelmingly more potent and convincing bigger picture ends up becoming casuistry and confirmation bias.
The fact is, being vegan is a lot harder than being an omnivore as the documentary proves, and I can speak for myself to attest to it too. Doing anything that requires discipline also requires vigilance and arguments and data convincing enough to maintain it.
@Gabz,
My problem is that when someone lies they cant be trusted. They never showed the rest of the results from the studies. What was the testosterone levels for the cheese twins. What was the sexual arousal of the men? they made a big deal about the women. Notice how the meat eating twin gained 7 lb of muscle mass the vegan gained 2.3. They spent five minutes making a big deal about the 2.3 pounds. Then when they showed the graphic they left the 7 lb gain out. Total bullshit. Sorry dude you are either honest and interested in the truth or your dishonest trying to scam. It is obvious this is a scam or they would have included all the facts.
@Pat G, The assumption in this film is that omnivore must mean industrial meat production. If they want to go after that approach, more power to them. But it is simply an outright lie to imply that is how we have to go about providing meat for eating.
If you would have to choose between a plant based diet with highly processed foods or a meat based diet where everything is made from scratch (so where every ingredient is natural, high quality and treated with the respect it deserves), which one would be the healthiest?
Most who eat excess meat, also eat fries cooked in vegetable oil. American diets have very unbalanced omega 3 (fish) to omega 6 (seed oil). The 3rd ingredient (not including water) in Impossible burger is Sunflower oil.
Hi Kim. I appreciate the comment, and the note about the advertising. Just as an FYI, the weird way that Internet advertising works means that I, as a publisher, have absolutely no idea what companies are advertising to you, and you are seeing entirely different ads than other people.
@Isabella, I agree with your points on CAFO and the industrial farming practices. However, in the time it takes to view this series one could easily and accurately demonstrate the case for sustainable regenerative farming that would sup!ant the misguided government industry cabal and save the earth all while empowering and enriching a significant portion of the people to produce the healthiest food.
was excited to watch this. with all the high tech body measurements etc i figured this would be a good way to see exactly what the benefits to a vegan lifestyle would be and how drastic. after the second episode i realized i was not going to get this type of education bit instead another one on how evil it is to eat any kind of animal period. What a joke the title of this documentary is. instead im headed to McDonalds for a quarter pounder with cheese because i may as well enjoy the taste of what i eat if no one can prove eating vegan is beneficial. if it was, they would have spent 4 episodes showing us how huge the difference was between the twins,
@Jimbo, It has been so frustrating to figure out what would be the best process of getting that younger overall age (I am 57).
I do plan on getting that Dex Scan soon to get a diagnostic of where I am at now.
But who can we trust?
My red flag was when a brand name showed up on food.
Sorry. All over the place, but as someone who wants to learn, the airways seem to be filled with scams now.
I will now get off my own lawn now. (grin)
I also noticed radical statements being portrayed as truth
Cashew cheese maker Miyoko Shinner stated it took 800-1000 gallons of water to make 1 lb of cheese and only 0.25-1 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of cashew cheese.
Knowing cashews are notoriously bad for the water consumtion needed to produce the nut i had to take a look
Now Im no researcher but with just a quick google (may be my folly) it showed to produce 1 lb of cashews takes 6450L=1703 gallons of water
Im not sure of the weight of cashews in 1lb of her cashew cheese but can assume or even hope its a fair percentage
So the shw is either not comparing apples with apples or straight up lying
And lets not start on the test result cherry picking