At the Hades, the pomegranate is a key item, which gives it a very real power, improving its skills. Pomegranate also gives you unimaginable power in the real world, at least if you’re the streamer Dylan “Rudeness“Beck. He harnessed the power of ancient fruits to beat the final boss of the game not with a controller, but with a literal pomegranate.
You read that right: a pomegranate. Yes, the same bitter and bitter fruit that you would eat to get vitamin C and antioxidants.
Beck is best known for playing creative methods and inventing equally creative controllers. In 2019, for example, he hooked a toy lightsaber for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order that loosely allowed movement-controlled Jedi-ing in Respawn souls-as action-adventure.
Spoilers go to the end of Hades.
Earlier today, Beck posted a short clip on Twitter showing himself facing Hades, the final boss of the game, with a handful of pieces of pomegranate. All fruits are linked to Hades through Makey Makey, an educational tool designed to teach the fundamentals of computer technology, but it can clearly be reused for other uses. Proof A: replicate a mouse and keyboard configuration and end the final boss of a brutal roguelike.
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Hades it’s a relentless game, where one wrong move can mean the end of a race, so using real fruit to beat the final boss may seem impossible. But this is the tie. “I love trying to do seemingly impossible things,” said Beck Kotaku via Twitter.
Certainly, after 33 attempts – as many as it took to beat him without pom, by the way – he finally won.
Games from supergiant developers captured what we’re all thinking about in a succinct tweet: “Hah, amazing !!”
It really came down to the wire. If you look closely, you’ll see that Beck uses all three Death Challenges – that’s “extra lives” in Hades-talk – and get dangerously close to trusting Lucky Tooth, an item that can bring you back to life with a little health.
“In fact, I miscalculated Death Challenges. I was too focused to even look, ”Beck told me. “I was a little disappointed to see that I still had a life ahead of me, to be honest. I like a closed call! “
This is not the first time that Beck plays the incredible Supergiant roguelike with a pomegranate attached to threads. Just this week, he posted a video on YouTube showing the process. He arrived at Death’s Barge, halfway through Asphodel, before being eliminated by one of those exceptionally irritating skeleton monsters. It happens to the best of us.
Yesterday, however, Beck appeared to be making significant progress. At the another video posted on YouTube, he took Bone Hydra (sorry, Lernie) and made an impressive stay at Elysium. This time, he was killed by a carriage. This also happens to the best of us.
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So, what constituted today’s winning charge? When it comes to weaponry, Beck used Varatha, the Eternal Spear, and opted for the Achilles aspect. With that aspect equipped, you can launch your spear and shoot at it with the push of a button. In the typical game without pom, it is easily one of the best aspects of the weapon. Not only does it harmonize perfectly with the benefits of almost any Olympic athlete, but it also gives you serious navigation control. It doesn’t mean that it helped much in this situation, however.
“To be honest, I barely took advantage of that, just because having to navigate through the various pieces of pomegranate has become really difficult,” said Beck. “I was accidentally hitting pieces I didn’t want, throwing and launching when I didn’t want to. I found it easier to go all-in in attack and in the race. “
He also shook Poseidon’s panel, but encountered some technical problems. At various points in the 90-second clip, the dash’s “button” (or, well, the dash’s “unappetizing piece of fruit”) comes off. He also chose the cast of Aphrodite, but he doesn’t use it much, because the cast is useless against Hades anyway. The rest of the construction focused on the blessings of Zeus and Aphrodite, including his duo, Smoldering Air, which automatically carries special abilities. He also grabbed the one that increases the poms’ power. Naturally.
For this purpose, Beck initialized a new file, which means that he did not activate any the punishment pact. He is thinking of attacking him with a higher temperature in the future. If he does, he will maximize the extreme measure modifier. (Each heat level of Extreme Measures changes how the game’s regional bosses behave. Increasing it completely transforms the final fight against Hades completely. Even with a controller, this feat is considered one of the most difficult challenges in the game.)
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, yes, after winning, he ate the pomegranate.
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