‘When we tried to bring him to life as a protagonist, he ran the risk of being quite generic’
We all love Zagreus, right? Turn right?!
He’s the protagonist you like or don’t mind playing, but for a while we almost had a noisier hero. Speaking to The Verge, developer Supergiant Games explains that Theseus, one of the game’s most controversial enemies, has almost won the day.
It would be about Theseus delving into the Crete labyrinth and building the hero myth while you played. The team notes, “That’s how cerebral he was interesting. But when we tried to bring him to life as a protagonist, he runs the risk of being quite general. But once we start adding specific details to him, he just feels like he is. no more like Theseus. ‘
Here’s the crux of why the change was made. Co-founder of Studio Amir Rao explains: “[Creative Director Greg Kasavin] felt we could probably keep everything in play, but rewrote it as Zagreus. These different ideas, all these different characters, they all came together. In a day or two, I think he convinced everyone it was a better idea. “
I mean to be real Hades probably would have been fine with another main character. The interpersonal relationships could have been just as deep and the gameplay could have been 100% the same as Zagreus was like mechanical modeling clay to everything the developers wanted him to do.
It’s nice that it turned out to be that way, but Supergiant probably had a slap on their hands anyway. And that idea of Theseus is still fire. Maybe a sequel?
Hades almost played his worst character [The Verge]
