In Hades, the pomegranate is an important item, an item that gives you very real strength by improving your skills. The pomegranate also gives an unimaginable power in the real world, at least if you’re the streamer Dylan.RudeismBeck. He used the power of old fruit 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 very same disturbingly sour fruit you’d eat to load up on vitamin C and antioxidants.
Beck is best known for playing games through creative methods and for coming up with equally creative controllers. In 2019, for example, he has a toy lightsaber connected to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order that made motion-controlled Jedi-ing in Respawn’s vaguely possible Souls-like action adventure.
Spoilers will follow before the end of Hades
Earlier today, Beck posted a short clip on Twitter showing themselves and taking on Hades, the game’s final boss, with a few pieces of pomegranate. All fruit is connected Hades through Makey Makey, an educational resource intended to teach the fundamentals of computer technology, but clearly can be reused for other uses. Exhibit A: Replicate a mouse-and-keyboard setup and kick the mess out of a brutal roguelike’s final boss.
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Hades is a relentless game, where one wrong move can end a run, so it may sound impossible to use real fruit to beat the final boss. But that’s the draw. “I like to try seemingly impossible things,” said Beck Kotaku via Twitter.
Sure enough, after 33 tries – just as much as it took him to beat it without a pom, he eventually won.
Developer Supergiant Games captured what we all think in one concise tweet: “Hah, great !!”
It really came down to the thread. If you look closely, you’ll see that Beck uses up all three Death Defiances – that’s “extra lives” in Hades-speak – and get dangerously close to relying on the Lucky Tooth, an item that can bring you back to life with a small amount of health.
“I actually misjudged the Death Defiances. I was too focused to even look, ”Beck told me. “I was a little disappointed when I saw that I honestly had one life left. I like a close call! “
This isn’t the first time Beck has played Supergiant’s awesome roguelike with pomegranate strands. This week he posted a video on YouTube show off the processHe reached the Barge of Death, halfway through Asphodel, before being knocked out by one of those extremely annoying skeleton monsters. Happens to the best of us.
Yesterday, however, Beck appeared to be making significant progress. In another video posted on YouTube, he pulled out the Bone Hydra (sorry, Lernie) and made an impressive stay at Elysium. This time he was killed by a car. That also happens to the best of us.
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So, what did today’s winning gear include? As for weapons, Beck used Varatha, the Eternal Spear, and chose the Achilles aspect. Equipped with that aspect, you can throw and zip your spear at the touch of a button. In the typical, no-pom game, it’s easily one of the best weapon aspects. Not only does it fit in seamlessly with the benefits of just about any Olympian, but it also gives you some serious navigation control. But that doesn’t mean it helped much in this situation.
“To be honest, I barely made good use of it just because it became very difficult to navigate through the different pieces of pomegranate,” said Beck. “I accidentally kept hitting pieces I didn’t want, running and throwing when I didn’t want to. I found it easier to go all-in on the attack and the attack. “
He also rocked Poseidon’s dashboard, but faced some technical issues. At various points in the 90 second clip, the dash “button” (or, well, dash “piece of unsavory fruit”) comes loose. He also chose the cast of Aphrodite, but doesn’t use it much as casts are useless against Hades anyway. The rest of the build focused on the perks of Zeus and Aphrodite, including their duo, Smoldering Air, which automatically charges special abilities. He also picked up the one that boosts poms’ power. Naturally.
For this feat, Beck started a new file, which means he didn’t activate any modifiers for the pact of punishmentHe is considering handling it at a higher temperature. When he does, he gets the most out of the Extreme Measures modifier. (Each heat level of Extreme Measures changes how the game’s regional bosses behave. Turning it all the way up completely transforms the final battle against Hades. Even with a controller, that feat is considered one of the more difficult challenges of the game. the game.)
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, yeah, after whe ate the pomegranate.