Yeah there must be some way. Brandon, for example, has managed like 8 game victories, and he must have passed through Asphadel on all these occasions. That doesn't even include all the times he passed Asphadel but died later. Whatever he's doing must be reliable enough.

The dash is the key to pretty much everything in this game honestly. with asphodel the rooms are islands with lava in between them. Unfortunately the only way to really viably get past it is to grind with the mirror of night until you can withstand landing in lava a few times per level (with god mode on this is fine at 80% damage reduction). Unfortunately I think the only way people are getting past this is with a mod that extends the mirror of night's powers https://www.nexusmods.com/hades/mods/41

Regarding targeting, the game will snap to the closest target. The sword is very hard to use though, I recommend using literally any other weapon first until you get a feel for ranges. Pretty much every enemy's attack has a startup sound so you can dash away from or past them depending on what you want at the right time.

is doable for sure. I've managed to beat the game tree days ago, with the mirror extender mod, but is doable. A tip. if you are in the asfadel, when you clear te room, dash rapidly to the door sound. That's is what Brandon do on he's runs and worked for me

@8 aim assist should be the first option in the controls menu. You should be able to find it using OCR, but there's unfortunately no way to know if it's currently on or off. Though when you toggle it, it plays a weird woosh sound, and that sound changes depending on whether you've just turned it on or off. I think when you turn it on, the woosh sound is higher. As for the weapons, yes, the shield throw is the shield's special attack. And if you have aim assist on, you should be able to hit enemies a lot more reliably. This also goes for the bow and spear.

Well yeah, I guess aiming will be hole different issue. I can't hear if the enemys are in front or behind me. I can certainly hear if the y are to the left or right, does it help if I push the stick in the directioon of the monster and shoot? Have to try that out with skelly I guess.

Greetings Moritz.

Usually the rooms are laid out so that they're wider than they are high, so you can usually dodge left and right with little issue. You'll know if you're dodging at a wall or something because you can hear the enemies not panning as you move away. Also dodging past the enemies is an option, that way you know where open space is.

Just dodge whenever you think they could be. Generally it depends on the weapon you're using though. For the bow and (spoilery 6th weapon) you can stay ranged so you can just dash away from enemy groups a lot and spam shots. For the other 4 it'll depend on how aggressive you want to play it.

@Simba figuring out how god mode is on can be done by either activating Lion or quickly using OCR when you die. It should say something about god mode stat increase or something. It usually comes out very garbled, probably because of the death animations, but you should see something like that. If you don't, god mode isn't on.

Hi.

Hmm, I might sometimes miss turning into the right direction of the enemy, I often press the charged shot to quicly and therefor might miss the shots, I think coordination is still missing.

I think auto aim is on, at least when I am in the court yard and shoot, I mostly am able to hit skelly, so I suppose it's activated.

Greetings Moritz.

yea. is the shield. and yea, god mode is activated when you press the option and you ear the chimes

You're right, it's Varatha the Eternal spear. God mode activation is the chime I believe, though if you OCR the loada game screen you should see god mode somewhere at the bottom.

For the spear, it has a 3 hit combo (hit attack 3 times quickly), if you hold attack and release there's a charged spin attack I think that clears out crowds (has 2 levels of charge past the first one), hitting special throws the spear, hitting either attack or special when you aren't holding it returns it to you. The spear can damage enemies on the way back to you.