Life Is Hellish Enough — That's Why I Had To Stop Playing 'Hades'
The hit video game about escaping the underworld is immensely popular and irresistibly well-crafted — but despite its promise of infinite content, the replay value begins to fade eventually.
In a year when it's tempting to view every piece of pop culture through the lens of the pandemic, Hades, a video game literally about being unable to escape stultifying domestic confines, is particularly well-suited for this new genre of corona-inflected close reading.
Granted, its lavish, labyrinthine setting is grander than most homes but, as you might have guessed from its title, this underworld abode is not exactly a good time. My own apartment, while a site of increasing boredom and frustration, doesn't include fiendish traps and bull-headed enemies; mercifully, I don't have
