I don't know when the person above you played, but I didn't notice any of that (got it last week, binged it, 35ish hours). I didn't notice any missing graphics, and yes there are some spots where you can tell somethings coming, but it doesn't feel janky, it feels exciting. With game loop being all about upgrades, you can tell there's a few that aren't available, but there's so much meat their absence feels like part of the loop not part of the dev cycle.

The voice acting is all there, the mechanics are all there. I think I had like... One line of repeated dilouge? There's a good breadth of characters and they've got that same slow, well thought out progression they did in Hades I. With only one exception that I can't mention due to spoilers, you could tell me this a complete game with free DLC inbound.

Bug wise it's almost entirely free. I had some crashes but I think that was due to a bad HDMI cable repeatedly becoming unstable, and making the game freak out as to what screen it should be on. I haven't had an issue since I fixed the cable and it's the only bug I encountered.

I definitely feel like I got my money's worth.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

They've done the incomplete artwork well.

For example, a lot of the characters you meet along the way during your runs have the same hooded NPC model. Those are all incomplete.

When you actually talk to them, most of them have the static artwork done though.

[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for pointing out! I see what you mean now but didn't even notice.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

It took me dozens of runs to even realize that was happening. It really doesn't feel incomplete.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Several characters, all keepsakes, all fish except, I think, one, at least one background element...

The voice acting is all there

I'd be very surprised if the number of voiced characters isn't significantly higher in the finished game. And, of course, we're missing the top end of the relationship interactions with all characters, which will definitely be voice acted.

the mechanics are all there

I wouldn't be surprised if we get some new mini games in certain parts of the map we can't access yet.

Apart from these minor nitpickings, however, I completely agree (well, except that I haven't had any crashes or significant bugs); I'm already enjoying the game as much as the first one, and I definitely feel I got my money's worth, which is sadly quite unusual for too many supposedly complete games these days.

[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

The only crash like I said was almost certainly due to a multi-monitor display and one monitor disconnecting and reconnecting. I didn't even bother submitting a report.

And yeah there's definitely going to be a few extras. Its wild, like I never play games at launch, specifically because they always ship broken, and here this thing is with the stones to call itself early access when it's so polished narcissus would gaze at himself in if.