A guide aiming to help new players trigger the hades hidden aspect unlock dialogues faster.
Hades Unlock Hidden Aspects
It’s important to note that there is no way to guarantee they will trigger immediately after meeting the requirements, hence the “faster” in the guide’s description. Other plotlines or random dialogues might be prioritized, and there’s not much more either of us can do about it. Them’s the breaks.
HAVE THE WEAPON YOU’RE TRYING TO GET THE ASPECT FOR EQUIPPED.
Some of them may or may not require having their respective unlock NPCs to have mentioned the weapon before. Maybe even a couple times. Play it safe.
“Alright, but what even is an Awakening Phrase?”
You’ll know when you see one. Ensconced in quotes, really ominous, high-and-mighty soundin’ stuff. Trust me, you’ll know.
I won’t explain the moveset of each aspect, for this is an unlock guide.
Also, if you’re interested in finding out what they look like and whose weapons they were/will be yourself, be warned: There’s spoilers for that. You can play normally and you’ll eventually get them, this is just meant to speed up the process.
With that out of the way, let’s move on.
Hades Aspect of Guan Yu
It is strongly recommended that you get this one first, but making progress towards getting others is okay.
Invest Titan Blood in unlocking 3-5* different aspects for your weapons, then keep talking to Achilles in the House’s West Hall. Eventually, he’ll quote an awakening phrase. Utter this to your spear.
*There is no set number of Titan Blood required that I know of. This is just a safe amount I gathered from various people’s experiences. You can also spend it in an aspect and leveling others up, if you wished to do so.
Hades Aspect of Arthur
Requires having unlocked the Aspect of Guan Yu.
Invest 5 Titan Blood total across the Stygian Blade’s aspects, then interact with Nyx every time you can. She, too, will give you an awakening phrase. Utter it to your Blade.
Hades Aspect of Beowulf
Invest 5 Titan Blood total into your Shield, then visit Chaos often. You can trigger an entry to their realm via Well of Charon items. Also, I’d suggest you equip their keepsake, but it’s not needed. It’s simply to avoid damage, because you’ll be seeing them a lot.
You know the drill by now, they’ll give you a phrase, speak to your shield, everyone’s happy.
Hades Aspect of Rama
After spending 5 Titan Blood on the Heart-Seeking Bow, speak to Artemis until she gives you an Awakening Phrase. Utter it to your Bow.
A way to speed this up significantly is by equipping her trinket before starting a run, guaranteeing exhausting some dialogue until she says what you want her to say.
Hades Aspect of Gilgamesh
After spending 5 Titan Blood total in the Twin Fists, equip them and get to Elysium. There, seek Asterius’ miniboss encounter. He will NOT bring up the phrase during the boss fight alongside Theseus. Once he mentions it, utter the phrase to your Fists. Gloves. Whatever, you get what I mean.
NOTE: Miniboss encounters are indicated by a skull below the chamber reward. There’s no way to make sure you’re picking Asterius instead of the armored Butterfly Ball, but this should speed things up a bit.
Hades Aspect of Lucifer
Alright, this one is probably the most time consuming one of them all, from my experience.*
After investing 5 Titan Blood into the Adamant Rail, equip it and speak to Zeus. Once again, you can guarantee an Olympian’s spawn by equipping their respective keepsake.
*Problem is: Zeus talks a lot. And I mean that. Keep going at it.
