Percy Jackson and Annabeth display glowing eyeballs. Now, Hades allows us to return to the stories those of born in the late ’90s have grown up on and revisit them in a new light. Cultural artifacts like Hercules and Percy Jackson have made this “in-between generation” veterans of Greek mythology. This domain renders him the patron Greek god of the ill-defined generation between Millennials and Generation Z-one that has come of age alongside a cycle of adaptations of Greek myth. Caught between the Underworld and the surface, Zagreus becomes a god of in-between. This fascinating deity must rule over something, as all Greek deities must. Hades ’ Zagreus lacks the kind of godly domain that characterizes others of his ilk.

Like Zagreus, this generation is newly entering adulthood and blazing their own paths with a lifetime of mythological upbringing behind them. Hades is the perfect game for the Percy Jackson generation because Zagreus is an avatar for people who grew up on Rick Riordan’s immensely popular books. The game’s mythological interpretation characterizes Zagreus as the rebellious prince of the underworld, incessantly seeking to reach the surface and escape his dull, dutiful daddy. Moreover, it makes him the perfect playable character for developer Supergiant Games’ Hades, which officially launched v1.0 on September 17. That loose mythological foundation is precisely what makes Zagreus the ideal figure for conjecture. In Greek mythology, Zagreus is an ill-defined member of the godly pantheon, identified only through vague references in fragmentary stories.

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