Hades

I love Pyros, but for whatever reason the characters and Hades didn't do it for me at all. The reward of getting new dialogue from them after each death wasn't enough incentive for me to want to keep playing. It still comes down to playing through a set of auto-generated levels over and over again while constantly being sent back to the start. That will never be as satisfying to me as making continuous progress exploring a handcrafted world. A shiny whale lord guy from the forum says he can respect how the story, setup, and gameplay tie together to justify the cycle of dying and restarting.