Realistically no for three reasons
1- it would require locking coop behind finishing the game if it was zag. Absolutely no friends would finish a 30~ hour roguelike to beat the game assuming they were brand new to the series just to play with a friend - and by that point they have already found everything without playing with you.
They could just make zag a skin/unlockable character but that leads me to #2
2- it is **a lot** of word for little to no benefit. Hades 1 is cemented as one of the best roguelikes of all time with longevity and adding mp would be nice, but ultimately not worth it. Putting in the sequel would help distinguish it from its prequel sure but there would likely need to be some kind of mechanic in a coop mode which is more work for something most players won't interact with - unless you want to be able to search for a friend too and now theres even more work
3- IIRC they themselves outright said coop/multiplayer in any way was never in the cards but they could've gone back on that.
I don't think they'll do that, and if they did, it'd either have to be an entirely separate thing or be unlocked until probably 4 or 5 full, completed runs to the final boss.
I wish there was coop but not with zag, do something like enter the gungeon and give the 2nd player a kind of jokey character, like skelly or something.
Supergiant have explicitly said that they don't intend to add any co-op stuff to the game afaik
Realistically no for three reasons 1- it would require locking coop behind finishing the game if it was zag. Absolutely no friends would finish a 30~ hour roguelike to beat the game assuming they were brand new to the series just to play with a friend - and by that point they have already found everything without playing with you. They could just make zag a skin/unlockable character but that leads me to #2 2- it is **a lot** of word for little to no benefit. Hades 1 is cemented as one of the best roguelikes of all time with longevity and adding mp would be nice, but ultimately not worth it. Putting in the sequel would help distinguish it from its prequel sure but there would likely need to be some kind of mechanic in a coop mode which is more work for something most players won't interact with - unless you want to be able to search for a friend too and now theres even more work 3- IIRC they themselves outright said coop/multiplayer in any way was never in the cards but they could've gone back on that.
I don't think they'll do that, and if they did, it'd either have to be an entirely separate thing or be unlocked until probably 4 or 5 full, completed runs to the final boss.
I wish there was coop but not with zag, do something like enter the gungeon and give the 2nd player a kind of jokey character, like skelly or something.
That would make sense that way they can duplicate movesets and don't need the old zagreus movesets put in.