Say what you will aboutStray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical, but the artwork brings a level of life to the game that just ties the musical mystery together in a neat little bow. Each place you visit has so much detail, you’ll be spending each playthrough looking for something hidden you missed the first time around.
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If only you were given the ability to take a look around while playing, but alas, we must forever just look at what’s available to see and enjoy it for what it is. To celebrate the art and comic style of New Olympus, check out which places in the game are both magnificent to look at, and deserve to be ogled over.
8Aphrodite’s Apartment
Everything about Aphrodite screams elegance. When you first meet her, she’s decked out in a full evening gown complete with crystals making her whole dress shine. It’s not hard to figure out that her place is going to be fancy, but man, you are still not ready for just how opulent her place is when you see itfor the first time at her party.
Most of the walls are wide windows from top to bottom. There’s art in all forms dotted around her place, including a life-size marble statue. Plants and mini trees cover the main floor, and there are paintings as tall as the ceiling. Aphrodite and opulence go hand in hand here.
7Pan’s Hangout, Top Of New Mt. Olympus
Talk about hidden in plain sight! Upon your initial excursion to the Olympus, you are bombarded with so much new information and your imminent death, that you aren’t left with much time to wander around your new godly home. Sure, Athena’s office is nice, but if you’ve seen one office, you’ve seen them all.
Once you’re able to freely ‘explore’ your new surroundings, you’ll find yourself on top of a building that has always somehow remained hidden from mortals, including you, until you gained the godly eidolon. Once you make your way to the top of the tower, you’re met with a tiny fieldcomplete with a magnificent tree and flowers. Pan makes his home here, keeping him both close to nature and isolated from the other gods.
6Grace And Freddie’s Apartment
At some point, you’ve been in a place like Grace and Freddie’s apartment. It’s a place of comfort and ease, enriched by the gentle messiness of the overall place. The colors are warm and inviting, while the room is full of clothes and decorations the girls have most likely found together and thought were cute.
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The game knows this by making your chill apartment the base of operations after each checkpoint. It gives you a chance to catch up with Freddie and catch your breath between dealing with the Idols who are… less than cooperative in your investigation.
5The Underworld Nightclub
Persephone has done a phenomenal job inmaking her club ooze an enticing combinationof sex appeal and the dead aesthetic. Neon lights are strewn everywhere, and you’ll find random gods such as Pan (because of course) and the god of sex himself, Eros. It’s a place where everyone, no matter the species, can truly feel like themselves.
Though she doesn’t act like it, Persephone takes great pride in what she has built and tries her hardest to keep undesirables from coming in. It doesn’t work with Grace and her newfound Godhood, but she just happens to be a special case, and, not to mention, extremely lucky that Persephone even let her battle on stage.
4Hades
For all the building Persephone did to create her club, it was still a poor replacement for the real thing. She only created the club as a means to cope with the loss of her questionably legitimate claim to the kingdom of the Underworld. Well, that, and how she was essentially exiled from the Underworld, so she had to do something.
Though long empty and left in disarray, it isfrighteningly beautiful in its own way, and one can get easily lost inside if you don’t know how to navigate through it. It’s a real shame Orpheus wasted his time there and waited around instead of fixing up the place for her return.
3Calliope’s Apartment
You only get to visit Calliope’s apartment once in the beginning, but man, does it ever make an impression. The sunlight gently pours itself into her room, giving it a calm, pink glow. Grace finds the room in disarray as if someone had been in a hurry, but it doesn’t take away from the beauty Calliope surrounded herself with.
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Calliope surrounded herself with art, musical instruments, and beauty. You get a real sense that she was in love with creativity, a love that 100 percent befits a muse. The room comes complete with a brooding, surfer Apollo mourning the loss of his friend and one-time lover.
2The Reliquary
The Reliquary is forbidden for any who aren’t allowed access to the secrets of the past, present, and universe. Its guardian, and last known Titan to remain in existence, stands between you and the relics (and possible answers) that reside within. The confusing labyrinth is lined with books covering every space available.
Once you find your way through the ancient labyrinthian library, you come into full view of the relics from lives past, such as Poseidon’s Trident, Eris’ golden apple of chaos, and other relics of long-dead gods who are silently mourned. If you’re a Greek mythology buff or at least have a passing interest in it, this room is a nice find.
1The Real Mount Olympus
Everything you’ve been through has led you up to this point: your trial for the murder of Calliope. What better venue than where the gods originated from? You’re given glimpses of what that world once was, with sky-high pillars leading to an open roof with a perfect view of the moon and stars.
As the back and forth between Athena and Grace continue, the once-darkened room brightens up and reveals the true scope of the stage. It’s all an overwhelming white with so many statues lining the hall, you’d think the statues themselves were about to go to war.
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