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Soulslike fans continue to be tiring (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by BeanisBrain@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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Was in a comment section about designing games to respect the player's time and mentioned I never finished Hollow Knight because it makes you fight the final boss again each time you want to give the secret boss another shot.

Someone jumped in literally telling me "GET GOOD" and when I told them there were other things I'd rather be doing, they followed up with "so don't get hard games just to complain about." They never responded when I asked them how I was supposed to know exactly how hard everything in the game would be before I ever played it.

Every fucking time. I swear I can set my watch by it. The Dark Souls series has earned my undying enmity for what it has done to gaming discourse.

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[–] trompete@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I mean good on you for quitting, I didn't get to Radiance because I quit even earlier after being unable to beat Lost Kin. I do not regret having quit the game when I did, and I had a good time with it.

I played it again years later, and beat Radiance then. These are my feelings about that experience:

Radiance probably took me at least a dozen times. After a while I became quite consistent at beating the Hollow Knight, with full health and all. When originally he felt quite relentless, he now began to feel slooow. I started to get more hits in, really spammed high damage spells, every phase only taking a couple of seconds. That fucker gave me all kinds of trouble but now I'm whooping his ass! Only takes a minute too. Anyway, that was some satisfying feeling of empowerment or whatever you want to call it, and I reckon that's why the devs made me play that bit over and over again, and I thank them for that.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I feel this is the trick with this phase. He is relentless at the beginning but very soon starts to be lose his mind. If you have a fully upgraded nail you can be greedy and spam attacks tanking hits if needed. A little bit further on you get ample windows to heal once he starts stabbing himself. Once the Radiance phase begins your health is fully restored so you don't have to worry about keeping the health bar full when fighting the Hollow Knight.

It is not something you can switch your brain off completely during but it is also not as tricky as it seems at face value.