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I loved the first Hollow Knight incredibly, and I really wanted to love the sequel Silksong just as much, but the problem, you see, is that I am Not Good.
The first game had an OK difficulty and plenty of charms to help so I made it to the end, but all the first game DLC was so crazy hard I couldn't even. And that made me sad.
I hoped Silksong would be a return to a more accessible place, but while it started reasonable it quickly got to a difficulty where I couldn't keep up, no matter how much I tried. Way more than the original game.
So fuck you, Silksong. I love your world and I love your music and I love your vibe and I want to love you but I hate you.
I've recently been playing a lot of Minecraft.
I feel like Hollow Knight's difficulty was in the boss fights, you'd traverse pretty easily, then get stuck listening to a fucking Dung Beetle yelling "HOOOOOOOOYYYYYY!" while getting you're ass kicked for 45 minutes.
In Silksong I've gotten my ass handed to me by improper platforming & random nobodies more times than I can count.
Doma doma doma!
That's fair. Silksong is harder and more importantly much meaner game than Hollow Knight. It is still a really good game, but it's a bit of a love/hate relationship for me as well.
It is a game that you need to practice. I spent 96 hours to get 100% in 2.5 weeks. I crashed out on more than one occasion. It’s like practicing anything. I loved getting better at it, but I understand that it’s not for everyone.
The thing that makes me upset isn't that it's not for me.
I accept that plenty of games aren't for me, and that I shouldn't play them. I'm never going to get into Dark Souls or Elden Ring, because they aren't going to be my thing.
The part that makes me upset is that Hollow Knight very much was for me, and was a game I enjoyed and have very fond memories of. I was very much looking forward to Silksong, but the difficulty is so much higher that I can no longer engage with this world I once loved.
It feels in TV terms like watching Season 1 of a show and really getting into it, and then when Season 2 comes out, you excitedly start watching - episode 1, episode 2, but your TV somehow stops working every time you start the third episode. Or any episode after the third. Everyone is talking about how great the show is and you've seen clips and you want to experience it, but no matter how much you try, you can't.
If I hadn't seen Season 1, I'd just give up after those two episodes like "That show's obviously not working for me" - but I have seen Season 1. I'm invested, yet now I can't see it through.
That's why I'm upset.
I don't watch playthroughs myself, but maybe it would scratch the itch for you?
If you beat hollow knight, you can beat silksong! It’s about patience and practice. I was going in and greedily getting off many hits instead of learning each boss’s fight and tells. It’s like learning how to play a difficult song. You will mess up a lot. You will repeat sections over and over. It will be a little frustrating if you let it frustrate you.
And you know what? It’s a video game. Download mods if you want to give yourself more hearts or have the bosses do less damage. We all have limited time to play games so have fun with it.
It’s about patience and practice.
Lots of people don't want that in a video game. Which is perfectly fine because no game is going to have universal appeal.
Main thing that annoyed me that it felt like every enemy in Silksong deals two damages, so I see I got 4 lifes and think its relaxed and suddenly I am dead :(
What character is holding him hostage?
Hornet from Silk Song
Silknet from Horsong
Hornet from Silksong.
Silk hore from net song
Hor net from Silksong
Hornet from Silksong
Sliknet from roshong
Song from hornet
Hopalong from Silkfrog
Geoff.
Hornet from Silksong
Netsong from Hornsilk
Horny Silk Thong
Horsong from silknet
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Horselips love song
Hornt. Hornt Silkysong.
Homer Simpson
Factorio is my goto once a year thing for a month
Literally just started back up myself. Hoping to actually breach into Space Age as I picked it up when it released but just could NOT keep at it.
Lack of logistics before launch was one of two reasons, second was my 1 gig of blueprints had their rails invalidated
Difference this time is it's Hytale instead of Minecraft
My friend group considered picking it up but one guy said it's probably best to give it some more time in the oven.. have you played it? Thoughts?
Its still in early beta, I love it but I also have a higher tolerance for bugs and general unpolished nonsense than most especially for a game I have waited seven years to play.
The game has more breadth than I thought it would, and the systems it does have (exploration, fighting, construction, farming) have wayyy more depth than Minecraft's it does not feel fair to compare. There's definitely enjoyment to be had for a while playing if the occasional random lag spike or disconnect is not a deal breaker for you.
But it's not yet a Minecraft killer. Minecraft still has a much higher gameplay variation. In a couple years though I don't think there will be much reason to play vanilla Minecraft except nostalgia.
I played a few hours of the original Hollow Knight, trying to get into it. I just.....couldn't.
I played the shit out of both of the Ori games, though. God DAMN those games are beautiful.
Just wondering, how far did you get? The begining is certainly the weakest part, Silksong does a better job on improving the general lack of movement and closedness of the map early on
metroidvanias are not for everyone. It's okay.
Monster Hunter is my Minecraft, because I need a game that hates me as much as I do.
Hey you, you're finally awake.
For me it's Shattered Pixel Dungeon. I get this intense craving every few years. Will play religiously for a month or two and uninstall once I lose interest.
Nah, as much as Hollow Knight is a good game, it doesn't have Minecraft levels of hold on humanity and never will. He will return in couple of months stronger than ever.
This is literally me right now (the minecraft thing) but its been going for 2 month :/. They actually added so much content since I last played I still haven't explored all of it yet.
I used to feel like this with Skyrim when the first snows of winter comes, but anniversary edition ruined a bunch of mods and now the cursor is a box and I don't feel like playing vanilla or figuring out which mod is broken that I probably don't want to play without anyways.