• sauce@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      9 minutes ago

      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?

  • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
    30·
    12 hours ago

    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.

    • Flames5123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      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.

      • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 hour ago

        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.

    • MadameBisaster@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      3 hours ago

      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 :(

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
      14·
      11 hours ago

      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.

    • LNRDrone@sopuli.xyz
      8·
      11 hours ago

      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.

    • Bosht@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      13 hours ago

      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.

      • StuffYouFear@lemmy.world
        3·
        13 hours ago

        Lack of logistics before launch was one of two reasons, second was my 1 gig of blueprints had their rails invalidated