Current Events > Cuphead, Hollow Knight, or Celeste?

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For me, it's:

Cuphead >>>>>> Celeste >>>> Hollow Knight

I didn't even bother with Cuphead's final level.

Just imagine celeste without quickly respawning in the same room.

Touched a spike? Play the whole level again.
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haven't played Celeste. Gave up on Hollow Knight before ever reaching the first boss. Penalties for dying meant erasing file and starting again for me. After doing that a few times, it became a full on deal breaker. Cuphead was hard but just required practice and trying different things. I beat it and beat most of the expert mode. There were 3 bosses I have never beat in expert and I was able to I think complete the pacifist clears of 4 of the 6 platforming stages, but I could be remembering that wrong.

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Cuphead wasn't that difficult. I beat it on the day that I bought it. I did pacifist on all 6 levels and I need to S-rank Expert, which will take a while.

Hollow Knight was hard mainly in regards to bosses, but once you get into a certain rhythm in regards to patterns and telegraphs, it goes from frustrating to satisfying. The only thing I haven't beaten was the Pantheon of Hallownest. I need to get back on that.

Celeste basically pushed me to my limits, especially with the B-Sides and C-Sides. I haven't beaten the final DLC chapter because it was more than I could handle and chickened out with assist mode. The next time I come back there, I'm not going to use it.

So Celeste (At least for me) is harder than Hollow Knight, but just barely.

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Machete posted...

Gave up on Hollow Knight before ever reaching the first boss. Penalties for dying meant erasing file and starting again for me. After doing that a few times, it became a full on deal breaker.

Wait why?

Machete posted...

Penalties for dying meant erasing file and starting again for me. After doing that a few times, it became a full on deal breaker.

Why did you do that to yourself? The game doesn't force that on you.

Hmmm.

Cuphead is all about pattern recognition. It is simply throwing yourself at the boss repeatedly until you know the pattern and perform.

Hollow Knight is a fantastic Metroidvania that has some hard bosses and one punishingly hard traversal challenge. Otherwise it isn't bad.

Celeste gets ridiculously hard on the optional stuff but the main quest is relatively fine.

So I gotta go like this...

Casual play (get to end credits) - Cuphead > Hollowknight > Celeste.

Completion - Celeste >>> Hollowknight >>> Cuphead

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MorganTJ posted...

Wait why?

I don't get it either, yeah you lose all of your soul but it respawns not that far away from you lol. Even if you die to a boss you get to pick it all right back up. I don't think I used a rancid egg teh entire game

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Machete posted...

Gave up on Hollow Knight before ever reaching the first boss. Penalties for dying meant erasing file and starting again for me. After doing that a few times, it became a full on deal breaker.

Just take your time and don't be reckless. Also, git gud.

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