Board 8 > Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement

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Enough to I think form an opinion.

Silksong is significantly worse than Hollow Knight.

This game is clearly a manifesto on late-stage capitalism.

*pay 30 Rosaries to get into shop*

*still have to pay 30 Rosaries to come back*

This game is clearly a manifesto on late-stage capitalism.

Or the state of the Catholic Church pre-Reformation. Either way.

psst...attack the gear after you enter the room

there is actually some light bug class commentary in the game though lmao. free my man big spider horse bug

If you have that many maps then you have either missed a weapon upgrade or are just about to unlock it.

it's particularly annoying when you explore an area and find a bunch of dead ends that are either empty or have a thing you can't interact with, then you get a quest and realize oh, i have to go back and do that all again. it feels like a waste of time because if you'd just happened to have gotten the quest *before* coming here you could've done it the first time through!

One complaint: two masks of contact damage from bosses when they're staggered and in dizzy mode is kinda bullshit.

are you fighting the boss that falls on top of you when it gets stunned

also i think people aren't talking enough about the sidequest system either. like, one of the perks of the metroidvania genre is that you don't have to spend time doing menial chores, it's 100% just exploring and finding new things. the first game nailed this! why does this one have "go kill 10 birds" "go gather 6 plants"????

end of act 1 spoilers so how many of y'all died to the last judge exploding in her death animation? *raises hand*

I've played enough of these types of games to realize what was happening and stayed the fuck away.

Highly encourage anyone who bounced off and who is on PC to try that out.

Reaper makes the game so much more fun. I do switch to Wanderer for bosses typically though since the DPS matters more than the survivability. I will never use the default weapon though (even with the upgrade)

I was using Reaper for a bit until I realized it doesn't seem to hit enemies that are directly above you. It was hitting more diagonal upwards which completely breaks my flow.

Christ, getting to and beating the boss for Beast with the default weapon sounds insane

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dont tell me that I need a key to progress after you made me go through a covershooter segment and two difficult pogo jumps

I've been keeping quiet since I was getting a bit disillusioned with the game toward the end of act 1 and start of act 2. Ended up downloading a mod to prevent single-hit attacks from doing 2 masks of damage, and holy shit, the game is wayyyyyy better now. Still plenty challenging since a ton of enemies hit you twice anyway. Highly encourage anyone who bounced off and who is on PC to try that out.

I immediately recognized it as an optional challenge route.

I don't know why so many people have a bug up their butt about the 2 masks damage. Hornet heals for 3 masks at a time and healing is WAY easier than it was in Hollow Knight since you can do it mid-air.

The rest of the difficulty discourse being about the Ant section doesn't make a lot of sense either. I immediately recognized it as an optional challenge route.

• Healing for 3 doesn't mean crap when the enemy hits for 2. A heal is still only one hit because you either cap out on health, or you heal from 1 to 4.
• Healing is not easier. You have to find a safe time to use the heal, or you blow your entire meter on nothing, and have zero chance to heal again until you manage to get 8 hits in on enemies, which might be impossible if this is a boss you're learning, you're surrounded, or you're staring down an environmental hazard that's giving you trouble. Even if you do get the heal, at best, you're dead even with HK -- a full meter for 3 points of healing -- but the lack of granularity makes it harder to manage.
• There are aspects of the game that screw with your healing. I won't go into details because spoilers.