Hollow Knight: Silksong

7/10 Don't misunderstand me. It's by no means a bad game. starting off with the best: The platforming and general movement in this game is supreme. In some areas it feels just as snappy and satisfying as Celeste which is in fact the highest praise I can give any platformer. The art and animation is even more gorgeous than in hollow knight and especially the area design is unique and memorable. it works great with the beautiful score. 10/10 music and art. However: Compared to Hollow Knight the characters in Silksong feel less developed or interesting. I couldn't care less about 90% of them. You have the exceptions like Sherma or Shakra but most bugs in shops, in towns or quests could be swapped out for some other one and I probably wouldn't notice. Their dialogue feels generic, the characters indistinct and unintriguing. In some areas, namely Bilewater and Sinner's Road the area mechanics, enemies and/or bench-positions just create environments so unfun and straight up frustrating to navigate and explore that it doesn't feel worth it. You're just happy to be out of there. most of the areas are good though. 8/10 the bosses: This is a frustrating one. This game will give you one of the best bossfights ever created (Cogwork Dancers) then turn around and slap you in the face with Trobbio (pure RNG, little skill expression, long downtime just waiting for the guy to materialize again). It gives you bosses like Lace, Widow or the Last Judge (all great) and in the same act includes the least fun bosses anyone could have ever imagined - Beastfly, Skull Tyrant or the Mossmothers. Turns out: Just making everything hit for double damage is not the type of difficulty that makes a game fun. Making every boss also spawn in additional enemies isn't fun either. Again, HK was just better in this respect. most bosses were self sufficient. and found difficulty in their attack patterns, not only 2x damage. Imagine if Hornet in Kingdoms Edge had just been the same as Hornet in Greenpath but she dealt 2x damage and she spawns Primal Aspids. This is how the difficulaty feels in some Silksong bosses. Every boss in Silksong is a real time commitment (for me between ~1/2 to more than 2 hours) and I just can't quite justify spending that time when I either don't feel like skill is even a relevant factor or the "difficulty" is just a lot of HP, double damage and external enemies. Call it a skill issue but I just won't be bothered. 5/10 TL;DR: This games exploration, movement and visual design create a beautiful world you want to go explore (for the most part anyways). Some areas' mechanics and enemies are better at retaining this fun of exploration than others. The bosses are sadly somewhat of a mixed bag in terms of quality. While all pose a very significant challenge to the player some just aren't fun or rewarding, feeling like more of a test of endurance than of skill. The plot and narrative is almost insultingly explicit. Many characters feel boring and interchangeable. The shopkeepers might as well be vending machines.

This is the Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment of the HK series. More movement, more options, fancier platforming, everything feels more fluid and more satisfying. The art is beautiful, the music is incredible, and the storyline just keeps surprising. Even 50 hours in, I keep thinking "how is there still so much of this game that I haven't found?" The only parts that I dislike are 1. The amount of health the enemies have. Almost every enemy seems to be too tough in my opinion, and it gets to the point where I feel that bosses aren't hard because of their attacks, they're hard because you have to sit there dodging everything for so long that you are bound to mess up at some point because they don't die fast enough. I think Hollow Knight bosses are much more satisfying and much less draining to fight due to their perfect health-difficulty ratio. 2. The exploration/secrets. Maybe this is a skill issue on my end, but I find myself frequently stuck and unable to figure out what I need to do to continue. I've had to look up or ask for help in order to find secret doors and areas that I feel are very difficult to spot sometimes. Again, I might just be impatient and unobservant, but I feel like the navigation is even more difficult than some other games that I've played in the past and gotten annoyed with. All in all, its a great game and I highly recommend it. Have fun exploring the wonders of Pharloom, Child With Needle!

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Highly recomend

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