Silksong Giving Up Point
a month ago
Pretty far into Act 2 and I think I've hit my limit, it really is just brick wall after brick wall of bosses or gauntlets I can't handle. I enjoy it when I just get to explore but eventually that ends with another frustrating encounter that I have to slog through. It is so much less welcoming than hollow knight, the combat is too fast for me to adapt, I think that's it. Guess I'll just be sad and watch someone else play it, wishing it were possible for me to be good enough to enjoy it like them >v<
I'm not exactly a fan of the large sum of people looking down upon those who can't get through the game, either. With how unreasonably anticipated the game was I'm sure a vast amount of people who never touched Hollow Knight jumped in and swiftly got mulched, now being told by the diehard difficulty grinders and naturally gifted that they are doing it wrong and it is their fault. I very much wish the game had a similar difficulty curve to Hollow Knight. So much story and interesting environments I am genuinely incapable of experiencing for myself. It isn't reasonable to expect every game to be for everyone and I know that. But Hollow Knight sets a bad example.
I'm not exactly a fan of the large sum of people looking down upon those who can't get through the game, either. With how unreasonably anticipated the game was I'm sure a vast amount of people who never touched Hollow Knight jumped in and swiftly got mulched, now being told by the diehard difficulty grinders and naturally gifted that they are doing it wrong and it is their fault. I very much wish the game had a similar difficulty curve to Hollow Knight. So much story and interesting environments I am genuinely incapable of experiencing for myself. It isn't reasonable to expect every game to be for everyone and I know that. But Hollow Knight sets a bad example.
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I really hate the elitist "Git-gud" mindset.
I fell into the Hunter's March pretty much right away. Cause they have an absolute jellybean blocking the way, so I thought it was the next step. Not an optional nightmare
If anything, the two games are so different in terms of core gameplay, that either of them being the first was going to be a poor representation of the other, without saying either one is doing anything terribly. Definitely deliberately malicious at times, from what I've seen, which doesn't help the feel of difficulty or frustration at all.