A game about bugs, where your a bug that fights other bugs. The only thing that really bugs me is how long it took for this buggy little bug of a game to finally bug its way onto my screen.
10/10 - No software bugs, just actual bugs.
A game about bugs, where your a bug that fights other bugs. The only thing that really bugs me is how long it took for this buggy little bug of a game to finally bug its way onto my screen.
10/10 - No software bugs, just actual bugs.
I wanted to write a positive review, but instead of going straight down my mouse went 45 degrees to the right and I accidentally switched the review to negative
What happened with the launch was dangerous and unacceptable and can NEVER be allowed to happen again. It is up to all of us to leave negative reviews on this game to send a message.
No matter who you are — Denier, Doubter, Accepter, Believer...
In the end, we've all won
No more silkposts
No more silksanity
Silksong is real
Silksong is here!
Shoutout to DSN, you will never be forgotten
Not surprising to me this woke ugly baby game piece of trash is being over hyped. You know why it's not surprising to me? Just look at the mental illness epidemic we're going through in western countries. People are willing to vote liberal, for mass immigration and white replacement. People are mutilating themselves, people are confused what gender they truly are, we are a lost society, and people hyping up this generic simpleton 2D garbage is further proof we are a culture of mental illness.
I really wanted to love this game, and there's a part of me that still hopes I will as I continue to play this game through to the ending. However, the first dozen hours of this game has me feeling disappointed. Here are my honest thoughts:
Pros:
- The audio and visuals are amazing.
- The area and enemy designs are mostly pretty great.
- It does a good job of rewarding players who check for hidden areas, without making those who don't miss out on too much.
- The overall feel and responsiveness of combat is great, just like the first game.
- I really like the idea of crests and being able to change you moveset, and so far it seems they were executed well.
- I do actually like the diagonal pogo, once I got used to it. Although I'll admit it does make the game more challenging.
Cons:
- Double damage in the early game just isn't fun. It worked on the late game bosses of hollow knight because most players have 8-9 masks. Having 2x damage from the start just results in incredibly fast deaths where it's hard to even properly learn enemy/boss attack patterns. It also requires you to find 8 mask shards before you can tank an extra hit from many bosses.
- It feels like this game has slightly lower immunity frames than hollow knight, which makes it very easy to get combo'd for 4 damage from one mistake.
- Regular enemies just have way too much health. In hollow knight, the vast majority of enemies took 2-4 hits to kill, whereas in silksong you'll be lucky to find an enemy that dies in less than 4 hits and many take 8-10. Also, from what I can tell, the first needle upgrade seems to be a pretty minor dps increase, whereas in the first game it almost doubled your damage.
- This game has some pretty brutal run backs, which include parkour and lots of enemies you need to dodge. I had many boss attempts where the run back was twice as long as the actual attempt.
- The healing system feels absolutely awful. You need 9 hits to be able to heal, and if you get hit during the heal, the boss fight is basically over. Also, the fact that you have to heal 3 masks at once makes it really hard to balance using skills and healing. If you want to heal at all, you pretty much need to save all your silk for it. Furthermore, sometimes you need to heal for only 1-2 masks which feels bad, but it feels worse to not gain any more silk from hits.
- You barely get enough rosaries to sustain essential upgrades like stags, benches and maps, unless you go out of your way to farm for them. And if you die at any point with a lot of rosaries in your cocoon, good luck affording anything for a while. The rosarie string is supposed to be a solution to this, but I don't want to take a 25% tax on all my rosaries when I can already barely afford things as is.
- Sprinting feels bad. You have to dash to start a sprint, which is really frustrating during a part in act 1 where you have to sprint jump off of tiny platforms. Also, it just entirely changes you moveset which feels weird and clunky to me. This is pretty subjective, but I prefer the simplified movement in the first game. (The dash in this game does feel good though)
- The tool system, while not awful, does feel like a downgrade from the first game. IN hollow knight, you could equip any set of charms you wanted. You could go for full tank, full damage, or somewhere in the middle. Silksong forces you to use certain types of tools, based on which crest you have equipped.
- Red tools feel especially bad, as they have an upkeep cost. Unless you're insane at the game, you're probably going to take several attempt to beat most bosses and sustaining tool usage just isn't viable. Furthermore, shards are required for some quests so using them to repair tools just sets you back.
And finally, this game is really difficult. Most of the act 1 bosses would be mid to late game bosses in the first game. As someone who's played hundreds of hours of hollow knight, the difficulty is somewhat manageable for me, but anyone coming into this game without lots of experience in other similar games is probably going to have a miserable time.
I really hope Team Cherry is able to address at least some of these issues, because if not I likely won't be touching the game again after I finish it.
A game about bugs, where your a bug that fights other bugs. The only thing that really bugs me is how long it took for this buggy little bug of a game to finally bug its way onto my screen.
10/10 - No software bugs, just actual bugs.
A game about bugs, where your a bug that fights other bugs. The only thing that really bugs me is how long it took for this buggy little bug of a game to finally bug its way onto my screen.
10/10 - No software bugs, just actual bugs.
I wanted to write a positive review, but instead of going straight down my mouse went 45 degrees to the right and I accidentally switched the review to negative
What happened with the launch was dangerous and unacceptable and can NEVER be allowed to happen again. It is up to all of us to leave negative reviews on this game to send a message.
No matter who you are — Denier, Doubter, Accepter, Believer...
In the end, we've all won
No more silkposts
No more silksanity
Silksong is real
Silksong is here!
Shoutout to DSN, you will never be forgotten
Not surprising to me this woke ugly baby game piece of trash is being over hyped. You know why it's not surprising to me? Just look at the mental illness epidemic we're going through in western countries. People are willing to vote liberal, for mass immigration and white replacement. People are mutilating themselves, people are confused what gender they truly are, we are a lost society, and people hyping up this generic simpleton 2D garbage is further proof we are a culture of mental illness.
I really wanted to love this game, and there's a part of me that still hopes I will as I continue to play this game through to the ending. However, the first dozen hours of this game has me feeling disappointed. Here are my honest thoughts:
Pros:
- The audio and visuals are amazing.
- The area and enemy designs are mostly pretty great.
- It does a good job of rewarding players who check for hidden areas, without making those who don't miss out on too much.
- The overall feel and responsiveness of combat is great, just like the first game.
- I really like the idea of crests and being able to change you moveset, and so far it seems they were executed well.
- I do actually like the diagonal pogo, once I got used to it. Although I'll admit it does make the game more challenging.
Cons:
- Double damage in the early game just isn't fun. It worked on the late game bosses of hollow knight because most players have 8-9 masks. Having 2x damage from the start just results in incredibly fast deaths where it's hard to even properly learn enemy/boss attack patterns. It also requires you to find 8 mask shards before you can tank an extra hit from many bosses.
- It feels like this game has slightly lower immunity frames than hollow knight, which makes it very easy to get combo'd for 4 damage from one mistake.
- Regular enemies just have way too much health. In hollow knight, the vast majority of enemies took 2-4 hits to kill, whereas in silksong you'll be lucky to find an enemy that dies in less than 4 hits and many take 8-10. Also, from what I can tell, the first needle upgrade seems to be a pretty minor dps increase, whereas in the first game it almost doubled your damage.
- This game has some pretty brutal run backs, which include parkour and lots of enemies you need to dodge. I had many boss attempts where the run back was twice as long as the actual attempt.
- The healing system feels absolutely awful. You need 9 hits to be able to heal, and if you get hit during the heal, the boss fight is basically over. Also, the fact that you have to heal 3 masks at once makes it really hard to balance using skills and healing. If you want to heal at all, you pretty much need to save all your silk for it. Furthermore, sometimes you need to heal for only 1-2 masks which feels bad, but it feels worse to not gain any more silk from hits.
- You barely get enough rosaries to sustain essential upgrades like stags, benches and maps, unless you go out of your way to farm for them. And if you die at any point with a lot of rosaries in your cocoon, good luck affording anything for a while. The rosarie string is supposed to be a solution to this, but I don't want to take a 25% tax on all my rosaries when I can already barely afford things as is.
- Sprinting feels bad. You have to dash to start a sprint, which is really frustrating during a part in act 1 where you have to sprint jump off of tiny platforms. Also, it just entirely changes you moveset which feels weird and clunky to me. This is pretty subjective, but I prefer the simplified movement in the first game. (The dash in this game does feel good though)
- The tool system, while not awful, does feel like a downgrade from the first game. IN hollow knight, you could equip any set of charms you wanted. You could go for full tank, full damage, or somewhere in the middle. Silksong forces you to use certain types of tools, based on which crest you have equipped.
- Red tools feel especially bad, as they have an upkeep cost. Unless you're insane at the game, you're probably going to take several attempt to beat most bosses and sustaining tool usage just isn't viable. Furthermore, shards are required for some quests so using them to repair tools just sets you back.
And finally, this game is really difficult. Most of the act 1 bosses would be mid to late game bosses in the first game. As someone who's played hundreds of hours of hollow knight, the difficulty is somewhat manageable for me, but anyone coming into this game without lots of experience in other similar games is probably going to have a miserable time.
I really hope Team Cherry is able to address at least some of these issues, because if not I likely won't be touching the game again after I finish it.
