Edited on: October 17, 2025
Posted on: October 17, 2025
Infernor
Verified ownerGames: 21 Reviews: 6
Devs seeking masochists
I played hollow knight in 2018. I've been waiting for this 7 years. What is this game? It's not just hard. I'm fine with hard. This game is sadistic by design. I finished beating last judge yesterday at 2 AM. Guess what? He explodes. Guess what? It kills you usually. Guess what? It wipes your progress. Meaning you fight him again. So I beat him the second time. I hated fighting beastly. Sister splinter. Tight fight spaces and bosses spawning enemies that shred you dealing 2 mask dmg. You are signing up to be abused at this point by artificial difficulty. Not real one. This is not good game design. It's tedious runback and tight arenas for fights with spawns that shred you. The beastly fight shreds you. I haven't found upgrades in the last 25 hours or so? None of the charms are useful. None of the weapons are good enough. I absolutely hate how bosses give no beads. The game tries to wipe you clean you need to pay 20 all the time to make rosaries. Always sacrificing 25% until you unlock bellhart. You need to also use the wanderer crest. Everything else feels just awful. I freaking hate how useless the beastly crest is due to dive down... What a lame design. Do you expect people to even attempt getting used to this crap? Too bad it has the coolest effect with the crappiest dive move. Economy is bad. Pay for benches everywhere. Homeless people would laugh at you for paying for benches from across the road in the park. I waited 7 years for this. 7 freaking years. I want a hard as hell game but not this lame design with artificial difficulty. It's not tactical. It's mindless and RNG based. You pray beastly spawns normal bugs and not the big ones that shred. Upgrades are extremely scarce and you just don't feel it. Shards are such a bad design. You encounter a boss and if you try to play seriously and use up your weapons for 10 encounters you're wiped 500+ shards. You'll have to grind. That's right. This is a farming game as well. Because bosses give nothing. Tons of enemies give shards only and only like 4-5. It's such a terrible design. Then they design a magnet like HK swarm that picks beads but not shards..... Lmao ok team cherry. I freaking hate team cherry now. I bought HK as my first digital game ever. I just had to buy it. Before that I used to download everything you know.... It holds such a dear place in my heart. I dare say Silksong was obviously rushed. 7 years were not enough. Plenty of game design jank around runbacks and benches being 3 - 4 maps away from bosses. The upgrades aren't any good. The bosses fights are trash and unfair in many instances. Yeah I've beaten them. But then I got to beastly the second..... Turns out they added a 4 hits with upgraded nail primal aspid that spits lava that sticks to the platform and exploads. Beastly rush attacks should kill the spawns. I don't get this game design it's so bad and inconsistent. Also the beastly dive attack only kills the spawn if it's at the floor or near it. Seriously? Otherwise it goes through? Are you for real? Who even designed this? It's so bad. What a let down. All I can say is it needs fixing. Badly. The game demonstrates sadistic tendencies that are praised as difficulty and that's just ultra annoying. The simps need to stop. Exploration is solid 9/10 only thing I dislike is how futile it feels due to meaninglessness of any upgrades you get or obtain. Such is life. I've taken a couple of minutes to type this. But it's ok. I won't be playing this anymore. Haha... Primal aspid with 4 hits health and lava exploding attack that deals 2 masks damage, sticks to map elements and platforms and explodes. What a joke.
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