Posted on: September 25, 2025

loewenheim

Games: 391 Reviews: 2

Good, but doesn't respect your time

The art direction and music are of course top notch. The game controls great, with one big caveat: getting the double jump messes up your muscle memory because pressing jump twice suddenly does something different than it did the last 20 hours. By the time I got to Mount Fay I was definitely continuing out of spite rather than because I was actually enjoying myself. The combination of tricky platforming with time limits and respwning several screens back if you fail I think is the clearest example of this game not respecting your time and turning from challenging to actively punishing. It's a shame that what started with exploring such a wonderfully crafted world ended with me deciding to beat the final boss because I just couldn't be bothered to play this anymore.

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Edited on: September 29, 2025

Posted on: September 6, 2025

Resand

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Games: 52 Reviews: 1

Not my Hornet

Does not say Shaw or Adino or really anyone of her signaure voicelines. Not my Hornet. And why the everloving f do I have to walk for 2 maps to get back to every f boss.

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Posted on: September 7, 2025

megamanzeroxp

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Games: 4 Reviews: 1

Better than HK in every way, except...

The game has good music, better visuals, engaging characters, great controls and mechanics, and an imersive narrative, but lacks the non linearity and non combat win conditions that set Hollow Knight apart from its peers. Difficulty is also very high with enemies and obstacles dealing more damage earlier than in the Knight's adventure. Platforming challenges are tougher sooner with checkpoints far away. The game is good, fun, and very polished with much forethought which shows the long dev time was well spent, but stands out less in many areas compared to other metroidvanias one could play. Its difficult to pick the original HK over Silksong, but something was lost in the transition that made HK unique. The difficulty also makes it a challege to play before HK if one is new to metroidvanias.

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Posted on: September 9, 2025

mahad163

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Games: 48 Reviews: 1

Unbalanced gameplay

Why does every single useless low level enemy need to take 4-5 hits to kill and can kill us in 3 hits!?

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Edited on: September 18, 2025

Posted on: September 4, 2025

Ed_Force_One

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Games: 146 Reviews: 4

"Difficult" doesn't do it justice...

..."punishing" is a more accurate description. [Spoiler-free] The end of Act 1 is where I think I've come as far as I can without doing something to my Steam Deck I'll regret later. I think it's time to put it down. (But will I be able to?!) There were many parts of Act 1 that genuinely brought back some of those feelings I had during my Hollow Knight playthrough. The exploration is not nearly as good as it was there, but good enough. It felt more linear for sure, but parts that opened up later ended up expanding into a much larger area than I'd initially expected, and that feeling of awe returned. Some of the earlier boss fights were also challenging and fun; they felt well-enough balanced for the powers you had at that point (or lack thereof). But this is where Act 1 failed me as I kept advancing. The platforming challenges kept increasing in a way that didn't feel unfair, because you actually got better at it and platforming in and of itself does not require your abilities to expand - not counting areas that are ability-gated of course - but the boss fights absolutely did feel more and more unfair. You just don't feel powerful enough to take them on and they feel more and more like a slog. The game offers you little reward for overcoming some of the harder bosses. And don't get me started on those enemy-spawn rooms. Honestly I should have realized I was not going to get what I wanted out of it when getting past the two major bosses before the final boss of Act 1 required me to take a break out of sheer frustration after the former and (kinda) cheesing part of the latter. But a part of me just kept saying "keep going, it's bound to click and you'll enjoy it!" Sekiro felt this way and that's the game I'm coming from, so hey, maybe this one will click too. But at this point, I don't see that happening. The reviews I'm reading online only talk about the increased difficulty as you progress. I don't think that's something I'm going to find fun if it keeps going this way. It's a shame because the platforming sections were actually lots of fun and that's the part I'll miss. The combat arenas, not even a little. But maybe that's just me. All in all, I think the 40 or so hours I've put into it don't feel like an utter waste of time. But the metroidvania trope of exploring your way out of a boss-sized problem doesn't feel rewarding enough after a while.

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