I usually welcome difficult games. I thoroughly enjoyed FromSoft games, my favorite among them was Sekiro. I played HollowKnight several times, and a couple of Nine Sols. Never in my gaming life have I ever reached triple digits of attempts on boss or multiple wave encounters, in any game. Silksong is not difficult in the challenging fun way, it's difficult in the frustrating way. Some encounters are too long, too messy. A lot of the flying enemies you spend way too long chasing them down. On some bosses the last rest point is so far away, you spend several minutes just for another attempt on the boss, with enemies along the way taking you down to half health. This is not limited to bosses or encounters, the platforming sections are the same way. Dozens of attempts, some of them you finish the section with 1-2 health, and end up 1 shot by a random mob in a dark room and have to do it all over again. 37 hours in at this point, about half way through the game, and I think I'm just done.