If you like metroidvanias, and enjoy ARPG boss fights like DMC, Dark Souls, and the Kingdom hearts series, there's a lot to love here. All the fun platforming and bosses of the first one, but dialed up to 11. HOWEVER...I mean 11. I feel like TC made this game specifically for people who JUST finished smething like PoH in the first game and are at their best ready for the next challenge....Is what I WOULD say, however some of the difficutly is more "frustrating/unfair" difficulty. In the first game, the first time you see one of the fly trap enemies there's a geode deposit just past it, you naturally run to it, and see the fly trap snap after you move off it. Great game design to show the player "this exists, if you get hit by one now, its your fault" That does not happen in silksong. Many enemies are placed SPECIFICALLY to hit you when you don't know they're there or what they do. Often enemies withbouncing or explosive attacks are placed in small tight areas. Bosses hitboxes do massive damage to you even while they're staggered, and Hornet's movement may be more "fluid" than The Knight's, but that leaves the game feeling less "tight." Along with plenty of frustrating boss runbacks that have annoying enemies placed with platforming, that overall makes the game more "annoying/frustrating" than just "harder" in my opinion. I also don't enjoy the equipment system as much as I do the first one. It seems hornet is far more limited in "builds" so far. I currently have 3 of the crests, and all in all, there's less to equip so far and you're very limited on how you can equip things. I'm pretty sure you DO unlock more later in the game, however at this point in the first one I was very much able to put together a basic "build" The platforming suffers from the same as enemy difficulty...sometimes seeming "unfair" HOWEVER. All the negative in this review is only to show that literally everything else about the game is a 10/10. Overall, fantastic, if a bit frustrating.
