Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Started Silksong finally. I loved Hollow Knight, and I don’t remember that one being especially difficult. But this one? I dunno, maybe I don’t have as much patience as I did 10 years ago, or maybe it’s because my hands keep going numb when playing on Steam Deck, but so far I feel like the frustration is outweighing the fun. The biggest issue for me is a combination of the amount of time that you’re immobile while healing coupled with the fact that getting hit during that time causes you to loose the silk without healing.
Silksong is much harder than Hollow Knight for me too. I’ve been slowly playing through it but I agree that it’s a lot more frustrating and less rewarding.
The one nice thing is that you can heal in midair, unlike Hollow Knight. You can really use that to your advantage in some fights.
I think I’ll look to see if there’s a mod to make it more tolerable. I don’t need/want it to be much easier, I just want at least one more health point, or 50% faster silk gain or something.
pewpew@feddit.it 1 week ago When you (hopefully) finish Sliksong you should try Ori: Will of the wisps, it’s the second and final one in the series but you are non missing that much by not playing Blind forest.
Ori games need the recognition that they deserve
I played and loved both of those games.
Other ones to try if you haven’t yet are Ender Lillies and Ender Magnolia.
pewpew@feddit.it 1 week ago Never heard of these, I’ll be checking them out
octobob@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I 112%'d hollow knight this past winter and even beat the final patheon that’s like 50 some bosses, although on that one only was the single mod I ever installed which was being able to save at benches because I was not going to try and do 50 in a row without dying lol.
But I did everything the game can offer, first time I’ve gone that far in it since it came out, and then immediately started silksong over again. I got into act 2 when the game came out and kinda fell off it. I didn’t actually get stuck I think I just got distracted with other games
Anyway even after playing HK to death, yeah silksong is a lot harder. But I am at like 16 hours approaching act 3 whereas when I fell off it last year I was around 40, so that’s worth something I guess. I’m not getting stuck as badly, but the game can be pretty punishing.
I’ve always played HK and metroidvanias with an 8bitdo sn30 pro, it just feels better with a D pad to me. Highly recommend it if you’re looking for a better control feel than the steam deck. Although I did beat that crazy hard carnival boss on the switch handheld mode back in the day lol