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Been watching live streams and it does indeed look hard as fuck. I know I couldn’t do it. I’d nope out pretty quick
It's not that hard IMO. It isn't easy, but I'm having an easier time than, say, Sekiro.
I don’t even know what that is
A rhythm game pretending to be an action game. It's delightful
I just started it and I’m stuck on a big ol ogre guy who seems to hate fire
Kinda early on outside a gate area, right? Lol
Yerrrp. I can do 10 foot DDR songs but this game is lost on me
That guy is annoying. Best advice is to stay moving and slowly chip away at his health.
You can also use a stealth candy to sneak up on him and erase his first health bar instantly
Souls game but ninja
It is that hard. Sekiro is more generous with healing, has a lighter death penalty, doesn't require tracking your movement and enemy attacks, doesn't hurt you for walking into someone, and only needs 2 buttons to play (parry and attack).
edit: oh jump for some perilous attacks but they're rare.
I dunno, the death penalty in sekiro seems harsher with the dragonrot. In Silksong, you can just buy necklaces and keep your beads. Maybe it's just been a while and I remember Sekiro being harder than it is.
I'm not good at video games and dragonrot doesn't matter. You can always cure it and it doesn't affect the game loop anyway, maybe you miss some lore or something. It's mostly a psychological trick.
Silksong early game combat involves managing spacing, timing a variable height jump, dashing, parrying when you fuck up, managing a resource bar. It's like final boss or sekiro in terms or mechanics to juggle and penalty for getting hit.
It's a crazy game, I struggled less on sword saint than than savage beastfly (haven't beaten yet) and I struggled on sword saint.
Maybe 2D just clicks better for me? I dunno. I do understand people having trouble, and I do think they will tune down the 2 masks in the early game.
I have no idea what they might tune or not. I just think it's a clearly extremely difficult. I mean it's a precision platforms where you often need to track multiple things on screen while platforming, with steep penalties for mistakes.
The stuff that stops me enjoying it as much as hollow knight is I just spend more time running back to challenge rooms/bosses than practicing them or exploring. Hollow night I could pretty much idly wander through and not feel like I constantly had to go back to spend my currency or refresh health at a bench.
The need to grind shards for boss attempts, especially in areas where many shards from enemies fall into spikes/water/lava blows too. It's a game that seems to actively resist letting you figure stuff out, which pushes players towards low risk and conservative strategies.
One thing that something like the souls games or hollow knight have going for them is that once you've lost your souls you have no reason not to get reckless. In effect if players have a dismal strategy they are encouraged to aggressively search for a better one.
In silksong is you are discouraged from experimentation because you will have to farm shards and losing currency really sucks (especially since challenge rooms or bosses don't reemburse you, which encourages sticking with it to recoup losses).
That's fair! One thing I found helpful is buying necklaces and shard pouches. You don't need to worry so much if you store up rosaries in case of death!