I'm used to hategrifting at this point being a trails fan and a Pokémon fan

Hate is always going to be louder sadly
Hate makes people feel like they belong in an elite "club" of haters that theyre so clever they don't buy into the hype

Its always the same people every time

And yet, they buy it

Watching a streamer i love ignore a really nice story because he can't turn his "realism" brain off is just so painful
And he just coats the game in this sticky irony, L's story is lost because he refuses to actually read the dialogue.

Its sad

"BUT JACINTHE IS OBNOXIOUS"

AND?

SHES ALLOWED TO BE

god forbid women do anything

And as always

AQUARIUM STRATS FOREVER

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Closing thoughts

Silksong is a frustrating, sometimes actively mean game, that despite it all, i still love it.
Its sad that more people arent able to play it though, and thats entirely TCs fault. Theres a 9.5/10 hidden beneath the mess. And i hope they can clear it up, it deserves as much

Hornet is such a rounded character
Having a voice gives such a perspective on it all. She guides other characters, is inquisitive, and clearly shows a thought process, her writing is fantastic
And her journal comments are amazing

LET HER PET THE FUZZY BUGS
SHE NEEDS TO

The story inside it all, i adored
Exploring Verdania in the green princes memory
Experiencing Hornet's past, how Herrah and The White Lady shaped her life
The entirety of Choral Chambers and High Halls
The world felt so new, alive and surviving, if barely. Her desire to not see another hallownest

It all just wears you down
Theres an incredible game here, bogged down by fluff, artificial difficulty, endless inconsequential quests to make up for the broken economy
I never felt at rest, there was always something i was avoiding. Not for "getting upgrades" just because i wasn't enjoying it

The tools system
I love the idea
Hate the execution.
Theres what... 1 yellow tool that's worth having on in a fight bar the claw in Nyleth? So many blue tools are rendered obselete because, theres NO SPACE, and no synergy. Remember dung crest? How it did everything with everything in HK
None of that

Khann, Court of Craws, Second Sentinel.
Each of these challenged me like my favourite HK bosses did, and now i had the tools to damage them enough, i was back in the zone, it wasn't endurance, it was a dance!

Act 3 locked so many buildmaking tools in it, and i have no idea why

And because of the relentless punishment for getting hit, you have to play flawlessly every time.

It gets easier a little going into act 2, but ending act 2 you're faced with some of the worst the game has to offer, yes that includes groal.
Act 3 drops some of the BEST bosses in the game though

From 2 mask hits, to frame 1 reactions, to quasi-input reading. This game seems INSISTENT on never letting the player breathe, every enemy can DOME you from nothing, and has a big booty of health to match. So bosses become pretty much no-hit survival tests more than balanced back and forths.

Now, the elephant beetle in the room
I am good at metroidvanias. I'm good at souls games, i could not beat this game on my own and keep my sanity.
This game was not made for mortal hands, it was made for pantheon 5 players, of which, i am not one. Its beyond my skill.

Beyond the basic mask shards, spool fragments, fleas, hidden paths led to just, more currency, which i inevitably lost to the enemies.
The world was too big for the rewards they had to give away

So many empty side rooms

The asses?
Is he not allowed to have an opinion about the game?

Its not a surprise that my favourite boss so far has been Lace, who does one damage with most attacks and is on the ground