There is a concerning lack of animation in this episode, but that's not necessarily a huge problem since this isn't an action series or anything. Hopefully at least the character art quality remains strong as the anime goes forward.

anyway I'm going to go look up hornet x lace yuri now and you can't stop me

Though strangely, I have strong disagreements with some other gamers about what the difficult parts of the game were.

I blame my use of the wanderer crest. Wanderer is love, wanderer is life. I wouldn't be surprised if wanderer pogo'ing just kind of breaks some bosses, lol.

While Silksong's combat gameplay and room design are not as complex and demanding as some of my other favorites in the genre, it still provided enough resistance to be consistently engaging. Bosses usually took me a couple tries, and a few standouts gave me some real trouble.

My biggest complaing with HK1 was that the setting and narrative were so ephemeral that they were lost on me. Silksong fixes this by delivering a cogent and effective narrative set in a rich and flavorful world. It always knew exactly how much dialogue was enough for a moment.

The storytelling is as sparse as you'd expect from a Souls game, but I nonetheless found the ending very striking.

The combat is admittedly simplistic and unexciting once you figure out the basics, but I think the rest of the game more than makes up for this.

While the production values of the game are clearly limited, it manages to do a lot with a little. Many of the areas absolutely ooze with atmosphere. It even manages to make a really cool darkness based area, and that's a true rarity in video games.

Of course if there's one thing Tsuzuki Masaki (main Nanoha writer) loves more than endless series of kuromakus, it's pointlessly bloated casts. Just look at A's, Strikers, and these movies. I'm sure the Nanoha Exceeds TV anime will be no different in this regard, lol

Detonation even manged to endear me to some of the new characters - namely, Iris. I wonder what if any role they'll have to play in the new TV series.

Honestly it would probably be best to keep them to cameos, but I wouldn't mind more Iris content...

I consistently found Marina to be the most interesting part of the series. In a better world Marina would have had all the screentime that went to Azuma. Maybe then I'd find the final episode - and the series as a whole - less clunky.