I don't really get why demonic rituals with pentagrams and blood are fine for the show, but a suuuuper mild sexual joke isn't. Priority seems a bit odd. I'm perfectly fine with either, I just don't know why the former gets a pass for kids, and the latter doesn't. Could even rework the joke a bit.

I vote we called it "The Kirk Murk"

Still stupid double-damage and contact damage moments, of course, and while those get irksome, it's not quite enough to deter me or ruin the game entirely.

God, TLJ is only the QUARTER mark? Ugh, this is going to take some time. The good news is that I've generally been enjoying myself after that fight. Nothing else has held me up for too long yet.

There's an optimal route through there that you can nail with some practice that avoids combat entirely, but then of course you re-enter the fight with no silk to use, outside of breaking your silk cocoon, which is a bit less strategic than banking it for later in the fight. Still worth it, though.

Here's a playlist of videos I recorded two days ago fighting the aforementioned bosses, if you care to watch. Spoilers, obviously. One for an optional boss, and one for a mandatory boss, maybe midway through the game.

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I pushed through them eventually, but not without feeling a sense of abject misery, and of course questioning the sanity of the developers and testers who thought the concept of double damage on damn near everything was okay and fun.

Mostly share in your sentiment. Couple of bosses put me through hell for over two hours apiece. Avoiding spoilers, so I will just write their initials: SB, and TLJ.

Did spend an hour to stop and grind Rosaries, the currency in the game, at one point. Wasn't bad, put on a video essay while I did it. But ideally, you want the player to grind as little as possible, and there sure are a lot of things to spend Rosaries on in the game.

Made the right call, friend. Hollow Knight I would call hard, but fair for the most part. Silksong just has too much bullshit, namely too many enemies and bosses that do double damage. It's not a fun challenge, it's a frustrating punishment for daring to be less than perfect.

Took over two hours to beat The Last Judge, thank goodness I figured this exact route out for the run back, making it a good deal less painful. Can probably do it in my sleep at this point.

Still, it's a pretty absurd run back. Needed to be a closer bench.

After two hours I got so incredibly familiar with the optimal route through that area, it's probably gonna be in my nightmares.

I hate these runbacks. Anything that keeps me from retrying the fight immediately just makes me play worse against the boss, as I can't recall their patterns as well.

I keep running into parts like that. A certain boss guarding The Citadel comes to mind as the most. Over two hours of attempts. Needed to learn the attack patterns absolutely PERFECTLY because they just did too much damage.

Team Cherry are sadistic bastards.

"Contact damage" is what this is typically called, and yeah, it's complete BS, ESPECIALLY if every single attack an enemy does is double damage, including lightly running into them. Absolutely ridiculous and unfun.

And it's especially bad with how little I-frames you get. You all allergic to I-frames or something? Far too often I take extra damage because I didn't have enough time to get out of an enemy's hitbox before they wore off. They are waaaay shorter than pretty much any other game I've ever played.