Me after beating ::: spoiler a specific boss Savage Beastfly for the 2nd time ::: only to immediately lose all my rosaries in ::: spoiler hard location Sinner's Road ::: and then spending the next 3 hours barely failing to ::: spoiler complete hard wish quest deliver the courier's rasher on time ::: 

The high points of the game are very good. The low points ruin it, in my opinion. I get that frustration might be fun for some people, but I find it discouraging and I don't feel like Silksong *wants* me to be successful. It feels like it wants me to feel frustrated and angry, and that's not an experience I want to have. I doubt I'll finish the game, which sucks, because I loved Hollow Knight, and I love the parts of Silksong that aren't just making me mad.

It’s got the bloodborne blood vial issue with having the grind for crafting materials if you get stuck and use them all. Definitely could use a cost nerf for the tools and not every attack from a boss shouldn’t do two or three damage.

It's right in the difficulty sweet spot for me despite not being as into games (at the age of 40) as I used to be generally. It's like it was made for me!!

You’re describing the horrid souls-like experience embraced by every gamer in these times. It’s unpopular to dislike being annoyed and frustrated with your game, didn’t you hear?

That's me with Hollow Knight. I want to finish, but it's frustrating to the point that I give up after 30 minutes with no progress.

God, all the people that can't imagine that people don't enjoy things the same exact way they do.

Exactly. Imagine being ridiculed for not enjoying frustration and games designed around failure. It’s a damned shame.

Huh. Maybe I'm just too early in the game still (despite having put 10+ hours into it) but crafting materials are like, the one thing I'm *not* hurting for. It's got the Zelda rupee problem for me, at least at this point in the game -- I'm constantly pegged at the max capacity, and it feels like I have basically nothing to use it on. (I mean, I do use the tools I have found so far, situationally, but I don't think I've been down by more than ~100 or so from max other than for that one wish in the starting area.)

I feel like they should stick to their guns and just make the game they want to make. Is it going to be for everyone? No, but no game is.

Which boss you at? You are fine till you hit a point and run out. Once you hit empty it’s a constant grind to get back to full and that’s also not counting the more expensive tools later in the game or the tools that need you to return to specific locations to “recharge” for beads. It’s just this extra layer of grind and tedium that Hollow Knight didn’t have with the spells all using soul.