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.

At least for my playstyle, tools have become essential for boss fights, and I’ve run out and had to grind for resources for them twice. Especially when you get to the point where you are basically just doing boss fights and rarely, if ever, fighting a normal enemy.

These people have obviously never played cuphead either then.


Some games are just supposed to be harder, it's how they were designed. Developers shouldn't have to come out and address anything. If it's too hard for you, just refund it and move on to another game if you don't have the patience to learn it.

I'm not sure, but [this is what my map looks like](https://files.catbox.moe/u3cpbx.jpg) currently.

Is cup head comparable? It looks really floaty

Kinda bad timing to say this considering Randy Pitchford said almost exactly the same thing about Borderlands 4. Same message with different words.

Let me fill up the negative space in that comment...I want Silksong to be hard. I want to do things dozens of times before succeeding, I want to struggle then overcome It's all skill based. You get better, your character gives you more breathing room, but ultimately you have to learn and overcome each new challenge And that feels amazing, it's not for everyone but I don't want a way to make it easier... It would cheapen the experience to even have the option

I couldnt agree more. It's okay if a game is too hard, either take the challenge or just move on to a different one, there's no shame in it.

Farming 1600 shell shards takes less than 10 mins or so by farming rosaries and buying shards from a vendor.

I mean, you’d have to try it to judge for yourself. But I think it’s one of the best side scrollers ever made.

I think twitch drives this a lot. Streamers getting annoyed with the game they’re playing tend to do better on their vods and bring in more people. As a result, people become more and more tolerant to games that are just annoying. Like I understand that some people enjoy the gameplay of soulslikes, but who enjoys run backs?

Agree but man it is punishing to get smacked back to a bench 6 screens back.

Once I switched from my steam deck to a platform where I got more than five frames and switched wireless controller surrounded by two separate wireless routers It became one of if not my favorite game but while I was playing with an unknown handicap I saw a bunch of unavoidable flaws that were not the fault of the player at least on the bell beast, there are instances that are impossible to escape like entirely impossible, you can avoid them and I did eventually beat it even with the handicap but the game definitely has flaws that the difficulty accentuates but the later upgrades and tools definitely eliminates most of them.

I'll repeat a comment I posted on another article. It has been 14 years since Dark Souls and yet, the holy words still stand. Git gud.

Your basically not even out of the tutorial yet in the grand scheme of things. Shards didn't become a problem for me for example till well past the half way point.