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.

Then the game is not for you, saying that is not ridiculing you. At all. It's not a 70€ AAA game that's trying to cater to everyone either.

That's the point?

Every time I read about players bitching about difficulty, I wonder why they're so persistent. There's plenty of games out there to play instead. I tried dark souls and realized that kinda game isn't for me. Neither is getting over it, or anything like that. I just want to lean back and relax, and I don't want to mess with tight timings and stuff like that. I just play puzzle games because of that, and I thoroughly enjoy it. Why do they feel the need of forcing themselves through an experience they don't enjoy? FOMO? Bragging rights? I really don't get it.

It depends on the context. Let's say their is a hard boss that you need 10 attempts for. It makes a huge difference if there is a checkpoint before it or if you have to do 5 minutes of chores again (I agree that these are extreme examples...)