Nock

Completed the base Silksong speedrun achievement -- this was a fun challenge. I would love to do all achievements here but I think Steel Soul is just not reasonable in the game's current state.

I finished the game 10 minutes after posting this, so I'm over it

Getting hit while healing in Hollow Knight: Ouch, I should be more careful next time

Getting hit while healing in Silksong: There is no coming back from this. May as well give up. Fight is basically over

Reached Act 3 and here's what I think of Silksong: It's a well-made game that simply isn't that much fun. A shame after I had such a good time playing the original.

Hollow Knight all achievements is in sight. This morning (off stream) I easily made it to the final fight in the last pantheon, Absolute Radiance. After practicing this one for a few hours we should be able to pull it off. Looking forward to some attempts on stream.

In original HK news, I'm very proud to say I beat Nightmare King Grimm for the first time yesterday. That fight seemed _literally_ impossible but I got it after about twenty minutes of attempts.

I've been playing a ton of Silksong on stream and original Hollow Knight off stream. My opinion of Silksong flipflops. I still think it's too hard by default but I love the movement and speed of everything. Getting into a flow state during a tense fight feels so good.

Silksong update: I spent some time reading negative reviews today to see if others agree with my criticisms. They do. Enemies hit too hard and have too much health. Currency is far too scarce.

Ok it wasn't so bad, I was just caught by surprise.

Okay just got to The Slab and...I do not like this at all. That's all I'll say for now.

Really loving Silksong but the L*** J**** is an _insane_ difficulty spike. This feels truly impossible. The grueling climb back up for each attempt and the double damage hits are brutal.

First few hours review: Silksong is very good. It's more Hollow Knight, in the best way. Everything feels familiar but there are new systems, new movement tech. A couple of frustrating moments but for the most part it respects your time.

Got it. Just in time for Silksong. Completion time was less than 16 hours. This is a very doable achievement.

Played for 35 minutes tonight and got another 7% (total now 93) so I think I might make it!

Silksong prediction: There will be a moment when we return to some area of Hallownest. Whether it's just a small part, or far in the future, or via a portal or something. Imagine seeing like "Dirtmouth Ruins" appear as the title text for an area.

The Hollow Knight replay is going well and I realized there's an achievement for finishing with 100% completion in under 20 hours. Checked this morning and we're at 86% and about 14 hours, so my next session will be a speedrun to get that last 14% in less than 6 hours.

Update: I did it, achievements cleared. What a fun way to replay!

Thinking of doing a Hollow Knight replay to prepare for Silksong, and I might even go scorched earth and _clear my existing Steam achievements_. Anyone ever done this?

I tried using the built-in chat box of Streamer.bot yesterday and within a few minutes of starting my stream the chat had disconnected with no indication anything was wrong. I don't think I'll be using that again any time soon.

Trying out nVidia Broadcast...is this a vibe?