Steve Stark 🌕

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From the other site, but oh no

Yeah Cogwork is awesome, probably my favorite music in the game.

The music is carrying that opinion by like 64% but still!

I’m starting to come to the very toxic opinion that Bilewater is my favorite area in Silksong. I’m not even joking.

A few weeks out from finishing Silksong, and I think the Citadel may be one of my favorite levels in all of games.

Fwiw, your current strategy with the drones will work great in Bilewater

Probably one of my favorite fights, but I came to it suuuuper late game.

For platforming have you been using any specific crest(s)?

Detroit Lions - 38
Baltimore Ravens - 30

Weirdly annoyed that Hornet never says SHAW in Silksong.

It’s finally time.

Most flawed 9/10 game I ever played and easily my GOTY unless Hades 2 changes my mind.

I took 71 hours because A) I like exploring and B) I had a false idea of what 100% required lol

We did it yall

My plan worked. I just had to bitch on bluesky enough to win.

3. I found the act 2 boss pretty generous.

I just think it’s strange for Team Cherry to address the difficulty by saying “you have so many options, use the tools!” And then make it as hard as possible to use tools in the final fight.

There’s a LOT of bullshit in Silksong that I defend, but not being able to farm shell shards in the final area is insane.

Sekiro, a game that also requires you to spend currency to craft tools, even allowed you to go somewhere else to farm said currency.

Yeah I actually skipped Hunter’s March for so long on accident because I convinced myself the red flowers you can bounce on needed some sort of upgrade to progress idk why.

I also got to the citadel through a completely different direction

*Vague Silksong spoilers*

I feel like Team Cherry does a great job of making familiar areas feel super creepy upon revisiting. In Hollow Knight, it was Crossroads, and in Silksong it’s definitely Wormways.

The few criticisms I have of Silksong brings out really annoying people who are like “well I guess you don’t like difficult games, maybe this one isn’t for you” and it’s like, I’m 90% through the game and enjoying a ton?? What do you mean????

I would love to hear an actual reasoning on why you like it other than “it’s difficult”. It’s like yeah, most of this game is difficult, but I found most of this game way more engaging than fighting the same ants again that are in front of a cool boss.

Ya know I’m gonna be real, I’ve heard this argument the last few days, and I feel like it’s never made in good faith. I love difficult games, but I and others can debate whether that difficulty is actually interesting or not. In this case, I just find it boring.

Hard to feel any semblance of optimism for the future of this country.

I don’t think the gauntlet adds anything of value to the overall boss. A run back at least has the excuse of letting you get more intimate with the level, this is just dumb padding.

I never had trouble with getting through it, but I found it a profound waste of time from letting me enjoy a boss.

I asked Castlevania's @samueldeats.bsky.social to weigh in on which was harder.

Granted, I would’ve liked *more* tension in Caelid, but I would love to meet the person who saw this sight and unironically thought “this must be an easy area”.

Been thinking about Silksong’s Bilewater area today. I get the intention with the area, I mean it’s pretty obviously oppressive, but I feel like it veers into ‘beating a dead horse’ territory.

I think Caelid from Elden Ring conveys similar feelings without as much mechanical tension.

I see people trying to say the platforming in Silksong is harder than Hollow Knight and like, I’m almost at the end of this game… and there ain’t anything even remotely close to Path of Pain. Absolutely nothing.