It's just non stop misery to play

I'm very slowly making progress and hating every minute of it

yeah

same experience

The game design just feels so MEAN

it's SPITEFUL

I could probably beat it with mods but I would not enjoy it

did you get to act 2

nope

I gave up on the blasted steps and tried to get in through the sinner's road

the first thing in act 2 is an area where it costs 15 beads every time you want to sit on a bench

because I was told that was easier

That was also miserable

that almost made me give up on the spot

Just

fuck this

yuuuup

It's not even that the damage is too hard

too high, rather

it's just every single step feels like a personal slap in the face

The entire game is the path of pain

Aw totally understandable but sorry it's feeling that way
I do hope and I think it's more than possible they'll release an easier mode
Cause they already started toning some things down

This really should have been hard mode with a more accessible entry level mode

I maintain my theory that this game was balanced based on a deeply insular dev team that spend seven years playing their own game

The problem with an easy mode is that it's not actually the combat that I'm having trouble with

and it totally fucked their impression of what's sensible

It's the acrobatics

The actual platforming

I can fight guys fine

But the jumping around is brutal

And I worry that an "easy mode" would just be like

"Guys do less damage"

Which would not help me much

with my problem of I can't do 6 spike pogos in a row when the spikes are all constantly swinging back and forth at different speeds

Yeah, that would be why I've been enjoying the story via Let's Plays and not playing it myself. I can't platform for shit.

My platforming skill level is that, back in baseline vanilla Hollow Knight, I could mostly nail pogo, sometimes.

On occasion I could even do two or more in a row. But not with any degree of certainty.

I like Silksong's story a lot, and I am enjoying it narratively.

If I try to actually play it, I will probably explode.

Oh yes I think like what I mean would also entail
A few more benches in strategic areas
A few changes to some of the worst sections
Rosary rebalancing
If it was just 'less damage' they could run that out tomorrow

I honestly don't expect TC to change much else. I think that this is their creative vision as intended

Yeah it might be, true
But I think they've also been hearing the feedback and at least they've responded to it
They changed environmental damage to 1 very quickly
Just hopeful because it is really a beautiful game beyond the nonsense

I hate flying enemies so much; their AI is such bullshit

Flying enemies were always annoying in HK too

they always fly at the optimal distance for you to miss and get punished

Overbringer oh for sure, but this game has the exact same AI plus they can just

dodge

out of the way

or counter

LIKE AT LEAST PRIMAL ASPIDS WOULD GET HIT ONCE YOU GOT TO THEM

yeah

yeah those guys who like, air dash backwards whenever you get close to them

I hate the flying bellfuckers

enemies who float at the absolute top pixel of your jump+slash height, and every time you hit them they fly upwards for two minutes

and they take six hits to kill

not just hard but also boring

like annoying enemies need to be balanced around dying in like 2 hits if not 1

because otherwise they just suck the life out of everything

yeah I'm playing with easy mods and by far the most important is increased player damage

everything in Pharloom is made of fucking adamantium

idk, i think it's less likely that team cherry overtuned due to in-house playtesting and more likely that this is just what they were going for

whether you like the difficulty of the game or not, making conspiracy theories about hyper-competent qa teams seems weird to me

It's not a conspiracy theory, it's something that has happened many times before, since the NES era. We know that the game had a small number of playtesters and no outside feedback.

It's speculation. I wasn't there.

It's what I think happened.

Whether or not they were going for something this hard

What they have created

is a game I can't beat

I don't even know if it's a game I can't beat but it's gotten to the point where I don't even know if I WANT to beat it

Yeah

like you said it's a slog

i get that the point of the game is for Pharloom to feel like it hates Everyone But Also Fuck You Die, but there's such thing as too much of a good job

I'm just

not going to think about the game anymore

delphicxix: calling it a conspiracy theory about a hyper-competent QA team is wild when it's most likely that they were their own QA team

> the devs are the ones playtesting their own game
> the devs know all of the ins and outs of their own game
> the devs are the most hypercompetent players of their own game
> game ends up having difficulty tuned around this skewed perspective instead of the average player

many such cases, it's not a conspiracy theory to suggest this is also what happened to silksong