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Wednesday, September 10, 2025
I felt like I actually did explore pretty thoroughly, completed act 1 in ~12 hours, got ending 1 at almost exactly 20
and that was with mostly clearing the map, so much so that I'm sorta stumped where I even go now
I have to finish the gormond quest
I didn't do the lava zone, since I didn't have a spare key
before ending 1
I've done it now
I mean, same with the original HK
I'll write up my full thoughts on Silksong when I'm actully done with it
but I'm not going to glaze them too hard for $20
it could have been more, and I don't think people would have complained
but their mindset on indie game pricing is closer to what I think the entire industry needs to take to heart
anyway, i did actually get 100%. the hunters journal doesnt count, apparently. and the only stuff i looked up was how to get to nyleth and the ant opera queen boss, and then the final tool i was missing because the one page i found with an actually complete list had the location right next to the icon and i glanced it. all those extra hours exploring did pay off i guess
gratz
stuff like currency grinding, a couple of too long runbacks (one in particular was really bad, stupid bilewater) and a couple of spots being so insanely hidden that if i wasn't combing everything for 10 extra hours i would have missed (still missed 2 boss areas, lmao). and a few too many mob swarm fights, again, bilewater boss.
I think it would be hard to argue that; despite their flaws, HK and Silksong aren't some of the highest quality metroidvanias out there
it's frustrating how many missteps Silksong made, and I think there are multiple parts of the game that could easily drive someone to drop the game
but the core metroidvania parts of its DNA are fun
Also, I don't buy for a second anything Team Cherry says about the dev cycle for this game, how it was actually fine and they were just having such a good time developing that they never wanted it to end by having to release a game
See, I'd believe them if they didn't spend the last 5 years being cute about it
The version of Silksong we got is very clearly a "back-to-its-roots" design, and I'm happy with that since I love HK, but the game very much feels like it came together at the end leading up to release, like any normal game would
to the point I'm at, I think HK is better than Silksong by a little bit, but #1 I'm not done with Silksong yet and #2 my praise for the first game isn't that it's perfect or anything