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I legit cannot imagine ever switching off warding bell especially. Warding bell is so stupidly good just for its ability to allow you to heal in mid-air

I only have 2 blue slots...

You can heal in mid-air anyway

you don't need bell

oh can you? for some reason, I thought that was warding bell only

bell just stops you from getting hurt when your heal is interrupted

also i think it hurts the enemy a little

when it happens

I knew that was the main purpose, I could've sworn you couldn't heal in mid-air. Also what crest are you using?

Reaper

i've been using reaper the whole time since i got it

how do you have 3 blue with reaper?...

Oh

haha

uh i can tell you

gahhhh why am I missing things

just tell me, I'm never finding things and I'm tired of this game

I completely forgot about her... I have not gone back to her since I first went.

I think I'm missing at least one other crest though

I'm missing a lot of crests...

oh?

gratz

very nice

I'm looking up the witch crest and apparently it may be bugged if you start it in act 3...

the witch crest is the other crest i thought about using, i liked how it felt, but it has no yellow slots so i didnt end up using it because of that

also i totally had the compass equipped during the last boss

understandable, I'd do the same haha

Idk if I wanna do this witch quest anyway, this seems like an absolute pain

and architect just requires me grinding for money

about that quest too, there's another ending you can get if you kill grandma silk in the middle of the quest. but you can't heal.

i have a few criticism of silksong but i do think i enjoyed it a little more than i did hollow knight overall.

but yeah, i liked it, combat was fun. i liked the challenge, and almost every boss was enjoyable enough. I think my favorites are First sinner and Lace, i can't think of a 3rd one right at this moment. harder choice for #3. and i do like exploring, for the most part.

was it good

for me, yes

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

idk spooky, they're a rich, 3 man team that didn't have a hard deadline. i could totally see them taking it easy for 7 years

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

i wonder if they'll add free expansions to Silksong like they did to HK

I'll preface again with, I'm not done

but it feels like it needs it

well, that's unfair

i dont think it needs it, but it would be nice

it feels like there are some clear things that were in HK as DLC that would be weird if they weren't in Silksong

and in fact, no I will go back and say

the game is already pretty long and the map is way bigger than HK map

if they don't add a Godhome

people will actually be mad

well yeah they should have a pantheon thing

if just for boss rematches

there's a few things like that

I don't think they need to make huge new areas, but there are clearly underbaked areas (like HK v1.0 had) that were planned to be expanded all along

which areas?

and a bunch of the Silksong NPCs, also feel like they should have more

I'd have to boot the game and look at the map

and remember, HK expansions didn't really add a ton to the map itself

there would be a few new sections of map

but most of it was retooling and adding bosses where it felt like there should be some

and then some QoL stuff (like the teleport)

extra stag stations

balance stuff, etc.

completely unrelated to Hollow Knight

the new Nightreign game mode dropped tonight

it's ok, they REALLY need to balance the progression though

they added a (needed) hard mode, that has a world difficulty multiplier for every run you do successfully

but it's tuned really shittily 5 wins to get a lvl2 world, ~20 wins for a lvl3 world

apparently there's already sub-1hour 20 minute speedruns of silksong

any%

of course

I feel like with how easy it is to get vertical mobility

that's not too surprising