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anyway i want to reiterate that bilewater is the single worst zone and i hate it. and its probably designed to be hated.

I'm surprised that you enjoyed it more than HK. I haven't finished Silksong yet, and it's been many years since I touched HK, but I don't remember getting nearly as frustrated ay anything non-pantheon in HK. Mind you, I still have been enjoyed Silksong quite a bit, but HK feels like the better designed game overall.

I like Silksong more because Controlling hornet is a lot more fun than the knight, and i like the boss fights more. everything else is pretty similar.

though i do think nightmare king Grimm is HK in still up there as one of the best bosses between both games. i just think silksong had more good bosses than HK did

NKG is the only boss I never fought because I did the quest differently and didn't get to his fight and then I was never able to bother going through the Pantheon of Hollownest to reach him and fight him there.

I think the HK bosses are also just way better overall, there are a couple I like in Silksong, but tbh the basic ones tend to be the most fun and a lot of the creative boss mechanics are just reworked versions of stuff from the first game

I guess I technically never fought Pure Knight or whatever he's called and Absolute Radiance for the same reasons

i guess i disagree with spooky

uh... you favorite bosses were also the basic ones

from what you listed

HK bosses felt a lot simpler, but I feel like I liked that better.

sorry, when I say basic

I mean duel style fights, rather than "wail on this big beast for 5 minutes as it thrashes around" fights

spooky i never talked about if the bosses were basic or not, just that i enjoyed the fights more, also idk if i'd call first sinner a basic boss, not complex, but not basic

I feel like Spooky's wording is opposite. Big beast that thrashes around is a lot more "basic" than the intricate duel fights haha

yeah sure

idk what word to use

and imo first sinner is def in the category of good duels

same as the fencing bitch

oh phantom, he was also a fun fight

i did like the Ant queen boss, despite the small enemy swarm before the fight

was that the one underground in the wine cellar?

no

you havent seen it yet

its a proper boss fight

uh, fourth chorus was good

widow is good

last judge is good

Trobbio

also good

last judge is meh

I liked Trobbio though, fun fight once you learn his attacks

dancers were very fun, though a bit easy

Widow, clockwork cancers, and tobbio are all fun but easy

guy at the top of Coral Tower was also fun but easy

I forget his name because I only saw it once :)

guy at the top of coral tower was super easy

i first tried him lol

his attacks are easier to dodge than cogwork dancers

for sure

looking at a list

i actually thought bell beast was the first boss until i saw this list

completely forgot moss mother existed

@Garbage what do we call this perspective https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNVScevM43E

and can we blame Octopath

that kind of art style really does not mesh with that perspective

yeah, I don't think I've ever seen it before like this either

something is just off about the whole trailer

its not quite octopath though

its some weird blend of pixel art style

let's call it native Minecraft spooky

fresh hands and no tilt made this much more doable today

very funny that the first thing you encounter in act 2 is a thing you need to spend rosaries on after a corpse run that you probably failed at least once

ok this is not a fun game anymore

its an annoying game mechanic but a fun lore bit that you pay for temporary benches

the citadel is just such a shithole

i'm not even in citadel

underworks is cancer

blind jumps into double damage spikes is not fun

theres a lot of that in the game I noticed. They expect you to just jump down or have the foresight to float down slowly even if it feels wrong

and double damage is always bullshit

float down slowly onto disappearing platforms that will then fall on top of you

I've seen people memeing on the double DMG thing a lot

It's so stupid

Feels so unnecessary

you run through the obnoxious area with double damage spikes everywhere, then finally get to the first bench sign, go into the room, and promptly have the game eat your jump input and die

have you considered that it might not be eating your input and instead youve been buck broken from decades of coyote jumps

There’s seriously a TON of blind falls in this game. It always infuriates me because I’m impatient and have to force myself to slowwwwwly float down every single pit I see.

I'm more meaning the jumps where the obstacle you are dodging is off screen and on a timer

the lava area in atla and the underworks both have it

Oh right there’s more of that later too. I’m still more annoyed by blind falls.

i'm seeing stuff that says there's content locked behind the permadeath difficulty

I doubt that

first game added some vendors to let you sell your death-related mats, since they wouldn't work

ok, that's weird from both angles

so it is an NPC who did replace a death mat, but they gave it a unique fetch quest which rewards an item that gives periodic free shards

the free shards item is great to throw into a randomizer item pool

no other use because why would you ever play this permadeath