I keep not finishing the first one.

I just really, really hate the corpse run bullshit. Every time I die, I'm forced to trek back to the exact spot I died before doing anything else, which is a stupid mechanic for a game that's about exploration and discovery.

I know it's a masterpiece and all, and I'm glad it's sucessful, but that mechanic just annoyed me too much, and I spend half the time just stewing over how much I hate that aspect. I realize after a few hours that the frustration over it, even if it's overblown, keeps me from enjoying the game.

I'm glad other people love it.

The first one is a LOT easier. There’s a nice tutorial and it builds on itself. The tutorial for silksong is hollow knight. It’s made to be hard. They did update it to be a little easier a few weeks after launch though.

I felt the same way. However I put down the controller and walked away from Silksong much earlier than I anticipated, earlier than Hollow Knight. Gonna have to give it a go from where I left off, which is before the end of Chapter 1.

I will die on this hill, but I hate the "souls-likes are hard" bullshit fans always push. I think it makes some people feel good about themselves or something. They're honestly almost all pretty easy though. In a normal game, when you die you reload and lose progress. In a souls-like you keep some of your progress. The good ones are also built to be easy if you're paying attention. Yeah, brute forcing a boss can be a challenge, but that's not your only (or best) option, unlike most other games where that's a requirement. They give you so many choices to do other things and come back stronger that they really aren't that hard, outside of some optional challenges or challenge runs.

It's hard... But like so good tho

It's not the games, it's the dev who came out. It's just a joke.

They are very good games if you enjoy and incredibly good metroidvania platformer. Hollow Knight is the first one, it's great. It gets pretty difficult at the end.

Silksong is the sequel, it's also great, but also so much harder, too hard for me. I had to bail out about halfway through. Too bad too, they are both masterpieces, I wish I could turn down the difficulty and experience the full game.

This is me just riffing off of trans memes that I've seen online, and the fact that apparently I have a very (egg) state of mind naturally, but it seems to me that trans people really resonate with games that are all about overcoming extreme challenges, in which the player character gradually builds more experience and capabilities and undergoes a transformation of sorts in which you unlock capabilities that don't necessarily make the game easier, but increase the scope of what you're capable of and gives you more tools to work with. Also stories that deal with themes of loneliness, belonging, finding your place in the world, building up allies who can aid you in your struggle. Games like Celeste and silksong are kind of like riffs on the hero's Journey, where the main character becomes who they were always meant to be through a long struggle and a process that's a combination of determination, trial and error, and fate.

The lead programmer. ^/s^

More seriously in the first one you fight the silksong, then in the second you become the silksong.

Characters are cute little bugs :3