Me doing the Courier’s Rasher quest 17 times and getting my ass kicked over and over again by Lace:
Bullshit game, fake difficulty, sadistic devs, pls nerf
Me doing the Courier’s Rasher quest 17 times and getting my ass kicked over and over again by Lace:
Bullshit game, fake difficulty, sadistic devs, pls nerf
I could get lost in a paper bag so I almost always wear the compass unless I need the spare slot for a specific boss fight and have memorized the runback.
I know about the always on compass mod but I choose not to install it anyway because I think of it as a balancing choice. Team Cherry could have put in an always on compass feature and come up with some diegetic explanation for how it worked. That they chose not is a deliberate balancing choice and I choose to respect it by not modding it out.
I agree. Choosing not to use mods is easy for me though, because I’m playing on a console and can’t implement mods even if I want to. Usually that’s a major disappointment for me - some games I won’t play because I think the ability to use mods with them is a major piece of the enjoyment of the game.
But for games like Silksong, I’m actually kinda glad the option to mod just isn’t there for me because when I get frustrated, I know it would be a temptation. I want to play the game at full difficulty, as intended by the developers, but there are still times when I keep dying to a maddening boss fight where I would be itching to use something to make it easier, so I didn’t have to keep banging my head into a wall. I’m always glad when I finally get through it that I accomplished it without aid though. Like I’m really glad I threw myself at the Sister Splinter boss enough times to beat her before the devs did that update that nerfed her a bit.
I do kinda regret doing the Courier’s Rasher the way I did that was a bit cheesy, but I justify that for myself since the way I did it is part of the game as it was originally made, using the systems put in place by the devs (not someone else altering it as with mods). All of that said, I absolutely don’t begrudge anyone who does use mods and I’m glad mods exist that allow people to play the game as they choose to.
I pre-killed enemies too and it still took me a bunch of tries, lol. I actually thought I would like to more/cheat past that hurdle but decided I’d give it a few more honest tries because it seemed doable, I was just making mistakes. That is, it didn’t feel unfair to me.
I did use cheats 3 times in my replay of the original Hollow Knight I played in preparation for Silksong: one to deal with a bug where if the soul master hits you as you kill him, he wiggles in his death animation forever, and you have to quit and fight him again. That’s a bug they should have fixed buy never did, so I put on infinite health to be able to brute force through fighting him again. The 2nd and third times I cheated weren’t legitimate, but I was just not having fun anymore, had done evwrything else except the final boss and godhome (which I never did because I didn’t care about it) and I wanted to see the lore / dialogue: white flower, and path of pain. I have no regrets about cheating my way through those because I just wouldn’t have seen that content otherwise (I didn’t do them on my first play through).