Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks

• curiousaur@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why? If you can’t get through that, you aren’t going to beat the boss.

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  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I haven’t played silksong, but I’m just going off other games in the past for my experience.

    If you make it through the hallway of meaningless denizens that just waste time and get to the boss, then die to the boss… Why waste time going through the meaningless denizens again to challenge the boss?

    I can see it on higher difficulties when you need to make sure you get through the meaningless denizens perfectly in order to preserve your health and resources to have a better chance of defeating the boss.

    But when you just want to experience the story on lower difficulty why make the denizens less powerful to make the boss easier when you can instead just put the save point in front of the boss in instead of the denizens? You’ve already made it through the denizens, it’s not like you’re skipping content.

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    • curiousaur@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Because if you can’t make it through the denizens, you can’t make it through the boss. It’s a filter.

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      • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s not that you can’t make it through the denizens, making it through the denizens is usually easy. It’s just a waste of time for the most part.

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      • okamiueru@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What a weird take. It’s about respecting the players’ time. Making it through the denizens to the boss is not challenging whatsoever. Why would you think it is? It’s just tedious, and bad level design.

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