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

• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨13⁩ ⁨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 ⁨19⁩ ⁨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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      • curiousaur@reddthat.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If it’s not challenging, why are you complaining?

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      • NewDayRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s a balance between immersion and world building and tedium.

        In silksong the run backs never seen so far that it is tedious. The save point is not right next to the boss fights but for the most part they aren’t egariously far. Plus the save points serve as rest spots for the multiple paths you take. A save point at every boss would be detrimental imo.

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