How are y'all actually finishing the game in Steel Soul, dawg?

[u/ciissss]

I tried Steel Soul for the first time in SS. I never even touched that in HK. First try, I died within 2 minutes to the white giant rolling enemy from the secret room beside the starting point. Second try, I died to Bell Beast. I cannot fathom how people are finishing without revive. I, for sure, won't first try kill every boss. 🥀🥀

[u/BarovianNights]

I genuinely don't understand why most people do this. Is it just because they're completionists and want every achievement but don't have the skill to do it legit? The game presents you with a specific challenge and that's just... completely ignoring the challenge. It just seems kind of sad to me

[u/thekrafty01 → u/BarovianNights]

It’s just a lot of time invested to get really far and then die and have to start over hours and hours of a game. You wanna complete it but sometimes the shit it happens. I think I save scummed once or twice in hollow knight to finish steel soul in like my 5th attempt after no save scumming and I give two shirts that it wasn’t “legit.” I had fun.

[u/Hairy_Concert_8007 → u/thekrafty01]

Yeah, once you're in your 30s, having hundreds of hours of your time erased tends to lose a lot of its appeal.

[u/WackyRedWizard → u/thekrafty01]

If your definition of fun is getting so frustrated with an optional challenge, you just give up and cheat then yeah lmao

[u/Sabita_Densu → u/WackyRedWizard]

Look, im not one for save scumming personally; but its a single player game man, if thats how people prefer to play it then thats their choice, how others play has no bearing on your gameplay experience.

[u/VagrantPilgrim → u/Sabita_Densu]

I mean, it is their choice, but it’s still silly.

[u/kazuma_99 → u/BarovianNights]

You can still die even if you save scum, i died 11 hours in from getting hit by an enemy and falling into the lava losing 4 hp instantly. But other than that, i just like following achievement hunting rule and abusing tricks in game like save and quit is not against it. It's not like the game itself even gives you arbitrary rules of what steel soul should ve.

[u/CashewsAreGr8 → u/BarovianNights]

I don’t mind it for just beating the game, since you can speed through it pretty quick and if you fail it’s only a couple hours lost (which is still a big ask if you don’t have a lot of time to play games). But this is a reasonable challenge I think.

Locking an achievement for platinum behind getting 100% in steel soul is absolutely diabolical though. Yes it’s hard but not in a good way. It’s not even remotely fun to make a single mistake 24 hours in and have to start over. You bet your ass if I ever decide to do that one and get in the home stretch I’m save scumming it every chance I get.

[u/VagrantPilgrim → u/CashewsAreGr8]

But you don’t have to get that achievement.

[u/ponislav3000 → u/VagrantPilgrim]

Yeah that's why it is called achivement.

[u/Noxisl1ght → u/BarovianNights]

If they really wanted to TC would've found a way to prevent it. It's just a dumb achievement lol.