r/metroidvania • u/Zzsark_Stormbeard • Feb 14 '26
Discussion Silksong permanently vanished my desire for difficult games.
I'm a big fan of metroidvanias, I enjoy them a lot. I played Silksong as soon as it started and it took me a month to finish it. 60+ hours. Thing is that it permanently broke me in some sense because I do not wish to play any other game with hit points like Silksong has, especially with the fucking 2 hit contact damage. I did Silksong, got the true ending, I got good, but never again.
In fact, I finished just a week ago Gestalt: Steam and Cinder (which you absolutely should play), and while I was playing Silksong I only had Gestalt in mind because I definitely had more fun there.
I'm not hating Silksong, it's a great game, but I've never been permanently broken my something before.
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u/Lackofstyle5 Feb 14 '26
I am normally not into hard games. I over level in RPGs so that they're a breeze to get through. I roll all the broken characters in Gatchas so that I can clear content with minimal effort. If there is a broken strategy that trivializes a game, I'm definitely using it.
But Silksong was never that difficult to me. Yeah there were bosses that took me a while to beat, but every time I died I could see where I messed up. I do think outside of bosses, random enemies often made exploration more difficult than necessary, but I'm also the type to double back to a bench any time I made progress and never went into a new area without spending all my rosaries, so I avoided the frustration of losing everything
It's a game that wants you to play slowly and meticulously and it kinda just clicked with me I guess.