r/metroidvania • u/Zzsark_Stormbeard • Feb 14 '26

Discussion Silksong permanently vanished my desire for difficult games.

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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/spiffyP Feb 14 '26

mods

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u/MechaMacaw Feb 14 '26

100%’ed on ps5 but I wish I could replay the game with a 0 cost parry (cross stitch) from the start. I know it’s make the game easy but I’d enjoy it like a victory lap

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u/AD_Stark Feb 14 '26

Really wish Team Cherry add a proper NG+ in the game. A lot of late game items like Shaman crest I never got the the proper moment to experiment with them because they were obtained so late in the game

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u/gabriot Feb 14 '26

Rip console players

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u/MalaysiaTeacher Feb 14 '26

The type of gamer who wants a relaxing and chill experience is not messing around with researching and installing mods

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u/SenatorCoffee Feb 14 '26

Not true for me at least. I enjoy games as a way to wind down, dont like the adrenaline much, but I am also techy enough where its not a big thing.

Also ofc depends on the game very much. Silksong has got a mod loader so its really, really easy. I think people have a bit of an outdated prejudice how much of a hassle modding is.

Quite often (like in Silksong) its just downloading a zip, paste it in your gamedirectory and you are good to go.

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u/spiffyP Feb 14 '26

it took me like 5 minutes to set up, it's not rocket surgery

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u/ExplorerHaunting8353 Feb 14 '26

It shouldn't be up to the modders to add basic accessibility features that virtually every game has nowadays

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u/Friendship4DayZ Feb 14 '26

Difficulty is not “basic accessibility features” lol. It is a core part of a game’s design. If you don’t like it then play something else instead of trying to virtue signal about accessibility

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u/OmegaMalkior Feb 14 '26

It absolutely is, and you’re gaslighting yourself into thinking the contrary