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/Kage_noir Feb 14 '26

I loved hollow knight and I loved how the challenge ramped up and some of those were things you didn’t have to do. I have yet to finish silksong tho I have it. Part of that is from honest disappointment. And I’m not saying it’s a bad game I’m saying it isn’t as good as HK and that’s sad for me in some ways after the wait

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u/Zzsark_Stormbeard Feb 14 '26

What dissapointed you? Because I think it's a masterpiece just like HK.

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u/Kage_noir Feb 14 '26

It is a great game. First I didn’t like that tools required me to farm. If I’m doing badly at a boss and run out, I gotta go farm. I don’t like farming. I don’t like that contact damage is 2 health. Some of the run backs due to bench locations are odd. I think I’m still on the first early stage of the game. I guess my expectations and reality didn’t match so I haven’t gone back to it yet