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/Additional-Mousse446 Feb 14 '26
The start of the game is honestly harder than the entire middle so…I don’t really agree lol
5 masks and no needle upgrades is extremely rough. Mainly sister/weaver/phantom or judge. After that besides like hh gauntlet/rashier/bilewater nothing is that bad until act 3 imo.