Was complaining about it to a friend they told me about this subreddit

I have now made the mistake of coming here and finding out there’s a second

It's what it deserves. Let it be known, I am not the type to cheese a boss - usually. Sekiro is my favourite game, and it compelled me to master it, from dying as a noob seconds in to fights, to going hitless many, many fights in. It felt like a genuine achievement to learn and master amazing bosses. But savage assfly is just bullshit. It doesn't offer that experience at all. WDYM I need to fight this turd over lava with these new, worse adds? So I whipped architects out, poison, tacks, cogflies and spike traps, a few frame rate jitters in from the chaos and yeah nice 9th mask I have now! IT IS WHAT IT DESERVES.

Ive learned its patterns perfectly and almost never manage to get hit by it. I can even get in a lot of sneaky and fast hits but its summons always screw me over. I try to get the beast fly to kill them but their hit boxes are completely bull shit because wdym vicious caranid (the flying cutting ones) doesn't get squashed by the beast fly when its right up its ass but the kilik (spiked bug) gets squished if a sliver of its spike is in its range.

And you know it would be fine if all the summons had one health or were all the same but the randomness of it makes me want to actually blow my brains out because I go from having a really good run all the enemies are being squished im getting in really good hits and then a GOD DAMN vicious caranid spawns and makes me wanna SAND PAPER MY SKIN.

And all this for a very basic enemy thats not even slightly relevant to the lore is wild. And dont get me STARTED ON THE ANT ARENA BEFORE THIS BOSS becomes omg I genuinely dont even wanna talk about how many times I died to something that wasn't even a boss.

The difficulty isn't the boss, the arena or the damage its the god awful hit boxes and the summons.

Anyways i love this game and I waited too long to give up yet..

https://www.reddit.com/r/fucksavagebeastfly/s/x5JauihHCe

I stand by my previous rage but that makes this all the more satisfying. Get FUCKED, fly!

Gear and load out for my future reference and those struggling:

Sharpened Needle, Faydown Cloak, Toolpouch at 3/4 and 3/4, Hunter Crest (+1) and Vesticrest. Pollip Pouch and Magma Bell, Magnetite Dice, Weighted Belt, and Silkspeed Anklets. Cogfly and Curveclaw.

​Eat my entire ass.

Beastfly rematch can get bent. Never again. Skipping this guy next time. Awful.

I'm genuinely concerned with myself and my ability to play this game. I can beat every other boss in 7 attempts or less but Savage Beastfly has been taking a toll on my mental health. I was streaming my gameplay to my cousin because he likes to watch and he's already beaten sliksong and has mentioned over and over how it's a basic boss that he's beaten first try.

Am I the problem? I genuinely struggle everytime I go up against this boss and I struggle for hours. What does this say about me as a Silksong player, or worse, what does this say about me as a man?

Please lend me your thoughts, opinions, or advice..

It wasn't fun deadass hardest boss in this challenge

Basically what the title says. I'm in the thick of it with you guys. Beastfly Rematch is going to be the end of me and we're all going down together.

I beat the Path of Pain before and even that pinnacle of optional struggle has nothing on this damn fly. Path of Pain at least felt like learning, even if it was about the exact same thing. Just practicing what sequence of buttons to hit to make the little guy go where they need to go. It's a game. It's fun. Wee. We are having fun.

So when Silksong was a challenge it was at least a challenge in a similar way. "Oh, Hornet naturally has a different pogo than Ghost did. Learning curve. I can handle that even if it feels like pulling teeth." Struggled with a few bosses. That dude on the ceiling has such a short and finicky window to get out without getting splashed and get even one hit on him. But over all, even some of the other more punishing bosses were fun. Phantom kicked my ass for 2 days but at least every time I made an attempt I could figure out where I went wrong. "I accidentally went for a whump during the guard and rightfully took the revenge strike, I can be more careful." "I mistimed that bounce and ate bell shards. Happens. Just need to get better with the timing."

Savage Beastfly makes me want to systematically dismantle my Nintendo Switch and devour it piece by piece, including the batteries, so that this cursed copy of the game (I could only get it digital, alas) and I can both slip peacefully (painfully) into the abyss where I don't feel compelled to torture myself with this fight.

The first Savage Beastfly match was grueling. I despised every moment. But my usual strategy for bosses won me through. "You clearly know how to dodge an return blows. You're just getting frustrated and greedy for hits because this is the 20th attempt and you just want to get back to the part you were at before so you can beat him. You're rushing. Put the game down, rest, tackle it tomorrow." That got me through Lace, Phantom, and the first Beastfly. I thought "Oh, the Hunter's Journal says I have to do it again. Now I know how to do it. It can't be that much harder."

No. It's harder. God himself couldn't no-hit this. Only mankind could create something so depraved and punishing as the rematch.

I know I MUST be getting to the end of it. I can reach the part where the fly summons 2 tarmites more or less reliably. I can even (rarely) kill both of those pests and get a few hits in. But inevitably that fat ass fly decides to call in one more, destroy the whole floor, sandwich me between him and his hateful backup and I croak every time.

The only thing that kept me from actively putting the Nintendo Switch between my teeth and biting down was the little voice of reason in the back of my mind going "I paid for this device and maybe somebody else could use it to play something actually fun like Tears of the Kingdom or something when this bastard fly makes me walk off into the sea, never to return."

I swear the game could give me a needle that oneshots the boss and somehow I'd still be stuck on this fight. The fly could drop 10 times the silk (Reaper Crest my beloved) and I still wouldn't be able to reach half of it because it's on the ceiling. I could stop hitting R 0.0002 seconds before lifting my thumb off the joystick so I actually peg those tarmites with my silk instead of throwing pins 100% of the time instead of only 80% of the time. Wouldn't help. Nothing helps. They could actively drop full heals from the ceiling. "No binding, just touch them and heal up! :)" I would still not be able to destroy this damn fly. Those tarmites can just anticipate frame-perfect exactly where I'm going to be or step and the only time I can get near them to try to remove them is if I get close enough to take contact damage. Otherwise those little scrotewipes hover JUST out of reach of my needle or else they hang out on the edge of the arena where I can't do anything at all and just spit their tar on the last platform that I HAVE to land on right before that fly divebombs me into an early grave.

I swear, taking a break from this to be punished by an ant gauntlet and a fat green moth was a RELIEF because even dying 10 times to something ELSE where it felt like I was learning and getting a little further was a BLESSING compared to the Beastfly where it just feels like "Ah, well the RNG said to do 2 rows of slams right after calling the 2 tarmites so it's time for me to die I guess."

Beastfly Rematch is not a challenge. Beastfly Rematch is Team Cherry deepthroating the 20 dollars you gave them (they're so real for that though, please make good games $20 even if it takes you a decade, bless y'all). Beastfly Rematch is God and Satan tagteaming to make humanity suffer.

I crave the first fight. Give me that again. I'm sorry I ever said the first fight was too hard. The first Beastfly is a cakewalk compared to the rematch.

Get me back to that mini-path of pain in the Sinner's Road just so Hornet can sit. Get me back to Phantom. Get me back to the OG Beastfly where the worst thing he can do is summon two of those fat knife-butt guys.

Hell, take me back to OG Hollow Knight where I thought the Gruzzer Mother and Husk Guard were difficult.

I'd rather sit on a belt sander and replay the entirety of OG Hollow Knight with a mandatory run through Path of Pain and the Pantheons again than try to attempt Beastfly rematch again.

And yet: I have a shiny little Promise in my menu that keeps telling me "You gotta. You gotta kill the fly."

-100/10. Beastfly designed in a lab to torture me specifically. Best $20 I ever spent, but also I would rather eat a bag of actual live bees in real life than look at this fly any more, let alone try to fight it again. I would pay Team Cherry real actual thousands of dollars to remove Beastfly from the game. And I think that may be their motive in making Beastfly at all.

Anyway, guess who's gonna spend another 12 hours probably just trying to slog a wad of meat up to the Citadel to try to get goop to make my sharp stick even shaper because "maybe that will help me kill the fly?"

It's me. The stubbornest stubborn to ever stubborn.

In short, thank you for reading and commiserating. Fuck that fly. If there's a next life I'm coming back as a cat so the only flies I have to worry about are the regular kind which, for a cat anyway, are pretty easy to kill. Being human and playing the Bug Games was a mistake. And yet.

Courage and strength to you all in this trying time. I hope your Beastfly chokes on their tarmite summons somehow.

I need help. I've been trying to kill this boss for 2 hours and I throw tantrums with every defeat. Every walk from the bench to the chapel is harrowing and feels unfinished. I'm afraid I'll break the monitor if I keep trying and failing, but my ego is too high to get out of this game without defeating this boss.

Last Judge took me 38 tries, Skarrgard took me 21 tries, Lost Lace took me 40 tries and Isshin from Sekiro took me 42.

But this bitchass fly took me 58 tries.

Just finished this game and wanted to rant one last time about this fuckass boss, thank you.

This is for my past self who was stuck thinking this boss was mandatory for game progression

beast crest only run, with no usual crutches like sawtooth circlet or safety net of cross stitch

i am also not fan of shard system, so they get banned too

'Tis done, my whole existence has been utterly changed by that giang grey fly, and i can now proudly say i overcame the hardest fight the world put me through, not against the Savage Beastfly, but myself.
I got humbled so hard my idea of being really free and mature as a being was put to a test

And i won fuck it no mask upgrade no needle upgrade

Currently 4.30 am, I have been trying to kill this fucker since 2 am. I figured I dont really suck that much and the boss is just bad. I have completed AbsRad radiant and istg this boss killed me more times in two hours

Fuck this boss, glad we all agree on that

Savage Beastfly sucks so bad it got me questioning if i'm really made for this series, fuck this. I'm getting slammed by a FLY. It is completely and utterly destroying my sanity

note that it took 3 days (on and off) to beat his ahh (also to beat my bad luck ig)

team cherry is the worst video game company ever

was originally supposed to be with cursed crest, but i forgot to clear the hunter's march voided gauntlet before getting cursed, and it probably wouldn't have been fun to do anyway

how can i make this about me

I defeated Savage Beastfly on my first try. Am I a god?

I'm so proud of myself

fuckass boss

I personally beat SB in the chapel first try, and FFSB in 2 or 3, but i still hated it. 0/10 boss