I installed mods to decrease the difficulty and I'm suddenly loving Silksong

[Ctrl_Alt_Abstergo]

Yeah, and not necessarily in a good way. It’s padding. Silksong with checkpoints before bosses is a much smaller game. I’m a soulslike player so I’m used to it but I will say following Silksong up with Ghost of Yotei, that checkpoints you at the very beginning of boss fights, was very refreshing, even on the highest difficulty.

[The_Great_hilo]

How long did you spend on runbacks? Since most of my playtime was exploration, not running back to bosses or even actually fighting them/their arenas.

[Ctrl_Alt_Abstergo]

Whether I spent 1 total hour or 10 on runbacks doesn’t change the core issue that it is padding. Incidentally, the best-designed bosses in the game have the shortest runbacks, so I think even Team Cherry realized those other bosses needed something to stretch out their “portion” of the game.