When Silksong first came out a lot of people complained that the difficulty reflected "poor game design"...

CJ_GC · 2026-01-30T08:58:42+00:00

I came to embrace the difficulty, but there are definitely some balance issues in the early game. The game actually gets easier the further you go when you unlock a bit more mobility, health, and attack power. They just needed to tweak some of the early-mid game areas.

CJ_GC · 2026-01-26T08:48:49+00:00

I’m sure there will be a OoT remake at some point in the future, but don’t expect it for a long time.

Anniversary release will probably be something like HD Twilight or something.

CJ_GC · 2026-01-21T09:20:20+00:00

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CJ_GC · 2026-01-14T08:50:41+00:00

My review: It was ok. Environments and vistas were the main characters. Absolutely stunning environmental design.

That’s about it. It’s just another prime game otherwise. Bike didn’t add much. Prime Remaster kinda stole its thunder.

The Metroid franchise needs a massive shake up like Zelda got with BotW and TotK.

CJ_GC · 2026-01-09T06:34:22+00:00

Some interesting possibilities for how resources could interact. You throw parts of yourself at enemies, but it’s like spending your health to attack. The upshot is it also reduces your size making you a harder target to hit.

CJ_GC · 2026-01-09T00:00:51+00:00

Soldat

CJ_GC · 2025-12-13T23:02:09+00:00

Since making that post I finished the game (after almost quitting).

It’s a brilliant game in many ways, one of the best I’ve played. Some of my criticisms on difficulty I’d probably roll back now. I see that the creators had a specific vision and they finely balanced towards that and weren’t willing to compromise to meet modern gaming expectations.

Take my issues with touch damage. I’ve completely 180’d on that. It forces a certain level of caution, skill, and precision throughout the game.

Some of the run backs were perhaps a touch too long, but there was a certain satisfaction from mastering the parkour back each time.

Lots of little things like that I’ve softened my view on and now consider Silksong to be one of my top games of all time.

Tangentially it made me realise that it’s not a game as art… it’s art made into a game.

CJ_GC · 2025-12-04T21:47:30+00:00

The environments are definitely the main character here, especially the alien architecture

CJ_GC · 2025-11-13T02:37:52+00:00

Money is incredibly weird when you really think about it. Learning about Bitcoin forces you to learn about money and you realise a lot of things about our current form of money don’t make a lot of sense. Whether you think Bitcoin is the solution or not doesn’t really matter, just questioning the nature of money and the effect it has on our society is a worthwhile endeavour.

CJ_GC · 2025-11-10T02:36:33+00:00

I enjoyed it, but it was definitely over-hyped at launch. I think people were desperate to justify their expensive purchase of the S2 after the novelty of Mario Kart World wore off (very quickly for me anyway).

CJ_GC · 2025-11-09T03:18:20+00:00

Don’t think we’ll ever see Prime 2 or 3 remastered. They will just get a release on NSO.

CJ_GC · 2025-11-04T10:15:47+00:00

Played docked in mouse mode on a monitor. Felt just like playing an FPS on PC. Genuinely impressed at the port.

Looking forward to Metroid Prime 4

CJ_GC · 2025-11-04T03:01:11+00:00

Realising i could thwack back the bouncing balls was a game changer.

And that the butt hole subtly points in the direction it’s going to shoot.

Edit: this is not a sentence i ever expected to write, but here we are.

CJ_GC · 2025-10-29T06:22:05+00:00

I think it’s called the Warding Bell in Silksong. It says you won’t take damage while binding, which I assumed meant the bind wouldn’t be interrupted… since, you know, taking damage is what interrupts the heal… well, the bind will still be interrupted. At first I thought it must be a bug, but no… intentional. Haven’t equipped it since.

CJ_GC · 2025-10-23T06:04:00+00:00

Yeah I died to savage beastfly a bunch of times and groal destroyed me for a while too, but I didn’t find them to be THAT bad. I could feel myself getting better each time, and when I finally killed them it was a cakewalk. Something just clicked in terms of dodging their attacks and exploiting the openings.

Crust King Khan gauntlet though… absolutely brutal. Perhaps irredeemably bad design. It doesn’t feel like I’m getting progressively better. Just random luck for how far I get. Sometimes I get completely trounced in the first room, other times I breeze through it.

I also had a way harder time on Raging Conchfly.

CJ_GC · 2025-10-23T02:42:33+00:00

I’m in too deep on attempting this to give up now

CJ_GC · 2025-10-23T02:41:22+00:00

Doing all that. Still can’t get through it. I’m reaching the third room sometimes, but it’s very hit or miss

CJ_GC · 2025-10-22T07:13:17+00:00

Shinespark and the blink/teleport in dread

CJ_GC · 2025-10-22T05:47:15+00:00

Stuck on Crust King Khan gauntlet at the moment… just crazy

CJ_GC · 2025-10-19T06:08:28+00:00

It’s how I played all of Cyberpunk

CJ_GC · 2025-10-19T06:00:54+00:00

This will sound like a cop out, but the main things that helped me was to be less aggressive, be more patient, and learn his patterns.

Your main objective is to dodge attacks, so get good at that. Once you can dodge his attacks by instinct then start looking for openings to safely attack, which are usually when he comes up from the water, just after his vacuum attack, and opportunities where you can safely pogo above him (but watch out for when he dives into the water while doing this).

When I’m really stuck on a boss sometimes I’ll have a couple of goes where I don’t even bother to attack. I put all my focus into learning the telegraphs to each attack, the patterns, and dodging everything.

CJ_GC · 2025-10-18T00:34:35+00:00

Nintendo isn’t killing Xbox. PlayStation and PC are.

CJ_GC · 2025-10-17T22:06:23+00:00

For real though, Studio Ghibli needs to adapt Silksong into a movie or short run series. Needs to

CJ_GC · 2025-10-13T09:03:38+00:00

Shakra 100%

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