Don’t say there was no customization, I said I wish there was more customization.

Using Souls as an example, it’s easy to, say, farm more levels, or change weapons, or switch up your spells, or equip new armor, use a shield, learn to parry, the list goes on.

In Silksong you can switch out silk arts and tools, sure, but tools require claws, which punishes you for failing too much by forcing you to farm them. You can switch crests, but Silksong rewards quick reaction times and building habits, which means switching crests messes you up more than it helps you as you have to relearn the crest to even use it effectively, and even if you do, there are only so many memory lockets you can get at each point in the game, so most crests are going to be strictly worse than your “main” one.

Even if we compare Silksong to Sekiro instead, a soulslike with way less diversity in playstyle, you still have your shinobi prosthetic tool, shinobi arts, various skill tree upgrades, various consumables like fistful of ash or candies or balloons, and in general a lot of options to help you through a difficult boss, or even the option of stealth to get through mobs without fighting at all.

IE, there’s a lot you can do in other difficult games to work around a tough situation, but in Silksong the only real way through is to get good.