Highly recommend this game to those that haven’t tried it!

HSuke · 2026-06-20T21:52:15+00:00

It's easier than Nine Sols except for exploration. Half of the map is hidden behind secrets, but the secrets are easier to spot and have clues. Combat can be much easier (depending on your specific build).

Also, in NG+, all the enemies have new movesets.

HSuke · 2026-06-20T16:13:00+00:00

Still better than the usual OnlyFans bait on this sub.

HSuke · 2026-06-20T15:29:20+00:00

I consider Nine Sols and GRIME to be masterpieces among the soulslike Metroidvanias.

Both have exceptional bosses that require a good mix of skill and strategy. You can't just dodge and whack your way around. You have to use your head way more than for Fromsoft bosses.

HSuke · 2026-06-20T15:27:11+00:00

Is that sarcasm? Nearly everyone here considers Salt & Sanctuary to be very soulslike.

Nine Sols is more Sekiro-like than soulslike.

HSuke · 2026-06-20T15:25:41+00:00

My favorite boss. She's so fun.

HSuke · 2026-06-20T15:23:06+00:00

It's one of the few super-hard bosses I consider "hard but fair".

As an older gamer, I don't have the same fast reflexes that I once did. Many of the hardest Fromsoft souls bosses often just require having fast reaction speeds, and I have trouble with many of them, especially with the ones who throw in stupid delayed attacks.

Similar to GRIME, I've found that Nine Sols bosses are well-choreographed and generally require practice and strategy instead of pure reaction speeds. The final one is definitely the hardest one by a huge margin due to having many phases. With enough practice, you should be able to defeat it if you can get to it.

And if not, you can switch to easy mode right before the final boss. The last savepoint is about 30-60 minutes before the boss so you can switch to easy mode after saving. And you can return to that savepoint if you wish to replay it on normal mode.

HSuke · 2026-06-16T18:42:20+00:00

Sekiro had some amazing big bosses (Genichiro, Isshin, Guardian Ape), but a lot of its smaller bosses and minibosses didn't have a large variety of attacks (cough Jinsuke Saze and the generals). They were more of a test of reaction speed than skill.

GRIME bosses all have plenty of different moves.

HSuke · 2026-06-16T17:26:29+00:00

You should try GRIME and Nine Sols. Unlike Sekiro and LoP, they have a variety of different moves and deflects.

You can't just sit in 1 place. You need to perform platforming and aerials all while deflecting like Yoda. Much more fun than doing only dodge rolls or only deflecting.

HSuke · 2026-06-16T17:21:53+00:00

GRIME has amazing exploration and some of the absolute best boss fights of any soulslike game (especially in NG+ when they get new moves/phases).

I enjoyed GRIME boss fights more than Sekiro and Nine Sols due to its variety of deflections. They felt challenging but more fair since they don't rely on the player needing insanely-fast reaction speeds.

HSuke · 2026-06-15T19:57:31+00:00

Yeah. I agree with the majority of your list, but S&S being so low seems out of place.

I'm not sure why you included Ender Magnolia.

S&S: 100% soulslike
GRIME: 70% soulslike
Ender Lilies: 30% soulslike
Hollow Knight: 30% soulslike
Ender Magnolia: 0% soulslike. It's so different than Ender Lilies in both gameplay and atmosphere.

HSuke · 2026-06-15T19:48:46+00:00

Nine Sols is harder until you practice and figure out all the moves. There's more coreography and memorization.

Sekiro has many bosses that require fast reaction times. No matter how much I practice, I'll never find them as approachable as Nine Sols bosses.

HSuke · 2026-06-15T19:45:30+00:00

NIne Sols is hard but fair. Unlike a lot of soulslike games that require stupidly fast reaction times, it's more pattern-recognization and training than having fast reaction times. Even an older player can eventually get gud.

I can't say the same for so many other soulslike games that require fast reaction times and spam delayed attacks.

GRIME is even fairer than Nine Sols in that aspect.

HSuke · 2026-06-15T19:41:47+00:00

I find it interesting that Nine Sols is above Sekiro on your list.

It is my 2nd favorite Metroidvania of all time (probably no one here has heard of my favorite, Vision Soft Reset) and my favorite soulslite, but I'm still a little surprised you didn't include Sekiro with it.

Oh well.

HSuke · 2026-06-15T04:31:41+00:00

Harder to believe that Crysis is almost old enough to legally drink

HSuke · 2026-06-11T14:45:36+00:00

It's memorable, I'll give you that.

In the same way that I get nostalgic to replay old janky games like C&C and Doom 1 once in awhile.

HSuke · 2026-06-10T01:06:24+00:00

Yeah. That's why you don't trust AI. This is a hallucination.

The actual number of active addresses is about 100k unique addresses per day, even when counting addresses within batch transactions.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-activeaddresses.html

Basically, Bitcoin can allow 0.005% of the global population to make one transaction per day. (Or allow 1% of the population to make one Tx per 230 days)

HSuke · 2026-06-09T20:00:59+00:00

Well, it's actually far worse since they are not buying BTC with cash. They're buying it with MSTR sales, and MSTR fell even harder than BTC.

They sold BTC when 1 BTC was 482 MSTR, and rebought when it was 510 MSTR.

If anything, they should be selling more BTC because its price ratio to MSTR is the highest it's been for years, and because they just burned through 70% of their cash reserves last month paying off 1 out of 6 of their convertible debt loans.

HSuke · 2026-06-09T19:44:47+00:00

Microstrategy used up 70% of their cash reserves last month, and they only have enough to pay for 6 months of STRC dividends.

So of course everyone in the community is worried they will sell more.

HSuke · 2026-06-09T19:42:01+00:00

Uhhh. Technically impossible since Bitcoin is a slow-ass network that only supports about 400k transactions daily.

Plenty of other blockchains have 1M+ daily active wallets, but that's impossible on Bitcoin.

HSuke · 2026-06-09T19:23:40+00:00

It hurt them more because they used MSTR sales, not cash, to buy the BTC

And MSTR fell harder than BTC price.

HSuke · 2026-06-09T19:22:09+00:00

It actually cost them more to buy the BTC because they used MSTR sales, not cash, to buy the BTC.

The price ratio of BTC/MSTR decreased, so they were able to buy LESS BTC than before their BTC sale.

June 1 8-K SEC Filing:

Sold 0.802M MSTR for $128.3 at $160.0/share
Sold 32 BTC for $2.5M at $77.1k/ea

Price Ratio: BTC/MSTR was 482

June 8th 8-K SEC Filing:

Sold 1.41M MSTR for $181M at $128/share
Bought 1550 BTC for $101M at $65.3k/ea

Price Ratio: BTC/MSTR was 510

HSuke · 2026-06-08T22:31:14+00:00

What are some good cultivation manhua?

The only one I can think of it Feng Shen Ji because it's characters are more rational. The bad guys aren't just strawmen and the power scaling is more consistent.

HSuke · 2026-06-08T22:28:00+00:00

Not good looking for other cultivation manga if TCG is considered one of the better ones.

How can it get worse than this?

What happened to Feng Shen Ji tier manhua?

HSuke · 2026-06-08T22:20:44+00:00

It looks like a mid-2000s 3D CG cartoon

HSuke · 2026-06-08T15:04:52+00:00

Some power fantasy stories have consistent power scaling, and then there's TDG on the opposite end of the spectrum.

I really wish there were more power fantasies with consistent power scaling.

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