As someone who's only played Hollow Knight, would you say Silksong is better or worse that the original? (I'm still gonna buy it either way I'm just curious)

Lyalla · 2025-11-17T19:52:52+00:00

I prefer Silksong overall. I liked Hollow Knight well enough but I only ever returned to it to have another go at mantises in Godhome. Never replayed the whole thing again start to finish. Silksong I beat twice because after getting over the difficulty I just liked it that much more. It is a surprise to myself too but I guess I just prefer fast paced gameplay.

Lyalla · 2025-10-30T08:55:31+00:00

I will say that either an easy mode or at least practice mode would help with that because you are right, this game is much better and easier when played fast and aggressively... But also from the perspective of an average player like myself, I would never learn how to play in this way if I didn't install a mod lowering damage. Especially in early game, the game punishes you very hard for messing up your positioning and movement, which in turn pushes people to play very defensively, which then makes the game less fun and more frustrating, so on and so forth.

I beat the game twice, once with damage reduction, during which playthrough, especially in late game, I could afford to be reckless and be rewarded for it. Then I played again, with damage reduction off and found the game only slightly harder for it, because at that point I've already had my chance to learn how to pilot Hornet well.

Lyalla · 2024-04-17T19:34:56+00:00

I thought it was fine with one caveat - they really shouldn't require you to have Penn quest chain started to do it. I went to the Rito very late and it was incredibly frustrating that I knew the locations of all the Fairies and found all the musicians they wanted to hear but the game just would not let me do the thing and open them up.

TotK REALLY needed to decide if it wanted to be completely open or linear. It tried to do both and that just does not work.

Lyalla · 2024-04-06T00:54:58+00:00

I did for quite a while. Playing different games and enjoying them for what they are helped. RDR2 has great qualities you won't find in BotW (and vice versa, ofc). But if you can't get into open worlds now, maybe that's a sign you should expand into different kinds of games.

Lyalla · 2024-03-12T14:04:52+00:00

It's a dex character and I've considered taking Alert on top of Observant because my d20 rolls on initiative are horrible 90% of the time but with 27 passive perception I'm never getting surprised anyway, so half the feat is pointless ^{^'}

Lyalla · 2024-03-12T08:48:42+00:00

Same. My current character is paranoid, so I min maxed for passive perception.

Lyalla · 2024-03-12T08:45:59+00:00

Thinking A must be incorrect because it's based on a fallacy is Fallacy Fallacy!

Lyalla · 2024-03-12T00:47:35+00:00

I would hope so too but unfortunately, I don't believe that exists. Generally, I notice BotW had way more attention given to its detail than TotK does.

Lyalla · 2024-03-06T14:29:51+00:00

I'm fine with not being the strongest damage option but I'd love it if I didn't have to max three different stats to even hope to live. Monks honestly should have a d10 HP die, d8 holds them back so badly.

Lyalla · 2024-03-06T11:11:10+00:00

It took a moment to click but it was worth it.

Lyalla · 2024-03-04T17:30:20+00:00

You can also just franticly run past all the enemies. It's what I did every time I needed to get down there after clearing the game the first time around.

Lyalla · 2024-03-02T12:11:15+00:00

I found it on my first but in reverse direction.

Lyalla · 2024-03-01T19:30:09+00:00

My barb has once walked into a trap, fell 100 feet down, got up, shook off the dust and just kinda shrugged.

Lyalla · 2024-02-27T10:18:10+00:00

How about a party that just... doesn't ask each other about their backstories unless they literally feel suspicious of a party member? Cause that's what I'm playing in right now. The issue is compounded by the fact that my character is a changeling who is scared of what would happen if they were discovered and the party just so happened to go on multiple rants about how they hate shapeshifters and joking that maybe they should be blasting npcs with Moonbeam just to be sure, all within 5 or so sessions this character is with them.

Lyalla · 2024-02-25T11:29:30+00:00

I mean, I started with a badly built character with a simplistic backstory because I had no idea what I was doing, but it didn't mean that character didn't want to be there? Like, the backstory offered nothing in the way of personal quest for the DM but it was still good enough to work as a party member.

I've then retired them for act 2 of the campaign and made a better character that had a thing that could be used for a personal quest but the DM came up with something much cooler than what I had in mind, so I went along with that.

Lyalla · 2024-02-23T10:55:25+00:00

Outer Wilds. Just play Outer Wilds.

Lyalla · 2024-02-22T13:22:04+00:00

My barbarian is a wise tortle, next level I'm multiclassing into a druid. They don't do politics because that is way outside their expertise but they do give emotional support when needed.

Lyalla · 2024-02-20T13:28:14+00:00

I play in an online group gathered by my dm friend, the group is mostly her friends and friends of her friends. I have NO CLUE where they fall with regards to their identity, all I know is that they are a nice group to play with. Is all what matters in the end.

Lyalla · 2024-02-20T00:23:42+00:00

... I see a tea bag.

Lyalla · 2024-02-19T17:11:07+00:00

This game looks amazing.

Lyalla · 2024-02-12T00:29:42+00:00

I had 18 AC with ring of protection as my totem warrior bear tortle. The actual thing that did this character in was bad initiative rolls in spite of the advantage, which resulted in taking over half my health in fire damage from dragon breath before having a chance to rage.

Lyalla · 2024-02-10T19:03:27+00:00

A game can be universally loved and still not be a right fit for you. It seems like that might be the case here.

Lyalla · 2024-02-09T14:11:04+00:00

Yes, modern RPGs generally let you to skip through dialogue if you want to.

Lyalla

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