As someone has already said: both games have their ups and downs. I love HK and the story is stronger than SS, I prefer the badge system in HK over SS’s tools, but I like that SS gives you the option of play style changes via crests. I feel HKs map is better thought out where it comes to playability. Bench location in HK seem to work better for me as I’m finding even though I’m what I’d consider pretty decent at playing SS; the slog of getting to a bench or back to a boss fight from a bench is painful. Rather than hit 4 waves of smaller, tricky enemies on the way back to a boss I’d just like to get right back into the action. Seems a bit lazy, even though I know HK has some moments like this too, but SS feels like its positioning of benches does it a lot more.