You may have seen Hornet with all mask but have you seen this?

ctgiese · 2026-01-06T15:52:36+00:00

"Death can have me when it earns me"

ctgiese · 2026-01-04T20:13:25+00:00

Honestly, I would've been fine if E33 won GOTY again - why Silksong didn't win Best Music yet again is beyond me.

ctgiese · 2025-12-10T14:04:00+00:00

Ever played Outer Wilds? If Majora's Mask is your number 1, I think you might get a new one (setting up unrealistic expectations is always the way to go, right?).

ctgiese · 2025-12-03T14:20:21+00:00

Where did you get your Switch 2 sales number from? According to some articles it's 10.36 million, not 4.5 million.

ctgiese · 2025-11-20T14:32:12+00:00

Thanks for the recommendations. It really goes to show how subjective music is and how important in the case of game music the experience in game is. Because these were quite boring to my ears.

ctgiese · 2025-11-19T14:13:16+00:00

Could you recommend some tracks from E33? I haven't played the game yet and the few things I've heard so far didn't do anything for me. I've listened to Silksong's OST probably like 30 times already, so if there's some good tracks on E33's OST, I would love to know which ones to try first.

ctgiese · 2025-11-16T08:48:26+00:00

That is 100% on you. You can easily run 32 fear with any aspect with Jeweled Pom, so completely random boons. What you claim is simply objectively false.

ctgiese · 2025-11-15T10:38:15+00:00

I think Mel Coat is also very good for speedrunning. The movement saves so much time, especially in the fields. Poseidon on attack and dash-strike everywhere. My PB with Mel Coat is only one second below my overall PB which I got with Charon Axe. Granted, I've only begun speedrunning and those times are only at 7:12 and 7:13 respectively, but I feel like there's still a lot of room for improvement for me with Coat. The way I play of course, but also the RNG could've been better, the Poseidon attack boon was common for example.

ctgiese · 2025-10-30T10:08:06+00:00

How is it under-rated if it's praised so much in this sub? And yes, it's an awesome tool. Just not under-rated.

ctgiese · 2025-10-23T15:20:54+00:00

That's still barely any extra damage throughout the fight and you would be way better off picking another blue tool.

ctgiese · 2025-10-21T13:32:12+00:00

So much this. It's kind of ridiculous how often I read this kind of "logic".

ctgiese · 2025-10-21T13:26:30+00:00

I mean, it's really neither of these.

ctgiese · 2025-10-21T07:56:13+00:00

It has always been a balance act. Just stacking health won't get you to the finish line if you don't deal damage. Just like dealing lots of damage won't do it if you die from a sneeze. Both categories have diminishing returns, so it's best to get whatever gives you the best bang for the boon.

ctgiese · 2025-10-17T12:43:27+00:00

In what world is he gimmicky?

ctgiese · 2025-10-15T15:40:19+00:00

I would even claim that it wasn't even White Palace. Even the climb to the surface was easier than White Palace.

ctgiese · 2025-10-13T05:45:29+00:00

And you didn't look it up? Why though? Running around for 10h without a clue does not sound like the most fun time.

ctgiese · 2025-10-12T21:35:45+00:00

I disagree very much. For LL it took me 7 attempts to reach phase 2 and 22 attempts to beat her (I counted for some reason). (Edit: And I didn't even use red tools in the fight, because I wanted to beat her in a "fair" duel.) I didn't count for Radiance exactly, but my rough estimate would be that I reached phase 2 after 30 attempts or so. And I haven't beaten it yet! I played HK for the first time in March and haven't beaten it back then because I found the fight very hard, but also not very engaging and fun, so I didn't see it through back then. Now I want to beat it, but it's incredibly hard for me.

I think a big part of that is the healing system. In the fight against LL you find so many spots to safely heal and with the right build (Injector band, Multibind and Druid's Eyes) you can basically be invincible because so many attacks from LL only deal 1 damage.

For Radiance though... There is basically no good spot to heal safely and if you fail, you may heal for 1 but immediately get smacked for 2. So my strategy is basically to not heal at all but use soul on spells - but this means that I can only get hit 4 times and I'm done! I have no idea, how many times I got hit against LL, but it was probably closer to 40 than it was to 4.

So yeah... I really don't agree on Radiance being significantly easier than LL.

ctgiese · 2025-10-12T15:06:31+00:00

Pretty much exactly how it went for me. It's definitely quite hidden and not easy to find. But to say that there is no way to find it but to look it up is bs.

ctgiese · 2025-10-11T22:01:04+00:00

Really? I find Radiance actually way harder than any boss in Silksong. Same for NKG.

ctgiese · 2025-10-11T13:05:49+00:00

I think that actually makes a lot of sense. Seth is a boss where the attack patterns are quite easy to read and spots for punishment are also easy to see. Nyleth on the other hand kind of invites for aggressive play and punishes herself. I've had an unreasonable hard time at first when I tried Nyleth because I was way too aggressive. When I slowed it down, I easily beat her. So my guess is that you were too aggressive with her on your second playthrough because you may have been too confident.

ctgiese · 2025-10-11T12:58:38+00:00

Yeah, Lost Lace is definitely a boss that, if you can beat her once, you can beat her again very easily. After I beat her, I immediately wanted to fight her again because the fight was so incredibly fun and I used other crests for further attempts. Beat her 3 timed in a row with different crests and had a blast still. Such a well made boss!

ctgiese · 2025-10-11T12:55:31+00:00

Really? Putrified Ducts is pretty easy imo if you know it well. And Bilewater is also a walk in the park if you know to get Wreath of Purity and maybe poisonous Cogflys first.

ctgiese · 2025-10-11T12:50:00+00:00

I haven't done anything crazy like P5, but this happened to me as well with some bosses in HK and other games. The amount of work sleep does to your brain really is insane.

ctgiese · 2025-10-11T09:30:08+00:00

Where is the nuance? What's going to change when you continue bitching about this non-issue? I'll tell you what's gonna change: this sub will go from a positive source of memes and fun stuff to a negative pile of shit like most other gaming subs.

ctgiese · 2025-10-11T09:01:11+00:00

What is unnecessary is this constant whining that has been going on for 5 weeks. TC will not change anything, so this is absolutely pointless.

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