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$25, on release day, without DRM? LFGGGGG!!!
I don’t mind Steam for my copy, but if you’re worried about achievements I can say they have in game ones to scratch that itch if you’re considering GoG for drm free experience.
I might just get two copies, depending how I feel after beating it. $20 USD is a bit of a steal.
Do many people really care about achievements?
I like achievements. I just like seeing that little popup after I do something. It’s like the game giving me a round of applause. I don’t care for getting all of them or anything like that.
Sadly yes, I’ve seen so many people ruin their fun/appreciation of a game because they “needed” to 100% the game
Do you feel like it’s a large % of the people who would buy this game?
I know completionists exist, although I know like 1 personally.
I haven’t played this game (or the first one), but it feels like the kind of game (metroidvania) that would attract completionists (and speedrunners)
Yes, can confirm that a major aspect of the genre is total exploration and collection of items. Hollow Knight, due to it’s difficulty and attraction to the “dark souls” adrenaline junkies, has added importance of achievements for things like Steel Soul mode (aka ironman, i.e. no deaths).
Also the genre has a long history of rewarding speed running. Metroid’s secret endings were hidden behind fairly strict time limits, for instance.
Well, yes, enough that gamification snuck into other sectors. That said, implementation isn’t always great, but at least in HK/SS (games focused on exploration and collection of upgrades) achievements are a popular acknowledgement of that collectathon.
I get too much anxiety to chase after speed run achievements, though. It’s really meant to be up to the users if they care or not.
I bought Hollow Knight way back on GOG. Of course I’m going to buy Silksong there too.
First time buying a game on gog instead of steam. The deciding factor for me was that I could get the soundtrack on flac on gog, and Steam doesn’t tell you what format you’ll get.
I have many Game Soundtracks on Steam, most of them are flac and Hollow Knight’s was flac too. So I guess there’s a high probability for Silksong to be flac too.
A majority of my soundtracks I’ve gotten were mp3s, and one can only be streamed from the steam client, never downloaded. This is really something Steam should be clear about upfront.
After I realozed you already have an attack that dives at an angle and bounces off enemoes that first boss and the minions prior became much easier.
First boss only has 3 attacks. Watch for the rumbly floor to see where it is coming from.
It will either jump across or scuttle alomg the bottom.
The jump can be run under and has a distinct sound to cue you in on it, once safely under you can get a couple whaps in.
For the scuttle across the floor you can use the dive attack. I missed a lot with this but you’ll either score a hit and bounce to lamd safely or you’ll overshoot and land safely.
Later in the fight it will go to the center and rumble the floor then pop up and throw two bells in the air which land and then roll off to opposite sides. Stay out of the middle and jump over the bells.
I think that’s it.
Not that anyone is going to accidentally read this, but a large part of the fun of this game is the discovery. Don’t post information or guides in the open. If someone wants a guide they’ll ask for it, though they probably shouldn’t be given one for the first boss. If they can’t figure that out on their own then this game isn’t for them.
Died to first boss, back to start… Welp, I think it’s not for me. Does look incredible but I guess movement is unlocked later and currently? Not feeling this restarting after I already fell few times on the way to the boss.
Queue in People saying skill issue or how my experience is wrong. But my 9 yo son also put the game down almost immediately because of it. I’m not good with these games. Thankfully it’s on gamepass and I can just try it whenever. Is the entire game this sort of no checkpoint boss rush?
You’re supposed to die and learn. Almost no boss you’ll one-shot, even if you know what you’re doing. Even the best players can’t just know boss behavior without having fought it once already.
It’s a hollow knight game, not unicorn glade
I haven’t played Silksong, but if the previous game, Hollow Knight, is anything to go by, it is very much Souls-like, which is what you’ve went through: if you lose to the boss, you get whizzed back to your last checkpoint, and all enemies, excluding special enemies, along the way get revived.
Again, if the last game is anything to go by, there should be various checkpoints all around, but you have to look around as much as you can with the current movement methods available to you. You’ll probably want to look for the closest possible checkpoint, and learn each enemy’s patterns to either avoid them, or defeat them without taking damage. Bosses are essentially just much bulkier enemies and have more moves in their moveset.
Souls-like games boil down to learning enemy movesets, finding ways to survive, and improving your timings to improve your survivability, while chipping away at your enemies until they die, and maybe along the way you’ll die a lot of times. It’s definitely not everyone’s cup of tea, but this sort of game gives many strong satisfaction.
The thing with Silksong is that it is, in average, harder than its predecessor. The game is centered mostly around exploration, platforming and combat and bosses are a regular occurance.
I’d recommend trying out the original Hollow Knight and seeing whether you like the gameplay there or not, since it’s a bit more forgiving.
