Hollow Knight: Silksong Review

Nothing prepared me for Sisyphean exercises that Hollow Knight: Silksong play. This is partly my bad omitting of the original empty knight – I thought I would have a lot of time to try before Silksong ever appeared. But now it is here and I spent over 25 hours with the equivalent of a video game, consisting in driving my hand into the field of dunes pain.

Silksong can be one of the most painful 2D action games I played and the worst part? I showed myself this pain, pressing forward until I saw almost every whole of the Pharloom land inhabited by the worm. And this says something; Despite the fact that it is a 2D game, Team Cherry has enough levels, characters and tasks in Silksong to fill the 3D world. It never ends: lift the rock and you will find a boss who is willing to be your latest archmit or an obstacle in color and blades, which are just as satisfying as scratching mosquito bite.

Silksong makes you feel a fool to play in it above all. From the moment you start the up-to-date game and introduce Pharloom, it is an agony for everyone involved. Each mistake is to make you or fight for your own solemn existence.

This devil’s commitment to knock you on your ass in a world where everyone has been knocked on the ass for the last few decades is what impresses Silksong the most. Even a penalty game as Elden Ring does not refuse to relax the adhesion on his neck. In each FromSoftware game there is a moment when you gain the right to play with food, often finding a compilation of the character that works for you. Silksong on the other side will allow you to improve your weapon at last You can deal as much damage as enemies since 1.

I can be bruised and sore experience, but I can say that despite all the pain through which Silksong stretched me, it was worth it. The Cherry team organized the whole game Reaching a car without keys And this is phenomenal, unwavering in your vision to fully absorb you until you see the Farloom maze when you close your eyes.

Harmony

As far as I think that the term is inappropriate to describe what is really unique in Silksong, calling it Soulslike has some advantages. The fight does not quite match, but the construction of rivals (and ech) Lordran in Dark Souls. It is not only complicated and combined, but is distorted by its tragic history. You can open the map and draw a line from the Golden Citadel to stagnation, infected with worms with Bilewater pools to understand exactly where the rot began.

Any abbreviation and secret area contextualize the horror movies you meet in a larger, sadder picture. A flawless dining room in the upper chambers of the citadel hides a kitchen covered with dust and decomposition, and just below this in the secret room lies the tangled corpse of the stonoga pope. It always something Just except for the view or stay in the background that attract your eyes, and these details have always starved me, seeing more. At the end of the game I could not say what was more exhilarating: the fact that I had somehow stuck in the whole zone, which I have not yet examined, or questions that a up-to-date place raised about what really happens with Pharloom’s greatest secrets.

When traveling through hell, there are many vivid places, for example petite towns, which you can lend a hand in the reconstruction and worms that you meet in them. I did so many matters for a group of worms living in giant bells that they gave me one of my. I will kill anyone who dare to complain about the valuable Sherma and his calming lullaby.

Hornet and the characters he falls into are a bit of cool water in this gloomy dream. There are worms of all shapes and sizes that welcome you with heated greetings, sweet melodies, and sometimes a bit of fraud. I met a whole caravan of nomadic fleas with the French mustache, Bartender Beetle and Biedronka, who accused me of target practice.

The wide cast of freaks made me reasonable when I lost adhesion before repeated crushing by a metallic worm with a bell chained on her shoulder. The trend of the hornet to softening from a cool -blooded warrior to an empathic survivor in confrontation with a worm or fluffy flea added a dainty counterpoint to the most abrasive moments. Even the fact that he speaks at all is helped by Silksong Tempert, his overwhelming despair and made me gladly talk to every worm that I could find.

The thrill of playing as a Hornet is what really anchor Silksong as a brilliant action game above all. I skipping and avoiding enemies becomes a dainty dance, which is becoming more and more complicated when you collect up-to-date movements. I just poisoned the enemies during the first few hours of the game, and at the end I threw out jumps and silk shells, jumping between the worms like Pinball. When I wasn’t caught, it seemed that the tables turned around and suddenly AND He was a boss with unfair, unpredictable attacks. Silksong sets the bar so high that it can only be reached to miniature series, but the carrot is worth racing when he pulls it out, it is so incredibly satisfying.

In these glorious, fleeting moments I could go back and appreciate how the fights with the bosses of innovative silksong could be. I almost wanted to stop during a duel with a shiny butterfly on a stage full of explosive fireworks and headlights to be able to enjoy its absurdity just a few seconds longer. And despite my penniless patience, when I was locked in a room with two mechanical dancers who reflect the movements of each other, I had to admit that it was a clever way of learning how to focus on one purpose, while making me feel like a part of dance – which turned out to be useful for many bosses. Time and again, commitment to cruelty had a goal. This phenomenon lasted until the last hours of the game.

Stubborn

Most Silksong is fair, although it is inexorable, and I suspect that the game in a compressed time has tightened moments of pain. At the same time, there are sections, especially those that you need to repeat every time you try a boss who threatens the top. One of the worst appears near the beginning and forces you to console after furious worms and flies with sniper rifles to have a chance to see the boss again.

Silksong does not always gain balance between effort and reward. Some games will make you find an access code to unlock the unthreatening with the key – Silksong will make you fight bare fists through four waves of flies with a crowbar to get a key that unlocks the door leading to the next flies with bangs. You don’t even guarantee that you won’t get anything after defeating the boss. For the first half you will be lucky to find a bench on which you can relax, do not try to kill you or take money.

This is a suggestive choice to fill in the game with control points, for which you have to pay to emphasize the discrepancy between the upper and lower half of Pharloom, the clever friction associated with the gloomy state of the world. It is also a choice to arrange it on a system that empties the wallet, if you die too much – and you do it when almost every enemy and trap to the top can knock out health bars with several mistakes. Because as beautifully drawn as his tunnels and cathedrals, not all of them made climbing worth it. Silksong, especially in the first half, requires a blood oath to promise that experiencing the whole thing will pay off.

I can be bruised and sore from this experience, but I am glad that it actually pays off. In Silksong there were frustrating points in which I was reluctant to pass it on to the Cherry team, but I still process the shock that I was able to exceed my expectations after listening to people shouting about Hollow Knight over the past seven years. I can’t tell you if noise It was worth it, because this noise exists on discussion plaques, channels and disagreements with YouTube, and not in the game that I have started on Steam every day for the last week. But I can tell you that Silksong shines with the level of precision and imagination, which is challenging to find anywhere else.

It is too good to allow a brutal difficulty to stop him or stop me from seeing everything – even if I regret that there are at least several options to suppress the worst punishment. Silksong will defeat you, burn, rub his face into dirt, and then dazzles with another piece of the haunted world in a watch, convinced that the view will cause bloody, teeth were frayed. When this happens, the pain will disappear and you will push forward into the unknown, ready to survive everything that will throw you to stick to you a little longer.