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Friday Fun Thread for September 12, 2025

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Still playing Silksong. Still getting rekt. I'm now stuck at the Last Judge, but at least there's more to explore now than when I was stuck on Moorwing. That was horrible hah.

I keep hearing how the enemies in Silksong are obnoxiously spongy. But I also wonder how much of this is an effect of starting off under powered. I can't remember how weak I felt when I started Hollow Knight, but I know after a sword upgrade or two, it felt awesome. Perhaps so awesome I forgot how weak I began. Have you noticed upgrades helping with the hit sponge feeling I keep seeing people talk about in Silksong?

The first upgrade barely changes anything. You still take the same amount of hits to kill most enemies. Kind of a let down compared to hollow knight.

Idk about the second upgrade, you have to finish act 1 to get it and im still working on the last boss.

Silksong, from what I can tell, seems to be explicitly designed to avoid much of the power creep of other metroidvanias, including Hollow Knight, hence the paucity of damage and health upgrades. But it may be that I am very dumb - I got through almost all of Hollow Knight before realizing that the nail upgrades even existed. (I do have the first needle upgrade in SS; getting the second seems like it requires quite a bit beyond merely beating Act I, which I have done.)

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