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Friday Fun Thread for September 26, 2025

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Back to Silksong after a few weeks break. A difficulty tweak mod made the game much more enjoyable for me. If you're in a similar boat to me — if you enjoyed HK1 but thought the Radiance ending challenges were too much, enjoyed the difficulty of early FromSoft games but thought they crossed a line around Sekiro/Elden Ring — I recommend the following changes to the config file, as the defaults trivialize the game a bit too much: 2x -> 1.5x Player damage, 2x -> 1.6x rosaries, disable Tool regen. On the other hand, consider changing the health regen to every 1 second; it only starts after you're 12 seconds damage free, so it won't make the boss gameplay much easier, but will make runbacks less tedious.

On my first post I complained that there's not enough exploration in Silksong. I'm glad to say the situation improves a lot once you read the Citadel at the top of the map. It acts as a massive hub area disconnected from the main fast travel network, with many hidden areas you can discover and tackle in different orders, lots of unlockable shortcuts, etc.

I can now recommend the game with a few reservations.

Is anyone else playing Silent Hill f? I believe @Fruck expressed interest?

Oh I am loving the absolute shit out of it so far. I have two complaints - the inventory management system is stupid, just needlessly convoluted, although that might be compounded by the second issue - I want a combat difficulty between story and hard, because the refilling of all your health and sanity with each save makes most of your inventory useless, but my heart can't handle the tension of fighting disturbingly sexy scarecrows while three hits from death at all times.

I don't know what the story is about yet and I don't want to speculate, but the characters are great so far. I am both terrified of my friends and desperate to save them, especially after the beginning and Hanako is such a melancholy protagonist, which just makes the game feel more claustrophobic.

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