Hollow Knight: Silksong just released to an enormous player base, showcasing how important indie releases have become for the industry. Amid all the positivity, people have complained about the game being too difficult, and there’s a reason for it.According to a survey, most of Hollow Knight: Silksong players are also soulslike fans, so the difficulty is something they prefer rather than take it as a negative. This makes the difficulty quite understandable. Alinea Analytics has revealed that over half of Hollow Knight: Silksong players also play soulslike games. These include Elden Ring, Dark Souls, and Bloodborne, with the first one being the most popular among the fans. This explains why the difficulty isn’t that big of a problem for most people. Also, this isn’t something Team Cherry has done for the sequel; the original title wasn’t easy either. Nonetheless, the Silksong is a lot more brutal.
>can't even mention Nine Sols or you get blacklisted by the CCP
>late gen soulsfagstheir standards are extremely low
>>720282418>hollowknight-soulslike.jpg.webm.jpg.webm.png
>>720282418ah yesmy favorite video gameblasphemo
>>720282418There's a surprising overlap between Silksong and Hollow Knight
>>720282618You jest, but it's impressive that 22% of Silksong players possibly didn't play the original
>>720282418"soulslike" tag on steam is literally meaningless
>>720282705I think it's quite accurate to a very defined style of gameplay
>>720282569sounds like some kind of cat food brand
>>720282418>Soulslike is most liked by soulslike fansNo shit???
>>720282418Dark Souls 3 and Bloodborne were easy, and most Elden Ring players just abused summons or cheesy builds. Silksong doesn't have those crutches.
>>720282510been pondering a little kot lately
>>720282827You can get reinforced health before the Citadel?
>>720286669You don't have to beat last judge to get to the citadel. I fought last judge after completing a bunch of act 2.
>>720282418>Blasphemo
>>720282827The gameplay style is Zelda 2, not souls like
>>720286835Oh ok I'm still in Act 1, trying to do absolutely everything I can before proceeding. Guess I'm getting ahead of myself.
>>720282418so they are brainless drones, thanks for clearing that up
>>720283247Dark Souls 1 is nowhere on the list
>>720282418>Shitsong players have played the biggest exponent of normie slop in recent yearsNO WAY DUDE!?!?!???!?!?!?!?PEOPLE THAT HAS LITERALLY ONLY BOUGHT A GAME BECAUSE ITS POPULAR HAS BOUGHT ANOTHER GAME ONLY BECAUSE ITS POPULAR????!?!?!??!?NOOOOO??!??!?!?
>>720282418I like Metroid, Megaman X/Zero + autistically retrying arenas and bosses in Kirby post-game, but not Souls.
>>720287189No Khazan or LoP too
>>720282418Is Ori really as good as they say or is it another reddit game?
>>720287618Do you like the idea of free flowing platforming?If so, then yes
>>720282418Based Ori chads not consuming brainrot souls slop.Ori - the game for true action platformer and metroidvaina fans.>blaphemoDon't know what that is, must be a parody of blaphemous literally the most sluggish, jank and dogshit metroidvania ever made.
>>720282418>studies saykek
>>720282519Elden Ring bosses mog everything before it apart from Sekiro and some DS3 bosses lolDS1/DeS etc. aged horriblyI'm 35 btw in case youre going to retort with "zoomer take", and Ive been playing these games since DeS
>>720286835>I fought last judge after completing a bunch of act 2ahemYOUDID NOTBEAT HIM
>>720282827I've been stuck on this boss for like 3 hours
>>720288170You're misreading the data. This is percentage of silksong players that have played those games, not the other way around.
>blasphemoDamn it. Is this the prequel to Blasphemous back when the Penitent One was called Penito?
>>720282418>source: alinea analytics steam estimateswhere do these estimates come fromhow did they get them, do they have special access or something?
>>720288170>blaphemous literally the most sluggish, jank and dogshit metroidvania ever made.Bro, I am beggin ya to play some MVs beyound the stuff that just gets talked about on /V/. You do not know what jank is until you have tried to 100% bullshit like Chronicles of the Wolf.
>>720282418How similar are these games to Dead Cells?I really like Dead Cells. Would I enjoy these hollow knight games too? Or are they not very similar, but just happen to have cross over fans?
>>720289154Zero similarity in gameplay
>>720282827The fuck is that bunnyhopping tech?
>>720289495tapping the sprint button.
steam stats dont mean anything. its like doing a study on reddit
>>720289145does it have slow pathetic clunk movement like blasphemous? that wall jump is the worst thing I've seen in any game.I played it on release, just moving from place to place feels like watching paint dry. the design was so bad there are spike pits but the camera wont move down to see them.
>>720288254elden ring is only "good" at having more cosmetics since everything else is bland and lacking
>>720282418I have 100% completed Hollow Knight without ever having played a Soulslike before. If anything the Metroidvania exporation aspect and the Silksong hype drew me in to play it in the first place.
>>720282418>most X players also played these other games with massive playerbasesand they actually pay these analytics goobers to come up with these slides
>no nine solstheyre retards?
>>720289590From the moment you open the game it is an unpleasant experience. The controls handle like dogshit, your character moves at a crawl. Hitboxes are a suggestion. It is legit terrible, and makes Blasphemous look like a polished smooth high speed action platformer.
>>720282418>people playing popular games
>>720288254>bossesOpinion discarded.
>>720289821fotm fans but yeah
>>720282418How the fuck are ori games soulshit???They are actually well designed good and platformer focused.
>>720282418>According to a surveySample size?Where was the survey advertised?
>>720282418No shit sherlock.“Soulslike” is basically a subset of the “metroidvania” genre which itself is just a subset of the “action-adventure” genre. Of course it’s going to have a massive overlap.
>>720282827I really really hate the Flash art style. It's so cheap and hollow like it has no weight or texture to it.
>>720289835Woah this game has abysmal messy pixel art, sprite stretching and mixels.You saw these screens and still paid money for it?see I would never get that far.
>>720290052All the good soulslikes are not on the list though. Looks like their purchase are based on popularity.
>>720290183It is what it is.
>>720290056People have no standards and will play actual visual diarrhea.Noita having 10000s of sales and overwhelmingly positive reviews taught me that.They didn't even shade most of the characters.if they weren't inconsistent, lazily animated with so few frames and had actual depth the game wouldn't look so fucking cheap.
>>720290461Your edit looks like fucking trash, m9
>>720290507the games looks fucking trash m8
>>720290537your face looks like trash, m7
>>720289893Bosses is the most important part of souls games
>>720290461>lazily animated with so few framesThis is the biggest problem. Imagine having choppy animation in an action game with hard boss fights where you need to tell and memorize their patterns.
>>720290461This edit looks really bad anonPls dont voice ur opinions on aesthetics ever again
>>720290776That makes ER the worst souls.
>>720290836>>720290507mentally ill
>>720282827does the fire charm reduce the fire damage from this dude?
>>720291384Yes
>>720291384Yes. But keep in mind the fire charm isn't a flat reduction, it has a recharge time after you eat a hit.
>>720290461See I actually prefer the left. I don't think the shading adds anything, I think it just looks cheap and shitty either way. Flash animation is for novelty porn games from 2004.
>>720282827Deserved
>>720290796you are just shit at the game, dude.everything is well telegraphed in ss.
>>720291606It doesn't add anything because the whole game is dynamically lit.
>>720282418>the difficulty isn’t that big of a problemDifficulty are never the problem. Even if I suck, I will learn
darksois getting filtered by actual difficulty will always be hilarious
>>720291105Can you stop rolling like a retard, and wait for the boss to actually launch an attack, and then roll?
>>720290461What's your beef with noita?
>>720291874this is how 99% of Souls players play every Souls game. Roll, roll, roll... And it's only gotten worse with newer games because the stamina is more forgiving, so you can spam roll without a care in the world.
>>720291874Does that change the hitbox of attack from the boss?
>>720290461Visual clarity > fidelityEspecially in a game such as this
>>720291874It's a game that has immunity frames. The target audience are retards.
>>720294009Mostly because it's abusable. Roll spam won't happen if From make it like monhun (long recovery).
>>720282534What did OP mean by this?
>>720282418You know there are silksong player who also played sex with hitler
I'm currently on ant queen memory boss and its all getting so tiresome. I hate arenas
>>720290461>MARIO IF HE REALThis is bait right?
