The running and gunning I got fine, it was more "optional stealth" I got sick and tired of, and was more annoying than New Order. I really don't like these sections and they're much more of them compared to the last game. The whole, Nazi grunts will re-spawn, if you don't kill the commander got on my nerves. I mentioned this to you before back in 2020, but really hate these sections. They actually make running and gunning less viable. Especially in wide open areas and on harder difficulties.
I remember not having much issue with the officers, I tended to be able to stealth kill one and then the other I didn't really mind hunting down. But its also been years since I last played. It is on my replay list, when I originally played it my vid card was kinda underpowered and I remember the court room section being so hard because I was getting like 15 fps.
I played on PS4. I didn't have frame it issues, but it didn't make this stupid section any less hard. The fact this section is a hallucination/dream sequence pisses me off even more. Making the entire chapter pointless. Machine Games should have not even bothered, or made so you can't die.
I actually kinda liked the dream/hallucination thing since I've never seen a game pull that. But it does make dying during it and having to start over rather silly.
Hence why that level can go fuck itself.
Bitches like them I put on complete, ignore and can decide for myself. I'm not interested in either games, but I would take HK and Silksong over any GTA came any day of the week.
I've already seen people who are like 'has it already been outclassed before it came out?' on this very website (the main news section, who are mostly hacks). Which is why I'm going to be avoiding as many of the usual places as I can until I've actually played through it. Taken on a surface level, Hollow Knight back in 2017 wasn't doing anything particularly new or innovative either, but it was the combination of all of its elements that made it a masterpiece, and it's entirely likely that something similar will be going on with Silksong. Though, honestly, I'll gladly take 'as good as the first one' without needing an even better sequel.
I heard a good point when listening to SecondWind's most recent podcast that Team Cherry's promotion of Silksong was just... normal? Like not bothering with all the memes and hype. They made the game, they made the trailer, they're releasing it. Yes they made projected release windows over the years and delayed but they didn't like f*** with it. Especially now that it's actually coming out, we know that was all real. They're ads are just like "here's our game please buy" like normal, even though they could have been cute about it and referenced it like other game makers (I rather enjoyed the Outer Worlds 2 ad referencing GTA and all that tbh, but as a contrast).
It would not shock me if people started doing this with Lost Soul Aside. Though after a bunch of the so called "geniuses and intellectuals" go on about how this game needs to succeed to bring action games back and "kill" Dark Souls/soulslikes. Even though stylish action games have already been back for a long time and don't need to dominate. Nor ever dominated the entire industry in the first place. Like some people like to falsely claim and do really dumb revisionist history.
How much of that is because it has the word "Soul" in it? I mean, yeah, I know, dumb dumb dumb... but people do be like this. Words are powerful. The word "soul" is a loaded term in gAmr DisCourSE
That's nothing to do with anything, so no need to worry.
There were people like this long before this game came back into the light after the long development hiatus.
