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Harvey Randall

Silksong players are wrestling with the game's 'stabs you and kicks you for crying about it' difficulty

Hornet sits, defeated, inside a glimmering silvery cage.

Silksong's out, and folks are playing it—they're also throwing their controllers, gnashing their teeth, and doing a lot of complaining about masks, if the r/Silksong subreddit is to be believed. As someone currently arm-deep in Pharloom myself and having a whale of a time, I have plenty of thoughts about that—but first, let's see what the people have to say, shall we:

"[My wife] has spent three days fighting Moorwing without beating it and she’s dropping the game for good. I hope she’ll pick it back up sometime but it’s sad to see all the anticipation die out like this," writes one player. Here's an in-depth critique that's almost entirely difficulty-based, to which one commenter concurs: "Hollow Knight started you off slow and steady, Silksong stabs you and kicks you for crying about it."

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