Let’s Talk About Silksong
At some point in the late 2000s I made playing hard games part of my identity. Reading articles about the reboot of Ninja Gaiden on the original Xbox and how so many people couldn’t even get past the first boss just grabbed my imagination with the thought of “but what if I could?” And so I did, and I kept doing it through multiple Ninja Gaidens, Devil May Crys, Bayonettas, and all sorts of flavors of Dark Souls. As such I’m not really the most unbiased when it comes to talking about hard games, and on top of that everyone has talked TO DEATH about Silksong already and how unfairly hard it is. But I just finished it, got the true ending, and beat all but three bosses (still counted as 100% completion, don’t ask me why) so I want to talk about it too! Hollow Knight wasn’t a game that I…