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Silksong is finally out! "Fortunately" I didn't make it home by 4pm on Thursday meaning I only had to wait a little over an hour of frequent refreshing until I could finally buy the game xD

It's so much fun! Very reminiscent of Hollow Knight in a good way: atmosphere, gameplay, level design... And very hard. But (most of) the fights are fun to figure out, and the successes feel great. Tbh the main reason why I wish it didn't take me so long is because I'm already really looking forward to watching others play, but I also don't want any spoilers.

I was skeptical about the ledge grabbing at first but I got used to it. I do like the diagonal downward pogo, it's also very good for evasion etc, and as someone who prefers not getting too close during combat it's my favorite move. Just need to work on the spacing a little - still, after over 9 hours… It also feels like I have very few upgrades so far, at least I wish I had more fight-related upgrades, that would be nice. Boss fights are one thing but the regular enemies are also getting more and more difficult to deal with. Just need to keep practicing...

My actual playthrough, the first almost ten hours, with plenty of spoilers:
(Benchmark, I have three achievements for defeating bosses so far and explored a bit further into the ~next region; and I strongly suspect the first three bosses will probably be the same for most people.)

Day 1
I think Moss Mother lulled me into a false sense of security, I easily beat her on my first attempt, but then it took me at least a dozen tries to defeat the Bell Beast. But now it's my friend :)
I've granted a few wishes already, nice side quests. I made it to the Deep Docks (avoiding two other bosses along the way, one of them I suspect is optional, and the other – above Bone Bottom, spewing poison – definitely looks like something I want to fight later) and it took me a while to figure out how to progress, but then I finally met Lace! A very fun fight. That one took me many attempts, too. But then I beat her and continued east into the Far Fields, I got a fancy floating cloak from the seamstress, and then I wanted to backtrack to buy the map I didn't have enough rosary beads to buy at first (always low on those, even though I did quite a bit of farming already) only to run into the Fourth Chorus. I've been so close to beating it so many times! …I think. I hope. Anyway ~~thanks to an intervention by a friend~~ I decided to stop there for the night, because it's happened a few times that I handily beat a boss I struggled with on the next day. (Also my hands are already tired and my wrists will thank me for the break.) I played for a little over six hours.

Day 2:
Took me a few more tries, but I beat the giant robot ant :) Almost hitless, by the end. I explored the Far Fields a bit more, then did a bit of backtracking but with little success, and then I made it into Greymoor. The regular enemies are already difficult there, and currently I'm struggling both with the Moorwing and with the Chapel of the Reaper. I even took a break to do some more backtracking, which led to the discovery of the fire bomb bugs in the Marrow, but I decided to leave them for later because those fights are not fun.

Yesterday I played until 2am, today hopefully not quite as long. Tomorrow I'm at a friend's birthday party, and I might think the timing more unfortunate if I didn't suspect my wrists will be glad for the break... But I have no other plans for Sunday except play, looking forward to it. (Well, that and watch a few of the MCSR Playoffs finale matches when I need a break, we'll see.)