Ok, but like… You could be having the experience you want if you plugged your current controller into a computer (not even a particularly high powered one for this game), spent an hour or two messing around with it, and if you struggle with the modding process people would help you? I’ve found a mod that does exactly what you want on nexus mods, it changes the game speed on the fly

Link if you’re interested

I’m not being elitist when I say you can’t make a game for everyone… You literally cannot. You can’t be the same handful of people who spent 7 years polishing every aspect of a game to tune it just right, then also keep track of a granular set of difficulty sliders throughout the process. These are incompatible design philosophies, you can’t make a game like Silksong like that

No, you should have a button through the workshop where you can add mods to slow down the game, take less damage, or whatever else you want or need. Let people rebalance the whole damn game if they want, if that makes you enjoy the game I’m happy for you

It should made easier then it is right now with proper workshop integration so it can be done in just a couple clicks. I’d support calling for that

What I don’t want is for team cherry to be pressured to change the game. It’s amazing as is, it’s extremely well thought out in how it challenges you even as the difficulty people complain about prepares you for future challenges. But people who will never enjoy it for what it is instantly demand it be watered down

You think a speed slider is going to make this game accessible? That’s not how this game works. This game is impossible at every challenge until it isn’t. That is the game. It’s rhythm and reaction, if you can do it slow you can do it normally

If I didn’t have a friend who played smash with three fingers and his hip on a heavily modded controller, I wouldn’t have the instincts to be able to play this game. He kicked my ass every time, despite nerve palsy that left him with half of one working hand

This game is not for everyone. And I don’t mean because of abilities… I’m not that good of a gamer. This game is for people who don’t accept their limits

If you make every game for everyone, you make slop

I don’t care if you can enjoy it without putting the effort I put in. I just don’t want a way for myself to make it easier. That’s it.

Fuck off, this is a masterpiece and I love it so much I’ve developed a new callous on my thumb and had to take a day off. I’ve overcome every challenge, I’ve dealt with the frustration, and victory was all the sweeter for that.

I don’t care what you do or don’t enjoy, don’t fuck with my game. I don’t care if you watch a playthrough or mod the game so you can enjoy the story.

I’m not being elitist, I’m pissed because people are trying to ruin the masterfully crafted artistic vision of the best game I’ve played in years

This game isn’t made for them, it’s made for me. It’s the full package, it’s amazingly well balanced, and truly a lovingly crafted work of art

If you want to mod the game to make it easier, I have no problem with you, or people who use it

But I don’t want a win button in my wonderfully challenging game. I don’t want this to be ruined with temptation. That’s what would cheapen the experience

20 minutes of challenge becomes 5 minutes of chores becomes 2 minutes to blaze through flawlessly once you get it down

And it breaks you out of the headspace. You can’t just dive back in, every attempt has weight, even if not much

Also most people who complain about this seem to not understand that this is not random, these are well thought out design decisions. If it feels impossibly hard to just get to the boss, there’s probably an easier way. There’s tons of shortcuts, there’s often an easier route to another bench, and when there isn’t the boss is probably an easy one when you’re not anxious about having to repeat the section

Plus, platforming is a huge aspect of the challenge in itself. Sure, it’s annoying chores now, but what happens when you need near perfect movement for long stretches with no platforms to rest on?

It will! That one took me a while too, but it opens up a lot

Let me fill up the negative space in that comment…I want Silksong to be hard. I want to do things dozens of times before succeeding, I want to struggle then overcome

It’s all skill based. You get better, your character gives you more breathing room, but ultimately you have to learn and overcome each new challenge

And that feels amazing, it’s not for everyone but I don’t want a way to make it easier… It would cheapen the experience to even have the option

Is cup head comparable? It looks really floaty

The point is I get frustrated, then I get better. There’s stakes, and every time I get a little better. I see the next phase of the boss, then it takes me multiple tries to get to that stage again. Then suddenly, nearly every time I’m getting to that phase in seconds

This game isn’t hard for the sake of being hard, it’s hard because it repeatedly gives you a new challenge that seems impossible, and if you have the will to keep pushing you can overcome it. Not through luck, you just learn the patterns, and you adapt your combat style

And once you surpass a challenge, it feels like an accomplishment. The world opens up, you’re rewarded with new exploration and abilities

You ask on a link aggregator…

No, no there’s not. The Internet is dying, the best you’re going to get is human made submissions

You could put yourself on some mailing lists, otherwise a well curated set of communities is about as good as it gets

Political violence is a symptom, not a cause

We were already here. Lawmakers have already been killed. Just, no one took it seriously because the Democrats miss every moment

And yes, they were already invading Chicago. They were already calling to arrest political opponents. They were going to do it all anyways

Sorry friend, but it’s only going to get worse for the foreseeable future

I’m with you lamenting it though, I’m very frustrated too. Everything is breaking, for the stupidest reasons…

For decades now, I’ve joked that the Internet is just a fad… But recently I realized, we might just see it die

Definitely… But you can both streamline an interface for the masses without taking away from power users. OSX was a pretty good example of this - they kept a simple veneer, but if you dug a little deeper you used to be able to do some pretty advanced things and configure it all just how you like it

It just takes more time and effort, so it’s becoming rare

Well, that’s just capitalism for you. Maintaining code takes man hours, so of course the minute they had the slightest excuse to reduce code and fire people, that became the norm

It’s profit dictating style basically

They don’t teach material design or something, they teach you to look at the interfaces people use the most and copy the shorthand and general layout

Then they teach you what not to do… Don’t make buttons appear and disappear, don’t make interactions move things around… These are basically universally confusing

They get into a bit of color theory, making certain actions “weighty” by adding loading, and all sorts of other techniques

But the most important piece is figuring out what the main use cases are, and making the tradeoffs to make the experience as frictionless as possible. Stuff like minimizing clicks, piching things by default, hiding unnecessary information, etc

It’s like teaching art. You put labels on concepts and make them practice picking apart the composition so they can understand the individual elements at play and how they fit together

It depends on how you look at it, and how it’s presented

You don’t fill a hole by grabbing dirt and finding a hole, you realize you need to fill a hole, and then you grab/buy materials to fill it in with.

It’s just a matter of approach. You can frame it in either direction

You realize this is actually a field of study? Like, this isn’t a particularly soft science… Companies have done massive A/B campaigns and written papers on it, universities do studies on it… It’s not just opinion

I mean, I do this professionally, I took courses that break down what makes something feel intuitive

Yeah, it’s basically a UX issue. You can make either one seem more natural depending on how you present it, although if I’m transferring money I probably care more about where it’s going

I think that my flow is far more natural… But suffice to say I wouldn’t switch it on you either way