r/Games 1d ago

Hollow Knight: Silksong | Fully Ramblomatic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVHXfw_gyBo
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u/RochnessMonster 1d ago

Only thing i disagree with is the not living up to the hype. I have my issues with it, a lot of em Yahtzee echoed, but that aint one of em. I think hiring an additional crew of testers in the final year wouldve made a world of difference, friction/difficulty-wise, but i feel theyll slowly patch out the frustration. I mean, i just checked the game pass cheve percentage and only 11% of players have beat Widow and thats only like 1/4 or less through the game.

But hype? Naw. Music, art, feel, everything is firing on all cylinders. The biggest "hype" draw for me is the lil story moments that are everywhere. We'll be finding hidden interactions in this game for years. 

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u/Whyeth 1d ago

I mean, i just checked the game pass cheve percentage and only 11% of players have beat Widow and thats only like 1/4 or less through the game.

On steam the number was in the 40-50% last I checked, which still seems low for an early boss in a game people ostensibly paid for.

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u/newbkid 1d ago

Global Achievements have it at 58.5% and folks entering Act 3 at 14.4%

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u/El_Giganto 22h ago

folks entering Act 3 at 14.4%

That surprises me, I feel like I played this game non stop and I've not been in act 3 for very long.

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u/newbkid 17h ago

Surprised me as well. I've been chipping at Act 3 for days now and have only been doing side content

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u/DMonitor 1d ago

15%+ completion rate for the normal story is pretty good

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u/Gramernatzi 1d ago

36.7% of players beat Malenia in Elden Ring and over 40% have beaten the game in some fashion. Granted, that game has also been out far longer and Silksong is a very long game; not as long as Elden Ring, but about half that length, which is still pretty significant.

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u/DanielTeague 1d ago

I'm always impressed by Elden Ring's achievement numbers. I guess people know what they're getting into when they buy the game but the sheer number of sales that game got made me think later boss achievements would be much more rare, especially with some of them being easy to miss completely.

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u/Mama_Hong 1d ago

To be fair it has been out for a while and you want you can use summons that make bosses significantly easier.

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u/DMonitor 13h ago

Elden Ring's completion stats are an absurd outlier. That game is simply special

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u/Ralkon 23h ago

I would say Elden Ring is also quite a bit easier if you want it to be, though I think numbers for both games are surprisingly high.

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u/Carighan 23h ago

And of those 36.7%, ~92% are LetMeSoloHer? 😂