- major changes to navigation (immediate fast travel in DS2 / a branchier structure in Silk with stiff fees for save points) - major changes to healing (lifegems / Hornet's more effective yet costlier heal spell) - runbacks to retry bosses that start to feel frankly cruel after fashion
the savepoint fees really get my goat!! And yes the runbacks can eat a big un, I tried to do Hunters March and went completely insane constantly making the journey again
nothing in Silksong has been like, Iron Keep levels of frustration, but i feel the dark souls 2 vibe up and down this game
this is the second time i've seen people mention the runbacks. this is curious to me, because i don't think any runback has felt particularly punishing in any way except for Last Judge. all the rest have been fine imo? are people just not buying the benches?
we don't have the money! only about 1/3 or 1/2 of the enemies we've fought to this point drop currency at all
ah sniped while i was writing my other reply lol. but, yeah, only sapient enemies drop beads... but there's still very rich places for farming beads all over the place. like even just in mosshome, one of the very first areas, i farmed up to 500 in less than 30 mins
just running through it in a loop like 6 times killing all the pilgrims
i am not trying to argue i promise haha. it just seems like people are having very different experiences with the game than i am and i am puzzled by it
from what i can tell: you're grinding, and we're choosing not to (neither of us enjoy it and we want to spend the time not boring each other) so you're giving yourself more wiggle room
it was really only that one time i intentionally grinded though, when i wanted to buy the simple key. i haven't really after that. are you buying rosary strings to keep your beads safe when you die? maybe that's the problem
i do it at every opportunity so i always have a stash of beads ready when i need it that are deathproof
we only just started to do that, 25% cut be damned
yeah it's worth it to keep like 100 beads worth of hard beads on hand for if you come across a bench and have nothing. but also big sudden realization: are you using the bead magnet charm to make sure you always get every bead an enemy drops?
i'm also confused by idea the fees are steep. it's been like, 80 beads max for a bench so far, which is very easy to farm if you don't have any. but you probably do! unless you just haven't been killing enemies along the way and just running through everything, in which case... there's the problem
(using the general "you" here)