#wooloospeaks

[woolooism]

do something good today.

call your loved ones, speak to them. listen to a new album from band you've heard about but didn't have time to get into. water your plants. draw a cat. but please don't give up, and keep living.

[woolooism]

oh, so shinigami eyes is useless useless now

edit: sorry but i'm turning off reblogs. i've blocked too many people over this post, and i'm already sick from seeing it in my notifs.

[woolooism]

i'm about to be a hater for a sec, but. a lot of criticisms people have about silksong also apply to hollow knight. and in some cases, people ignore that silksong also improves on a lot of issues the first game has.

this is just a reiteration of some criticism i saw in youtube comments or on reddit, not addressing the broad difficulty concern, but mostly minor nitpicks.

- most bosses are quite forgettable: not every boss can be Nightmare King Grimm or Cogwork Dancers. i doubt that most people cared about Brooding Mawlek in the first game.

- the long runbacks to bosses: mantis lords runback. traitor lord runback and gauntlet before him. soul master.

- rosary economy: one of the issues of HK was that once in mid-to-late game, you had too many geo and nothing to spend it on. while i agree that in early game lack of rosaries felt a bit too oppressive, 1. that is a point of the worldbuilding 2. i still remember saving 1500 geo for the lantern and then dying in some random ass place, losing it all

- fake benches feeling unfair: crystal guardian bench. mantis village bench with a door that closes right before your face. deepnest bench.

- some necessary upgrades like needle/health being locked under hard quests/minigames: you have to do two trials in Colosseum of Fools to get the final nail upgrade. you have to do delicate flower quest to get the final mask shard. and i enjoyed courier delivery quests a lot more, because they actually allowed you to take some hits.

- most tools are useless and just take up a necessary slot you can use for something else: the crest system and the addition of multi-colored tools allows you to still use quality of life tools like compass without sacrificing your much needed charm notches and combat upgrades. in lategame HK, i used just longnail + quickslash + unbreakable strength, and in Silksong, i still experiment with tools in builds even though i've seen most of the bosses.

TRUE ENDING SPOILERS FOR BOTH GAMES:

- i once saw a comment that seeing a cutscene before fighting Lost Lace was annoying. you literally have to fight the entirety of THK to get to the Radiance.

[woolooism]

i believe the only correct way to make a movie adaptation of house of leaves is to add more layers of narrative. make it into a mockumentary about trying to film a movie adaptation of house of leaves (written by zampano and annotated by johhny truant), which itself is a pseudoscientific book written about navidson's record.

[woolooism]

been reading a lot (in my own, frankly leisurely tempo) while trying to limit my social media consumption. i won't make a goodreads account so here's my thought on each one in reblogs

[woolooism]

the librarian working today is so unnecessary mean

[woolooism]

this feels like a distant dream now

[woolooism]

i've JUST learned that zun used to have this image on his website. i LOVE it. she looks so scrunchy here. steel scrubber vibes.