TLDR; i genuinely think this game is fantastic, please give it time if you think it isn't your thing immediately

i'm gonna admit, i wasn't immediately immersed into this game's world like a lot of people were. it took me a lot of time to come around to properly sitting & experiencing the full thing. i got frustrated often & got lost so much, i nearly thought the game wasn't for me; oh boy i was VERY wrong

i think the combat, art style, music, art style, music again, & combat again is what really sold me........ (i will address the elephant in the room of lore later my god)

for me i think when i really sunk my teeth into the game & put more effort into navigating i really began to enjoy myself. the music, atmosphere & art design is too good to miss. i slept on this for WAY too long & i'm joyously happy to be a part of the insane silksong-waiting cult now--

bosses were when i was happiest with the game, i love learning attack patterns etc. like my GOD, GODHOME WAS SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! & my favourite boss is Pure Vessel if anybody cares :) the combat in this game is second to none. i love how i used to struggle terribly with much earlier bosses, & then i wipe the floor with them in godhome. you FEEL your progression in gameplay, you FEEL your massive increase in skill, radianting all bosses & beating P5 made me feel like a genuine god gamer (well i beat bug god so deserved for me yaaay)

grubs are also perfect, i got the talking grub plushie because my life would not be the same otherwise. the other HK plushes look great i will snatch them all up

also despite my immense fear of bugs this game manages to make them cute enough to be highly tolerable & in fact lovable (deepnest was fine, the only time i got genuinely scared was the grub mimic you encounter when using CDash to leave crystal peak. if you think this game is scary, take it from a total scaredy-cat; you will be fine)

ok now the lore. I LOVE IT. its so cryptic & weird & i love watching video essays so mossbag was a lot of fun for me i've watched all his videos. like you need to go hunting to understand this stuff, i tried to TLDR it to a few people on a stream once & nobody understood what i was waffling about because it goes so deep, to be honest the gameplay is so good that if you wanna ignore the lore & play you can, but the lore makes everything SO MUCH better if you understand & care about it. like i was already enjoying myself but all the dark, sinister lore makes this all the more fun to explore

this is more of an external factor & i suppose you can even consider it a flaw that the story is so cryptic & hard to understand without looking to youtube & other sources. but for me personally, it was amazing, breaks my heart & THK/pure vessel is definitely my favourite character lore-wise

there was such genuine passion put into this game, begging you to play it. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!! anyways 11/10 my favourite game as of now my autism activates anytime i see a picture of the little thoughtless knight dude

P.S. you know their merch is high quality, bc i have the hornet figure & my phone has fallen on it like 3905953568939643 times yet this thing has still not broke yet???