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ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f

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Perpetual games industry cheerleader. Working through an endless backlog. Rolling credits on precisely 100 video games per year. Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/thuskindly Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/id/ThusKindly/ Twitter: @thus_kindly

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ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Nov 18

After 200 hours, my journey with Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth finally came to an end. An absolutely beautiful experience, culminating in one of the most intense gaming challenges I'd experienced in some time.

All I can really say is, thank you for everything.

#FF7R

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ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · 10d

BEAUTIFUL

ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · 14d

Recently I've played through Bloodborne, Hollow Knight, Silksong, Cronos, Hylics, and Hylics 2 - now I'm gearing up for Silent Hill f, Hades, Lords of the Fallen, Ghost of Yotei...autumn gaming is OUT OF CONTROL

ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · 26d

Literally Bilewater and Sinner's Road are the two areas in that game that I NEVER want to go back to 😭

ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Sep 8

The core team size of Team Cherry is small, but for Silksong I believe they worked with quite a few contractors to help with programming, testing, etc. So, the size of the development team that made the game is more like a few dozen (just using the in-game credits for reference)

ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Sep 8

I won't spoil it here, but I've just learned of a BIG secret in Silksong regarding the ending, and I'm just so excited to go check it out. Thought I finished most of what the game has to offer, turns out I was dead wrong. Love this game 🪡

ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Sep 7

Oh man, I LOVE how she kind of gives Nightmare King Grimm vibes in this. It's so elegant

ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Sep 7

AWESOME 🩵

ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Sep 7

I'm curious to know which ending you got? I feel like mine was the "you didn't do anything special" kind of straightforward, default ending

ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Sep 7

This I agree with - having to return to a bench to switch crests and charms might not be a necessary restriction. Some enemies feel best countered by specific crests, and you can't just run back to a bench every time you encounter them. Would honestly love to be able to hotswap crests via the D-pad!

ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Sep 7

(2/2) I actually found myself going back to the diagonal pogo as my preferred option, because I had learned to leverage it more effectively. I have a feeling this was Team Cherry's intent: start you off with a fresh new option with a stronger skill ceiling, then later let you revert if you want to

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ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Sep 7

(1/2) Funny thing is, I don't think that was the design philosophy at all - the straight-down pogo isn't necessarily an upgrade over the diagonal pogo. It's more accessible and straightforward to use, but it lacks the starting pogo's lateral reach. By the time I unlocked the downward pogo,

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ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Sep 6

Also a HUGE congratulations to @teamcherry.bsky.social, you are all legends.

This game was worth the wait 💙

ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Sep 6

Finished Silksong. It's a masterpiece. Damn hard game, much harder than the first one. More thoughts later...after I sleep 😅

ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Sep 5

Currently 16 hours into Silksong and I have to say, every single aspect of this game's combat is absolutely goated. Enemies are nimble, intelligent, and aggressive, and Hornet's toolkit is a 10/10. Tons more to go into later today but suffice to say I am having a BLAST with this game 🪡

ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Sep 4

Silksong in less than five hours. SILKSONG IN LESS THAN FIVE HOURS

ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Aug 7

I absolutely will let you know!!

ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Aug 6

Hahaha it's in the DM's menu -> gear icon -> Allow new messages from -> Everyone

ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Aug 6

Hi! Looking for any more playtesters? Happy to help!!

ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Aug 5

Incredibly charming, I ADORE the movement here. Crazy satisfying kinesis on that hat-catch-jump 😍

ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Aug 5

Pay me to do that shit 10 hours a day, five days a week, I'M ALL IN

ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Aug 5

Sudden epiphany last week: if I could do game playtests day in and day out as a full-time job, I absolutely would. I love testing the boundaries of a ruleset, trying to break games in creative ways, engineering edge cases, collating feedback, just all of it

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ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Aug 5

That's great!! I'm just getting around to my playtest now! I see your DMs are closed, would you like me to share feedback via your email address instead?

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ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Aug 5

Sold! Thanks for spotlighting this game, Riley. Can't wait to try it!

ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Jul 30

I, too, am proud of you

ThusKindly 🎮 Silent Hill f @thuskindly.bsky.social · Jul 29

I legitimately don't think I will ever get tired of soulslikes