Like most of you, I became indoctrinated into the Cult of Team Cherry about 8 years ago. Oh, I had my quibbles with Hollow Knight, I concede. All of my recommendations to friends were couched in the careful “wonderful-but-there’s-a-catch” tones one reaches for while trying to explain a flawed masterpiece. But the game was the…
last judge runback takes 15-20 seconds if you are good at platforming and if you look around. there’s an easier way which i’m sure you just refused to look at. if you are bad, don’t play hard games. a game doesn’t become bad just because you are bad at it.
The only problematic runback in the game is Groal. But you didn’t even mention it because I’m sure you didn’t even make it to the act 3 to “review” a game. If you complained about Groal, I would agree (though still not enough reason to bash a whole game just because of a single boss). Complaining about the last judge shows you are just not good at the game.
Also, Silksong wasn’t picked picked GOTY anyway, so why the rant? The award went to the public favourite “indie” game Expedition 33.