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Guessed by @UnderwaterFunktown
I went back and forth between which 2025 masterpiece to rank higher, but I didn't have a long time to make a choice and I ended up with Silksong as the lower-ranking one here. It's only been a couple weeks but I'm already unsure about how I feel about that. This game is absolutely incredible. It's just incredible. And it's everything great about videogames, in terms of the kinds of experiences they can give to both the players and the developers. Team Cherry took their sweet time working on this, and they did that because they were simply enjoying making their passion project without any external concerns. This is just how it should be.
Sure, I had my gripes with this game. I didn't like how often it throws you into a "fight several waves of enemies" arena situation, and I was really annoyed at how arbitrary and non-communicated the pathway to the true ending is (especially with how depressing the bad ending is). But outside of those relatively small gripes, this was a masterpiece that gripped me for 50-ish hours with an increasingly compelling story and lore, and increasingly fun gameplay and combat, just like its predecessor did.
At some points I found myself so immersed in this world that it reduced me to tears, and that's not even necessarily in a story segment - I would just be exploring the world and it'd hit me so hard, how far the kingdom of Pharloom had fallen, how much its citizens had suffered, how much loss they've all experienced and just how much I wished to help them heal from all this tragedy. Maybe it was having more settlements and places of safety, maybe it was having a few great characters like Sherma and Shakra, but unlike the kingdom of Hallownest in the first game, this time it felt like there was still something there to save, and that made it all the more desperate to see Hornet's mission through.
Ultimately, the true ending was absolutely incredible, and genuinely blew my mind. I'm really glad I got to play through Silksong, it was well worth the wait. Thank you, Team Cherry.
