Solemn Tempest is kinda a buzzkill

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Spoilers for Solemn Tempest ig

I was fairly happy to rank Peaks as one of my favourite games of all time until I got to this nightmare. I refuse to let it beat me and I keep throwing myself at it to try and make headway but the progress I make with each attempt is so minute it doesn't really feel worth it. I hate having to scale the same early sections over and over and over just to get back to the spot I messed up so I can have another shot and mess it up again. There are those big ice sheets every so often that give you a chance to catch yourself and reset but it feels like they're too infrequent to save you from more than a few specific areas (most of the time areas that aren't even that hard to complete.) It's also compounded by some of the mild inconsistencies in the mechanics causing me to lose hours of progress. I'll be on an icicle, testing my control-jump 3-4 times to make sure I'll actually be able to make the distance, then I try it for real and this time the jump doesn't work and I lose 3k meters because there was literally no recovery point between where I fell off and where I landed. Yeah it's probably very realistic for there to be no way to recover but it's so mind numbing to know that I now have to re-do the same areas I've already done countless times.

This is more of a vent to get my frustration out of my chest than anything, I know at some point it's gonna click and I'll make it up. My main issue is that I don't think I'm gonna get that rush of "hell yeah I finally did it" and more of a "thank god, that's over" because it's no longer a challenge I'm doing because I'm enthused about the game but because of sunk cost fallacy. I get that it's meant to be the final challenge and that you need to "git gud" to beat it, and that's fine. My issues are more with the amount you get punished for messing up slightly. I finally get up to a new area I've never been before, mess up a jump slightly and congratulations the last two hours were a complete waste of time.

Anyway rant over, time to take a break and then go again. This stupid rock will not break me. I WILL reach the top and then give the game a positive review and eat the hard drive.

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Yeah i'm having the same problem. Such a difference in difficulty in that level compared to literally every other so far it doesn't feel like the same game anymore
It's still fun and i see the appeal of a hardcore marathon for some players but it gets to the point where after losing thousands of meters worth of progress because of one ♥♥♥♥♥ jump i try to rush to get back to discovering the path ahead but then i mess up on jumps i didnt before because i'm trying to go fast etc...
With all the other peaks you make steady progress, look for items, see new environments, run into new challenges and talk to npcs at the door and stuff but in ST there's none of that so the hours you have to put into it get a bit boring after a while.
Reminds me of other games like "getting over it", "a difficult game about climbing" where even if the game is really hard, once you get good it literally only takes a few minutes to get back to the spot you fell at, even if it's at the end of the map, ST's map feels so big you can't really do that unfortunately

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turns out i just completed it today, it was fun in the end
Thing that helped me the most was using every single rope i gathered up, along with the double rope lenght equipment from completing everything in the main peaks, and i used almost all of them when i was nearing the end so that i didnt have to care about the stress of failing right before the peak. Just gotta make sure to not waste them at places where you can keep a hand grabbed on something at all time