Silksong never lets up on the tension, every enemy has a complex behavior that makes you need to focus on them or get punished with 2 hearts of damage, they can either parry or combo you for 2 damage or they fly away everytime you get near them to attack. Or the game has you going through some high focus platforming area just to explore. The original Hollow Knight had great highs during the boss fights but great lows just exploring and finding secrets , most enemies you fought on the way weren't trying to be a boss. The only areas I can ever think were always high tension were White Palace and Deepnest and I think its very obvious that was the point of those areas.

Silksong has very few low tension moments and I think that's why I feel even with mods that I can't even be bothered to complete the game. Everytime I choose to not engage with those high tension moments I stumble across some high focus platforming section, some large enemy I can't just jump over or some flying enemy that continuously dodges my attacks and throws ranged projectiles at me or I end up in some unexpected arena that I did not willingly want to fight at that time.

Silksong never lets up on the tension, every enemy has a complex behavior that makes you need to focus on them or get punished with 2 hearts of damage, they can either parry or combo you for 2 damage or they fly away everytime you get near them to attack. Or the game has you going through some high focus platforming area just to explore. The original Hollow Knight had great highs during the boss fights but great lows just exploring and finding secrets , most enemies you fought on the way weren't trying to be a boss. The only areas I can ever think were always high tension were White Palace and Deepnest and I think its very obvious that was the point of those areas. Silksong has very few low tension moments and I think that's why I feel even with mods that I can't even be bothered to complete the game. Everytime I choose to not engage with those high tension moments I stumble across some high focus platforming section, some large enemy I can't just jump over or some flying enemy that continuously dodges my attacks and throws ranged projectiles at me or I end up in some unexpected arena that I did not willingly want to fight at that time.