I used the compass charm for most it until I memorized areas, and upon stumbling into a new area I almost always found the map maker shortly after due to his humming.Īs for the resource management side of your complaint, it's called resource management for a reason.

Never had a single problem with the map system in this game. So get out of here with that 'git gud' nonsense. I'm struggling with Hollow Knight because of the various issues I have already outlined that have nothing to do with me 'not playing the game that well' and from the responses in this thread i'm obviously far from alone in this. Not once in those games have i ever needed a guide to complete them with one big exception, the infamous Power Bomb tunnel to get into Maridia proper in Super Metroid which by all accounts was a big sticking point for a lot of people. Super Metroid, Castlevania SotN & Portrait of Ruin, all the Metroid Prime's, Shadow Complex, Samus Returns 3DS, Guacamelee 1 and 2, Ori and the Blind Forest, Dandara, there's probably a bunch more i can't remember. I would consider myself a gamer of advanced skill level (if i can beat the original Devil May Cry on Dante Must Die mode i think that's fair) and am a veteran of Metroidvania's, having played a ton of them. I'm sure those who did played as best they could with the deliberately restrictive tools they were given.ĮDIT: I'm just gonna highlight this line: 'Unless you're not playing the game that well, it should be no problem to find where you have to go or where you are.'

It's seems there is a roughly 70% - 30% split of people who love it and people who hate it, some who have literally stopped playing the game because of it. Not to mention it being a 2D game which is harder for some people to gain their bearings in than a 3D game that also routinely restricts your ability to use an in game map. It's almost like different people have varying levels of success in a game where the level design has a dark and similar looking aesthetic in all it's areas.

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