2nd attempt at completing the game… what happened?

At launch, I struggled and raged my way through to act 3 before finally giving up in the tower.

I decided to play again just for the hell of it because I loved the first game so much… and I’m flying through the game and defeating most bosses in a single attempt…

Did they make the game easier or did I somehow get better? There’s still the annoying double damage that on regular enemy contact that annoys me, but I haven’t at all struggled or raged like I did back in September.

The only thing different this time is that I didn’t bother using the other crests and have stuck with hunter just to change things up, where last time I was mostly using Wanderer and Reaper.

I’m currently in the sands of Karak and there’s a particular section I struggled with last year where you have to go down a vertical shaft, hit the temporary vine and climb back up it as quick as you can. Last year I kept running out of time and it was driving me insane, where as with hunter I flew up it no problem because all the platforms were at the exact angles I needed them to be…

I think I was accidentally playing on hard mode by playing the game as I would ghost. Everything from platforming to battles is now easier with hunter… where as I struggled with the angles too much last time to ever bother getting used to it, replacing it first chance I got.

It pissed me off that I mastered Hollowknight but struggled so much at its sequel… I’m suddenly realizing I should have been moving like Hornet the whole time.