Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week has unsurprisingly been pretty well dominated by my continuing adventures in Silksong, which has been kicking my ass with a regularity I haven’t experienced since I first picked up Demon’s Souls. I do think there are perhaps some sequences that are a touch over-tuned, but on the whole I’m appreciating how its challenges force me to genuinely master its combat system, and hoping to beat the thing before any bosses ahead of me get patched into politeness. Meanwhile, my housemate spent the last two weeks binging the entirety of Black Clover, which actually surprised me with its sturdiness of form and likable cast – it’s not a genuinely great shonen, but it’s certainly much better than the JJK/Demon Slayer generation. With that complete, we’re definitely on the hunt for more background anime – but in the meantime, let’s burn down the week in films!

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