metroidvania boss walk backs are the worst kind of unskippable cutscene. Oh yeah I'd love to kill the same 3 ads and ride an elevator for 30 seconds

When I first started Silksong and noticed my Silk upgrades were gone after death, I first thought they were gone for good. I thought a particular monster had eaten them, sort of like one of the bosses in Demon's Souls, who can steal your character levels (or so I read, I never got to him).

Thank goodness Team Cherry at least held back here! You get them back when you find and smash the cocoon at your point of death.

And +1 for runbacks, also hair-pulling in Silksong. I never thought I'd be able to get through Bilewater.

The Messenger does something similar but in a different way: dying summons a demon that eats any coins that the player collects for the next minute. I already suck, and now the game is punishing me by delaying upgrades.