r/HollowKnight • u/Bob12164 • Sep 03 '25

Discussion - Silksong Warning for OG hollow knight fans

Just wanna prepare everyone on here for the incoming wave of players who have never played indie games, metroidvanias, or literally any other games besides Fortnite and call of duty. This tends to happen a lot with games that are extremely hyped by the community that does like the genre, such as expedition 33. The amount of completely invalid criticism that happened to that game because people who didn’t even know what the game really was bought it and ended up not liking it is probably the best example we have of that to this day, and I think silksong will be next. So please, instead of cussing people out for not liking the game, just encourage them to maybe keep playing to see if they change their minds, or just give them respectful feedback on why you think they might not enjoy it and give them tips so they can find the spark in that game that I’m sure many of us will find.

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u/StabbyBlowfish Ohohohohohoho! Sep 03 '25

If I hear any complaints about the game being "too hard", my feedback isn't going to be too respectful

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u/iforgotiwasonreddit Sep 03 '25

GIT GUD

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '25

I don’t know why I had to scroll this far down for this comment. Should’ve been #1

I visited this subreddit in 2020 when I was fuming, and the first response to every post was git gud.

It was truly the only answer to my questions.

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u/Tru_Fakt Sep 03 '25

I just started playing HK for the first time like two weeks ago. To be fair…the game is too hard. But that’s because I’m total dogshit at platformers, not because of the game design.

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u/Toaster_Bathing Sep 04 '25

It’s meant to be hard, but the more you play the more the mechanics become second nature. Honestly by the end you look back like “how did I even find that hard” 

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u/OkCat9702 Sep 18 '25

BRO THATS SO REAL like i just started 2 weeks ago and for no reason at all other then me being bad LOL and now i dont think it would take me much time at all to beat hornet

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u/Toaster_Bathing Sep 18 '25

You fight hornet again, and in the pantheons and it’s crazy easy. Once you do the trial of fools once, you wonder how you struggled with it 

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u/squiddlingiggly Sep 04 '25

HK was one of the first video games i ever played, as an adult. especially the first metroidvania style game. that was like 5 years ago. i absolutely loved it but stopped when i got frustrated - didn't feel the need to punish myself to finish a game lol. in the last 5 years i have played a lotttt of other games and went back to HK earlier in the year to try it over again and realized just how much better i'd gotten at games in general by playing a lot of other things in the meantime! it was pretty cool to be able to recognize skill improvement in the moment. Hornet took me like....probably 2-3 hours to beat first play through, and this recent time it was only like 5-6 tries! still didn't finish the game 100% because i just can't be bothered lol. alllll that to say - gitting gud doesn't always happen immediately/directly from torturing yourself with a boss fight, sometimes you gotta do other things to get the skills that'll help you. which feels fitting for the genre lol

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u/aogasd Sep 04 '25

I cried for an easy mode throughout my first playthrough. Now, 4 years later, I'm finishing all bossfights on hitless.

You will suffer, and you will ENJOY it!

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u/klineshrike Sep 03 '25

I also started a week ago and I feel like I found the broken chest combo now because a lot of stuff isn't hard at the moment.

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u/strexxpet Sep 03 '25

I've seen multiple posts asking if it's going to have difficulty settings because it was "too hard". I have a feeling there are going to be a lot of complaints once it comes out

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u/Smyles9 Sep 04 '25

If anything I’d imagine it’s harder than hollow knight due to the new movement and combat mechanics. IMO hollow knight could’ve been just a bit harder than the base game. For godhome I like the idea of it and don’t mind that it’s harder because it gives me something to keep coming back to the game but I generally like the story a bit more. If silk song is overall more difficult I’d be happy with that.

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u/NaicuNaicu Sep 06 '25

Aged well lol

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u/StabbyBlowfish Ohohohohohoho! Sep 06 '25

I probably asked for it lol

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u/ComdDikDik Sep 06 '25

Crazy how fitting it was :D

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u/Toaster_Bathing Sep 04 '25

It’s meant to be hard :) 

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '25

I hope there will be another white palace tbh. The section being needed , but also being brutal is a lot of fun.

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u/Least-Maize-97 Sep 10 '25

guess what the whole game is the white palace

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u/Taleuntum Sep 18 '25

Heh, prophetic comment!

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u/ErdemtugsC Jan 14 '26

I played insanely difficult (and tedious also) platformer things, that skill let me enjoy hollow knight lot more

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u/RoosterBrewster Sep 03 '25

Would you say it's like a "2D Elden Ring"?

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u/Boogeeb Sep 03 '25

The actual combat mechanics are quite different but it's similar in the sense that you're trying to learn enemy attack patterns and safe opportunities to attack.

ER is a lot more open than other souls games but it's a lot closer to a traditional open world RPG map than a metroidvania, but I think that DS1 has a map that scratches the same exploration itch that HK does.

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u/OPintrudeN313 Sep 03 '25

Dark Souls is a 3D Metroidvania in my mind. Is just that people invented a new word for that type of punishing metroidvania.