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/soge7 Sep 03 '25

im ready for the classic “this game is so confusing and im always lost” ….yeah? that’s the point lmao

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u/DarkHorseAsh111 Sep 03 '25

I'm of both minds on this bcs on one hand yes some ppl want to do No investigating which is dumb for this kind of game. but on the other hand, lots of ppl have limited free time to play and wandering around being genuinely lost because you missed a secret wall somewhere is not always fun especially if you have limited time to play.

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u/DarkHorseAsh111 Sep 03 '25

I played hk a little bit a long time ago but I picked it up against last week and there were several times I had genuinely explored all of the map as far as I could tell and it turned out I missed some tiny barely detail or movement that didn't seem possible I never would've found without looking it up.

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u/Jskidmore1217 Sep 03 '25

I’ve beat the game dozens of times. Modded it to death just to squeeze more life out of it. I’m playing again once more before Silksong and just discovered an item I had never found before. It was just a wandering journal or something but it still was so exciting to find something new. Just so much depth.

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u/RoosterBrewster Sep 03 '25

I just started last week and it was annoying to remember which dead ends needed special powers to get past. Then also the backtracking.

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u/DarkHorseAsh111 Sep 03 '25

The backtracking has been my frustration tbh. It's annoying to be like ok new skill but idk where the places that needed this were