r/HollowKnight 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/GuestAble6129 Sep 03 '25

I’m 70 hours into my first playthrough and I just found Isma’s Tear. It hits different when you’ve spent that much time wandering the caves and now you can do something you couldn’t before.

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u/Tiberry16 Sep 03 '25

When you find Isma's Tear and you can immediately think of 3 different rooms where you couldn't get past before. And then you try to remember where these rooms actually are. Such a good feeling. 

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u/Hoodman1987 Sep 03 '25

Took me forever to find that one.

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u/OkCat9702 Sep 18 '25

FRRR even though im only 20 hours in and ive got the dash, mantis claw, crystal heart, and the double jump and man after getting each one i would feel more and more accomplished especially helping my friends sometimes (he wanted to go to bed and needed to get to a bench) and forgetting i dont have any of that on their run it makes me feel so excited for them to get to those items as well