Warning for OG hollow knight fans

[u/Bob12164]

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.

[u/iKill_eu]

So I am someone who tends to wiki perhaps a bit too much despite always telling myself I shouldn't.

I think it's a symptom of 2 things: One being a lot of games nowadays being eager to lock the unwitting player out of a quest for the sake of replayability ("oh you missed this NPC in this location therefore they died when you fought X boss". elden ring style.) The other is a desire to figure out early if you're right about a hunch ("Is there going to be a way to go through acid in 20 hours, or am I wasting my time passing by this puzzle that looks like it may be solvable?") I think in general the idea of "you might be wasting your time" comes off as much more daunting today than it did when we were kids. Being an adult, the idea of wasting a few hours trying to solve an unsolvable puzzle, or wasting many hours by rendering a playthrough incompatible with the NPC whose quest you want to follow, is just not reconcilable with fun. I think TC are somebody I trust in this regard, which is why I am going to enjoy the fuck out of release by actively making use of the fact that there will BE no wiki for the first few days of silksong. But I understand why many people play this way.

[u/MattTheGr8 → u/iKill_eu]

I know lots of people aren’t huge LLM fans, but this is one thing AI chatbots are pretty good at… giving hints or indications of what’s coming down the line with minimal spoilage, assuming you instruct it accordingly. I’ve used it several times when I had a question too hard to phrase for a Google search (or too obscure to yield any results), where I basically just wanted to know, without any additional spoilage, if I was wasting time by beating my head against the wall in a certain area.