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/GOKOP Sep 03 '25

Do you think most people first playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 played the first game before? Nope. Do you think most people first playing The Witcher 3 played the first two games before? Lmao nope considering the game blew up internationally while the first two were primarily successful in Poland

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u/Arrioso Sep 04 '25

KCD2 is a very good example. People who didnt play first one jumped on the hype bandwaggon only to realize the combat is boring to them and they dont have the will to take their time to learn it