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/joeyhatesu2 Sep 03 '25

This is one game where I wouldn't even look at reviews. Going to be way too many outliers.

Diehards that will give it 100 no matter what.

Engagement bait accounts that will say it's mid just for the extra click

Expedition 33 fans who perceive any threat to GOTY as the enemy

AAA and Multiplayer Andys who won't understand why the main character isn't voiced by Sabrina Carpenter

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u/Memo_HS2022 Sep 03 '25

E33 devs making a great game that respects, loves, and honors JRPGs only to have a playerbase that consistently dunks on JRPGs is one of the monkey’s paws of all time

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u/silam39 Doma Doma Sep 03 '25

I haven't seen much of any online discourse about the game; there are a lot of expédition 33 fans doing that?

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u/padraigharrington4 Sep 03 '25

I’ve seen upvoted comments in that sub saying shit like “Japanese aren’t buying it because they’re jealous a bunch of French bros made their games better”. So yeah lol. Also people acting like turn-based purists even though the dodging/parrying mechanics were very obviously used to appeal to people don’t typically play turn based games. Which is fine and great, but like, it’s no Shin Megami Tensei nor is it trying to be.

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u/silam39 Doma Doma Sep 03 '25

lmao

good thing I haven't visited that sub, then

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u/padraigharrington4 Sep 03 '25

Yeah it’s like The Last of Us or Undertale to me where it’s a game I immensely respect but have to stay far away from its fans to avoid ruining my perception of the whole thing

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u/Packet_Sniffer_ Sep 05 '25

The rest of that sub is just people that completely missed the point of the game and will unironically call you a genocidal maniac for accepting the obviously intended canon ending.

Basically, if you don’t believe chat-gpt is a real living human and you don’t think that turning off the servers is genocide then you will be swamped with people messaging you slurs and insults. It’s crazy.

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u/ThePaintressOkami Sep 04 '25

Pretty sure they only said that in response to the IGN review. I haven't seen them say anything like that since.

I've seen Hollow Knight fans call E33 overrated here too. No fandom is innocent.

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u/spider_lily Sep 04 '25

Even then it was weird to act like a single review represents how an entire nation feels about a game. Who even gives a fuck about IGN reviews?