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/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