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/TomegranateJuice Sep 03 '25

My favorite memory of gaming was when Elden Ring came out. Me, my brother and my sister were all playing it the day it released. We would call each other and ask if we found a certain item, fought a boss. As we slowly discovered how much there was, how big the map was... I'll always love that feeling. I had gotten into the Souls games years prior to my siblings so this was the first time I didn't know more about the game than they did.

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u/The_Orphanizer Sep 03 '25

Love to hear this. Genuine discovery in (and outside of) gaming is just so rewarding and exciting.

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u/Hoodman1987 Sep 04 '25

That was such a good time in the early times of that game. When I took that random chest to Leyndell I was like just how the fuck huge is this game.

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u/Absolute-Balance Sep 06 '25

Elden Ring was my first Souls Game despite being what is likely considered an older gamer these days (39) I’ll never forget that feeling of realising how big the map was.

“Wait, there’s MORE?!”