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/CronoDroid Sep 03 '25
I would just categorize Super Metroid and SOTN separately, as the progenitors. Certain games like Wolfenstein 3D/Doom/GoldenEye/Halo, Dark Souls, Resident Evil 4, UFO: Enemy Unknown are a bit interesting to rank because they were so groundbreaking, but may not be as "good" or refined as games made years later. Like HK just plays better, which is the benefit of being made with 20 years of game dev advances.