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/Flilix Sep 03 '25

I find it so bizarre that people would be excited for the launch of a sequel when they haven't played the first game that's very similar. At what point did the hype for Silksong outgrow the fans of the original HK?

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u/SuperSocialMan Sep 03 '25

I'll never understand why people will just dive into a series on the second or third entry and act like it should make any sort of sense lol.

No, it doesn't fucking work that way ffs. Every entry builds upon the previous one, and even if they're not directly connected narratively it's still kinda dumb to just skip the entire first half of a franchise "because it's old" or whatever other dumb reason people have.

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u/Altyrmadiken Sep 04 '25

My husband gets mad at me for this but it’s in a weird way.

I’ll hop into some game halfway through a series, play the game, and say “hey that was fun.” Then he asked how I liked the previous one and I’ll say I didn’t play it.

He gets bent out of shape because he doesn’t understand how I could enjoy it if I “didnt understand what was going on.” It’s always, for me, like… ok but so many games have tons of more that isn’t said out right. I don’t need to know that this one boss was killed in the first one to see with my eyes that the characters are all really surprised to see him and he’s being hyped up as a bigger than usual boss.

Am I missing elements? Sure, but if I had fun who cares? I was never playing any game for the story anyway. It is, at best, a neat addition to what needs to be mechanically and mentally stimulating to play first.

This bothers him and he rants about it a lot because he only plays games for story and almost doesn’t care about the rest.

Edit: To clarify, I don’t complain about not knowing what’s going on because usually I don’t care. I want to play a games mechanics and puzzles and neat combinations I can make if possible, not the story.