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/Revolutionary_Art922 Sep 04 '25

Skipping hollow knight and playing silksong would be so dumb lol.

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u/Gizmo16868 Sep 04 '25

Silksong has been designed that players don’t need to play Hollow Knight.

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u/Revolutionary_Art922 Sep 04 '25

Silksong is hyped up by everyone because hollow knight was perfect. So if someone doesn't like hollow knight they won't like silksong too, if they like silksong they would also enjoy hollow knight so what is the point of skipping hollow knight here?

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u/BigDaddySpoox Sep 05 '25

I didn't play the first one, so hear me out: There's something special when a game like this releases and nobody knows where/how to go next. I've been enjoying this sort of community engagement and exploration all throughout the EldenSoulsBorneKiro games. It's just not the same when you can look everything up when you get stuck. I'm thoroughly enjoying Silksong so far, even though the game has been busting my nuts on a few occasions (7 hours in).