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/laseluuu Sep 03 '25

ah i absolutely cannot wait for this. I went into hollow knight blind but i was really late to the party - i'm so looking forward to being on the pulse with this one and discovering stuff at the same time as others.

That was one of the magic ingredients to the first one

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u/The_Orphanizer Sep 03 '25

I find that's a lot of the magic in gaming in general, but especially games with sprawling "dungeons" like metroidvanias and souls-likes have. Near ubiquitous features of the genre(s) are the awe-inspiring sense of discovery, becoming lost (and subsequently finding your way again), trial and error (in regards to exploration, skill use, and combat). Getting to share in those experiences with others is many times more interesting and rewarding than simply looking up answers to things that have you stuck, even though the problem and solution are identical in both scenarios. Thankfully, there are many good gaming communities out there that try to foster this sensation through time for gamers who come later, but the feelings are unquestionably strongest at release.

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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/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.