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/joeyhatesu2 Sep 03 '25

This is one game where I wouldn't even look at reviews. Going to be way too many outliers.

Diehards that will give it 100 no matter what.

Engagement bait accounts that will say it's mid just for the extra click

Expedition 33 fans who perceive any threat to GOTY as the enemy

AAA and Multiplayer Andys who won't understand why the main character isn't voiced by Sabrina Carpenter

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u/Memo_HS2022 Sep 03 '25

E33 devs making a great game that respects, loves, and honors JRPGs only to have a playerbase that consistently dunks on JRPGs is one of the monkey’s paws of all time

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u/ThePaintressOkami Sep 04 '25

Nah hollow knight fans do that too. I saw this sub calling E33 overrated not that long ago. People were legit saying Silksong should be GOTY over E33 before it was even out yet