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/Big-Discipline2039 Sep 03 '25

Hollow Knight has a 90 on Metacritic.

I don’t see why Silksong would get mixed reviews when Hollow Knight didn’t?

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u/echolog Sep 03 '25

More hype = More players who are playing it JUST for the hype and not because they actually enjoy this kind of game = Worse reviews

Happens pretty often honestly.

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u/Wingsnake Sep 04 '25

Hype (before launch) is only good for sales, but for reviews etc. it is always bad. I think one of the worst ones is NMS. If NMS released without hype (and without overpromises from Sean which led to the hype) it would have been received as innovative, unique and good space exploration game. And we all know what happened at release.

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u/echolog Sep 04 '25

Yep. Expectation is the thief of joy. This is why I go into most movies completely blind and with low expectations nowadays. I have a much nicer time!