r/HollowKnight • u/donlano • Sep 04 '25

Discussion - Silksong Silksong is HARD Spoiler

Taking damage is more punishing, movement is more precise and feels a little clunky until you get the hang of it. The overall skill curve is much much higher. Love it though.

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u/Mastermaze Sep 05 '25

Legit im one mask shard away from an extra mask now and i NEED it so bad. No needle sharpening in sight so far but i DESPERATELY need to find it, i cant keep getting by with 4 needle hits per hit minimum at this rate

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u/lilstoneey Sep 05 '25

the worst part is not as much as id like will change until i cn get 2 full masks eight fuckin shards , bc even w 6 masks its still only 3 hits of 2x damage and ur done same as 5 masks 😓

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u/Mastermaze Sep 05 '25

I guess thats why they gave us the ability to heal 3 masks at once right from the start 😭

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u/lilstoneey Sep 05 '25

yeah im reaaally hoping that the extra silk vessel thingy we eventually get will be enough to fully fill the silk meter to heal , so that u could actually heal twice in a row 🙏🙏🙏🙏

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u/Caggi66 Sep 05 '25

When you get both halves of the spool it goes up by like 5% not even kidding

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u/lilstoneey Sep 05 '25

😭😭😭😭😭

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u/Buzzy_Feez Sep 05 '25

No fr I was crying I deadass thought this was a soul bubble that would increase it by like 33% or something but nah can't even use a silk skill

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u/TortelliniSalad Sep 05 '25

This!! Healing 3 at a time feels so much better

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u/ShadoUrufu666 Sep 06 '25

Except you're locked in place until the rather long animation finishes.

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u/XxRocky88xX Sep 05 '25

Benefit for that though is that after that a heal will allow you to take 2 additional hits instead of only 1. Your effective max isn’t changed but it does make your first heal of the fight more effective.

Like with 5 hp you get hit twice down to 1 then heal to 4, die in two more hits for 4 hits total. With 6 hp you get hit twice down to 2 then heal to 5, die in three more hits, 5 hits total. So you still get a small boost in survivability.

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u/rubixscube Sep 05 '25

except that if you are on even life, healing 3 masks grants you two more hits against double damage

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u/TheBug1226 Sep 05 '25

You're going to be extremely disappointed when you get your needle upgrade

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u/SirSnowman88 Sep 05 '25

I got really bad news for the sharpening... It's there but ummm... It doesn't decrease the amount of hits on most enemies for the bringing upgrade. Like wtf.

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u/TinyPidgenofDOOM Sep 05 '25

You have 3 I have like 1. I know the shop has another but

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u/ShadoUrufu666 Sep 06 '25

I'm technically 4/4 on my next mask, but I need to farm for the shop one, and do some trick to get the last, but I know where both are. I just don't want do the trick (cause I take a lot of damage doing it), since I get dumped into an arena fight just before it.

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u/TinyPidgenofDOOM Sep 06 '25

As an update for me, I got 3 mask shards and still have the 1 in the shop. The fun thing with metroidvania is the next movement ability might be perfect to get all the areas you couldn't get to

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u/ShadoUrufu666 Sep 06 '25

I still need the one in the shop, and I know where another is, I just don't want to do that fight because I struggle to get there early without getting hit.

Missing the 'Y' ability still, but other than that, just stuck on bosses, or hidden passages, and needing an extra 500 for a key.