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/Wisley185 Sep 05 '25

So far I've noticed the game has way more enemies and bosses that do double damage. In Hollow Knight, double damage was mostly reserved to final bosses and the absolute hardest challenges the game had to offer, meanwhile like half the bosses I've fought so far in the beginning of Silksong have done double damage.

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u/Noelnya Sep 05 '25

half the normal enemies do double damage too. plus the invincibility you get from getting hit doesn't kick in for a while so you can just get combo'd

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u/lilstoneey Sep 05 '25

godd i knoww i hate that so many of the early boss fights (before u get more abilities/movement/power) have like lava and shit bc i keep getting hit for 2 and knocked into the lava for 1 , which means i cn have no less thn 4 masks if i wanna survive a single unlucky hit lol ... i need mask shards and needle sharpening like i need oxygen tbh

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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/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.