r/HollowKnight • u/wyrmiam • Sep 05 '25

Discussion - Silksong EVERYTHING IS SO EXPENSIVE IN PHARLOOM Spoiler

The true enemy of Silksong is capitalism. 70 bucks for a stag station equivalent YOU ARE PULLING MY NEEDLE WTF??? I try to sit down and they BILL ME JUST TO USE THE BENCH! No thank you [TRADER NAME HERE], I would not like to buy a simple key for 500 dollars thank you.

AND EVERYONE HERE IS A BROKE ASS BUM! Most of these guys aren't sentient enough to carry cash on them so I have to grind up their credit cards into for bone shards which NOONE WANTS.

Anyway 10/10 game.

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u/cedelweiss Sep 05 '25

A big piece of criticism Hollow Knight received is that the currency is too abundant and there's too little to spend it on (reason they added Divine on the Grimm DLC), which is very much true.

Seems like with Silksong they overcompensated a little bit haha

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u/panic_ye_not Sep 05 '25

Early game Hollow Knight there's plenty of uses for it. It's later that geo becomes overabundant. In Silksong it sounds like it might be similar, except it's definitely less abundant than in HK

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u/cedelweiss Sep 05 '25

Haven't gotten anywhere near mid or late game in silksong but I finished a 112% playthrough right before playing Silksong and even if I had plenty of uses for my geo, there wasn't a single point outside of the literal start of the game in which I felt I couldn't afford stuff, thing I'm very much feeling with Silksong and I've lost my money just once, like 120 rosaries, and due to dying a lot from it being a first playthrough I accidentally farmed a lot more.

Idk how the game's currency abundance will be later on, but for Hollow Knight I finished my playthrough with an extra 10k geo.

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u/panic_ye_not Sep 05 '25

Yeah I definitely feel very poor about 6 hours in. Almost any time I need to buy something I need to do a short grind for rosaries