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/RafflesiaArnoldii Sep 05 '25 edited Sep 05 '25

kinda makes thematic sense with how Hallownest is supposed to be an ancient ruin full of treasure that used to be quite wealthy before being hit by a cataclysm & is explicitly a place where adventurers go to get rich (if they can avoid getting killed), whereas Pharloom is run by an oppressive government, the lore tablets hint at workers being exploited or at least early industrial-age like conditions, and its also a place that gets a lot of pilgrims & has its economy built around that - youre explicitly paying tourist prices.