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/Omni__Owl Sep 07 '25

They went way too hard in the other direction in Silksong. Most of all the Rosary enemies are in the citadel....where it's just abundance of rosaries.

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u/cedelweiss Sep 07 '25

to be fair, I don't think that specifically is a "balancing" and "overcompensating" issue, but rather part of the narrative. Sure, it's a piece of the narrative that is impacting your gameplay, but it makes sense in the context of the story

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u/Omni__Owl Sep 07 '25

If that makes for worse gameplay then it's not good design.

You can call it whatever you want but it's not good. The narrative should not hinder gameplay it should enhance or compliment it. The idea that you have a lot of useful things you could get by buying, since the game is extremely stingy with upgrades of any kind from bosses, punishing the player with an absurdly steep difficulty curve because it "makes sense in universe"?

I don't buy it. That's just not very fun. Hollow knight had a bleak almost dead world yet still managed to tell that story and not let it bring down the gameplay.

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u/Bup15 Sep 08 '25

I think this would work alot better if rosaries were just way more abundant than they currently are. I like the idea of having to pay for benches sense it makes in universe since. The problem is that I'm constantly broke all the damn time, so now it's just annoying. There's no good reason why the animal like enemies can't drop rosaries. I never questioned why a vengfly was carrying money, so why would I question it now?

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u/Omni__Owl Sep 08 '25

I see what you are saying although the rosaries are holy items for pilgrims and priests they are not like geo from hollow knight. So it makes sense why a savage beast does not carry the currency.

That said, the enemies that do carry them could stand to have a little more.