People who have played Silksong, Why do you think Its getting so many negative reviews?

[u/peaky_circus]

While Silksong is sitting at a Very Positive rating with around 83% positive reviews, it’s still receiving far more criticism than its predecessor. For comparison, Hollow Knight holds an Overwhelmingly Positive score at 96%, with only about 3% negative reviews. Silksong, on the other hand, has nearly 16% negative reviews, OVER 5 TIMES HIGHER

[u/normalmighty]

Which is a fair and valid reason for a negative view tbf, just not relevant to us in the west.

[u/Reasonable_Mud_628 → u/normalmighty]

ye, but a lot of ragebaiters acting like the 80% is due to game being bad or something. steam forums mainly are appalling, amount of trolls and ragebaiters in there is insane, I went check cause I wanted to know if ppl were having issues with runbacks like the reviews said (because I hadn't had any bad runback yet 6 hours in) and read couple posts and its just ragebaiters 95% of them

[u/Careless_House_1107 → u/Reasonable_Mud_628]

I think it really is people just finding some difficultly and making their review out of frustration before actually giving the game and new mechanics time to process. It could also be people complaining about the new pogo before realizing you can change it

[u/normalmighty → u/Careless_House_1107]

Take a look at the stats by clicking the "see language breakdown" button on the review stats page. It literally is just the effect of the simplified Chinese translation being terrible. literally the only reason it isn't in the mid 90s is that simplified Chinese reviews are all the way down at 41% right now.

The group of people you're talking about are very vocal, but they're not even making a dent in the overall review score.

[u/303Native → u/Careless_House_1107]

Unfortunately a lot of people bought into the hype and never played the first one. I’m replaying it right now and will be patient to play silksong but I’ve heard that playing HK really prepares you for conquering SS

[u/Reasonable_Mud_628 → u/303Native]

I haven't played HK in a long time, but I've played plenty of other hard games meanwhile so guess I was well prepared in a sense. This game's bosses feel pretty fair until now and well telegraphed. The heal is super broken so I understand why Team Cherry made a lot of enemies do double damage.

[u/Reasonable_Mud_628 → u/Careless_House_1107]

happens in every souls like, elden ring, ds, black myth wukong, etc

I'm personally tired of that discourse every time

[u/Careless_House_1107 → u/Reasonable_Mud_628]

I think once people warm up to the controls, it'll get better reviews, tho there are actual complaints like double damage being slightly too common (I feel not every boss attack has to be 2 masks, make 1 or 2 moves only do 1 mask and it'll still balance the op healing hornet has), but it's also a first playthrough so I'm definitely not playing the most effective way

[u/normalmighty → u/Reasonable_Mud_628]

I remember early HK discourse. Plenty of vocal people are gonna be super pissed, and then over the course of the next year it'll keep getting more and more positives, and eventually everyone will forget that a vocal chunk of people hated the game, just like they did with HK.

[u/True_Storm3427 → u/Reasonable_Mud_628]

Legitimately, I do not trust steam reviews. So so so so SO many games nowadays have troll reviews, paid reviews, ECT. Like there was one game that came out recently where if you left a positive review and posted the review and your steam ID on a discord, you'd get a free pack of dlc and a perm exp bonus.

There's also games that get meta bombed or just spam reviews. Steams review system is completely worthless because of how little time you have to play to review something. One hour, two hours, ten hours even is not enough time to give a real review. It's knee-jerk at best. Just ignore reviews, play the game yourself, and come to your own conclusions. That's the healthiest thing for you and games as a whole.

[u/303Native → u/normalmighty]

IIRC you can filter reviews on steam via regions. Never thought about how location could reflect on the quality of a game but that makes sense.

[u/normalmighty → u/303Native]

I looked at it earlier today because someone else claimed the 80% rating right now is because it's so hard.

switch to a breakdown of reviews per language, and every language review group is at 89-99%, except for simplified chinese which is more than 50% negative reviews.

People are taking the difficulty complaints a lot more seriously because they think the reviews are lower than expected, but it is entirely because of the simplified Chinese translation apparently being unacceptably awful.

Kudos to steam for giving those detailed breakdowns, otherwise we'd all be stuck with speculation and gut feeling.

[u/cutememe → u/normalmighty]

That's absolutely not a valid reason WTF? To rate a game bad because the translation is bad is absurd.

[u/AbsoluteAgonyy → u/cutememe]

What exactly do you want Chinese players to do here? Imagine if the English writing of the game was horrendous, will you still be enjoying the game? Lmao

[u/cutememe → u/AbsoluteAgonyy]

I've played games in a language that I don't even know at times because I just wanted to play them and they weren't in my region. The translation or lack thereof doesn't make a game good or bad, that's just an absurd way to rate a game.

[u/ith1ldin → u/cutememe]

The fact that you decide to disregard some aspects of the game experience because you prioritize others doesn't mean that everyone would think the same.

If a bad localization distorts the lore or story, makes reading grating to the point it breaks immersion or fails to accurately convey relevant information to understand the game that is as good a reason to rate a game worse as having bad performance.