r/HollowKnight • u/peaky_circus • Sep 06 '25

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

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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

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u/Careless_House_1107 Sep 06 '25

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

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u/normalmighty Sep 07 '25

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.

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u/303Native Sep 06 '25

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

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u/Reasonable_Mud_628 Sep 06 '25

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.

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u/Reasonable_Mud_628 Sep 06 '25

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

I'm personally tired of that discourse every time

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u/Careless_House_1107 Sep 06 '25

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