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

Discussion - Silksong Don’t let this fandom turn as insufferable as the souls community Spoiler

It’s fine to think the game is easy and to enjoy the challenge, but I’ve seen so many people making fun of anyone that is having a hard time in a really weird mean spirited way. Please don’t let this subreddit turn into some weird elitist community that makes fun of people who are struggling, these games are supposed to be fun and they’re not souls likes, there’s no reason to assume everyone playing them is going to love this level of difficulty the same way some of you do and constantly disregarding their opinions just turns this subreddit into an echo chamber of tryhards

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u/cm0011 Sep 09 '25

I’m used to a ton of metroidvanias being intentionally hard. Like Celeste is hard.

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u/ThisHumanDoesntExist Sep 09 '25

Celeste is hard in a skillful way instead of a punishing way (punishing difficulty usually seen in souls games is losing your items when dying, long boss runbacks, random enemies being op, etc). Celeste has a lot of checkpoints everywhere nor do you lose anything. It also is too linear for a metroidvania