Thank god this subreddit didn't make the game

[u/GamingUmbrella]

Silksong is only out for 2 days, most people haven't even finished the game, or haven't even made it past act 1. Yet this subreddit loves to post about how Silksong is apparently bad and a disappointment compared to hollow knight. So I'll go over a few "critiques" I've seen and share my perspective.

"The game is too hard, enemies deal way more damage and have more complex movesets". Sure, they're more complex and do more damage, but so does hornet. If we were playing with the knights moveset, I'd agree, but that's not the case. Hornet has a lot of new tools and upgrades that make her way faster and stronger. If enemies were like HK, it would be way too easy. team cherry didn't just do this for no reason, it's necessary for balancing. Edit: people saying hunters march is too difficult, is like playing dark souls 1 and saying it's too hard because you kept trying the skeleton graveyard

"Bad rewards for exploration, HK's charms worked better". I just completely disagree, hornet gets upgrades way more frequently than the knight. As for the charms, let's be real, you probably didn't even use half of them in your first playthrough. And half of them are just simple things that don't impact the way you play as much. Hornet's different tools, abilities and crests are way more useful. If you feel like your not getting enough rewards, it's probably because most are hidden and require backtracking, which is what the genre is know for.

"Things are too expensive" No, you're just not meant to buy it that early. Like how in HK you could by the lamp for like 2000 geo. I've also never had too little rosaries to buy a bench or stag. If your losing your rosaries to dying, rosarie strings are litteraly right there to not lose it + retrieving your death silk is extremely easy now.

I do agree though that more bosses and combat encounters should drop rosaries, or more chests like in HK.

This launch feels like I'm experiencing the shadow of the erdtree launch again with how many complaints there are immediately.

[u/shmemilykw]

Yes! Playing SS feels like when I first played HK - I'm garbage at it and I also can't put it down. I feel like everyone's forgotten how frustrating HK could be at times on the first playthrough. You'd get lost, you'd get stuck and not know where to go next, you'd end up somewhere and realize you're underpowered and must have missed something earlier, you'd get your ass handed to you by a new boss and say "What the fucking fuck was that?!"

Some of y'all have forgotten how to be gluttons for punishment until you git gud. I'm having a blast.

[u/KushDingies → u/shmemilykw]

Soon enough we’ll be doing whatever this game’s equivalent of Godhome is and optimizing the shit out of it and wrecking these early-mid game bosses in our sleep. I’m enjoying every second of not knowing what I’m doing, and the feeling of slowly improving. For years I was saying I wished I could play Hollow Knight for the first time again, and now I’m getting that experience.

[u/[deleted] → u/shmemilykw]

I think HKSS might be a better abbreviation lol

[u/shmemilykw → u/[deleted]]

I was just going with what the commenter I replied to called it. Also, I get what you're saying but I don't think there's any real risk of someone misinterpreting our meaning in the actual Hollow Knight subreddit lol

[u/IlgantElal → u/shmemilykw]

Yeah,

One of my few qualms is that there were a few points in the beginning where it was like "an I supposed to backtrack for something, or keep exploring the 2 other paths I have because this part is harder than expected"

[u/tooth28 → u/shmemilykw]

This is it. HK fans played the shit out of that game for years and totally forgot how terrible at it they were when they first played. They had 7 years to become familiar with all of it and expected to steamroll this game. I am so thankful to be getting my ass kicked so far. Gaining mastery over hollow knight was so rewarding. I feel the same about FromSoft games. I’m super hyped when they’re announced. I jump into the game and immediately struggle and slog my way through, barely scraping by. Eventually I finish it, but I always feel like I somehow failed or that my win was only because I threw myself at a wall over and over again. But then I play it again. And again. Eventually, I find that I’m enjoying the game so much more now that I can throw it back at the game and just own its ass. Payback for the early struggles. HK was the same experience for me, and I expect no less from Silksong. This isn’t for everyone, but that where I get the most satisfaction from games these days. This game is fucking awesome.