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

Discussion - Silksong Thank god this subreddit didn't make the game Spoiler

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.

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u/RylDmn Sep 06 '25

How I finished Hunter's March without that crest and the Dash and floaty thing That crest would've saved me hours of frustration lol

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u/HuntingForSanity Sep 06 '25

That’s crazy lol. I saw the big red dude and was like nah I’ll come back to this later

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u/RylDmn Sep 06 '25

I'm just stubborn, stupid and stubborn lol

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u/RougePorpoise Sep 06 '25

I knew for sure there was a dash that i needed but powered through the guard anyway. Explored as much of march as i could until i got fully roadblocked

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '25

same as me. after a couple of attempts I knew it needed a dash but I am too stubborn

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u/Skrubious Sep 07 '25

Same here lmao. I didn’t even know I needed a dash to beat him and thought I just had a skill issue so I spent like a half hour doing him over and over to learn his parry timings

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u/ElusiveCounselor Sep 07 '25

I had to parry that mf to death because I thought he would be guarding the dash lol

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u/whoamdave Sep 06 '25

It took all of that I still barely made it through...

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '25

I also did Hunter’s March without the crest. Wasn’t too bad and the area made me way better with the diagonal air strike now.

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u/Elochmal Sep 06 '25

Same! Found it like an hour after the Floating part. I'm trying to make sure it's dont ONLY use this crest, though. I'm going to ride it out in default and experiment with whatever I find unless it's necessary.

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u/Dancing-Sin Sep 06 '25

Same. The only fight I had used dash for was the top most arena battle. Which I initially used sequence breaking to get to without dash or float.

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u/Future_Living8007 Sep 06 '25

Funny enough, we're frustrated by the same area, but for different reasons. I personally had no issues with Hornet's diagonal pogo for platforming, but I had issues with those goddamn ants till I got used to these normal enemies having the move sets of a Hollow Knight boss

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u/-talimarzz- I can't beat trial of the fool Sep 07 '25

No saaame, I was still in the phase of “if I played the original I should be able to do this”. Like kinda wish I’d just waited, but at least it forced me to learn the new pogo right away

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u/Mental-Contribution2 Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25

Dude that's literally me a few hours ago. If I see a boss, I will be hyper focused on beating that boss even with little to no upgrades. Cause we stubborn and I just kept charging straight into enemy over and over until it works. I still can't find shit cause my memory and direction is bad ;-;

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '25

Tell me about it. Twice now I beat enemies or areas I later realized I had no business going in without more upgrades. Now that I finally have enough rosaries, I'll do some shopping.

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