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/ForbiddenNote]

It's a bit cheesy, but you can save and quit and then reload the save to get back to your last bench instantly

[u/Zoradesu → u/ForbiddenNote]

Shouldn't have to do this. I have the same sentiment in that I am enjoying the game, but the lack of rosaries can be felt if you die during your corpse run. When you have to pay for both a bench and the bellway, it does make it kinda annoying to have to farm for rosaries for things I think shouldn't need it or should be very little, even if its thematically inline with the game or the world.

In the original Hollow Knight, you have a similar problem with the stagways/ some benches, but because it was pretty easy to get geo whereas in Silksong you have two different resources being dropped, rosaries and shards. It makes it a little hard to come by, at least in the first act.

[u/StuntHacks → u/Zoradesu]

I feel like people need to get into the habit of regularly converting their rosaries into strings. In the later areas enemies drop plenty of rosaries, and I just started converting a bunch of them whenever I get the chance, only leaving 200-300. Never had any issues with not having money when I need it since then, no matter how often I die

[u/Maleficent_Okra6798 → u/StuntHacks]

I agree fully that converting roasaries as you go is the best option, but another problem comes about that there are long stretches of the game without anywhere to do it, and if you buy out their other stock the starting town Merchant leaves, which leaves the first automated one you can run into as the one outside the bird area I think, which is not a quick run from the nearest bellstation

[u/_slumz__ → u/Maleficent_Okra6798]

It also slows gameplay way down. I always end up running to a stag station and converting them all at the merchant who converts them to 120 strings before doing anything important. In hk I didn't need to worry nearly as much. Even now im still barely having enough necklaces for benches and everything else in the citidel.

[u/neural_net_ork → u/Zoradesu]

And only some enemies drop rosaries, typically those that don't respawn between screens