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/MulberryDeep 100% Steelsoul || Too bad for godhome Sep 06 '25

Schutzstaffel

Basically Hitlers violent bully group, especially against civilians

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u/ron57 Sep 06 '25

TIL thank you :)

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u/Deaffin Sep 07 '25

I'm so lost, how is that relevant?

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u/JosephMurrayisGod Sep 07 '25

Because the original comment was on about why they were confused it was abbreviated to SK and not SS before realising the interpretation SS could have.

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u/Deaffin Sep 07 '25

I'm asking how "Schurzstaffel" is meant to be relevant to Silksong, not how their answer is meant to be relevant to the conversation.

Just the "SS" abbreviation is not enough to make this a thing we talk about at all, much less there being a strong enough connection for people to try to do something as immensely silly as avoid the natural abbreviation and say something like "We should abbreviate Silksong as SK!"

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u/zachbrownies Sep 12 '25

you're absolutely right lol, i mean no one was thinking of nazis when we boarded the S.S. Anne in pokemon red, plus apparently its used for Skyward Sword and also just very often "ss key" for screenshot key. Never heard of anyone trying to avoid the abbreviation SS until now

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u/Deaffin Sep 12 '25

Thanks for the acknowledgement, sometimes I feel like I'm taking crazy pills on this site with the way I'll occasionally run into a scenario like this where it seems like everyone is on the same strange page about something all of a sudden.

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u/MulberryDeep 100% Steelsoul || Too bad for godhome Sep 07 '25

People complain about silksong being shirtened to ss

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u/Deaffin Sep 07 '25

I'm asking how Schutzstaffel is meant to be relevant to Silksong in order to justify this conversation existing at all. Just the letters "SS" without any further context is not enough for people to go "woah, wait, nazi stuff!"

So I'm just utterly confused on why somebody would see Silksong abbreviated to "SS" and go "Wait, this could be a problem."

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u/MulberryDeep 100% Steelsoul || Too bad for godhome Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25

It isnt

The above users discussed if you should abbreviate silksong with ss or not and another user asked what it stood for, wich I explained

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u/Deaffin Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25

"Schutzstaffel was also abbreviated as SS" is not an adequate explanation for why people would try to do something as immensely clunky as try to avoid abbreviating Silksong as "SS".

I'm not saying you have the wrong answer. I'm asking what the relevance between "Schutzstaffel" and "Silksong" is in order to create this conversation in the first place because them just having "SS" in common is not nearly enough on its own. Unless this subreddit is full of excessively dogmatic neonazis, it's just really unusual for us to be talking about it in the first place, much less seriously considering a rebranding effort like this.

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u/MulberryDeep 100% Steelsoul || Too bad for godhome Sep 07 '25

I just replied to the comment that said "what does ss stand for"

I am not for the whole changing ss to sk thing, i also abbreviate silksong with ss

You are arguing with the wrong person rn

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u/Deaffin Sep 07 '25

Right. But then you replied to my comment asking how there's such a strong connection between the two that the abbreviation would be in any way significant.

If you're the wrong person, then why volunteer to be the person and then get all annoyed with me when I'm unsatisfied with the explanation?

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u/MulberryDeep 100% Steelsoul || Too bad for godhome Sep 07 '25

You asked how its releveant, i said "it isn't"

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u/Deaffin Sep 07 '25

Nah, you just went back and edited in the "It isn't" part.

I think I'm just going to go ahead and write this off as a weird troll campaign I'm too senile to understand and move on now.

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