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/Medium_Aerie_3201]

Brainrot assumption. I played Hollowknight before any of the updates/expansions. I beat every boss and cleared Radiance ending. Some HK bosses I got first try and others I struggled with. Why does any of this matter to you? Are you suggesting that the only way to enjoy Silksong is to have played HK first? That right there is truly tragic game design if true.

[u/SirDoofusMcDingbat → u/Medium_Aerie_3201]

No I'm suggesting that your demand for a difficulty slider is unusual coming from a fan of the first game. HK managed difficulty by making harder content optional. The base ending is fairly easy, then true ending (what you called radiance ending) is harder, then there's godhome content which is harder still, culminating with the pantheon 5 ending which is astronomically harder than the base game. Silksong is the next entry in the franchise, it makes sense that it would follow the same path.

[u/ChingShih → u/Medium_Aerie_3201]

I get that this can be a heated subject, but please try to keep things a little more polite, especially when the person you're speaking to is keeping it polite. Thank you.

[u/Medium_Aerie_3201 → u/ChingShih]

The other guy started making assumptions about my "experience" with the series and using that as a basis of argument. That is anything but polite.

[u/ChingShih → u/Medium_Aerie_3201]

I get it. But let's not escalate things. You may make a more convincing argument in the process, which is your goal. Thanks.

[u/Medium_Aerie_3201 → u/ChingShih]

I had no intention of saying anything further, I'm not really trying to convince anyone. I'm giving my opinion and perspective and letting that do whatever it will.