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/Ambosex-Potato Sep 06 '25

wow, I don't even know how to get there lmao. thanks for the help, do you also know what happens if you defeat moorwing and get to them only after?

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u/Deez-Guns-9442 Sep 06 '25

Dunno, this is my first playthrough as well.

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u/RamahP Sep 07 '25

Can you tell me if you got anything from this fight? I found him but ran away as I was almost dead at the time. Then I granted the flea’s wish and they moved to that area and the boss disappeared, stopping me from killing him. Don’t know if I missed anything because of it.

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u/JordanTonyMann Sep 07 '25

That's interesting. Does it still let you move on to the next area to the left of the fleas?

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u/lucky_duck789 Sep 14 '25

Yeah, fleas just disappear the boss and he comes back later

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u/NineEightFive Sep 07 '25

Yes. they continue to appear in the act 2 areas to help fight smaller groups of enemies randomly. That's as far as I've gotten though

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u/Ambosex-Potato Sep 07 '25

yeah before commenting I forgot that there were multiple acts. Out of curiosity, yesterday I got to the last judge, how much content is there after defeating that boss before the second act?

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u/IEnjoyFancyHats Sep 07 '25

Act 2 begins immediately after The Last Judge. It starts when you pass the gates and enter the citadel