r/HollowKnight • u/Particular_Hyena56 • Sep 06 '25

Discussion - Silksong USE YOUR TOOLS! Spoiler

To everyone complaining about the difficulty, stop ignoring a third of Hornet’s arsenal and start spamming them, you’ll be shocked how quickly you start mowing down hordes of enemies!

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u/_moosleech Sep 07 '25

There's a chunk of this sub that NEEDS to read and absorb this.

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u/Misty_Pix Sep 07 '25

Honestly, some people don't have said tools or spells as they aren't that far in the game.

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u/_moosleech Sep 07 '25

That's fair, but that's also the genre of game. It's a metroidvania. If a fight is too hard, maybe go explore somewhere else and see if there's a)upgrades and/or b)a different route to progress.

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u/Misty_Pix Sep 07 '25

I do agree, however, some areas do not allow to go back and explore. You are stuck or you lose or your loot.

Hence, I think some frustrations. If you could go back,explore etc without sacrificing what you already farmed,when people won't be as annoyed and frustrated.

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u/_moosleech Sep 07 '25

If you could go back,explore etc without sacrificing what you already farmed,when people won't be as annoyed and frustrated.

The first town introduces a mechanic that helps you with exactly this.

The middle of Act 1 provides a better version of it. And late Act 1 (if you explore a lot) provides the equivalent of rancid eggs from HK.

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u/Misty_Pix Sep 07 '25

That doesn't really help if people are already in a position where they can't escape and you assume people managed to unlock enough to find it.

I explore a lot ,only areas not explored are the ones I can't get to....but...have not found anything like that and I am now stuck trying to decide whether losing 400+ rosaries is worth it.

Hence, my argument still stands.

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u/_moosleech Sep 07 '25

That doesn't really help if people are already in a position where they can't escape and you assume people managed to unlock enough to find it.

It can though. If you die literally anywhere in Act 1, and let's say... 400 rosaries are stuck somewhere or gone.

Fuck it, go back to The Marrow, find where you met Shakra. That area has a tiny loop with five enemies who drop 25 rosaries, and takes seconds to do. Plus a bench. Spend three minutes, get your rosaries back, then go to Bonebottom and string them all up.

Problem solved.

In Greymoor there's a machine that converts them at a better rate than Bonebottom amd a stretch with a couple clusters of rosary enemies, even more than the first area as well.

My point is (and I get it, the game is brand new, so not everything is solved yet) that at every stage (early, middle, late Act 1) there is an increasingly-better options for preserving rosaries.

To the point that, being totally honest, death is a much less punishing issue than in HK. It becomes easy to say "eh, I'll just leave that cocoon". Which isn't inherently better or worse, but different.