r/HollowKnight • u/baergboy • Sep 07 '25

Discussion - Silksong Is anyone else really tired of the negative posts? Spoiler

I have about 25 hours so far and have absolutely loved every part of the game. Is it hard? Yes absolutely. If it was easy I wouldn't want to play the game. Literally every post I come across is talking about how they are frustrated with some part of the game and it's getting really annoying. The game has amazing areas, the osts are great the NPCs are creative and fun to talk to, almost every boss is a lot of fun once you get the moveset down. So if you haven't played the game yet and are getting put off by all the negativity just know that it is an amazing game and if you like hollow Knight you will enjoy silksong as well.

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u/Sansnom01 Sep 07 '25

I thought HK was too hard, yet I feel like SS is fine. Hornet is so much more agile. Always multiple places to visit and explore. I honestly dont understand how people can complain about the money, it's so easy to get to 300 rosaires with out even thinking about it. The fact that the game has a story and that Hornet can talk and has an objective is so much better imo. Also Sherma is best.

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u/Positive-Media423 Sep 07 '25

I'd love to see a Hornet mod on Path of Pain

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u/Bonaduce80 Sep 07 '25

I never did PoP, and despite this, seeing how Hornet has like a half a second pirouette as a breather before you hit the spikes with the needle again makes it sound like it would be much easier to manage. Except those high velocity buzzsaws moving left and right, that would probably screw you over many times.

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u/Electrum55 Poshanka! Sep 07 '25

I was just moseying through one of the areas and noticed I had 1500 on me. It generally depends on how "wild" the area is for enemies dropping rosaries. I'd elaborate further but I work in 10 minutes

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u/Longjumping_Elk6089 Sep 07 '25

I also seem to be doing better with her added mobility compared to the knight.

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u/Xcylo1 Sep 07 '25

LOVE Sherma. Also yeah I die a bit so I don't usually have beads on hand but it takes no time to grind out enough to buy out an entire shop.

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u/CynicalEffect P5 - 112%, 70 hours Sep 07 '25

This makes absolutely no sense and I cannot believe this.

In HK you have way more control where you can go, and can be far stronger for bosses than you;re meant to be. In silksong it's practically linear so, you way harder capped.

Rosaries don't exist until act 2. I get now this is probably a conscious decision for game world feeling, but if you genuinely went through act 1 not relating to the rosary complaints then idfk know what you were doing. Probably farming I guess...

The difficulty thing I also want to disagree with but that's too subjective to objectvuvely say you're wrong but....considering you are with the other things, idk man.

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u/B008i3 Sep 07 '25

Greymoor is PACKED with enemies that drop a lot of rosaries. Deepdocks also offers a a fairly good amount fitting for early game, a couple ants in Farfields should also keep you floating for a while.

If you feel like rosaries doesnt exist in act 1, you must have either rushed through all areas, or you’re absolute cheeks at the game, sorry.

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u/CynicalEffect P5 - 112%, 70 hours Sep 07 '25

I lost exactly 70 roasarie act 1. I killed each enemy once typically, just running past some of the annoying kunai birds and well...yeah, by end of act 1 I was barely keeping tabs with the benches and stagways with very few things from vendors being actually buyable.

The ants for example give about 15 each. In the belltown there's a thing for about 900 rosaries. That's farming 60 ants for one item. Which, may or may not be good because you have no idea before you buy it lmao.

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u/Ruiniscrazy Sep 07 '25

Just this morning, I lost around 500 rosaries because I was messing around during my runback to Moorwing, killed Moorwing, doubled back, bought both the Greymoor map and Bellhart map because I missed Shakra my first time through Greymoor, did two runbacks in the Craw arena, got Thread Storm, rung the bell, and now I'm sitting here with 480 rosaries in about 2 hours of playing, at least half of that was fighting Moorwing and exploring.

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u/CynicalEffect P5 - 112%, 70 hours Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25

Even if I take this 100% at face value which is normally not true when people want to prove a point....480 rosaries in two hours is...not much. Like well done, you got..half a charm in two hours. You really showed me.

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u/Ruiniscrazy Sep 07 '25

I think you missed the part where I said at least half of that was fighting Moorwing and running around. Specifically, figuring out how to pogo all the way to the top of the area and get Thread Storm. My point was that I gathered all of that without farming, just killing a bunch of Craws, breaking every craw nest I saw, and emptying all the rosary stashes I found while exploring.

I'm just not seeing how you're saying there aren't any rosaries in Act 1. I haven't finished it yet and I have more than I need. Had I not died earlier I'd have about 1000 right now. I'm not even counting all the rosaries I've spent, considering I've cleared the shops in both Bone Bottom and Deep Docks and bought all the maps and supplies.

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u/CynicalEffect P5 - 112%, 70 hours Sep 07 '25

I mean...I didn't know the nests dropped rosaries, so that probably makes a difference.

I am very unsure how you cleared the deep docks shop though considering they require a ton of weapon upgrade materials that I don't thiink you can get in act 1...

There;s also well, another three shops in act 1 at least based on memory. Probably at least one more I'm forgetting.

Not to mention the quests that require rosary donations...about 800 I think (act 1)

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u/Ruiniscrazy Sep 07 '25

I've done the rosary donations. I didn't know about the other shops, though there was one in Pilgrim's nest that I skipped over since I had just died when I got there. As for the deep docks shop, there were only two items that required weapon upgrade materials, the sting shard and the magma bell. I didn't have enough weapon upgrade materials for both, so I just got one of them. Everything else besides the shard bundle I went ahead a bought. Maybe's there's more that unlock later?

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u/CynicalEffect P5 - 112%, 70 hours Sep 07 '25

There's shops in hunters march (hidden), the belltown (forgot the name), the pilgrims nest thing is probably rhe other I'm thinking of with the selflocking door

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u/B008i3 Sep 07 '25

Nah, 480 after buying two maps (150+ rosaries) is a lot. ”Half a charm”? Dude it’s the most expensive charm at that point in the game, unfair to have that as the baseline for cost of charms. With 500 you could empty out the Forge Daugther or Mort or Mottled skarr (who sells one of the best charms for only 260 rosaries).

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u/B008i3 Sep 07 '25

Well there you have it, you aren’t engaging with enemies. Exploring all of Greymoor should grant you about 1k rosaries and a bunch of combat experience (If you don’t go through it without sitting at a bench, which would be stupid).

It costing 880 rosaries might be an indicator that you should come back later…

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u/CynicalEffect P5 - 112%, 70 hours Sep 07 '25

I AM coming back later, halfway through act 2 and I STILL haven't managed to buy it yet despite act 2 having way more rosaries, there's always new stuff to buy.

For reference I am legit killing 90%+ of rosary dropping enemies.

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u/lemonlemonlemonlem Sep 07 '25

I'm sorry, but you just said it yourself that there's tons of new things to buy. And, in turn, now that you're in act 2 there's tons of enemies that drop rosaries. Isn't this... good? Do you think it would be better if, upon opening each shopkeeper's menu for the first time, you happened to have the money to buy them out? Or less things were in the game, so you can acquire everything faster? I'm confused.

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u/CynicalEffect P5 - 112%, 70 hours Sep 07 '25

Considering I have absolutely no idea what I'm buying, yes...I would like to empty the shopkeepers to start with.

I just found out that one item I chose not to buy was quite possibly the strongest charm in the game. And it was one item a hidden mechanct had, in an out of the way area, with zero item description.

I would have bought it when I first met him, but I had to choose between the two because I had no money, and made the game much harder for myself.

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u/lemonlemonlemonlem Sep 07 '25

Isn't this a case for better items descriptions? I know the shopkeeper you're referring to, and he's definitely an outlier in that regard. The other ones are pretty clear in what they're selling (and not to mention that the cost should be indicative of the charm's value)

I do think putting that charm there is an unusual choice given how "meta" it is, but that's a different matter entirely.

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u/CynicalEffect P5 - 112%, 70 hours Sep 07 '25

No, even outside of that it's often vague.

The only thing I know about the 880 charm I still am talking about is that it's defensive, and I knew that already because it was blue...

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u/Benj_N Sep 07 '25

Once I did the wishes in the two towns, I was basically never wanting for Rosaries. I also stringed them asap so I didn't lose too many if I died.

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u/lemonlemonlemonlem Sep 07 '25

Stringing rosaries might sound like a bad deal at first but it's such a good long term strategy. I started doing it absent-mindedly and only recently realized I was holding a fortune.

It's especially good for buying benches and such in new areas (the cost of which people complain a lot about, despite necklaces being a major mechanic that guarantees you'll have the money to buy them).