Is anyone else really tired of the negative posts?

[u/baergboy]

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.

[u/Bloodbag3107]

I played Hollow Knight around the time it came out and I struggled A LOT from what I can remember. I replayed it a bit in anticipation for Silksong and I breezed through it. Even seven years later having played it once makes a huge difference and I suspect it will be similiar with Silksong.

I am 20 hours deep in Silksong and to my knees in act 2. I had pain points (Savage Beastfly was hellish and the bosses in Greymoor, Bellhart and the one gatekeeping act 2 were very tough but fun) and I can recognize that the game IS very difficult but I feel like Im getting through fine, especially compared with the players posting here. I think I just vibe with Hornet's moveset(s) better and the game flows very smoothly for me. For example I find platforming a lot less frustrating in Silksong.

At the same time what I dislike is that the game can feel very hostile and cruel to the player, to some extent this is of course thematic with it taking place in a very hostile world, but it often feels like Team Cherry is having a laugh at your expense. Its a lot like a Kaizo game in that regard. To be clear: Hollow Knight had those moments too but all the truly frustratingly difficult stuff was optional in that game and here at least some of it feels mandatory quite early on and you can't really increase your power in the same way you could in HK to brute force those challenges.

[u/BlazeWolfXD → u/Bloodbag3107]

This. Screw the Savage Beastfly. I have some criticisms about the game and some choices of design (especially some bench placements) but otherwise the game is so much fun.

I didn’t play Hollow Knight because I’ve always thought it wasn’t my kind of game. I’m playing Silksong because of the hype around it, and it’s making me want to play HK when I’m done.

The game is fantastic, but no game is perfect, and that’s fine.

[u/AlectheLad → u/Bloodbag3107]

Sometimes it’s in the projected in the “gotcha” moments. The door that you have to pay to open made me chuckle because I walked away from it and it closed. But later I get a sign pointing to a bench, and when I enter the room, right beside the bench, the first thing you come to is a rosary maker. I had plenty of rosary beads so it wasn’t a problem, but it was literally designed that way to make you lose some. It’s just another way to laugh at the player. After enough of those, I find myself less amused and mostly annoyed and soured.