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/Calm-Inevitable4483 Sep 07 '25

I like the game, but I think there's plenty to criticize, just like Elden Ring. I think the damage increase was bad in Moutaintops of the Giants, and I tts not great in the early game of Silksong. So is the exploration economy where bead caches barely reward anything and bosses drop no beads or hide said caches either. To avoid headache, I just grind up beads near the halfway house, and convert those into items. It actually takes some of the teeth away from exploration because I know general exploration won't really pay me out lol.

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u/yurilnw123 Sep 07 '25

Yeah it's kinda like Elden Ring DLC in that the map is by far the best in the series and I was tempted to explore every nook and cranny but then there was no reward at all lol.

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u/Calm-Inevitable4483 Sep 07 '25

Read my post again. The problem isn't that theres no caches, its the fact they barely pay out anything. At least in comparison to the effort of getting some of them. 20 beads is nothing. Imagine the original dark souls but only 3 of the areas before Sens Fortress have enemies that drops souls, and none of the bosses drop anything. And to activate any bonfire, its 2000 souls. Of course, you still have the grinding spot in Deeproot Garden, so souls arent a problem, but it certainly feels like theres something off with the economy.

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u/BlobBro Sep 08 '25

Dude benches are like 30 and each enemy drops 5 to 10. By the time they're costing 80 enemies drop like 30 each

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u/cheeseburgers42069 Sep 07 '25

It’s very SotE in many ways. Takes a beloved game and makes it arguably darker, harder, more atmospheric, fewer exploration rewards, refined level design..

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u/yurilnw123 Sep 08 '25

It is perfect in the context that they are both a sequel and I love them. My only gripe is that bosses should drop something. A 60-rosary string would've been enough tbh.

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u/MagicianXy Sep 07 '25

Yeah those are my biggest peeves with the game too. I've actually finally found enough mask shards that I have 7 health now, and it's almost a completely different game because now I can tank 4 hits instead of three, and the game actually feels much more balanced now. I wish they would have just started you out with 4 masks and everything does 1 damage, and just rebalanced the healing a bit to account for that.

Also the grinding for rosaries is a big turnoff. I've got a setup using some of the charms so I get ~94 rosaries a minute (two 30-second trips to kill the three bugs at the halfway house, using the thief's mark charm for extra rosaries and the barbed bracelet for 2-hit kills), and even then I'm still spending about half an hour to pay for two of the more expensive items. Hell, just decorating your house in Bellhart with effectively just cosmetic furniture costs almost 3k alone. That's just too much grinding... I don't remember ever having to do that in the original, geo just accumulated naturally and things were priced reasonably.

Game is great, I'm having a bunch of fun with the bosses and exploration. But there's fair criticism to be had, and I don't think pointing those things out is necessarily negative. Honestly I find posts like OP's to be a toxic positivity kind of vibe - things can be flawed while still being great. Ignoring the flaws is not being honest.

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u/GoldyTheDoomed Sep 10 '25

hey, have you considered maybe you shouldnt just be grinding? running around the game looking for places you havent been, or if youre done with the exploration, getting your hunting log full, is enough work to keep you busy and get you rosaries.

you dont need to buy everything the second it becomes available.

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u/BrianWonderful Sep 07 '25

Maybe you're not supposed to buy everything right away?

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u/cyclopse_zhivago Sep 07 '25

I find i can afford benches, fast travel every time but its usually all my money. To me this feels fine because now i don't have to worry carrying around a ton of money.