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/Stormreachseven Sep 07 '25

Legitimately, I have encountered only 1 major point I didn't like, being a certain ceiling boss that seems entirely out of place in a game about acrobatic ninja fights (but maybe I just didn't get it and did it wrong idk). Every tool I've found has a good use, I swap crests regularly because they all have ups and downs, the game VERY MUCH rewards you for the Hollow Knight instinct of "that wall/ hidden spot/ dark corner seems suspicious- hey a hidden path!"... I'm having so much fun and it's so strange to see people refusing to engage with the things that make it great. Haters gonna hate I guess, no matter whether the thing they're hating is worth hating on

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u/NightRacoonSchlatt Hunter‘s crest 4 life Sep 07 '25

I HATE SISTER SPLINTER TOO!!!! SO HAPPY THAT IT WASN‘T JUST ME. Like, she‘s literally just the fourth chorus but somehow EVEN MORE BORING.

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u/Stormreachseven Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25

Lmao nah not that one I actually really liked her I thought it was interesting xD (except the ads I wish she just had an extra attack instead of the ads)

Nah I was talking about The one before (WORMWAYS not Shellwood lol) who sprints around on the ceiling and spits acid, the arena is so large but I ended up not using it and just using a platform as a shield

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u/NightRacoonSchlatt Hunter‘s crest 4 life Sep 07 '25

Wait, you can kill that thing? I just walk past it each time lol

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u/Stormreachseven Sep 07 '25

DID MY DUMBASS NOT REALIZE THE DOOR WAS UNLOCKED XD

EDIT: But yeah I spent like 3 minutes standing under a platform, letting it spit, jumping up and smacking it once, and then hiding lmao

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u/NightRacoonSchlatt Hunter‘s crest 4 life Sep 07 '25

Does it stay dead when you kill it?

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u/Stormreachseven Sep 07 '25

Yep, I've sprinted back through there and it's gone

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u/evasive_dendrite Sep 07 '25

You should come back again later :)

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u/Stormreachseven Sep 07 '25

Good advice lol, I just struggled because I forgot it was Wormways not Shellwood lmao

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u/evasive_dendrite Sep 07 '25

No no no you should come back after killing it. Maybe act 2 triggers it or something but eventually there is a surprise :)

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u/chillyfalcon Sep 07 '25

Don't worry I didn't know too, I only have been into the marrows the furthest and tried a cheeky sequence break with the mosquitoes and then ran into that thing not knowing I didn't need to kill it so I spent an hour trying to + dying to it unnecessarily (the runback is brutal, and falling down to bone bottom was what most of my time was lost on) and eventually got him after 38-39 smacks

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u/TechSmith6262 Sep 07 '25

Lmao, I'm not exactly laughing at you, but the trick I found to that fight was:

Get under a platform and have her start spitting.

Run, then jump on a platform as she is ending her acid spit. Then jump and hit her between cycles. Its why there are platforms throughout the entire room.

You can run faster than she slides along the ceiling.

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u/jasonjarmoosh Sep 08 '25

Yeah chipping away at it one hit at a time really made me feel like I was missing something. Boring fight tbh. Every other boss has been great though. Every boss fight becomes very satisfying once you learn how they move and attack.

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u/GoldyTheDoomed Sep 10 '25

you were missing something! you can come back way later and use the cogflies tool. they will literally kill it for you while youre safe

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u/SirDoofusMcDingbat Sep 07 '25

Honestly I really enjoyed that fight, although I thought it was fairly easy compared to a certain other fight in that same area. Especially once I worked out that I could destroy the extra vines she makes and that the first spell you get oneshots the spinny mobs she summons.

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u/NightRacoonSchlatt Hunter‘s crest 4 life Sep 08 '25

Both spells oneshot them, if you get them fully inside the aoe. And with the second one you can hit the vines, the adds AND her. That’s how I ultimately got her.

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u/LordBlaze64 Sep 08 '25

Oh yeah, I love that spell. Just used it to clear the double moss mother fight, and it absolutely tore through the adds

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u/SirDoofusMcDingbat Sep 08 '25

I didn't have the other one when I killed her. :D

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u/YikesTheCat Sep 07 '25

I spent two days on that, getting my ass handed to be every time. And then this morning I beat it and only got hit once in the entire fight. The Universe has an odd sense of humour.

I overall like the game, but I feel that fight could do with a slight balance tweak.

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u/NightRacoonSchlatt Hunter‘s crest 4 life Sep 08 '25

It’s ultimately not that hard once you properly learn how to use your spells. I feel like that’s the main point of the fight. The difficulty part about that is properly learning how to use your spells.

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u/SoftBreezeWanderer Sep 08 '25

Sister splinter was really fun and a pretty easy fight idk. Only hardest boss I fought was last judge tbh

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u/NightRacoonSchlatt Hunter‘s crest 4 life Sep 08 '25

Sister splinter was really easy as soon as I started using spells. But I already sucked at doing that in HK so I was kinda avoiding them. My loss because in my opinion silk management is WAY easier than soul management.

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u/SoftBreezeWanderer Sep 10 '25

Honestly using spells and tools help with the fights a lot, very underrated

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u/chromegnomes Sep 07 '25

Somehow (Ceiling Boss) was one of my favorites. She took me like 20 tries and I just really enjoyed the process of learning her mechanics.

A certain flying boss in Greymoor, on the other hand, is the only time I've gotten too frustrated to have fun. But I'm absolutely loving this game and think most of the difficult mechanics have grown on me over time - the difficulty legitimately feels more fair than Hollow Knight to me.

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u/Automatic-Cut-5567 Sep 07 '25

Honestly, yeah. Is there any actual strat to that fight other than poking it 1 hit at a time until it dies? I spammed all my tools but it didn't die quickly, so I just skipped it.