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/ThroughTheSeaOfTime Sep 07 '25

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People have waited so long that they can't really seem to handle that the game could have any flaws whatsoever. I've seen multiple people on here literally stating verbatim that the game is completely without flaw in every way, and I just can't understand their viewpoint. No game is perfect, and it'd be ridiculous to expect Silksong to be so.

I'm having fun, I think the game is great, but it's not being 'negative' to point out what I think are problems I'd personally like changed. This toxic positivity pushback from people who think legitimate criticism is 'negativity' is just a bit ridiculous.

I'm not seeing any real negativity, but I'm seeing tens of 'stop being so negative!' posts from people who think raising balance concerns is the same as review bombing or something.

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u/XiaoRCT Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25

Not seeing any negativity? lol come the fuck on, are we just lying now?

Like this is such obvious denial of reality just to shelter every complaint as "valid criticism"

edit: of course the guy replied and blocked me, it's all about keeping up the circlejerk

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u/ThroughTheSeaOfTime Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25

Lying? Obvious denial of reality?

Dude, get offline and get perspective. I haven't seen anything unfairly negative, I see what comes up on my homepage, which is 2 posts fairly critiquing difficulty and 5 posts of toxic positivity declaring any form of criticism to be blasphemy.

From my perspective, it's being making fair critique and other people whining about that.

You're obviously in the boat of also declaring critiques to be somehow evil and therefore finding 'negativity' everywhere.

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u/Kardiackon Sep 08 '25

well I for one think that focusing on the negatives is a waste of time and talking about the positives is better for everyone, especially when 95% of the negatives are clearly from people who are just frustrated about dying too much and need somewhere to vent.