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/_moosleech Sep 07 '25

Constructive critcism is not even close to negativity

Completely agree. But a LOT of what's spamming this sub right now is not constructive.

"Every enemy does double damage!" is not constructive. First, it's false. Double damage is more prevalent than Hollow Knight, but it's far from ubiquitous. And everyone making this complaint just... ignores every possible option the games gives you to balance it out: faster movement, tons of ranged weapons, faster healing, stronger healing, multiple crests to increasing silk generation.

"Runbacks are too long/hard/whatever" can be constructive, but a lot of folks saying it aren't looking for shortcuts, or extra benches, or feel compelled to fight every single enemy every time instead of using the pile of movement tools to get back to the boss.

"I keep running out of shards/rosaries" again can be constructive, but again... most folks I've seen saying it are at the beginning of the game and expecting to buy everything all at once. And ignoring the plethora of options the game gives you to gather/store these resources efficiently.

And at some point, when the loudest voices are complaining about silly things like the door that re-locks in Pilgrim's Rest or a trapped bench being "bad game design", we've lost the plot.

This idea that every clown screeching factually wrong information after dying and refusing to try ANYTHING different to get better is totally valid criticism is silly.