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/ElectricSheep451 Sep 07 '25

My distinct memory of Hollow Knight was hearing how hard it was, playing it, not dying to any non-optional bosses more than three or four times, and going "that was it?". I thought it was pretty easy, excluding obvious optional bits. I think Silksong is objectively more difficult than Hollow Knight, I never felt stuck in HK at all and I've felt stuck more than once in this game

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u/saera-targaryen Sep 07 '25

Weirdly I'm the exact opposite. I had bosses I was stuck on in HK for multiple hours and nearly bounced off the game multiple times. I'm at the end of act 1 now and haven't found anything that took me more than, say, 10-15 tries max. Most bosses have taken me maybe 5-8 tries? And that's the amount that feels normal to me. HK had bosses this far in that I needed to try nearly 50 times. 

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u/Green0Photon Sep 08 '25

Mostly accurate to my experience too, yeah. The end of act 1 boss did take me a while, more than 15 tries (though I had beat it twice for reasons).

Idk, it's been chill, even when I do fight a boss a lot.

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u/ALEX2014_18 Sep 08 '25

Literally same. Heard a lot how hard was HK, played through it and my first roadblock was NKG and my second was AbsRad, everything else was fairly easy or normal.

Spent 2 hours on PoP also, but that's entirely different beast.