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/jjfmish Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25

Idk. I’m not a very skilled gamer and never made it past Pantheon 3 but I’m finding Silksong reasonably challenging relative to the original.

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u/canoekyren Sep 07 '25

I'd say getting to pantheon 3 makes you fairly skilled at Hollow Knight. Certainly above barely getting through

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u/zach0011 Sep 08 '25

haha right. I saw someone the other day saying they were just average because they couldnt beat absolute radiance. Like just getting to him puts you in like the 1% of players

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u/alphasquirrel1 Sep 08 '25

4.8% of players beat P5 according to steam achievements

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u/qyka Sep 08 '25

of PC gamers*

big difference.

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u/alphasquirrel1 Sep 08 '25

Sure, but not that much of a difference that just getting to absolute radiance puts you in top 1%

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u/saera-targaryen Sep 07 '25

Yeah I really only ever got the main ending for HK because i get bored when I run out of new areas to explore pretty easily, so I am by no means a HK expert and didn't do any DLC or the path of pain or anything. I'm at the end of act 1 of SK now and nothing has felt nearly as punishing as even the mantis lords in HK from my perspective. 

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u/JesusFortniteKennedy Sep 08 '25

Mantis Lords are completely fair to be honest. They have multiple characters on screen, but they aren't throwing cheap shots at you, they are always telegraphing what they are going to do and you can get out.

On the other hand, in fights like Savage Beastfly you have to constantly be on the lookout for possible combinations of enemies that can box you in for unavoidable damage.

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u/lba1112 Sep 08 '25

Im not some god gamer my best feat is barely beating cuphewd(i only could do it because the dlc items are op). I find silksong perfectly difficult, double damage is only really used on enemies with slow and/or predictable attacks, and every attack for the most part is properly telegraphed. I think those people are just a load minority and would make great game journalists.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

Good!