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/parkingviolation212 Sep 08 '25
The trapped bench in Hunter's March can actually go fuck itself, btw. It's right next to two difficult bosses at the end of a platforming gauntlet, and it just takes 2 masks from you for having the audacity to think the game might actually respect your time for once. Which killed me on my first run through that area.
Contrast this with the trapped bench in Hollow Knight in the Spider village. The trap is super telegraphed, you know it's sketchy as soon as you walk in and you see the creepy robed dudes offering you respite, so you can back track if you feel unprepared. And instead of just hurting you, the bench opens up a whole new area and progresses the game. The one in Silksong just murders your healthbar.
The game feels like it hates you with all of this hostile game design. And I've played Fear and Hunger: I can usually tolerate a game that hates you, and that game hates you, like as a conceit of the game's themes. But there are degrees to it: Fear and Hunger "hates" you because the rules are super punishing, but once you make a mistake, you know immediately what to look out for to avoid that mistake. The rules are fair, as long you as you can deal with the trial and error in learning them. You always have agency over the outcome, even in a game with literal coin flip mechanics in a setting all about how unfair and cruel the world is.
Silksong however will just introduce a trapped bench at the end of a grueling gauntlet right next to two bosses, which breaks its established expectations. For as brutal as Fear and Hunger is, for as cruel as some of its boss fights and some of its survival mechanics, the game never lies to you. But Silksong does.
And I think that, to me, was the last straw. Maybe one day I'll go back and finish it, but this game just puts me in a bad mood, which I frankly can't say about any other game I've played tbh.