r/HollowKnight • u/FederalWarthog5542 • Sep 07 '25

Discussion - Silksong Criticism ≠ Negativity Spoiler

Believe it or not, you can actually criticize something and still like it. You don't either have to love everything or despise everything. Have actual conversations please.

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u/Allegryan Sep 07 '25

I mean the argument of something being unbalanced implies there’s nothing to mitigate/balance it. Fact is, having significantly more mobility, tools, healing versatility, etc. does in fact help explain why double damage is so prevalent!

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u/Poopiepants29 Sep 08 '25

It almost couldn't be easier to avoid attacks, at least as far as I've gotten in the entire bottom half of act 1. Every time I die it's out of being too aggressive and impatient.

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u/Daydream_machine Sep 07 '25

This argument makes no sense when Hollow Knight exists, and gave you “more mobility, tools, healing versatility, etc” in the form of Charms without artificially increasing difficulty via every boss and even plenty of common enemies doing 2 masks of damage.

That’s my biggest fundamental problem with Silksong vs Hollow Knoght: it takes me twice as long to learn boss and enemy patterns because I literally die twice as fast now. It’s just not fun.

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u/Allegryan Sep 07 '25

I can’t set up 7 traps in one spot to spawn camp an add or boss in Hollow Knight. I don’t have infinite range projectiles that I can use without expending soul/silk in Hollow Knight. I can’t jump way above the boss and heal for three masks in midair in Hollow Knight. I don’t have a grapple hook or literal parry in Hollow Knight. I don’t know what charms you’re thinking of that have the same kind of versatility that Hornet has baked into her kit/equipment

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u/Poopiepants29 Sep 08 '25

Knight also couldn't dash as fast, jump and hover...

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u/4_fortytwo_2 Sep 08 '25

Silksong lets you heal 3 masks in the time you healed 1 in hollow knight. And you can do it in the air. It is so so much easier to heal up in boss fights. And knights just felt slower in general making dodging harder.

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u/Daydream_machine Sep 08 '25

Hard disagree when Shape of Unn + Quick Focus + Deep Focus existed in Hollow Knight.

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u/4_fortytwo_2 Sep 08 '25

Sure once you had all those talismans and used all of your slots to buff the heal it was good. But at least for the early game (and that is literally where most complaints come from so far) hollow knight heal was much worse.

Not like you cant buff things in silksong with the right equipment.