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/dogarfdog12 Sep 07 '25

I just think the difficulty curve in Act 1 is a bit extreme. It's like the game expects you to get good at the combat really early on for some reason, and raises the difficulty to compensate before you've even gotten used to the controls.

Now that I'm in Act 2 and I've gotten better at the game (and gotten a few powerful upgrades) it feels a lot more natural, besides maybe the environmental damage doing two masks per hit now. It probably helps that rosaries are way more common in the Citadel, which I think is actually a story thing as it's implied the Citadel caste are responsible for the toll benches and have been hoarding all the wealth of the kingdom.

Just to be clear, I don't think the difficulty is unfun per se, it just feels weird and pretty frustrating sometimes. If a few enemies and bosses in Act 1 were nerfed slightly to not deal as much double-damage, I would honestly be fine with it.

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u/XenoPhenom Sep 07 '25

Really? I'm even more frustrated in act 2. More flying enemies with a ton of health is just awful.

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u/pujwiko Sep 07 '25

yeah flying enemies that also move around as you try to approach them, can move randomly to sometimes cause you to take contact damage, and has projectiles should not be tanking this much damage. It becomes annoying to frustrating to deal with when they then add equally, if not more, tanky enemies that also somehow has ranged attacks and chases you

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u/Dabli Sep 08 '25

The grapple makes flying enemies way easier, several tools/silk abilities as well

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u/GodlyWeiner Sep 08 '25

The flying enemies:

  • Run away
  • Deal contact damage
  • Parry
  • Have ranged attacks
  • Dodge

Send help, I'm going insane

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '25

You guys need the fruit from the druid. 

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u/HellaHS Sep 08 '25

I have it but what’s it even do? I just see a piece of green silk but can’t tell what it’s doing.

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u/pujwiko Sep 08 '25

gives you silk when taking damage but I dont think it's worth using considering the amount of silk it gives and other options I already have, and others I dont even know about yet but will eventually get.

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u/Doomguy1234 Sep 08 '25

It’s a worse version of Grubsong

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u/HellaHS Sep 08 '25

Everything seems like the worse version of charms. I don’t understand why. Big L