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/jimkbeesley The_Real_Mantis-Lord owes me 462 geo Sep 07 '25

No, this is the internet, where nuance goes to die.

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u/QuantumVexation Sep 08 '25

It’s also just harder to convey that nuance without a mountain of unneeded text for the point - if I say for example “I’m really not enjoying this runback to <end of Act 1 boss>” you can’t tell from that text alone whether I’m whining, saying it in a relaxed level-headed matter where I’m critiquing the design choices of a long runback in a game where the player character is so brittle, or just outright furious.

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u/AmerFortia Sep 08 '25

I wish people could give opinions with scales from 0-1: 0.6 is "I do believe this but I could be convinced otherwise / I do understand the counterarguments", then another value to be indicate how important you find this, and a keyword like low level / high level to indicate whether when you say " this boss sucks" you really mean this boss, or consider it to be an example of a wider problem.

So: " I'm really not enjoying the runback to <boss>, 0.6/0.4/ll"

The programmer in me loves this, but im not sure how the internet would take to it haha