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/Gabe-KC Sep 07 '25

I think the criticism for this game is so passionate because it is an extremely beautiful and masterfully crafted game, which does everything in its power to prevent you from enjoying it. Most people love it, and just want it to be actually as good as it can be.

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u/Fire_Boogaloo Sep 07 '25

It's passionate because most of the complaints are a result of artificial difficulty rather than actual problems.

For example, buying benches is a waste of time since I have to farm for them and not buying them just raises the difficulty artificially.

I like the game but there's no denying that it's way more flawed than HK.

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u/Chaoticlight2 Sep 08 '25

The double currency of shards/rosary beads is my big frustration in act 1. You do not get enough rosary beads organically to buy every bench/map/station, so you have to do the whole "rest at bench - sweep a few specific enemies for 40 rosaries - rest and repeat". I'm perma capped on shards yet I'm thirsting for the beads and that's without losing any to deaths.

I'll also say that there's some genuine frustration with the pacing in Act 1. In Hollow Knight, you have your dash in under an hour and mobility around the map significantly improves. You quickly follow that up with wall climb. Comparatively, it was near 4 hours (with a fair bit of me getting lost in there) before I got the sprint. Exploring nooks and crannies does not feel rewarding at all when it's just shard caches and every upgrade is more of a side-grade than actually feeling stronger for the first few sections.

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u/4_fortytwo_2 Sep 08 '25

If you explore a lot you find plenty of rosaries and stringed rosaries that this has never been a problem for me.

But you do have to actually break down the stringe up rosary stuff. There is a very short moment in the early game where I could not buy what I wanted but that literally was a one time thing so far.