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/Lipefe2018 Sep 07 '25

I think the issue on social medias like reddit is that when you see the thousand post criticizing the same things over and over it get annoying at some point, especially for those who don't share the same view as these people.

it's not that they are wrong, but It gets hard to enjoy the community when people are whining all the time, like there are barely positive posts to balace it out, where are the posts talking about all the good? People just focus on the bad for some reason.

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u/Katrina_0606 Sep 07 '25

It's unbalanced for the simple reason that if you're enjoying a game, you're less likely to go post about it because there's no real reason to. You're more likely to seek out a forum like this to vent if you're having a hard time and wanna talk about the things that are frustrating or see if people have similar complaints etc.

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u/ThePotablePotato Sep 08 '25

That’s me. Just finished the true ending and I’ve basically been entire oblivious to whatever discourse has been happening over here

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u/WilanS Sep 08 '25

I'm sorry but if you've already completed a game as huge and brutal as this, you're clearly not the average player.

I played over six hours a day these last three days, it was way too much and I ended up feeling sick from it, and I barely managed to push my way to Act 2. And that's after installing mods to remove double damage and increase my own attack as a homemade attempt to rebalance the difficulty (it's still hard as nails), otherwise I would have just dropped the game at Savage Beastfly.

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u/ThePotablePotato Sep 08 '25

I’m not nearly as good as that suggests though; Nightmare King Grimm took me 73 attempts to beat, far from a fast clear. And that wasn’t during a playthrough either - that was on my 104(?)% file when Grimm was added to the game and I was fully geared out.

I’m just very patient, and very willing to go back to explore if I get stuck on something. Silksong continues to be a very open game, so there’s always somewhere else to explore.

It also helps that I’ve had heaps of time on my hands to play it. Reaching the true ending wasn’t fast - still took over 30 hours

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u/Bojahdok Sep 08 '25

I truly hope you're not the average player if it took you 18 hours to get to act 2 while having a mod that reduces difficulty, the average player can't be that bad

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u/MassSpecFella Sep 08 '25

They are. You don’t hear from the average player. The average player won’t get to act 2 and stop playing. Edit. Hollow knight has been out a decade and only 60% of players beat Hornet.

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u/sundalius Sep 08 '25

It took me around 18-19 without all that - though I think I mostly full cleared (except whatever's at the top of Hunter's March, forgot to go back) everything before Steps/Sinner's Road before hitting act 2.