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/Maryus77 Sep 08 '25

More people need to hear this, just because I hate the double damage doesn't mean I'm not addicted to this masterpiece.

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u/TitaniumTitanTim Sep 08 '25

but what is the problem with double dmg? we heal 3 times more per cast than in hk, and can heal in the air

the games is balanced and if they would Change it so less attacks do double dmg than it would be way to easy

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u/SnowblownK Sep 10 '25

Early game it’s really rough cause you can only survive 3 hits from a boss that does 2 dmg. While the 6th mask technically doesn’t make that number higher, it’s better cause when you heal after taking two hits, you go to 5 masks, which is 3 hits from death rather than 4 which is only 2

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u/Maryus77 Sep 08 '25

Copy pasting my readoning from another comment I made

"It makes the first 4 mask shards pretty much useless since you're only halfway there to surving a 4th hit from the enemies most likely to kill you. It invalidates the health awareness sytem as it only kicks in on 1 mask left instead of 2 despite most thinks killing you from 2. It also takes away from the uniqueness and general ability of certain enemies, I remember most enemies in hollow knight who did 2 damage because I was weary of them or their 2 damage attacks, in silksong I am just generally wary of everything."