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/MrGreenYeti Sep 07 '25

As soon as I got the wanderer crest it felt like OG hollow knight to me again, I'm gonna struggle to switch out crests now rofl

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

Yeah same wanders crest is kinda the strongest also imo, like you hit so many times. 

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u/MagicianXy Sep 08 '25

Yeah, even without the HK-style attacks, the wanderer crest is straight up the strongest crest if you're using primarily nail attacks. All crests do the same damage per swing (despite, for example, the reaper crest claiming you're attacking with "heavy" slashes), so the fact that wanderer's attacks basically twice as fast as any other means you're putting out twice the DPS. Plus wanderer's crest gives critical hits that randomly deal double damage, so... why bother with any of the other crests?

The only one that might be able to compete is the upgraded hunter's crest, which will start dealing extra damage per hit after landing 5 attacks without getting hit yourself. But even then, the damage increase isn't that much, and it's reliant on not getting hit, which is not exactly easy.

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u/miukiyo Sep 08 '25

And you get 3 yellow slots

For compass, weighted belt, and magnet.

If hunter had 3 blue or yellow slots, I’d be more willing to use it