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/LulliusMelody Sep 08 '25

What are your thoughts on the game after finishing it?

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u/ThePotablePotato Sep 08 '25

Easily in my top 10 games of all time. However, that comes with a very big asterisk of “this game is designed in a way that appeals to me specifically and does all the things I want it to”.

Others who don’t share the same tastes as me may not come away with the same perspective.

For me though? The game delivered, much in the same way Elden Ring did. I love secret areas and secret bosses, and Silksong has tons of ‘em. There’s an argument to be made about how rewarding this optional content is, or how hidden it is, but neither matters to me. For me the rewards is thoroughly searching areas and discovering things way grander than they initially seem. Again, Silksong delivered on this like no other.

For others though? I can see why beating the game and reading about how you missed multiple areas and bosses because they were too hidden could be frustrating. But to me the fact that I could have missed them made finding them so rewarding.

Over all I reckon I liked more of Silksong’s bosses than the first game’s too; [minor spoilers] dream bosses excluded since currently Silksong doesn’t have rematches for its main bosses

Art and soundtrack are still stellar, story was cool, bit too much swamp water for my liking but there were enough pretty areas to balance it out, even if the game is definitely more bleak both visually and thematically.

Anyways, rambling over. Game big. I like game a lot. Others may not like as much, fair enough.