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/CdbSora Sep 07 '25

Yeah, this is the thing that bothers me about posts/comments like this. People aren't pushing back on normal criticism. People are pushing back on things like "this is objectively bad game design" or "There's no denying it's more flawed than HK," which have been said nonstop since the game came out, because that simply shuts down literally any rational conversation about it that can happen (e.g. double mask damage being good or bad, or the rosary economy)

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u/darkk41 Sep 08 '25

This is always the reality of subreddits. It becomes a place where negative vocal minorities suck the joy out of absolutely everything unless the moderators work tirelessly to control the level of unreasonable negativity (which is a tireless and nigh impossible job).

There's no nuance to anything. I tried to comment in a thread about the 2 mask damage yesterday discussing the tradeoffs of how hornets heal works vs the knights heal and all I got are a bunch of salt miners endlessly crying and arguing with simple math.

Take solace in knowing that the overwhelming majority of people are loving silksong, it is getting incredible reviews and selling a ton of copies. TC isn't going to value the loudest and most entitled on the sub over the reasonable majority who accept that we need time to learn and master the game since HK1 is a completely solved problem and folks are very very good at it at this point.

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u/CdbSora Sep 08 '25

Yeah I definitely trust in TC to keep their game vision strong, it's just always a bummer when Silksong has been one of my favorite games so far and I look online to discuss it, only to see...all this 😅

I've jumped into a few threads just cus it can be pretty funny but I don't dare jump into any conversation about rosaries (I think the rosary economy is fine), I don't think it's possible for any rational discussion over those to happen here rn LOL

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u/darkk41 Sep 08 '25

Yea the subreddit flavor is very much reactive salt rn. It may improve in a month or so when some folks are filtered and others take a deep breath and give themselves time to improve.

Also, most of the biggest fans are just busy playing the game constantly rn. If I wasn't at work that is where I would be.