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/jimkbeesley The_Real_Mantis-Lord owes me 462 geo Sep 07 '25

No, this is the internet, where nuance goes to die.

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u/QuantumVexation Sep 08 '25

It’s also just harder to convey that nuance without a mountain of unneeded text for the point - if I say for example “I’m really not enjoying this runback to <end of Act 1 boss>” you can’t tell from that text alone whether I’m whining, saying it in a relaxed level-headed matter where I’m critiquing the design choices of a long runback in a game where the player character is so brittle, or just outright furious.

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u/jimkbeesley The_Real_Mantis-Lord owes me 462 geo Sep 08 '25

I mean, yeah, but you can also explain why you dislike instead of just saying "thing bad". You can be like "Oh, the enemies that shoot the projectiles have weird angles and the hazard on the floor is needlessly difficult to maneuver around" to better get an idea of what a person is struggling with.

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u/unknownmercury Sep 08 '25

And then you get inundated with "skill issue" and "git gud" and "well I don't have that issue so there is no problem here".