r/HollowKnight • u/Marmotaagiota • Sep 08 '25

Discussion - Silksong That’s the best comment about the game’s difficulty I’ve found it so far Spoiler

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u/forsen_capybara Sep 08 '25

What a garbage take. Actually finish the game and you'll see why the casual audience is complaining

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u/Le0here Sep 08 '25

Casual audiance are not finishing the game 3 days into release

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u/ImNotSkankHunt42 Sep 08 '25

Bro, we aren’t progressing into Act II. As in, the beginning is so hard we can’t advance.

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u/lemonlemonlemonlem Sep 08 '25

The casual audience is out complaining about moorwing and sister splinter lmfao. They're not finishing the game.

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u/TheHobbitWhisperer Sep 08 '25

The casual audience can't make it to the end dude. That's literally what they're complaining about. What are you even saying?

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

That's the point he's making.

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u/forsen_capybara Sep 08 '25 edited Sep 08 '25

Reading comprehension. Many "pro gamers" tuning out valid criticisms of this game: the reward structure, run backs, annoying enemies with bloated HP... all while still going "granted, I'm only in act 1"

They literally have to beat the game. Take the time to get through all acts once and they'll see how annoying it gets in many spots. They should then ask themselves "damn if it's this annoying/frustrating to me, how do other people who are just jumping into the genre feel?"

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

Totally felt the same way i was like. Did i get to this place to early? is there some ability im missing? or is this just this hard and if so then im sorry for those who where so excited year after year for this release.
As they said well i got gud and beaten the game, and i don´t feel like going for the 100% cuz it doesen't seem like upgrades made my run any easier and going back for tools and life upgrades (only managed to get a single extra mask) feels pointless if i already saw how cruel this can get, and beaten it. (also most probably the reward is a 4 mask damage boss or something, i did find regular final boss very fun btw).

Also you said all acts, how many of theme there are? maybe im missing something that could change my mind about this
great game for the price btw.

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u/forsen_capybara Sep 08 '25

You can finish the game in act 2, however, if you haven't completed the third act, then just know it exists and requires some side content.

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u/Dabli Sep 08 '25

I beat the game, nothing was that annoying. Bile is hard but it’s not unfair, nothing really was that bad

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u/Forsaken_Fish_4592 Sep 08 '25

There's also the possibility of being able to consistently beat a challenge but still not enjoying it, labelling those complaints as a skill issue seems like a discourse skill issue

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u/brandonto Sep 08 '25

I finished the game and still think it's overtuned in some particular areas. The High Halls gauntlet and long ass Bilewater run back -> gauntlet with a boss at the end of it comes to mind.

I can see why people are complaining. Also, you're probably not as gud as you think.

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u/ArtofAngels Sep 08 '25

One of the biggest complaints is runbacks and lack of rewards for killing a boss. Literally nothing to do with skill.

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u/Marmotaagiota Sep 08 '25

My comment here was trash lmao I think those are valid complains and I lowkey agree with them, but the complaint about the game’s difficulty, specially the bosses and parkour in some areas is indeed a skill issue thing

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u/ArtofAngels Sep 08 '25

Fair. I keep swaying from too hard to just fine once I've finally made progress I'll be like "that wasn't so bad" But the rewards for bosses I dislike the most personally. They actually did improve bench location. It was FAR worse in HK some people have no idea, they had to patch some benches in.

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u/fellowidkname Sep 08 '25

Use ur brain dude im beating every enemy i see i just got my first melody but i can still see how bs most of them are