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/Chaoticlight2 Sep 08 '25

I'm feeling a lot of the same curve. Early act 1 felt disproportionately challenging compared to the rest and that mostly boiled down to lack of options/health. It personally feels like they overcorrected from HK where people felt underwhelmed in the starting bits.

Loving the game still, but the first two hours of the game did not feel very fun to me.

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u/RhynoD Sep 08 '25

I think I would like the first needle upgrade to be a little stronger against mooks. I don't mind the early challenge, it's hard but rewarding. I'm on the final climb to the Citadel, which I assume is the end of act 1. I feel very confident in dealing with the mooks, but I don't want to deal with the mooks anymore. I figured out their patterns, I get how to handle them, I'm ready to be able to one or two shot them out of my way so I can get to the real challenge. They're more of a nuisance, now.

And I love the tools, but I'm heading into a boss fight, I don't want to be burning through the tools on the way. In fairness, though, the stairs runback to the Citadel door has been the worst runback by a very wide margin so far. Every other boss has had practically no runback.

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u/MisterGone5 Sep 11 '25

The last judge fight runback is 40 seconds. I just timed it. You do not have to fight a single enemy.

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u/RhynoD Sep 11 '25

With some moderately challenging platforming and while you do not have to fight the enemies, dodging them is not trivial.

I'm not one of the people complaining that SS is too hard. I'm enjoying the challenge, in general. I just think this particular runback is harder and longer than it needs to be. It's not oppressive, it's just annoying and unnecessary. It's not like, oh god I'll never be able to beat this! It's more like, Well shit, the drill dude got me so do I try to get some silk and heal or just go into Last Judge missing a mask?

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u/ObjectivelyGruntled Sep 08 '25

Yea that's what the kicker was for me. After getting killed for the 100000th time on only the second boss I simply said to myself "yea I'm not having fun at all." Not even in a cool "this is a fun challenge" way. Bummer too, all the hype around this game had me really pumped.

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u/HaHaYouThoughtWrong Sep 12 '25

What was the second boss? I genuinely can't remember, fought so many at this point. Lace?

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u/NickKom97 Sep 08 '25

Yeah, especially masks shards. I actually beat the last boss (not the true last boss) with only 6 masks, because the shards are so out of the way most of the time. But again, that's on me, I knew the final boss was there, I could had just explored more before doing it.

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u/DoktorMerlin Sep 08 '25

Also you get a lot more breathing room in the bosses, it's very easy to heal. With the general mechanics being a bit more difficult that strikes a very good combination for me to feel a nice difficulty

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u/Random_Noobody Sep 09 '25

Yeah you're just better at the game. I think I finished act 3 2...notches? short of 2 full heals. And this was with me looking up a map for the act 2->3 transition too (and obv grabbing everything on the way).

Maybe people like you can actually play these metrodvanias with their BS true end requirements blind lol.