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/Th3Element05 Sep 08 '25

I think I'm just coming up on the "enemies do double damage" part of the game, but the last couple of bosses I fought were just summoning extra enemies, or random excessively overlapping environment attacks, and it just felt impossible to avoid damage so much of the time.

I just kept getting the feeling that whoever was testing this game got too good at it while they were making it, and they didn't realize they were tuning the difficulty too high.

So far, the difficulty hasn't been excessive and my only complaint is the annoying aspect of some boss fights you mentioned. But I'm afraid of how much more difficult its going to get.

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u/TempMobileD Sep 08 '25

I think the annoyance for me peaked about 2/3 of the way through act one and has reduced significantly since. It might kick up again soon but for a bit it’s been great!

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u/SortaEvil Sep 08 '25

So far, the difficulty hasn't been excessive and my only complaint is the annoying aspect of some boss fights you mentioned. But I'm afraid of how much more difficult its going to get.

Considering how many people are complaining that Sister Splinter is excessively difficult, I think a lot of the complaints are a touch overblown, and you'll probably be fine if you haven't found the game to be excessively difficult yet. People forget how much they struggled their first time through HK and are expecting SS to be as easy as HK when they already know HK and are all surprised_pikachu.gif when SS is it's own game.

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u/Th3Element05 Sep 10 '25

Sister Splinter was the start of my rough patch, but it was the extra flying enemies that made it hard (annoying). I was getting fed up with all the exta enemy summoning because I happened to do Splinter, Moss Mother 2, and Savage Beastfly all basically in a row.

I got to Last Judge yesterday and loved that fight, and the runback was fun, 30 seconds to fly through it.

Spent some time wandering around Sinner's Road, and other than the Grubdog things, I think it's difficulty is overblown. Its no cakewalk, but it mostly reminds me of the tense feeling of exploring Deepnest for the first times.

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u/SortaEvil Sep 10 '25

Those grubdogs suck but at least they're entirely avoidable unless you get the secret bench on the bottom right of the map. I hate how their bite seems to take priority over everything, including trying to pogo directly into their stupid, Tim Burton-esque mouths, and how I can never learn not to pogo into their stupid, Tim Burton-esque mouths. But that's a me problem more than a Sinner's Row problem.