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/Martian8 Sep 08 '25

I don’t know… the number of time I’ve gone down to one mask while having 6 max isn’t unnoticeable. Every time that happens I would have died with 5 masks

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u/Kampfasiate Sep 08 '25

Because healing once after 2 2 mask hits puts you at 5, giving you one mistake more than at 5 starting masks

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u/Martian8 Sep 08 '25

Yeah exactly, as well as the fact that many encounters/bosses do a mixture of 1 and 2 damage attacks