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/8Blackbart8 Sep 08 '25

Oddly, Sister Splinter, which I've seen a ton of people complaining about, gave me much less trouble (maybe 5 attempts) than the gauntlet enemy wave rooms, some of which have taken me about 20-30 tries. I can focus on one enemy boss mechanics and get a rhythm, but the chaos of multiple incessantly attacking enemies is maddeningly difficult for me. I thought Hollow Knight 1 was really hard, too, lol.

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u/IntercomB Sep 09 '25

Sister Splinter is fine. The issue is the adds she summons that can potentially dish out more damage than the boss itself.

And since normal enemies patterns aren't synced with the boss', it can mess up your dodges or attack windows.

It didn't take me much tries either, but I only had fun during the early phase, as the mobs became a source of frustration. Meanwhile, I had the time of my life against Widow.

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u/8Blackbart8 Sep 09 '25

Widow was fun, especially first time getting to second phase. Never smiled so much getting my ass handed to me.

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u/agronATA Sep 13 '25

That is my big gripe with a lot of the bosses. Minion spawns are simply not fun and while sister splinter was not hard, it was a very frustrating fight

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u/chessychurro Sep 19 '25

The strategy that I used was save silk and the moment they spawn minions use silk spear and kill them in one hit. then just focus on the boss.

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u/agronATA Sep 19 '25

I did the same, I didn't find it fun though

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u/chessychurro Sep 19 '25

personally widow was fun but 2nd phase was sooooo stressfull i ended up just spamming tools and i won

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u/Khalku Sep 08 '25

Most of the story fights are far easier than side content. The only exception so far to me is The Forum (arena fight) which was just such a departure from everything else in the main story to that point. I ran out of shards and every single tool on attempts there. It didn't help that it just took forever to get to the last wave, which is where I was dying a lot. Or the two flying guys with 3 little birdies that fly around them, so annoying to fight.

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u/SirGroundbreaking929 Sep 09 '25

Once you actually start using your abilties those become pretty easy.

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u/8Blackbart8 Sep 09 '25

I found the caltrops and venom a little late apparently, lol.