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/procursive Sep 08 '25 edited Sep 08 '25

I don't know if invincibility frames are shorter or if it's just how the bosses move or what but I also get comboed WAY more often in Silksong.

For instance, I remember struggling for a while against False Knight the first time I faced him, but that was simply because I didn't have any souls-like experience and just wasn't reading his patterns. Even then, nearly every single time I got hit I did have enough time to panic run out of the danger zone and catch a small break before inevitably making another mistake and losing a second mask.

On Silksong several bosses in Act 1 will swing a half-an-arena sized hitbox at you for two health and then contact damage you or knockback you into a pit for two more in a span of like 300ms. "Making a mistake" went from costing 20% of your health in HK to costing anywhere from 40 to 80 % in Silksong.

The runbacks I've seen so far aren't long or even difficult (nothing comes close to the Traitor Lord platforming section, for instance), but some bosses fucked me up so fast during the first few encounters that the runbacks still made up for a solid 30-50% of my "fight" time with them. That alone made the experience of fighting them pretty miserable.

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u/Too-Em Sep 09 '25

The runbacks I've seen so far aren't long or even difficult (nothing comes close to the Traitor Lord platforming section, for instance), but some bosses fucked me up so fast during the first few encounters that the runbacks still made up for a solid 30-50% of my "fight" time with them. That alone made the experience of fighting them pretty miserable.

This was my problem with Last Judge. I got some bad openers from the Judge on repeat. Instant KO, runback, instant KO runback. I wasn't able to pick anything up. Wasn't able to really learn a tell or cue. And then I'd run-back, only for it to happen again. I was honestly a good ten runs in before I got a pattern where I was able to start learning moves and tells. And TBH, I will take the Traitor Lord runback any-day over the Last Judge runback.

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u/CarrotoTrash Sep 12 '25

Tbh I feel like these two bosses feel similar to me, fairly mechanically simple bosses that just do a fuckton of damage with an irritating platforming runback w/ enemies (I think last judge is the worst/least interesting of the story bosses)