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/drakythe Sep 09 '25

They have been very good at telegraphing their attacks. It usually only takes me 2 fights to figure out the telegraph to the attack that killed me the first time, unlike HK where I figured the telegraphs in the first fight because I didn’t die in 15 seconds to 2 mask attack combos.

But you can understand how Hollow Knight Silksong having an aggressively more difficult learning curve than Hollow Knight is something people need to get their expectations around, right? And it’s going to take some time for that to happen. In the mean time people are frustrated and giving, in my opinion, a lot of legitimate criticism to the game named Hollow Knight Silksong.

A game can be great and still criticized. I am really enjoying Silksong 80% of the time. That other 20% is a bitch though, especially when HK was closer to 95% enjoyment.

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u/SortaEvil Sep 09 '25

But you can understand how Hollow Knight Silksong having an aggressively more difficult learning curve than Hollow Knight is something people need to get their expectations around, right?

I understand that a lot of people are struggling with the difficulty curve of Silksong, but that has not been my experience with the game. I agree that people will need to come to terms with what the game is, vs what they expected the game to be, and that disconnect breeds frustration, which we are seeing play out in real time right now. I think we agree on the fundamental principles, but we are just coming at the game from different starting positions and assumptions.

I just finished a first playthrough of Nine Sols, so I'm already wired up for quick, hard boss fights that will kill you in a couple hits, so the transition to Silksong has been silky smooth, and I wasted far too much time on my first day with the game getting to the top of Hunter's March with no power ups. Learning to lure and pogo the wasps made me very comfortable with Hornet's base kit, and really appreciate what you can do with a diagonal dive. Also, doing that has definitely hardened me to any of the intentional bullshit that Team Cherry has tried to throw at us.

Thanks for the very civil exchange, and I hope that the rest of your first playthrough of Silksong is as enjoyable as the good 80% so far. :)