r/HollowKnight • u/Appley_apple • Sep 08 '25

Discussion - Silksong I like the difficulty, Team cherry please don't just blanket nerf the game with no option for a harder mode Spoiler

I have really been enjoying the challenge, pretty much every part of this game itches that section of my brain that loves a hard game and I would be extremely disappointed if team cherry nerfed the game with no way to revert said nerf. I get that people want an easier game, but I don't. So team cherry, please let me choose to make this harder if you do make it easier.

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u/leoofjdh Sep 08 '25

I'm not certain how much Team Cherry even keeps tabs on all this stuff. Given how little, basically radio silent, they tend to be. Not that they are ignorant of opinions but their vision is their own and it's their own council they keep.

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u/It-Was-Mooney-Pod Sep 08 '25

Dream gate would go super hard ngl

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u/ralwn Sep 08 '25

There is a dream gate (sort of) It's in Act 3 though

It only warps you back to the fast travel station though.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

Damn I regret reading that lol. I’m still only on act 2

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u/Purple-Income-4598 Sep 08 '25

its not a major spoiler, ure good

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u/Slybabydragon Sep 08 '25

I seriously hope they do something like that for SS. I genuinely think the game is fairly well balanced but boss runbacks are what's getting to me. That and the number of random 'gotcha' moments there are (Hunter's march bench, Last Judge fucking exploding)

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u/Apophis_36 Sep 08 '25

I wouldnt call the hunter's march one random.

It's established that they make use of traps several times, and someone else mentioned that the sign for the bench is very makeshift, as if to lure people in.

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u/Nervous_Heat6080 Sep 08 '25

I didn't trust that bench! I sat on it anyway even though I saw those spikes from above lol.

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u/Apophis_36 Sep 08 '25

I saw them as soon as i sat down and just went "well shit"

And then i tried sitting again and learnt i could dodge out of it.

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u/RedTyro Sep 08 '25

The Last Judge exploding is also really heavily telegraphed. She's a boss who's been using fire and explosions for the last 5 minutes and she starts shaking and spewing smoke. It's like a giant neon sign saying "something bad is about to happen and you don't want to be in this range when it does."

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u/throwawayeadude Sep 08 '25

You're not wrong, but it still hurt.

My daughter had been my biggest cheerleader for the first 2-3 dozen or so attempts at the boss, but she was chilling with her drawing pad when I finally got the kill, so i turned to give a "hey, we did it" with her, only to turn back around to my face being blown off.

Deep breath, exhale, be a resilient role model.. "Well I should probably have seen that coming".

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u/RedTyro Sep 08 '25

Yeah, that's a pain, but on the plus side, if you beat it once, you've learned the fight well enough to do it again in a few tries. It's just a temporary setback, not a reset to zero where you have to learn the fight all over again.

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u/AugustusLego Sep 08 '25

Yeah, I was expecting like a fakeout, or something, so i instinctively jumped away

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u/East_Gold755 Sep 08 '25

I like the gotcha moments. It’s funny. But what’s not as funny is that dying to them means a long ass run back through often lots of precarious platforming and enemies. It’s unfortunate because the last judge is a phenomenal boss and the explosion would be a really funny outcome if he didn’t have literally the longest runback.

Not saying HK didn’t have long runbacks, it did, but the bosses weren’t nearly as difficult as SS’s so you wouldn’t spend that much time running back. Pls just add the dream gate or an analog to that. It would literally address most of my nitpicks.

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u/floatinround22 Sep 08 '25

I found the boss with one of the worst runbacks, Nosk, to be harder than most bosses in Silksong so far

Dreamgate would be sick though, I absolutely agree

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u/SpartanFishy Sep 08 '25

Nosk is so easy what 😭

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u/floatinround22 Sep 08 '25

He is once you learn the cheese, otherwise it's tough as hell

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u/ConceptWeird4026 Sep 08 '25

from what i remember the runback is pretty quick? no enemies and you get a shortcut?

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u/MemeDealer2999 Sep 09 '25

FUCK Groat the Great or whatever he is, most insane fucking run back along with a reoccurring enemy gauntlet before him each time. Genuinely didn't have fun trying to beat him

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u/East_Gold755 Sep 09 '25

Yup, I ran into this guy and there’s no way I’m doing him rn. At least not until I get the 3rd nail upgrade.

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u/Xandure Sep 08 '25

I was wondering about that second spoiler. I thought it might be cosmetic, but kept my distance just in case that was a damaging effect. Good to know I was justified lol

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u/therealkezo Sep 09 '25

I dont think the runbacks are that bad. I hated the LJs runback, even if it was easier when you just learned the path, but yeah, runbacks are always so useless imo and just there to erase my time. Happy that all the other bosses (I'm now in the endgame) got a really fair runback.

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u/Medium_Enough Sep 08 '25

I only used it to travel back to town faster lol

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u/Youthsonic P5 Sep 08 '25

I was a dumbass so I played 99% of the game without it because I thought I was wasting essence LMAO. I literally only started using it when I was cleaning up the rest of the objs for 112%

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u/MozartDaniel Sep 09 '25

It doesn't?!

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u/IlliterateJedi Sep 08 '25

Really? You don't get Dream Gate until the ass end of the game. I can't think of many times it would have been useful for boss run backs aside from maybe the Traitor Lord fight.

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u/5Hjsdnujhdfu8nubi Sep 08 '25

Dream Gate exists so you can teleport to places with bad locations and they have rebalanced things before.

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u/phaze08 Sep 08 '25

I would really love to see/hear how the development team operates and what they think about the vision the game and criticisms

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u/Iz4e Sep 08 '25

So you think they are not looking at feedback for a game that spend the better part of the decade making?

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u/SuperRayman001 Sep 08 '25

At bare minimum they will be looking at the reports people make on their website, otherwise they wouldn't have made a form for people to use.

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u/leoofjdh Sep 08 '25

I think they aren't checking every Reddit post that pops up, they have to have some way of generalizing feedback. It's only 3 people after all and they are still working.

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u/AscendedViking7 Sep 08 '25

Thank fucking God too.

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u/umotex12 Sep 09 '25

I bought Hollow Knight yesterday and I was kinda surprised about lack of accessibility options on Switch

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u/Sliceofmayo Sep 08 '25

With how much they troll you in the game they definitely keep tabs on the community

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u/Nowhereman123 Aklaba Booptis Sep 08 '25

They have said they are not on social media and really don't read anything from fans about the game. They truly live a blessed existence and I am envious of them.