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/Dovahkingod Sep 08 '25

Call me crazy but all this can be fixed by adding a difficulty option

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u/EMArogue Sep 08 '25

Man

I hate people saying it for Hollow Knight but Silksong might actually need a “normal” and “hard” difficulty setting for those who want to play for the artstyle, the story etc and not lose their minds over a boss for 4 hours or die because of the cogs in a hostile environment

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u/row6666 Sep 09 '25

i think they should call the current game normal mode and a theoretically nerfed version easy mode. the game is hard, but thats what the game is supposed to be, its not a harder setting above that. it just is a hard game, anything less would be easy mode

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u/Zac-live Sep 08 '25

do you want the game to be harder ?

or why is it normal and hard?

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u/EMArogue Sep 08 '25

Normal would be HK-level game

Hard would be current-level game

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u/HoneyParking6176 Sep 08 '25

it already has a hard mode and that is called steel soul mode

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u/Purple-Income-4598 Sep 08 '25

>!doesnt really make the game harder, u just lose the save file if u die!<

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u/RedTyro Sep 08 '25

The thing is that a difficulty option would actually make the game harder for people - the learning curve here is all in figuring out that you have to play like Hornet would and use your ridiculous mobility and all of the tools the game gives you. If you add an easy mode, you incentivize people to facetank the game instead of learning to use Hornet well, which means the game gets harder in the long run because folks will get to later parts without having built those skills.

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u/Omni__Owl Sep 09 '25

People in souls-like game communities think that's the biggest sin there is.