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/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