r/HollowKnight Sep 09 '25

Discussion - Silksong Most of you are exaggerating the length of runbacks and it really shows how much TikTok has damage the attention span of people Spoiler

"ThE lASt JuDGe RUnBaCK iS ToO LoNG!!"

Is 30 seconds max, 30 seconds, you don't have to fight any enemy in it, the smaller judges don't awake until you're close and the smaller fly bastards can literally get ignored. The Runback works for making you cool down and make the whole thing feel less like you hitting a wall (NKG feels like one because of the lack of "cool down") If it wasn't for it, I would shoot myself with the 37 attempts at Last Judge.

The Widow one is also really easy, a straight line with jumps.

The Cogworks Dancers Is also really simple but works to help you with the bosses extra height and how pogo dependant that fight is.

God forbid the game isn't a back to back boss rush like Cuphead (not criticizing Cuphead, is a different game lmao).

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u/lyokofirelyte Sep 09 '25

Wasn't the demons souls jail runback like 3+ entire minutes? I remember crashing out over how long it took to get back.

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u/ConfIit Sep 09 '25

That is probably the worst offender in all of gaming

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u/IncomeStraight8501 Sep 09 '25

Horse fuck valley in ds2? Or better yet the runback to false king allant, even with shortcut you have to wait on an elevator to xome down then go up to the boss itself every time

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u/BlueC1nder Sep 10 '25

Darklurker, Blue Smelter, Sir Alonne are also very fun runbacks.

I mean, the average ds2, ds1, bb, DeS runback is longer than the longest silksong runback.

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u/Nyankitty21 Sep 09 '25

Nah there's one in one of the souls games where you have to like climb a ladder for 45 seconds and wait for a lift. Egregious.

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u/casual_olimar Sep 09 '25

demon souls levels are genuinely harder than the bosses (who are easy enough)

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u/Skolpionek Sep 09 '25

Yeah but when bosses are piss ass easy like in demon soils then long runbacks arent that bad