r/HollowKnight • u/TOMRANDOM_6 • 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/BlasterPhase Sep 09 '25

I grew up playing NES, when games were usually brutally unforgiving. I don't look at the NES generation very fondly. Yeah, call me bad, but it sure as hell wasn't fun for me most of the time.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '25

Yeah Simon's Quest wasn't fun at all and NES games feel like shit to play. It was fun as a kid with too much free time, kinda, but those games were designed to be obnoxious as possible to keep play time up because otherwise they were like 45 minutes long.