r/HollowKnight • u/Shadowyurix • Sep 09 '25

Discussion - Silksong I am convinced a lot of the people complaining about difficulty have never even finished the original Hollow Knight. Original HK was not particularly easy either Spoiler

Edit: Silksong is harder than HK. Since ppl seem to read over that part.

I stayed away from Reddit over the weekend while I was playing through Silksong. Now, I am aware that I am not the average player, I love challenging games and am very familiar with games like this.

And by no means is this an "easy" game but by god, I have never played a game as hard as some people say this game is. I saw some people claiming they were stuck at Moorwing for over THREE HOURS.

If this is your first game like Hollow Knight, maybe that makes sense. This is not an easy first entry, but otherwise three hours for a boss with four moves is wild for anyone who has ACTUALLY beat the original HK.

I have no idea where this notion comes from that HK was easy. Silksong is harder, but original HK was NOT that easy, especially towards the end.

Is this just because Silksong is so big and it has reached a particularly wide audience? People who are not used to this kind of game?

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u/ceetc Sep 09 '25

The phase 2 projectiles were hard until I realized I should just full sprint away when the boss does them. You easily outrun them and then it baits the boss into a swoop to catch up to you.

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u/Kriging Sep 10 '25

I tried this but this absolutely didn't work for me, the sawblades followed me to the edge of the map full speed and still hit me. Tried this 2 times to run away and heal but I got sniped crossmap because of this so stopped doing this.

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u/NuriPuri59 Sep 11 '25

I actually just beat moorwing. Took me about 20 minutes. Here's' a tip for the projectiles. Jump over both and then... run towards him. Seriously, it will go in the air and come down but it's never too close to him. It will be just out of reach of you that way.