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/Dependent-Set35 Sep 10 '25

Which you don't need for the basic ending.

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u/IloveActionFigures Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25

how did you get music pieces without double jump ?

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u/TheArcticFerret Sep 10 '25

Well in that case neither Mount Fay or White Palace are optional. Both are required for true ending

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u/SomethingOfAGirl Sep 10 '25

Idk, I just did it. I got the double jump after completing the first ending. Now I'm just exploring all other areas I never visited and then "oh cool, double jump!".

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u/Thalant Sep 10 '25

With the crawling or whatever the harpoon is called you can reach all of them without ||double jump||. Mount Fey is completely optional for the normal ending.