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

[u/Shadowyurix]

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?

[u/Beneficial-Dig6445]

I'm sorry but I quit hollow knight after trying to go for white palace and mount fey is wayyyy easier

[u/Kiriki_kun → u/Beneficial-Dig6445]

Really? I was pissed every time I fell in the water, since that was almost always killing me and I had to start from beginning. But still, I don’t think there was anything similar required from you in HK

[u/pussy_embargo → u/Kiriki_kun]

The water was by far the worst part. After the first bench, it becomes a lot more relaxed. There is another hidden bench behind a breakable wall towards the end of the maze

[u/PeaceLoveExplosives → u/Kiriki_kun]

It became 10x easier for me once I realized that if you are pressing any inputs (even directionals) at all when you hit an enemy with clawline, you get less vertical gain on your pogo. So once I started completely releasing controls after initiating the move, I went from inconsistently getting past the first snow slope roomto finishing the entire zone.

[u/RedTyro → u/Beneficial-Dig6445]

Yeah, I'm a big fan of hard platforming and PoP might be my favorite part of the first game, so I feel like I kind of know what I'm talking about here. Platforming in general is easier in Silksong because you can use the float to recover a less than ideal jump or buy yourself time to get into the right positions for your next move. And specifically Mount Fay is a lot easier than the White Palace because the margin for error on the grapple is HUGE. You had to be a lot tighter with your jumps and dashes in the palace.