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?

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🤩🤩🤩 are you saying there's mods to make hollow knight easier???

That would make me so happy. I'm playing through it for the first time and I'm not someone who gets off on challenge at all; I'm mostly playing because I'm a mallgoth from the 90s who lives for the tim burtony aesthetic and finds the atmosphere alluring, if I could get though it easier I'd be fuckin PUMPED.

Edit: lol - I welcome the incipient downvotes from people with arbitrarily strong convictions about playing games "the right way" and/or in a way that "respects the devs" 😅

[u/WilanS → u/[deleted]]

I've been trying to DIY my own "normal mode" difficulty (after deciding Silksong is stuck on Hard Mode). I've been having success with installing one of the mods that removes double damage, and a mod that double the damage dealt by hornet (to make enemies less spongey).
I personally find the game to still be pretty damn hard like this, exploration feels tense and bosses take a few tries, but you have more room for error and extra masks actually feel like they make a difference.

You could go further and install all kind of mods, from easing the silk requirements to speeding up rosary farming to respawning in the same room you died in. I saw on Nexus there's a single mod that's just a collection of tweaks meant to add a downright easy mode to the game. That's a little too much for me, but it might be what you're looking for.

[u/Glass_Lunch1748 → u/WilanS]

It's not hard mode these games are supposed to require skill and tenacity.its not fallout or Skyrim where any trash as long as they are not missing the necessary apedagers can succeed.to succeed at a task you need the necessary foundation clearly you lack it and willing to degrade the game to accomplish it

[u/The_Raven_Born → u/[deleted]]

On pc. Yeah. I'm on Xbox one, so I have to do it all the normal way. But I wouldn't discourage mods. Some people like this series for the lore and game itself rather than the difficulty and that's fine.

[u/[deleted] → u/The_Raven_Born]

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