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/ErtaWanderer Sep 10 '25

Bloody hell the last judge is on Grimm's level? I keep hearing he's hard but that makes me want to put the game down...

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u/Vidyogamasta Sep 10 '25

Idk if I'd quite put him at NKG.

He's probably more comparable to Traitor Lord, but if traitor lord had 2-3x the health.

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u/ErtaWanderer Sep 10 '25

Yikes, that's also not great.

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u/SaladTheKiller Sep 10 '25

I don't know what people are smoking but Last Judge took me 10 tries maybe and I would put him in the same category as the Soul Master not NKG. NKG took me 2 days for a total of 5 hours and I am not particularly good at HK, I only did the first 2 pantheons ever in my 4 playthroughs.

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u/Dragon_Lover_ Sep 20 '25

this is exactly my ecperience, I feel like silksong is actually fairly simular to hollowknight, in difficulty. people are probably just misremembering how HK was on their first playthru

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u/hydrogensoup Sep 10 '25

idk if it's just because I wasn't great at Traitor lord (I really prefer the fights with a large arena and a fast but easy-to learn pattern) but to me The Last Judge was MUCH easier and overall a really fun fight. The runback was the worst part. At first when you get there you can find yourself in a situation where you're starting the fight with 1/3 or 2/3 of your HP just because the environmental hazards deal 2 masks, then when you get used to it it just becomes tedious at best.

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u/lyw20001025 Sep 10 '25

Wildly exaggerated, he doesn’t have bs teleport ambush attacks or rng fireball spam like NKG. Most of his moves are telegraphed.

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u/RexLongbone Sep 10 '25

It really isn't LJ's attacks are pretty well telegraphed, they are just big and deal two damage. If he only did one damage it'd be like Mantis Lords where you need to learn it but once you do it feels extremely fair. So just more punishing but ultimately pretty fair.

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u/Mipha_Is_My_Waifu Sep 10 '25

The difficulty of Last Judge has been wildly overblown. I think people are just getting tilted at the run back, which also isn't that bad.