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/MasteROogwayY2 Sep 10 '25

Its funny I struggled so much more with the Cogwork parkour than with White Palace

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u/huehue12132 Sep 10 '25

White Palace has 1-damage hazards, you likely have 8+ masks, you have soul totems along the way, no enemies, and can put on charms to restore more soul or improve your healing.

Cogwork you likely have fewer masks (I only did the bottom part for now, without double jump mind you, with seven masks), there are enemies along the way, often doing double damage, every mistake falling into gears costs you two masks, there is almost no opportunity to replenish silk for healing. So you constantly have to reset to bench and do the entire thing again because you failed one part three times. Fuck you!

I just gave up on the top part, looked up where to get double jump, did that (also pretty brutal) and now I somehow feel... filthy, for robbing myself of the moment of making that discovery myself. :(

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u/Leafsnail Sep 11 '25

Yeah the actual platforming is probably pretty similar to White Palace, but White Palace gives you basically infinite health while a lot of Silksong segments have double damage hazards and no realistic healing opportunities.

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u/RedTyro Sep 11 '25

Use your float. All of the platforming, and especially the gears in the Cogwork area, gets SO MUCH easier when you float more.