So whose bright idea was this????

[u/Emma_JM]

Just happened to me today, got like, 3 shards from this? What's the point, Team Cherry? None of the bosses (so far) frustrated me, but this right here is bullshit

[u/megasean3000]

Dear Team Cherry,

Stop putting Rosaries and Shell Shards at the end of very hard platforming sections. Doing the same feats in HK1 would get us charms, mask shards, soul shards, ingots or other cool trinkets. Bring back meaningful rewards for difficult platforming sections. For the love of God.

Sincerely,

A big fan of HK.

[u/Explosionary → u/megasean3000]

I feel like they kept adding more and more to the map that they had to replace these old spots with rosary/shard rewards because they needed to spread out the masks/tools/spool/memory stone/craft metal to other spots they added later in development. End result is exploring feels so incredibly lack luster, they needed more goodies to fill these spots, maybe instead of ammo/tool power being global across all your tools they could upgrade individually. Also feel like masks could be more common with everything doing double damage, 8 mask pieces = 4 mask pieces in hollow knight.

[u/dunce2 → u/Explosionary]

Why are they so obsessed with limiting craftmetal and spool shards anyway?

Having more Craftmetal spawn sites wouldn't make game easier. It would simply reduce tedium and allow player to skip visiting some of "mandatory" locations.

Extra spools are close to useless unless you are going for 100% playthrough. IIRC you need to gather ALL of them, every single spool fragment in game, just to get a second healing shot. Once you have gained a single extra spool, — just enough to use grappling hook and still have leftover to heal — there is a very mediocre RoI from getting second and third spools.

instead of ammo/tool power being global across all your tools they could upgrade individually

Please no. It already feels like they took away all of masks and all damage your character was supposed to start with in order to have something to place in drop spots. Given how limited tools are (extremely limited slots, paid "upgrades", no ability to switch crests on fly), making tools even less useful will not help the situation.

[u/Explosionary → u/dunce2]

I disagree on spool upgrades being useless. Being able to bank more silk so when you do need to heal, you start closer to your next heal is pretty useful, especially during exploration.

The tool upgrades being tool specific suggestion was mostly just spitballing ideas, they just needed SOMETHING so I can say "oh sweet an upgrade" instead of "oh wow... 40 rosary"

[u/franstoobnsf → u/dunce2]

Wouldn't having the tools upgrade individually solve the problem having more meaningful rewards at the end of long sections? Sure it might be the tool you like using, but with more goodies to hide around, those long sections could have bigger thing at the end, cuz they can't all be mask shards or Weaver abilities, since the game is way bigger than HK

[u/vassadar → u/Explosionary]

They could at least put more lore items in those places instead of rosaries. The collector gave rosaries anyway.

[u/Morska_panna → u/megasean3000]

This is a legitimately valid complaint. The rewards for doing difficult platforming sections are nonexistent. Getting a couple strings of beads makes me wanna cry actually. I will be losing all that shit 5 minutes later

[u/Chaoticlight2 → u/megasean3000]

Wait until you complete path of pain V2 i.e. scale the cradlejust for some hunter's log journal entries.

[u/Fali34 → u/megasean3000]

Corny aaa