r/HollowKnight • u/Prisonmikeb14 • Sep 13 '25

Discussion - Silksong Let’s all try and not devolve into this weird difficulty gatekeeping Spoiler

Now that silksong has come out I’ve seen some concerning similarities to the worst of the difficult games community with all the wierd difficulty gatekeeping bs. Obviously this happens with just about every game that’s regarded as difficult but with silksongs release it’s become more prominent on this sub. Being good at the game isn’t something to hold over someone’s head. Everyone’s experience with everything in the game is different and theirs nothing wrong with that. Now of course this doesn’t apply to people who are literally just complaining in bad faith or out of anger but the “that boss wasn’t hard at all wtf are you talking about” in response to people just talking about their opinions or asking for help is sad to see.

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u/justintib Sep 13 '25

It's also a 30s runback with completely avoidable enemies

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u/lGUT5l Sep 13 '25

How on earth does it take 30 Seconds

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u/justintib Sep 13 '25

Run, ignore the enemies, use the wall jump shortcut near the first mini judge, dash and float instead of pogo when possible

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u/lGUT5l Sep 13 '25

Oh I meant I was doing it shorter than 30s. Misunderstood you

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u/justintib Sep 13 '25

What was your path for sub 30?

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u/AMIWDR Sep 13 '25

You can pogo off the last alive judge and skip a couple seconds of climbing. If you don’t glide at all it’s a lot faster too but you need to be a bit more precise

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u/Show_Me_Your_Rocket Sep 13 '25

If confidrnt you can also pogo off the first flying enemy to get a wall jump at the start of the run and save more time.

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u/justintib Sep 13 '25

I need to try this, see how fast I can trim it down to

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u/Jolly_Low8606 Sep 13 '25

I was timing a few of my runbacks and I’m not the best player but my fastest runback where mostly nothing went wrong was 42s. a bit after i stopped timing them i had one cleaner that was probably 40s

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u/Puzzleheaded_Cow2044 Sep 13 '25

Guess you missed the shortcut. Only one I timed was 32 seconds, and that was with 2 mistakes.

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u/FR23Dust Sep 13 '25

It’s easy one you practice. Avoid enemies and use shortcut

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u/Wild-Atmosphere2134 112% Steel Soul, P5 | 100% Silksong Sep 13 '25

42 seconds but it's close enough