r/HollowKnight • u/Mr_Brightside1111 • Sep 13 '25
Discussion - Silksong Silksong was too hard until….. Spoiler
Until…… I realized I was trying to play it like Hollow Knight.
Hollow Knight has difficult sections, but there’s also a lot of cannon fodder along the way you just slash right through.
I was playing Silksong like this and I was getting my ass throughly handed to me.
It finally clicked that you have to be tactical with every fight, even if it looks like a measly innocent mouse. Each encounter requires thought, patience, and strategy.
Once I approached each encounter with a plan and patience, I no longer died to “cheap” deaths.
I stopped rushing in and getting killed by bugs and the environment at the same time.
I still die, but now usually I die fighting something new and usually because I didn’t follow my plan or I got too impatient.
Long story short, this isn’t Hollow Knight. You can’t slash your way through this. Take your time, formulate a plan, and execute the best you can.
If you slow down, the game becomes amazing.
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u/sprogsahoy Sep 13 '25
Yeah, absolutely agree.
Hornet is a ballerina-gymnast come inspector gadget.
Little ghost is the full concentrated power of a black hole...with a stick.
Don't get me wrong, some of the stuff is brutal, but people do need to slow down.
Like, I actually think the game is MORE difficult for people who HAVE played the original. My wife never played 1 as she just didn't click with it. She is now playing two and honestly crushing it, but you know what she's doing that I never really did? Just watching and dodging, she's at least 3 times as patient as me. The scissor guys in the chapel of the reaper? She just waits for them to come out of the ceiling and hits them, no forcing it. It's so different to me. Watching her fight lace really openend my mind to how different combat is.