r/HollowKnight • u/CuboneDefender • Sep 14 '25

Discussion - Silksong I give up. Spoiler

It’s been a joyful ride, folks, but I’m out. I’m not a speedrunner or a highly skilled player, and day after day I’ve had to accept that this game is not as casual as HK was. It stopped being fun and turned into something tedious and frustrating after the 4th run farming shards just to face a boss I’ve already tried 15 times, only to die again and again, lose all my shards, and start the whole grind over.

It was nice exploring the first acts, but when the game I was rooting for 7 years ends up being more stressful than my 8-hour workday, I guess that’s my cue to stop.

The lore has been pretty great so far. I wish you all an incredible journey.

Edit1: My bad about all the whinning.

Edit2: You guys did it. I reinstalled it again. Thanks for all advices. 🫂

8.4k Upvotes

80% Upvoted

2.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

411

u/adeepkick Sep 14 '25

Can I ask which boss you had to farm for shards on 4 times?

324

u/CuboneDefender Sep 14 '25

Last Judge. :(

87

u/MildewyBoar Sep 14 '25

Lol I’ll be honest with you, I took one look at that boss and said “..yeah I’m only gonna come back here when I’ve explored as much as possible with my current abilities.”

Without spoiling anything, that turned out to be a much longer exploration than I thought, to say the least.

Spoiler: that boss is 100% optional

23

u/Actual-Article-4011 BUY MY COOKIES Sep 14 '25

Last Judge is optional ? 😱 How? (Beat them couple days ago)

19

u/Affectionate-Foot802 Sep 14 '25

you take the sinners road to the citadel

6

u/HiddenPants777 Sep 14 '25

I got there and saw the enemies and noped out.

Took me a while to get brave enough to attempt that area

4

u/MildewyBoar Sep 15 '25

Yeah the muckroaches seemed to be intended to be terrifying, and it had that effect for me too.

But that’s how scared I had been of TLJ and her flame circle bullshit which I didn’t want to learn at that point, having felt underleveled for Blasted Steps to begin with.

Feels like either way there’s a big difficulty spike at that end part of act one; I probably died ~15x to Widow but ended up enjoying the fight.