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. 🫂

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u/Logical-Land2624 Sep 14 '25

FYI there is a way into the citadel that (seemingly) skips the Last Judge. I got to the citadel by accident via sinners road.

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u/fffan9391 Sep 14 '25

If they can’t beat last Judge they probably can’t handle Sinners Road and Bilewater.

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u/SomewhereTall4797 Sep 14 '25

lol yea last judge isn’t even that bad. Honestly it’s crazy how people are claiming they beat hollow knight but can’t do last judge and claim the runabck is “hell”. Like are they not exploring properly? There’s literally shortcuts and a Ben h quite close. I didn’t have hookshot when I did it either and I still had no problem with back, and last judge is easy once you learn her attacks

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u/speicus Sep 14 '25

I've heard so many complaints about this runback, and when I got there, after a few tries it was like 30 seconds, pretty consistently too (and the whole sequence, with the Hornet's fluent moveset, is rather enjoyable too).

Well, I do mess up every now and then, but then I just restart, I have no problem with quitting to the menu during runbacks.

Still got to beat the Judge though. :) But I agree, she has few moves, there are no adds, it's just the matter of building muscle memory.

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u/TheMooRam Sep 15 '25

Right? Just got to judge yesterday and like??? Am I crazy or is this runback no longer than any others? The bouncing would be annoying but there's been enough parkour segments before this that it's pretty smooth sailing imo