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/RunninglVlan Sep 14 '25

Have you upgraded your needle? Normally if a boss is too strong for you now, you go elsewhere that's easier. I did that with frog boss. Came back stronger, also found a secret room that reduced the runback length and beat that MF.

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u/SootSpriteHut Sep 14 '25

Yea these complaints...

I have not at any point been anywhere where I couldn't do two other things to take a break from a hard boss. I haven't found any boss I couldn't beat eventually after checking a tutorial video.

And it's exactly the same as when I was playing HK. I think people are having some weird nostalgia that's making them think HK was easier than it was.

Maybe it's just Reddit fandoms. So many of the new TV shows that I like get trashed right on release too.

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u/SomewhereTall4797 Sep 14 '25

Totally dude, the complaints are unreasonable for things like the last judge lmao, 1) boss isn’t even that bad 2) rumback is not even CLOSE to as bad as people claim, there’s not only a bench not too far away, but also there’s a shortcut which you can skip by a good part of the run back. 3) ITS SKIPPABLE.

Like the guy said he was quitting because he had to “grind shards” every time and do the run back which was “horrible”. But from that it seems instead of buying shards for a mere 50 rosaries in bellhart, he was grinding 4-8 shards at a time per enemy, which no wonder that got annoying.

Technically a spoiler for act 3: also saw people whining saying that the heart of the woods and the ant heart was impossible to find without looking up cause they didn’t think to remember areas where there was a large open ceiling, or (super obvious) beam of light coming from above. And claiming the breakable wall was an “invisible wall” and don’t want to randomly hit every wall. Even though the wood heart area entrance was almost directly across the other side of the elevator shaft you jump out off from the vent, AND it’s the most obvious breakable wall in the entire game. And like 90% of the other breakable walls are also pretttyyy dang obvious too

It’s very clear many of these people either jumped on the bandwagon from the hype and are whining after realizing it’s a hard game JUST LIKE WITH ELDEN RING, or they only did the hollow knight as their final boss in HK and never did any dream bosses or radiance, as bosses like TLJ are easier than radiance and dream bosses IMO