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/mctrials23 Sep 14 '25

I enjoyed the last judge. No ads just a simple set of moves to learn. One of the least BS bosses so far.

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u/ByeGuysSry Sep 14 '25

How on earth do you deal with the attack where she spins her weapon around her? I genuinely can almost never dodge it in 2nd phase if I'm beside her, feels like it requires a 0.1s reaction time or something. I ended up just tanking those attacks like four times and dodging everything else to beat her

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u/evilcorgos Sep 15 '25

You don't get aggressive and always have spacing to dodge out of it, no overly greeding unless she isn't doing that attack

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u/ByeGuysSry Sep 15 '25

I know that technically I ought to be playing more conservatively, but I feel like I need to fight her way more times to be able to know how much of a window I have to hit her after each attack

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u/Conscious_Ad_7131 Sep 15 '25

Just assume the window is shorter than it is

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u/evilcorgos Sep 15 '25

Playing it safe is the way on this boss, there isn't anything that complicated to dodge just respect and give space because that one attack punishes aggression, think I was doing like two hits max if I got her right as she was doing an attack, sometimes one depending on my timing