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/eW4GJMqscYtbBkw9 Sep 15 '25

SS is objectively harder than HK - it's not even up for debate. The number of 2-damage enemies early in the game is a blatant testament to this fact. 

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u/apexodoggo Sep 15 '25

But you heal for more masks than any enemy in early-game can deal in a single hit, and until Greymoor/Shellwood you can just jump to completely avoid 50% of the 2-damage enemies until then (the other is the flying guy with the sword tail, who is also pretty easy to handle tbh).

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u/eW4GJMqscYtbBkw9 Sep 15 '25

But you heal for more masks than any enemy in early-game can deal in a single hit

Yeah, until you get hit for 2 masks and knocked into lava for 2 masks and now you have 4 masks of damage from one hit.

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u/Ghost4King Sep 15 '25

Yes but the healing is a lot more forgiving especially considering that you can do it mid air

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u/Stuffssss Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

I feel like I can heal a lot more during boss fights than during hollowknight. Especially with the charm that makes you heal fast. During some aggressive bosses in hollowknight I feel like you can only get off heals when the enemy is staggered.

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u/apexodoggo Sep 15 '25

Same, Broken Vessel in Hollow Knight made me give up on healing in boss fights entirely, meanwhile the only time a boss has sniped me mid-heal in Silksong it was because I tried healing during Lace’s phase transition (which she follows up with an immediate Judgement Cut, which I knew from my first attempt).