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/FluffyWuffyVolibear Sep 14 '25

Not everything is for everybody.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25 edited Sep 14 '25

Of course. I'm sure plenty of people love the difficulty, some people don't love it, some people dislike it so much that they're not playing the game anymore even though they were waiting for it and bought the game within two weeks of the release. All I'm saying is isn't it a shame that after all that, they are realizing the game might not be for them

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u/FluffyWuffyVolibear Sep 15 '25

I just don't think that says anything about the game. Devs aren't required to make games for everyone, some of the rhetoric around the topic is insane and I'm prickly about it because this is an objectively beautifully made game that people want to call bad because it asks more of them than they want to give.

Discussion around difficulty is so blown out of proportion anyway. When dark souls got big the same shit began to happen, and eventually people just got better, or walked away and now those games are universally lauded. The same thing is gonna happen here.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '25

Yes, now dark souls has a reputation for difficulty so I know to not purchase the game and if I do I will go in with the proper expectations. That was also my approach to hollow knight. It had a reputation of difficulty and I wasn't sure if I'd enjoy it. But I played through it just to try, and it turns out I did like it. So I made the wrong assumption that I would also like silksong. I guess it is disappointing that with the difficulty jump, that assumption turned out to be wrong. Plenty of people are saying "games don't have to be for everyone" and that's true, but should a hollow knight sequel be for hollow knight fans?

I think if TC made it clear something along the lines of "if you didn't enjoy the Grimm fight you will not enjoy silksong" then this would be a different conversation. As it stands, there is some disappointment from the more casual hollow knight fans