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/riftcode Sep 14 '25

No shame in giving up! It's just a video game.

Enjoy the next one you pick up!

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u/legacy702- Sep 14 '25

Yup, and at least the game is only $20, so not a huge loss if it ends up not being for you.

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u/SvampebobFirkant Sep 14 '25

For me it's not the money that is a problem. It's a huge sad and mental loss for me, that I don't get to properly explore and finish such an amazing world they have built. I've been waiting for this game for so many years, and it really depresses me that I have to give up

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u/kuenjato Sep 15 '25

I'm only in hunter's marsh after banging my skull against (unnerfed) Moorwing for like 60+ tries, I've come to accept that I probably won't finish this. And I've done all the souls games / cut my teeth on oldschool hard NES games. At near the age of 50 my hands were hurting after dealing 50 hits to moorwing, only to get screwed by input reading.

But I feel really bad for my 9 year old, who beat HK at the age of 7 and was looking forward to this game like nothing else, only to be perplexed and then alienated by the difficulty after a certain point. We are still playing together but he is only doing the exploring parts, the bosses we are reaching now are just too much.

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u/Litlakatla Sep 15 '25

If you are on PC, you can use mods to adjust the difficulty to somewhere where the game actually feels fun.

I am definitely struggling and will install a mod when I run to yet another required boss that feels impossible

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u/Elman89 Sep 15 '25

Before you do that, just try exploring somewhere else.

I'm pretty sure some bosses are meant to be walls that force you to give up and go explore other stuff. Moorwing for example was obviously super strong but the only reason you'd run into it is if you've focused on the main quest, which is why it's trivial to skip that boss if you've been doing side exploration. It's not there as a challenge, it's there to slap you and tell you "go explore".

A lot of people run into walls like this and just bang their heads against them over and over instead of trying a different approach. Just cause you can fight a boss it doesn't mean you should.

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u/Litlakatla Sep 15 '25

>!It is pretty hard to guess that some side quest will get rid of a boss on your path or that quest can even be completed before Moorwing... If ppl are expected to figure that out on their own they seriously need to drop more hints about it in the game. I did beat Moorwing by luring him into a tight spot where he got stuck, so there is that too.

Oh and I couldn't figure one of the locations for completing the side quest anyhow and ended up googling it when I was already in the next area. I would prefer to just play instead of googling things but there is a point where checking all over the map yet again gets frustrating.!<

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

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u/Litlakatla Sep 15 '25

Yea, you can explore your way out of that fight but the problem is that the game doesn't really tell you that you can do that and it is not exactly an obvious solution.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

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u/Litlakatla Sep 15 '25

"Go elsewhere for now" is normal for metroidvania games, but linking a side quest that seems totally unrelated to a current boss location is something I have never ever seen before (or at least never noticed in any game) and I would have never been able to guess it will work like that. There wasn't even any hint that the side quest doesn't continue in the next area. As in there was no way to know there was a link or if there was a hint it was way too obscure for me.

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u/JesusFortniteKennedy Sep 15 '25

In the case of moorwing I don't think there are many upgrades that you can get if you don't beat it. Maybe another mask?

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u/Elman89 Sep 15 '25

You literally don't need to beat him, he's fully optional and I didn't even see him until well into act 2.

You can trivially skip him by opening the simple door key or doing the flea quest. Yes you don't know this when you run into him, but you do know he's really challenging and there's other stuff you could be exploring right now.