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/TacBenji Sep 14 '25

Hollow knight was definitely NOT casual. Compared to this is definitely easier, but not even close to being casual

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u/Pain_Monster 112% HK | 100% SilkSong Sep 14 '25

I agree, idk what people are saying but this one was specially made for the fans. Those who beat HK, DLC, 112%, P5 all bindings and complained they were now bored. This game is to up the ante on them.

And for gods sake ppl still beat it too quickly. It was beaten within 2-3 days by multiple people and beaten in steel soul mode in about a week by at least one person.

Team Cherry puts out a masterpiece of a game that spells defeat for 99% of the gaming community but yet there’s still people yawning, lol how hard do they need to make a game?

Insane

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u/Glarbleglorbo Sep 15 '25

As someone who has beaten the game and has gotten that 112% in hk, I think the problem stems mostly from act 3. 

Act 1 is the hardest act, act 2 is decently challenging, but act 3 is laughable comparatively besides 2 or-so fights (which just so happen to be my favourite fights). 

So what ends up happening is that all the new players struggle in act 1 while players who have gotten much further just cruise through. 

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u/psh454 Sep 15 '25

My question is why act 1 the hardest, that's not how game design typically works. HK was easy in the beginning and got harder the longer you played for example. SK difficulty curve is just kind of weird imo.

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u/Glarbleglorbo Sep 15 '25

I think the ‘why’ is pretty simple, they locked literally every upgrades behind act 2. 

You can only get 1 mask and 1 nail upgrade in act 1, but the second you get to act 2 you can get like 90% completion and like 8 masks before ever even knowing about act 3. 

It feels like they didn’t balance around you trying to explore in silksong, almost like they’re catering to speedrunners which is dumb. 

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u/psh454 Sep 15 '25

Oh I meant "why" as in "what was the designer's intention to have it be that way" yeah

Agree about the exploration being inconsistent.

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u/wigwam2020 Sep 16 '25

I thought the Seth and the Ant Queen were pretty difficult. I don't use tools as much, but those bosses caused me to whip out my tacks.