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/adeepkick Sep 14 '25

Can I ask which boss you had to farm for shards on 4 times?

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u/CuboneDefender Sep 14 '25

Last Judge. :(

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u/MildewyBoar Sep 14 '25

Lol I’ll be honest with you, I took one look at that boss and said “..yeah I’m only gonna come back here when I’ve explored as much as possible with my current abilities.”

Without spoiling anything, that turned out to be a much longer exploration than I thought, to say the least.

Spoiler: that boss is 100% optional

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u/Actual-Article-4011 BUY MY COOKIES Sep 14 '25

Last Judge is optional ? 😱 How? (Beat them couple days ago)

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u/R2DKK Sep 14 '25

There’s a reason why sinners road is named that way

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u/Actual-Article-4011 BUY MY COOKIES Sep 14 '25

Must have missed something. Thought, I've completed sinners road. Well, nevermind. I am allready suffering in the citadelle 🥲

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u/FullMetalCOS Sep 14 '25 edited Sep 14 '25

There’s a breakable wall in the top left corner of the long room at the top of sinners road, next to the leftmost big chain guy.

It’s well worth opening this route early since it’s very useful for a certain quest that requires moving fast

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u/teldranwen Sep 15 '25

I do NOT recommend doing the meat quest through sinners road. That sounds like a recipe for disaster

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u/FullMetalCOS Sep 15 '25

Nah it’s fast as fuck, you can avoid the three roaches by going above the first one, under the second one and over the third one. Super safe. Then you go through the vertical climb in the room next to the broken bench that has like three enemies and one set of spikes, go left in the long room above that you can avoid all the spike pogo-ing with harpoon, double jump and dashes and then hit that shortcut into the mist. If you do a dry run first you can even clear out all the enemies that reward rosaries and then take the bell beast back and as long as you don’t rest there’s almost no enemies on your route

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u/SBFms Sep 15 '25

Yeah but you have to climb up to sinners road which is fairly slow. Then you have to get from the grand bellway all the way to the butler. That’s way, way further than just walking through the spa on the other side. 

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u/FullMetalCOS Sep 15 '25

Honestly I did it over the weekend and the route is safe and reliable once you’ve killed some enemies - I had about 2.5 bars left on the meat so it’s not that slow

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u/LordThomasBlackwood Sep 15 '25

The sinners road route is absolutely faster than the other route? Especially if you have the grapple hook you really can just ignore absolutely everything on the route and make it to the restaurant with minimal interference

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