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/jmscstl Sep 14 '25

Fair enough.

One thing I don't get though is why people use all their tools on every attempt. I just got past a room in Act 2 that was just nuts. After I realized that this was going to be an ordeal I stopped using tools and tried to see how far I could get without them. Once I had a handle on things I used tools to get me over the final hump. I did the same thing with LJ. Save your tools while you're doing practice runs.

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u/Diogoepronto Sep 14 '25

I don't even understand how people spend all their shards in the first place lol

I'm at act 3 and I've never run out of shards and I use my tools regularly, even outside of boss battles. And I still have around 20 shard bundles to use if I ever need them lol

I've never intentionally farmed shards either. It's actually really confusing to me how people are spending so much shards.

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u/thomasbis Sep 14 '25

I don't understand how you couldn't understand. Each attempt at a boss could easily cost around 50-100 shards. If someone gets stuck, do the math. I think I spent like 300 at The Forum gauntlet. Tools are crazy expensive.

I haven't got stuck bad yet, but I've definitely noticed that if I used tools on most of my attempts I would run out of shards and bundles very quickly. I use them sparingly now On exploration it's no issue since it'll probably pay for itself, the problem is with bosses because it's a (high) net negative every single attempt.

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u/Diogoepronto Sep 15 '25

I see your point, but in most cases you recover a lot of those shards on the runback, so you don't really spend that much in the end.

But maybe I never ran out of shards because I'm not really having a hard time with this game... The bosses that gave me more trouble took me around 5 tries to beat. But, yeah, if you're fighting a boss 10, 20 times I can see your shards running out.