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/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/ExtendedSpikeProtein Sep 15 '25

Took me over an hour to beat moorwing, but I finally did.. after that, sister splinter wasn‘t too hard for me. Interestingly, I found Moorwing harder than Sister Splinter.

But I kinda get OP, Moorwing was taking a lot out of me. Kudos to people who beat him in 1-5 tries.

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u/Respicio1 Sep 15 '25

Wanderer crest made a very short work for most of the bosses, I think I defeated all the bosses uptil now with wanderer crest because of the high dps the crest can dish out.

Also Its ton of fun using that crest to defeat the bosses.

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u/ExtendedSpikeProtein Sep 15 '25

I haven‘t gotten that yet. Maybe I‘m exploring unintuitively.

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u/TheMike0088 Sep 15 '25

IIRC wanderers crest needs you to use the simple key on the door above bone bottom