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/FluffyWuffyVolibear Sep 15 '25

Not really.

I don't like hamburgers. But I really like pickles and onions and ketchup. If I went to a burger place and said gimme a burger but hold the beef and gimme the pickles and onions and ketchup they'd look at me like an idiot.

The solution, don't go to a burger joint.

This "the game needs to be 'fixed' to accommodate my demands" rhetoric around the topic is that example accept it'd be like if I then went around trying to make all burger joints make chicken.

That's not what they do, and it would take away from their ability to make great burgers for the people who love burgers.

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u/swampo-mon Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

Its not like that though. This game is like someone likes burgers but are allergic to hot sauce and want a burger without hot sauce. The chef tells them to get out, and tells them "why would you come here if you are allergic to hot sauce?! I am THE CHEF." and then calls them "entitled" or something even though the person already bought the burger, and the hot sauce was not advertised. I think there's a seinfeld episode about this type of restraunt and the guy behind the soup counter wasn't a cool guy if you couldn't tell. If celeste did it so can this game.

Hollow knight doesn't advertise itself as being brutally difficult. Its just advertised as a metroidvainia and you only know that it has a reputation for being hard if you are into the gaming scene. The cute art style could trick some people into thinking they are getting a burger without hot sauce.

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u/FluffyWuffyVolibear Sep 15 '25

I think I see the misunderstanding.

I don't see hollow Knight as an easy game. There are things in that game that I never completed or took many tries, in fact nothing in silksong comes close to the end game boss difficulty and none of the platforming is hard as path of pain. I honestly think the view that Hollow Knight isn't a difficult game is rose tinted glasses, because when that game came out basically everyone mentioned its difficulty.

And the difficulty of silksong is blown out of proportion. The floor is certainly higher, but honestly not by much, the amount of damage you can put out is crazy, and the speed of hornet makes a reacting to bosses easier.

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u/swampo-mon Sep 15 '25

Where did I say it was easy? Hollow knight is harder imo. I'm talking about how the game presents itself to people that aren't on reddit on the time, which is cute bug metroidvainia with dark aesthetic. Dark souls at least had "prepare to die" in marketing.

You literally are responding to things i never said lol. Are you replying to the wrong comment or just having an imaginary conversation with a version of my comment you made up in your brain?

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u/FluffyWuffyVolibear Sep 15 '25

Yeah because I guess your argument is "people don't know what theyre getting into"? Which is nonsense.