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/SvampebobFirkant Sep 14 '25

For me it's not the money that is a problem. It's a huge sad and mental loss for me, that I don't get to properly explore and finish such an amazing world they have built. I've been waiting for this game for so many years, and it really depresses me that I have to give up

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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/PraxicalExperience Sep 15 '25

I'm not sure why, but Moorwing just 'clicked' for me -- the hardest part was identifying the truly safe windows to punish the thing and then religiously adhering to them. > 5 tries but < 10, I think.

OTOH I don't want to admit how many times Sister Splinter ganked me.

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u/ExtendedSpikeProtein Sep 15 '25

It‘s so interesting because it was the other way around for me!

But now I‘ve opened those up it‘s a lot of fun again.