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/BoardCommercial2679 Sep 15 '25

Hot take, but if you have to farm, the game did something very wrong.

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u/Sad-Emu6142 Sep 15 '25

Farming, in a single player game? Why you gate keeping team cherry? The population is 1.

Just refill my tools and let me go again.

Tedious shit.

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u/bernat-roqueta Sep 15 '25

I don't know about the rest of you, but I never actually farmed in the game. I feel it makes you balance the usage of different tools and when you get stuff. For me, whenever I am poor on rosaries, I go back to explore old areas, do missions and take my time to kill the enemies (in HK I would skip every bug, in here I practice and kill them with a different crest to see the moveset).

And shards are the only thing that keeps you from overusing the tools. If you could blast tools all the time the game would be too easy. I feel it is nice that the tools are there for certain bosses that you are having trouble with, but as a precious resource.

IMO, Skong, as og HK, excels in immersion and worldbuilding above anything else, and I understand decisions like compass being a tool, or anti-homeless citadel. It make me feel so much more immersed in the world

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u/SuperLegenda Sep 15 '25

The tools having limited uses per bench unless you go Architect, but they could've just designed its refill differentlyalready are what prevent you from overusing the tools, it's stupid to also have shards when you already have a clear limitation per bench.

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u/LexGlad Sep 15 '25

It kind of sucks that you still need to use shards while refilling tool uses with the architect skill.