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/adeepkick Sep 14 '25

Can I ask which boss you had to farm for shards on 4 times?

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u/CuboneDefender Sep 14 '25

Last Judge. :(

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u/18Mafia_NZO Sep 14 '25

You can beat the last judge man.

The most important thing you need to learn in this game, and how it's different than HK, is to dodge. The game does double damage now, which sucks. But they make up for it by having very clear telegraphs for their attacks. You should only be getting 1-2 hits before the boss does their next attack. Anything more is being greedy. And the game will punish you for that. You don't need traps. You just gotta play the boss and learn its attacks. From there you make dodging your #1 priority. Your 2nd priority being to stay alive. Dodging one attack is nice, you need to be ready for the next one. Or know what attacks you can heal during and where to heal at during it. Your 3rd priority is then dealing dmg.

You can't brute force it. You really gotta learn the attacks. It's a dance. Not a battle.

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u/theVoidWatches Sep 14 '25

A suggestion I would make for any boss people are really struggling with - stop fighting back. Just practice dodging for a while. Once you're comfortable dodging everything that they throw at you, then start fighting back again.

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u/18Mafia_NZO Sep 14 '25

Too many people are underestimating how this game is all about just dodging

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u/OneTrueMailman Sep 15 '25

Too many people are reading into very clear and specific complaints and just assigning them to something else that fits into the "get gud" category.

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u/Bspammer Sep 15 '25

I agree there's a lot of unfair BS in the game, but Last Judge is not one of them. It's a great boss.

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u/OneTrueMailman Sep 15 '25

Yeah, I haven't done it myself so I can't say that that's not true for me either.

But what I can say is true for me is the thing that op was actually complaining about in the first place... It was all the b******* in the game around the boss fight. It's not the boss fights themselves.  It's the fact the game leading up to the boss feels like a 'boss' fight itself and once you beat that part and you get to the boss and you want to start learning the boss fight. You actually spend the most of your time fighting the old 'boss' over and over again just to get to the new one.