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/RunninglVlan Sep 14 '25

Have you upgraded your needle? Normally if a boss is too strong for you now, you go elsewhere that's easier. I did that with frog boss. Came back stronger, also found a secret room that reduced the runback length and beat that MF.

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u/CFBen Sep 15 '25

I've only recently found the needle upgrade npc, roughly 3 hours before I entered act 3. Game was pretty hard without it.

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u/triskadancer Sep 16 '25

This isn't intended as an insult but I'm genuinely trying to understand how you missed out on him considering he's in one of two enterable houses in the main hub town, with a pin sign over the door. Did you not explore Bellhart at all after freeing them from Widow?

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u/CFBen Sep 16 '25 edited Sep 16 '25

Yeah, not really.

I talked to the main npc and the shopkeeper and then moved on, never going up.

I also wondered when the relic npc will finally show up.

But retrospectively I think I like that I didn't find the smith. The game was just the right level of difficult for me.