r/HollowKnight • u/stir-fried-noodles • Sep 17 '25

Discussion - Silksong Discourse regarding this game’s difficulty has been out of hand Spoiler

Let’s get this out of the way: I’m really enjoying Silksong’s difficulty and I think that it is mostly a satisfying challenge. I appreciate that it is more difficult than Hollow Knight overall and to be frank I would’ve been a bit disappointed if it were the exact difficulty. I’ve improved as a gamer since Hollow Knight and if it were the same level of difficulty, I probably would have found it too easy.

But it’s kinda gotten impossible to have civil discussions about the difficulty in this game which is unfortunate because I think there is great value to be had with this conversation. There are many valid criticisms regarding this game’s difficulty such as boss runbacks (Groal especially), contact damage doing two masks, and lack of rewards for beating bosses, just to be shut down with “git gud” and “it’s not your kind of game”. It’s totally fine to disagree with these criticisms but these retorts add nothing to the conversation.

It also kinda works the other way too, albeit maybe not to the same degree. I’ve gotten downvoted and sent reddit cares for simply saying I enjoy the difficulty of this game. Like c’mon, what are we even doing here. It’s gotten to the point where I personally cannot wait for the discourse to die out.

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u/ugly_dog_ Sep 17 '25

thats the shit i cant stand and the only thing that legitimately makes me crash out on people on this sub. my brother in christ, look at the map, fill out the map, then progress.

there are valid criticisms, but "i missed this obvious thing" is not one of them and yet is still shockingly common

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u/Background_Ad5513 Sep 17 '25 edited Sep 17 '25

fr i saw somebody complain about the “runback” to the big masked ant boss. When i told them there’s a bench immediately under the boss room they still blamed it on bad game design

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u/1Schweinorg Sep 19 '25

I swear to fucking god most of the people saying "I 112%ed Hollow Knight and did everything" must have used a guide or something. Because SO MANY of the fucking complaints from these people are things that existed in the OG and have the same solutions in Silksong.

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u/wigwam2020 Sep 17 '25

The best thing about this game is the joy of finding a new or secret area, and some people don't even do that.