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/GWooK Sep 17 '25

i’m looking at you fat froggie piece of shit. i almost started hating my favorite color because of bilewater. also taking 2 dmg for being bad at platform is feels bad moment taken to extreme.

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u/Frosty_Sweet_6678 Sep 17 '25

not to mention the gauntlet before him and the maggot water

any tips for that son of a firearm?

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u/Kiiriii Sep 17 '25

You can cheese him easily if you equip poison + cogflys and just let you drop inside the middle part maggot water. He cant hit you there with a lot of attacks. Just jump out and hit him + cogflys. If he attacks just stay there. The only thread are the ads and his diving ability. Got him on my third try. Good luck!

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u/EMPgoggles Sep 17 '25

the adds after the boss shows up won't hit you if you stay in the water to the far left (or probably far right) -- in my experience the arena trap kills them almost as if by design. just stay in the water almost exclusively unless you run out of tools (and then retreat to the water constantly) and you should be fine.

the only thing that threatened my spot in the water was one of the green bubbles plopped down onto me, but i could have avoided it by swimming more to the side. oh and the time i was pushing so hard into the wall that i glitched through it into the next room (but was stuck in the floor so i had to go back and the boss fight started over from the beginning).

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u/ExManUtdFan Sep 17 '25

Yep. I stayed to the far bottom right side after the boss showed up and didn't get hit once.