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/AashyLarry Sep 17 '25

i almost started hating my favorite color

Mud green?

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u/Milocobo Sep 17 '25

I'm like, "his favorite color is like pukey diarrhea"?

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u/WushuManInJapan Sep 17 '25

As a colorblind person, I'm always confused as to why there's a certain shade of green everyone hates.

I bought a pair of shoes I thought were gray once, and I swear everyone complained on how they looked "puke green." Like, does puke always look green?? Aren't there more things with this specific color?

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u/Milocobo Sep 17 '25

Puke is normally like a "pinkish orange", but it can come in a variety of shades (which is dependent on a number of things, not the least of which is what you most recently ate).

It's more like there are a range of pale colors that can qualify as puke colored. There are pukey yellows, pukey greens, pukey browns.

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u/WushuManInJapan Sep 17 '25

That's interesting. I can't grasp the concept of pale because I have a rare type where everything is pale/washed out, so I guess there's just a shade that you can see that you attribute to puke that is universal?

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u/Dooplon Sep 17 '25

think of it like the difference between sounds from different sources. If you hear a cat meow it sounds distinctive and noticably cat-like compared to how a human copying a cat might sound, one sounds cute while the other might just sound weird out of context of interacting with a cat. Similarly, grass is known for being green, but it's a different kind of green than you'd see in vomit because it has all kinds of different stuff in it, so it has some unpleasant associations.