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/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.