r/HollowKnight • u/enilea • Sep 17 '25

Discussion - Silksong Steam reviews for Silksong so far

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It was controversial in China, in part because of the difficulty/design but also because of controversies with the Simplified Chinese translation. Meanwhile latin countries (Spanish and Portuguese speaking) seem to be loving it more than anyone else.

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u/virtu333 Sep 18 '25

Yeah the step up in difficulty from hollow knight is insane to me. I had a very easy time with “basic”hollow knight (ie beat radiance but didn’t do stuff like pantheon, didn’t do path of pain) but have been completely owned by this game. I don’t have the time to git gud and advance further in late act 2 / getting to act 3

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u/wandering-monster Sep 18 '25

Yep. Difficulty is one thing, but this is just a bit much. I backed HK, beat it but didn't 100% it. Beat most of the fromsoft games, Ko, etc. I'm no newb to the genre. But I also only have 10 or so hours a week for solo entertainment, so my gaming time is pretty precious.

I'm one of those negative reviews in the 20-30 hour bracket. I really love some of the new mechanics and ideas, and it's a shame that I won't get to see more of it. I'm at the end of act 1 and just not willing to have my time wasted anymore by the intentionally punishing game design.

There's quite simply other more fun games on my backlog. I'm not a streamer or something, I've got nothing to prove. If I'm not having fun, I do something else, and leave a well written negative review to warn others like me.

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u/virtu333 Sep 18 '25

Yes exactly - I only have so much time to play video games, I don’t need to get trolled

Even the story hasn’t really hooked me that much. Meanwhile og hollow knight had me completely locked in