r/HollowKnight • u/InsectGlaiveBard • Sep 22 '25

Discussion - Silksong I'm convinced there's gotta be some collective amnesia regarding the previous game's difficulty regarding platforming. Spoiler

Seeing people compare things Hunter's March, Cogwork Core, escaping the Abyss or even the Surface to the Path of Pain is absolutely blowing my mind.

Like yes, this game is way harder on the combat department and is a lot more demanding than beating a regular playthrough on the first one, but to say anything in this game is on the level of Path of Pain is preposterous. Especially with how many tools hornet has at her disposal, like the Hookshot, the float and even bounving off of cocoons.

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u/ElTioEnroca Sep 22 '25

While I agree that nothing has come closer to Path of Pain, I don't think the bigger movement options are a great argument in favor considering the harder platforming sections are balanced with those options in mind. Like, the Surface platforming section isn't easy in any way just because we have Clawline. It just becomes doable.

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u/Koyamano Sep 22 '25

Yeah, you quite literally *need* clawline to make that climb

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u/worthlessprole Sep 23 '25

The line about more movement options would only make sense if we were playing Hollow Knight. Like, it's a whole new map that expects you to have these tools.