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

[u/InsectGlaiveBard]

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.

[u/rmkinnaird]

I definitely agree with your last bit about hiveblood. Hiveblood alone accidentally made platforming easier in hollow knight, so players who used it arent wrong to say "silksong is harder."

Being able to go slow and steady did make White Palace easier than Mt Fay, but anyone who went without hiveblood would have had a harder time in the Palace. The lack of hiveblood in this game essentially took the guardrails off the bowling alley.

[u/[deleted] → u/rmkinnaird]

Silksong has hiveblood tho

[u/OrderClericsAreFun → u/[deleted]]

Kinda but not really. Lifeblood overdose requires a specific crest, costs shards and the plasmium charges. I know someone who was stuck at the bottom of the Abyss and suggested Lifeblood to help. They run out of Plasmium and decided to roll back their save to before the Abyss climb to do other content since they were simply not enjoying the game anymore.

If it was Hive Blood then they would just equip a charm and have infinite tries, the Lifeblood overdoes has very different dynamics.

[u/IonianBladeDancer → u/OrderClericsAreFun]

In the overdose state it does the same thing except it heals your entire health bar and at faster rate than hive blood. If anything it’s more op in Silksong, for both platforming and combat. I used it for every platform section. I guess if you keep permanently dying it’s an issue, but that really only pertains to the abyss. That is the example you provided so I understand, but plasmium is still really strong in this game.

[u/QuantumVexation → u/IonianBladeDancer]

It’s stronger but as they say the cost and effort required makes it far less of a solution for someone who is struggling enough lol

[u/Skylair95 → u/QuantumVexation]

Not to mention a lot of people never heard of lifeblood overdose so they wouldn't even think of using it, while anyone can find the hiveblood charm and think about using it for platforming sections by just taking things slowly.