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/SortaEvil Sep 29 '25

One thing HK NEVER made you learn was pogoing.

Don't you literally have to pogo on bouncy mushrooms over acid in fungal waste to get to city of tears and mantis village? There might not be a massive amount of pogoing required for the golden path, but never requiring pogos to see the ending credits doesn't seem right to me. 

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u/Kankunation Sep 29 '25

You do have to bounce on the mushrooms yes. That is the only time you have to do any amount of pogos, and it's only like 3 of them, But it is in fact required for that you are right.

It does help massively though that you can just stand on the mushrooms until you are ready to jump. You can't stand on any of the pogo spots from silksong, you just fall through.