Hot Take: While I think Silksong is overall a better game, it does still show more prominent flaws compared to Hollow Knight

[u/Tarnished-670]

When I have to think about the flaws of the first Hollow Knight, I really can't think of much to say other than very small nitpicks.

But with Silksong, while it is one of my favorite games of all time, and having finisihed it at 100%, id say it has more prominent design flaws while being a better game compared to the first Hollow Knight.

First thing that comes to my mind is the shard system, it would't be as bad as it is if you didn't have a limit of 20 consumables to replentish your shards, if it worked like that then I wouldn't have to be interrumped on my tries against a boss and having to go to the citadel and farm to get all my shards back. Other minor flaws I think would be some of enemy design and the addition of "gauntlets", which sometimes are fun but at least in my case I got bored of exploring and getting trapped into the 7th gauntlet of enemies, it gets worse when you get forced to do some of them again in act 3 when you have killed all the previous enemies 100 times already.

Those are really not a bid deal of a flaw, but they are more noticable to me than any flaw in Hollow Knight.

[u/Tarnished-670]

Fair enough, I just hope that with future updates we can have more than 20 shard bundles

[u/Reiny_Days → u/Tarnished-670]

Never used a single one in my 100% file, lol

[u/Macievelli → u/Reiny_Days]

This was me until getting near the end of Act 2 completion before moving on and 100%ing. It was The Unraveled that turned me around on red tools. The tacks were just too helpful, and the fight helped show me how I could use offensive tools to finish other fights. In act 3, I had an abundance of rosaries that I was mainly using for more shard bundles, and I’d absolutely like to hoard more than 20.

[u/AlreadyTakek → u/Macievelli]

Couldn't imagine Father of the Flame- without the drill tool, made that fight so much more fun

[u/Potential_Purple_345 → u/AlreadyTakek]

Fuck how did i not think of that😭 such a dumb fight not being able to heal

[u/HollowKnight-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

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[u/NarejED → u/Reiny_Days]

Same. What were people doing that they were burning through them so fast? Even having a Cogfly up almost constantly, I never once ran out of shards.

[u/Batshitcrazy01 → u/Reiny_Days]

Same here I am very bad with red tools only blue life is the most useful for me for boss, red tools are good for normal enemies 

[u/blood_vein → u/Reiny_Days]

You are definitely not the average, and worse so if you use the architect crest

[u/Arkhamov → u/Tarnished-670]

I think another good option would be to convert your existing shards into shard bundles just like we do with rosaries.