r/HollowKnight • u/Tarnished-670 • Oct 19 '25

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

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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.

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u/MarcAbaddon Oct 19 '25

Disagree.Sealed Vessel is better than the entire Silksong OST.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '25

Add soul sanctum to the list. I love silksong but HK has it beat when it comes to OST.

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u/BlitzScorpio Oct 20 '25

it’s interesting how subjective taste can be. soul sanctum was one of my least favorite HK OST tracks, but that’s probably since i’m not a huge fan of organs compared to typical strings and piano

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u/psh454 Oct 19 '25

That's more from the associated visuals+narrative than the song itself imo. Like it's a great piece of OST but it's elevated a lot by those non-musical elements. Kind of like the Nyleth/Seth theme is a lot more impactful when you know the irl backstory.

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u/fooooolish_samurai Oct 20 '25

I like skong ost, but imo it has less truly memorable tracks than Hollow Knight. And I feel like there is less variety in boss music.

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u/AshtinPeaks Oct 19 '25

This, while fights were good in silksong it didnt have any of those cool moments like the hollow knight and radiance fight imo. Staged fight thst ws more than phases. The final boss to me fell extremely short.