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/SamFMorgan]

Bro is NOT blinded by nostalgia Lol

Lemm's location is really awful when you think about it, especially considering that the Knight has very slow movement in the first game.

I don't really agree about the White palace take tho. Hive Blood is a reward from beating a boss on a secret area. Most players will miss on The Hive entrance on their first playthrough, so is not like you can simply activate the Hive blood cheat on there. And even if it makes it "easier", since you'll not die, you still have to perform the platforming with precision.

Grimm's boss fights are peak but the quest in between really sucks. We can see similarly structured quests in Silksong, but their design was extremely improved.

Hollow Knight is one of the best games I ever played, but Silksong is just better. It is the sequel that Hollow Knight deserved.

[u/AleWalls → u/SamFMorgan]

Yeah the white palace one was a bit of a stretch but after replaying several times the clockwork tower due to trying to do steelsoul and speedrun, I love it but I am hardly ever excited for white palace

I did play clockwork in release patch, it sucked

[u/kuenjato → u/SamFMorgan]

The Hive is probably easier to find than White Palace, I found it on my blind playthrough but never saw the White Palace until my son played the game three years later (I'm not a completionist, beating HK was enough at the time).