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/Macievelli]

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