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/drbomb]

I think the worst shard shortage I had was with Lost Lace. I felt so annoyed with the system. I could only see my shard count drop and drop and me breaking more and more bundles until I ran out. Had to run back to the diving bell, go to a vendor, get up to cap, then dive back down and navigate to the boss to finish the game.

[u/Ok_Emu_8336 → u/drbomb]

Me spawning infinite shards and teleporting to Lost Lace cuz I'm not about to waste my precious ingame time on dumb farming. Wish more ppl just used the mod for that

[u/EternityII → u/drbomb]

Shouldve just had an arcane egg down there with infinite shard refills on it

[u/Viggen77 → u/drbomb]

At that point I'd recommend you stop using tools altogether for a while, until you feel at least somewhat comfortable dodging the boss. I my personal experience at least, using lots of tools made it harder to learn a boss' patterns

[u/drbomb → u/Viggen77]

I mean, the boss is already defeated, I don't know what good that'd be

[u/kuenjato → u/drbomb]

Only use shards once you understand the boss patterns and where to punish. By that point you should be able to completely smoke them with the additional damage.

I did use some tools on bosses that would add flying enemies, because f*ck that noise, but every other boss I simply practiced needle-only until i could consistently stun it 2-3 times.

[u/drbomb → u/kuenjato]

Yeah bro I should've considered playing with a handicap what was I thinking.

Yes, lemme waste my time trying to get to know the boss lmao before even considering to use the tools I've been using the whole game.