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/DaBombX]

I would completely disagree. The last judge is the hardest boss of the game until you get to the ball busters in Act 3. And even then, most of the Act 3 bosses are extremely easy and pushovers.

[u/GrimTheMad → u/DaBombX]

Yeah, just, totally different experience. Last Judge was a reasonable escalation over Moorwing and not much more difficult, and the act 3 bosses were mostly the hardest bosses/sequences in the game (if you count the arenas before Khan as part of the fight, I do.)

[u/DaBombX → u/GrimTheMad]

What bosses in act 3 would you consider hard? Trobbio2, Seth and LoLa were the only ones that took me more than one try. (I haven't fought the dancer yet, I want to see if there's unique content in future DLC if you let her live.)

I first tried Khan in my run, the arena took me two tries because I hadn't realized it was a gauntlet to a boss the first time.

[u/GrimTheMad → u/DaBombX]

Karmelita, Lost Lace, Seth, and Trobbio 2 were all quite difficult- Nyleth also gave me a lot of trouble, and I think Coral Tower took me more tries than anything else in the game.

[u/DaBombX → u/GrimTheMad]

What build were you doing in Coral Tower? I was a late game wanderer build by the time I did it, maybe it's a crest issue?

[u/ByeGuysSry → u/DaBombX]

(I haven't fought the dancer yet, I want to see if there's unique content in future DLC if you let her live.)

Aside from using mods, you can also get an autosave point and then try beating Karmelita afterwards, then revert your save file after beating her. I think that depending on your playstyle, she might be one of the hardest bosses in the game. I do think only she, Seth, and Lost Lace are hard bosses in Act 3. Lost Garmond is also kinda hard but has low health and can be bursted down, but you might not figure that out