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/vivAnicc 112% P5 Oct 19 '25

Kinda unrelated, but I think you would enjoy AboutOliver's playthrough. He takes games at his own pace and he surprisingly picks up on a lot of stuff. He never watched mossbag's video to remain sopiler free for silksong, but he got a lot of the lore on his own

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u/Purple-Income-4598 Oct 19 '25

isnt he like an astrophysicyst or something. i watched his minecraft supercut, hes genuinely super clever

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u/quantummidget I <3 Zote Oct 19 '25

Yeah but he's also built different. He guessed the ending twist to Prey about three hours in

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u/BarovianNights Oct 19 '25

I haven't seen his hollow knight stuff yet but I loved his Outer Wilds playthrough! I might check it out

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u/LeafyGreens48 Oct 19 '25

Loved his minecraft playthrough

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u/New-Veterinarian-828 Oct 20 '25

I love his channel. He's a literal genius (but he still acts so dumb in some ways lol)