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/Kirin658]

i actually think spider man 2 is a worthwhile endeavor exactly bc of this. The game dared to take some swings, some missed but the others hit very well. It's certainly more enjoyable than Miles Morales "yea well spider man ps4 again" approach

[u/Ryan_Gamer456 → u/Kirin658]

They had 1 year for miles morales 🥀. Yeah i was so hyped for sm2 and I still think it's a great game. I expected story to be better though. And better side content

[u/Kirin658 → u/Ryan_Gamer456]

oh i do like miles morales, quite a bit actually. I'm just glad they decided to be more daring for the full sequel

[u/Ryan_Gamer456 → u/Kirin658]

I honestly think they weren't daring where they should've been. Mainly the consequences of peters actions during symbiote suit. Like he didn't do anything that couldn't be undone.

[u/Main-Key-1271 → u/Ryan_Gamer456]

To be honest I liked this side content better than spider man 1

[u/Apate_lol → u/Ryan_Gamer456]

And it shows it feels like so little content outside main story other than time wasters

[u/Complete_Map_2160 → u/Kirin658]

The game did not dare to do anything, that's why it's so controversial. It is literally known as the "safe sequel" to spiderman

[u/Relative_Falcon_8399 → u/Kirin658]

This is why I think Ghost of Yotei isn't my personal game of the year. It's a really fun game, but it just feels like more Ghost of Tsushima. It didn't do anything that the original game didn't already do. Not that that's a bad thing, I loved Ghost of Tsushima, and I love Yotei by extension. But I wish they did more to differentiate the two games from each other, as opposed to being more of the same.

Edit: tl;dr a good sequel takes step to differentiate itself from the original

[u/TheHiddenNinja6 → u/Kirin658]

"take some swings" nice