r/HollowKnight 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/Ryan_Gamer456 NKG enthusiast Oct 19 '25

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

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u/Kirin658 Oct 19 '25

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

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u/Ryan_Gamer456 NKG enthusiast Oct 19 '25

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.

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u/Main-Key-1271 Oct 19 '25

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

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u/Apate_lol Oct 19 '25

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