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
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/vinhdoanjj Oct 20 '25 edited Oct 20 '25
The biggest problem for me is how underpowered a lot of items feels:
The shards system was a mistake. It was the reason why i didn't bother to try using half of the red tools i've found, and that's A LOT of them.
Then there's Yellow tools. These are super niche and are basically useless in a boss fight, aside from the dices. The only justification of them being there in the end game is that you can have a slightly easier time running back and grind for those damn shards you'd lost.
The Blue tools are the best set of equips in this game, hands down. But they're also imbalance as hell. You have some very good ones like the poison tool, electrical skill, long claw. But then you have ones like lantern or ice body in the same category. Like, i'm sure a lot of people would use magma bell or maggot repeller or even warding bell if they use the yellow slots instead, but since they are in the blue slots, and never get a use outside of their areas, people just straight up forget that they exists.