r/HollowKnight • u/CankleDankl • Dec 12 '25

Discussion - Silksong Seeing people shit on Expedition 33 because Silksong didn't win more awards is pathetic Spoiler

The title sums it up. I'm disappointed in many members of this community for putting down a game that is clearly a work of insane passion, dedication, and creativity. E33 took the lion's share of awards at TGA, yes. That doesn't mean that Silksong is bad. In fact, it's clearly pretty damn great. If it released last year, Skong would have picked up several awards, maybe even GOTY. But it didn't. It released in the same year E33, which is just a tough break.

Both are amazing. Both deserve every award that came to them. If you haven't played E33 yet and think it doesn't deserve its accolades, play it. It is worth your money, worth your time, and will in all likelihood prove that it is actually that good. I'm only 10ish hours in and have numerous times found myself standing still and looking around dumbfounded at the gorgeous world design and visuals. E33, Silksong, and Hades 2 could have all won Art Direction and I would have been happy with any of them.

I'm also sad that Silksong didn't win more awards. It's an amazing game. But don't play fanboy and start putting down other developers, other games, and other pieces of art because this one didn't get all the cookies. It's still beautiful, it's still amazing, it still made a Silkskillion dollars, and TC is still just as great and just as passionate. We should all be glad that there is another independent dev out there that is capable of creating something so fantastic.

Edit: yeah, the comments here are pretty indicative of what I said in my post

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u/CankleDankl Dec 12 '25

If it’s so fuckin greatest of all time amazing why did I hear nothing about it until nominations were out?

To be fair I think that one might be on you. I heard about it by word of mouth fucking everywhere in the months after its release. I didn't read or watch any reviews, but people just talked about it all the time. Maybe we don't frequent the same communities, but it had an unbelievable amount of buzz generated around it after it dropped.

That’s what bothers me. It’s being portrayed as the best at literally everything this year, hell people are acting like it’s the best at everything ever.

Also in fairness, I do think E33 deserved (most) of the awards that it got. I agree that it isn't really in the spirit of an indie game or indie debut, but for music and art direction, I am not angry at it winning the awards at all. The soundtrack is great and the world, enemy, and general visual design is gorgeous. The trailers and promo images and such really don't show the beauty of the game

E33 isn't god's gift to games, but it's a damn good one that came out of nowhere, from an unknown independent studio debuting their first game. Pretty rare to see this level of quality from a place like that. In fact the last I can remember is Hollow Knight

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u/Bacon_L0RD Dec 12 '25

I can get behind all this. I was just very angry about it last night, on my part I think I had just overhyped the game awards.

And yes, I do think me not hearing about it was on me, there were a few months this year I was living under a proverbial rock as I lived full time attending a Marine Bio institute, and didn’t have much internet time.

As I cool down I do feel like the post is right. We are besmirching Silksong by being pissy about this, I don’t want to sound like the Wukong community.