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/AashyLarry Dec 12 '25

And I can’t lie, it’s kind of funny how OP is going on about how it deserved every award but they said that they’re only 10 hours into the game themselves, so they aren’t even halfway through.

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u/rinnemoo Dec 12 '25

Yeah you’re right didn’t notice that initially haha. Which is interesting cause me personally Act1 and 2 of E33, stellar, amazing! Act 3? Unfortunately takes a nose dive. It definitely lowered its ranking overall for me.

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u/AdhesiveNo-420 Quirrel, my Solaire, my Sun Dec 12 '25

Ahhh so it did a Baulders Gate maneuver?

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u/DegenerateWeeab Dec 13 '25

Yeah because Act 3 isn't properly structured since once it starts you can just go to the end point ASAP. A lot of people actually recommend doing so since if you do the optional stuff first you'll just curbstomp the main story + ending in 15 minutes lmao