Posted on: September 18, 2025
cms1991
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Good but infuriating
For me, Hollow Knight was a solid 5 out of 5: Challenging, beautiful and rewarding. After finishing Silksong at 100%, I feel like I finished a tedious and infuriating chore. It's not just that the difficulty is way higher than in Hollow Knight, which it is, there are some design choices that I will never understand: - Some bossess filling the screen with effects that made imposible to see what was going on. - All of them have extremely high health. - Gauntlets are WAY more abundant than they should be and some bosses have them previos to their encounters, it's terrible. -The game, in my opinion, is too long, I've spent 50+ hours on it and I was tired at the end. This is not in of itself a bad thing, but this directly influences the sense of progression. At the beginning, specially in act 1, you don't have a sense of geting stronger or achiving anything. - The two currencies and other things mentioned already are also a problem. I understand that there are a lot of people who enjoyed this level of difficulty even if it is unfair in a lot of cases, but you have to explain to me why a sequel to a game is WAY more difficult than it's predecessor. It makes no sense, people who played Hollow Knight praised it for what it was, it makes no sense to make a sequel only for the ones who wanted the game even harder. Hollow Knight made the Godhome DLC for this, Why Team Cherry couldn't have done the same thing here? Leave the masochism as an option for those who wanted it. To put an example: there is a boss in the game that leaves you with no floor, so you have to glide in the walls of the arena. There were fights like that in Hollow Knight in the Colosseum of Fools, but they were an option, here it is mandatory for reaching the true ending, which is the real ending and where you are supossed to get. All in all I recognize a good game when I play it, I'm not saying that Silksong is bad per se, I just don't get why it has to be this infurating when HK got it all right.
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