Posted on: September 5, 2025

KillerFerret

Games: 261 Reviews: 31

Beautiful but flawed

I loved the original Hollow Knight. But I feel Team Cherry either didn't care or didn't learn from some of the issues the first game suffered from. This game looks, plays, and sounds great! But what really killed the experience is what happens after you die to a hard boss. Challenging bosses and enemy rooms are great! But having to spend a lot of your time running back a long ways (sometimes more than one area) just to get creamed again isn't fun and a complete waste of time. Another issue is the fast travel. Why does it always have to take so long just to get somewhere? Why can't we just have something simple and convenient like fast traveling from the benches? It all just seems like pointless time padding in a game thats suppose to be loaded with content and enemies. I'm glad Team Cherry had fun making this and I respect them for selling it for a very reasonable price. But this game just isn't for me.

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Posted on: September 5, 2025

Robertsonm3

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Games: 17 Reviews: 1

it's okay i guess.

it's okay, I really really really want to like and enjoy this game but itfeels like they took the final difficulty of the original and made that the new base with none of the benefits of being at end game. The game runs really well even on my potato PC and looks beautiful the general exploration is really fun but there's a lot of things I have gripes with, the 45 degree angle dive kick feels bad to use, regular enemies hitting you for 2 health being a fast frail attacker stuck in a tight boss arena where it spawns endless waves of adds isn't all that great in my opinion either.

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Posted on: September 10, 2025

RainbowKrampus

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Games: 23 Reviews: 1

Took the Wrong Lessons

Team Cherry seem to have heard complaints about Hollow Knight not being hard enough and decided to do a bit of trolling in revenge. The game is too hard. Where "hard" here entails tedious runbacks and/or platforming challenges often ending in boss fights. A couple is alright. But half of the end game is just these frustrating bouts of having your resources and patience whittled down by overly long intervals of precise jumping and instant death before you can even set foot in the boss room. There are good bits too. But the last two play sessions have been punctuated by bouts of extreme annoyance. To the point where I'm not even looking forward to playing again. Which is a shame because the good bits are quite good. The bosses are mostly excellent. The music is gorgeous. The environments are haunting, etc. etc. etc. But I'm kinda at my wit's end on runbacks and pitfalls and maggot water and saw blades. I want to love this like I loved Hollow Knight. But I cannot. They seem to have gone out of their way to make the game as annoying as possible. So that's how I feel about it, annoyed. It's an annoying game. Not really what I'm trying to get out of gaming experiences.

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Posted on: September 8, 2025

AutopilotOff

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Games: 762 Reviews: 2

Too difficult

I really enjoyed playing Hollow Knight several times. I never finished 100% because I have a life but everything that was not optional was great fun. Silksong however is bringing the non-fun parts that were optional in the first one to the front and center. The first time I had this bad feeling in my gut came when I was forced to diagonaly pogo from at least 5 consecutive targets perfectly to reach the next section - The targets have different heights and distances from one another so it isn't even possible to do this in a certain rythm as in other platformers where you can get into a certain flow. I put up with silly pogo platforming because I thought I might get something in the future that makes these passages easy and fun in the later game (and I did - kind of). Still making this mandatory is bad. The second thing that is important for these games is combat...and well... I had fun with many bosses in the early game, Lace especially made a great impression on me. So there is a lot of good here. With the bad stuff I thought it would be like platforming - at some point I will get stronger and the issues I'm having will be forgotten. That is what I thought - in reality I am 15 hours in having explored a lot of the early game very meticulously but I do as much damage as I did at the very beginning and I have almost as little life as in the beginning There are several normal enemies that take about 10 hits to defeat and it is not uncommon to lose 2 life in one hit even from non bosses. This makes me feel my 5-6 hearts are actually 2-3. I finally stopped playing for now after reaching a certain "Sister" and this feels just broken. The boss is summoning two mobs at once that also deal 2 damage which need 3 hits to die. Maybe if they are nice enough to introduce some balancing here for people like me that aren't that hardcore I might pick it up again because it is even more beautiful and cute as the first game. Until then I have better things to do with my time.

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Posted on: September 7, 2025

abdeldinar

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Games: 74 Reviews: 1

Disappointed

As a fan of HK1, I was really looking forwad for silksong. I'm disappointed so far. It seems the developpers only tried to make this game as frustrating as possible. The game is too punishing for no reason, even in the early game. Movement is clunky. A lot of things do 2 damage, even simple contact damage. Flying enemies are annoying. I wanted to love this game but I'm not sure I want to continue further :/

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