Posted on: September 7, 2025

junkster0

Games: 86 Reviews: 1

Hollow Knight: Expert mode

Extremely high quality game with absolutely no learning curve aside from the first area. Every upgrade out of the few you're able to get, gives you an almost meaningless advantage while the difficulty continues to ramp up. Regular enemies dodge and shoot or rush you. Too many enemies, bosses, and traps do double damage. No areas give you a break. There are traps and combinations of enemies that give you little leeway whether you want to run or fight. The map system still sucks; requiring you to buy a map and have the compass equipped at all times. When you find a quiet area, be ready because you're either fighting a miniboss, a boss, or a squad of enemies. You will be forced to waste hours watching video guides, or try to find other people to give advice, but again, most upgrades' advantages are miniscule. The biggest kick in the pants is that the developers clearly read a book on what human beings' fastest reaction time is, and went with exactly that number for every enemy and boss attack in the game so healing is a chore, attacking is a chore, etc. But the worst part honestly is the fandom around this series. Any criticism and you get swarmed. I give this game a 2. It could be a 5 if it treated its players with respect, and not just experts, speedrunners, and people who rest their ego on their skill in, an admittedly very cool, notwithstanding the relentless abusive difficulty, videogame about bugs.

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Posted on: September 10, 2025

RainbowKrampus

Verified owner

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 7, 2025

Boosty-_-

Verified owner

Games: 462 Reviews: 7

More frustraiting than fun at this point

I'm 16 hrs in the game now and all the little annoyances are becoming a bit too grating. Really thinking about uninstalling, which is sad cause there were plently of moments where I had fun and that's what makes me want to continue. A bunch of the enemeis and bosses really need to be rebalanced and the abilites and upgrades feel like they do nothing Needed to buy a compass doesn't add anything to gameplay, but okay fine. However needed to have it equiped and only having one slot for badges makes no sense as it just locks you into using it over other badges So much of the game feels like it was designed to waste your time and test your patience rather than your skill. I want to explore but I feel like everytime I do, I run into something that comletely sucks the fun out of it. This game could be excellent, but as of right now it has too many flaws that hinder the experience

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Posted on: September 7, 2025

bernds

Verified owner

Games: 395 Reviews: 7

Giving up and hoping for patches

I managed to beat the Hollow Knight true ending and really enjoyed my time with that game. Up to about 8 hours into Silksong, I was happy enough; it was noticeably harder but still enjoyable, and the early boss fights felt like dances again. But things turned very quickly, at about 10 hours now and I don't see myself being able to beat this game, so I'm going to cut my losses early. I still have no meaningful upgrades and even normal enemies are best avoided since beating them takes a minute and gives nothing of value. Never mind the bosses, which can kill you in an instant because apparently iframes were nerfed to the ground and you also take two points of damage just by standing a little too close to a staggered enemy. I might be able to get out of Act 1 if I spend all of my free time grinding, but honestly I can only see it getting worse from there. It feels like they were testing a NG+ "enemies do double damage and have double health" mode and left it enabled by default by accident. If you managed to beat the highest challenges in Hollow Knight hitless, this is the game for you, otherwise steer clear. What remains is a deep feeling of sadness because I was really hoping this would be my game of the year.

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Posted on: September 5, 2025

KillerFerret

Games: 267 Reviews: 35

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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