Become the Princess Knight
As the lethal hunter Hornet, adventure through a kingdom ruled by silk and song! Captured and taken to this unfamiliar world, prepare to battle mighty foes and solve ancient mysteries as you ascend on a deadly pilgrimage to the kingdom’s peak.
Hollow Knig...
As the lethal hunter Hornet, adventure through a kingdom ruled by silk and song! Captured and taken to this unfamiliar world, prepare to battle mighty foes and solve ancient mysteries as you ascend on a deadly pilgrimage to the kingdom’s peak.
Hollow Knight: Silksong is the epic sequel to Hollow Knight, the award winning action-adventure. Journey to all-new lands, discover new powers, battle vast hordes of bugs and beasts and uncover secrets tied to your nature and your past.
Game Features
Discover the fallen insect kingdom of Pharloom! Explore mossy grottos, gilded cities and misted moors as you ascend to the shining citadel at the top of the world.
Engage in lethal acrobatic action! Wield a huge suite of deadly moves as you dance between foes in swift, beautiful combat.
Craft powerful tools! Master an ever-expanding arsenal of weapons, traps, and mechanisms to vanquish your enemies and explore new heights.
Solve shocking quests! Hunt down rare beasts and solve ancient mysteries to grant the wishes of the downtrodden and restore the kingdom’s hope.
Face over 200 ferocious foes! Beasts and hunters, monsters and knights. Defeat them all with bravery and skill!
Vanquish over 40 legendary bosses! Battle fabled heroes and fallen kings in epic combat to decide the kingdom's fate.
Challenge Steel Soul mode! Once you conquer the kingdom, test your skills in a new mode that presents a more formidable challenge.
Experience a stunning orchestral score! Hollow Knight’s award-winning composer, Christopher Larkin, brings melancholy melodies, symphonic strings and heart-thumping, soul strumming boss themes to the adventure.
The game is filled with terrible design choices, it feels untested and unfair it the worst possbile way.
The life system is mathematically off.
the game lacks checkpoints instead your going to wander the same long way every time you fail.
the currency system also serves no purpose other than waste your time.
Overall the devs should have involved player feedback and not go silent for six years.
Silksong is a difficult game. That's not a bad thing. I’ve played Hollow Knight (Team Cherry’s previous game) and completed the White Palace—the final phase of that game. It was tough, but above all, it was fun. Silksong doesn’t have those moments. It’s a difficult game, the enemies move in annoying ways, and some areas are poorly designed. Try getting through Hunter’s March. And then there’s the platforming in this game—the red flowers that don’t work properly. As a player, you can spend ten minutes trying to overcome a single obstacle. Silksong doesn’t respect your time. In summary, after 15 hours of playing, the main emotion I feel is frustration.
Wow. It's here. Holy moly. 7 Years and this game feels like it was tested only by people who play silksong religiously. It is HARD. Ball-bustingly so for newbies and casuals and spoilers- only after act 1 does it truly stop feeling like a Hollow Knight game and start feeling like an actual "Takeshi's Challenge" level of difficulty. Who the heck came up with the benches you can't use more than once? Who was it?
This game needs to get toned down before the dark souls folks start sliding in and turning this really cool game's community into an elitist cesspit.
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 :/
Let's start with this - I finished the original several times, every time with full, complete playthrough, Path of Pain included. So it is not like difficulty is unfamilair to me.
The game is noticeably harder than the original Hollow Knight beause nemies that hit you for 2 points of damage are MUCH more prevalent, meaning Hornet is a fair bit more fragile.
This means you have to addapt to a fairly different playstyle and quickly - one that revolves around avoidance, calculated attacks and acrobatics.
The game is beautiful, sounds amazing, generally controls almost flawlessly (except one MAJOR thing that infuriated me, I'll get to that), oozes the climate. It should be perfect.
Many of the bosses are epic - Lace, The Dancers, the Widow, Karmelita, Trobbio, Phantom and more - they evoke the best moments I had in the original Hollow Knight and in a good way.
The general platforming is perfectly fine - Hornet moves much more smoothly than Knight ever did.
The new charm system is interesting - you get a choice of more movesets with the crests, but the charm setups are more restrictive this time around.
You also get replenishable tools which act as rough equivalents of spells from the first game - they can be immensely powerful, though grinding for shards acting as effectively ammo can be a bit tedious.
That being said - the tool system gives you much more firepower overall and a much more varied attack selection.
Now, let's discuss couple of rough spots.
The first act is generally perfectly balanced - it is difficult, but it also guides you well if you are willing to explore.
But the beginning of the Act 2 is a bit rough in couple of places.
Let's start with the health - a lot of enemies, most bosses deal 2 masks of damage. This makes your first health upgrade nearly pointless, and it diminishes and slows down your further health progression - you basically need 2 more hitpoints to actually matter.
2nd Act is a place where you can encounter 2 very annoying, although optional bosses early on.
Second fight with the Beasfly - yeah, a boss that at this stage of the game wrecks you in 3 hits. can and will destroy the floor, charges from beyond the screen while tracking your hight, spawns help that is erratic and tanky.
That was not a fun fight at all.
Broodmother - tiny arena, constantly spawns adds that explode for 2 damage, herself does 2 damage, has a snare attack that guarantees you getting hit, and her primary lunge attack can be chained - she can immediately turn and hit you again if you dodge. She can basically turn half the screen into a dead zone.
The upgrade distribution is a bit uneven.
First Needle upgrade is fairly late in Act 1, and it hardly changes anything - enemies you will be encountering at this point will still die in the same amount of hits, but at least those in early areas you have no reason to really visit again much will die in 2 hits now. What a boon.
And then it turns out the 3rd needle upgrade - you know, a fairly essential thing - is locked behind a TIMED courier mission.
Remember the Flower mission for Ze'Mer/Grey Mourner? Now do that on a timer to get an essential upgrade.
I DETEST timed missions.
Fortunately, there is a way to do this very easily - if you are willing to take your time and plot the path and clear it beforehand.
While platforming is generally tight and well done, there is one problem. Let me tell you the story o Mount Fay - a massive climb with a pseudo-time limit due to cold mechanic.
This one is weird - it exposes one horrid inconsistency in the controls.
You need the Clawshot - which is basically a harpoon upgrade.
The harpoon can latch to special hoops and to the walls - to jump away from those walls, you need to press 'jump' - makes perfect sense, doesn't it?
You can also harpoon to the enemies - you press 'jump' and you jump away. Wonderful.
But on Mount Fay you will notice you are not making these jumps well - your jumps are ever so slightly too short.
You start thinking - it must be my aim, or my timing. But nope, no matter what, you will not make these jumps 99% of the time.
You get desperate, trying for hours - you call this Path of Pain 2.0 in anger.
You throw the controller and leave it.
Next morning you start trying again to no avail.
And finally, in frustration you just kill one of the enemies with the harpoon, without jumping... And Hornet JUMPS. This is where it hits you.
If you jump manually, you cancel the animation and make half the jump.
You have to NOT press 'jump' in order to JUMP HIGHER.
You get overcome by anger - asking you to not jump to jump. What's next? Not touching the d-pad to run faster?
And the worst of wall - after 4 hours of trying in vain... after discovering this nonsense, the whole Mount Fay takes you 15 minutes and maybe 2-3 tries to complete.
The impossible challenge is easy, because you figured out the logic-defying quirk in controls.
I'll tell you this - THIS ONE THING stained my entire experience with this game so much, it took me days to overcome my anger and have fun with it again.
And hopefully, if you read this - I have saved you hours of frustration - because now at least, you will be spared the anger I went through.
Now that I've got that out of my system...
Once you get over these growing pains I mentioned - there is a world of wonder to explore and discover - new lore, wonderful character moments, fantastic level and character design.
The more I played, the more it clicked, the more my initial hurdles disappeared. Turns out that, with the exception of the Mount Fay issues, I just had to get into the rhytm of things.
And how adequate is that? Silksong - it is in the title, the analogies to music, singing and dance are all over the place - rhytm, being methodical, calculated, harmonic - this is how you conquer this game.
It punishes chaos, brute force and panic.
Most of the hurdles can be conquered by exploration and getting prepared, like a proper Metroidvania requires.
For example - Bilewater - the infamous Blighttown equivalent of this game. It can be trivialized with some combinations of Crest and Tools - like Architect with a Plasmium vial.
Pretty much all bosses are doable if you learn to observe - Hornet is not a powerhouse the Knight was, she is an agile huntress - and you need to play like one. This game punishes mindless aggression.
If you have trouble with any boss - stop, and learn to dodge first, wait for the attack and THEN find the openings.
Treat your fights like a dance, where the enemy is the lead. Follow their steps with your own.
And don't be scared to use tools - the game gives you tons of options, learn them, use them - do not restrict yourself unless you are doing challenge runs.
Initially I was prepared to give it only 4 out of 5...
But once I got over the whole Mount Fay... problem... I was greeted with an adventure full of wonder, full of care and secrets.
It is a true sequel, and a worthy successor in every single aspect.
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