Posted on: September 9, 2025

Khornik

Games: 94 Reviews: 1

Beautiful, ridiculous gameplay

Hollow Knight was hard, but managed to stay enjoyable. Silksong is so difficult it's no longer fun, play sessions are simply irritating (at best). Even normal enemies feel like boss fights, pretty much everyone but basic monsters have 2-3 attacks, can parry or hide. Way too many enemies do 2 masks of damage. Some even do *random* and *untelegraphed* movements (those birds with throwing knives in Greymoor). Level design is crazy - you *can* get stuck in areas with no way back but through a challenge room or a boss. In HK I could always backtrack and try a different path until I "get gud". Controls are also questionable - spells are now bound to a different button (because you don't need to hold the heal button now) and it's much harder to use them along with e.g. dashing. This is the only game that made me ragequit after putting ~10h into it. Cannot recommend unless devs patch the difficulty curve. Looks and sounds cool, though.

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Posted on: September 8, 2025

Tim88

Verified owner

Games: 139 Reviews: 1

Unfair and annoying

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.

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Posted on: September 10, 2025

Loxidar

Verified owner

Games: 10 Reviews: 1

Get ready for nonstop punishment

There's a big, thick line between "challenging and fun" and "brutality for the sake of it." This game *sprints* across that line while vomiting loudly all over it. Three hours in, I heavily modded the game, and even then, I found it unneccesarily frustrating a lot of the time. I don't mind a challenge, but this was just over the line, all the time, start to finish. I'm in the minority here, but I found this massively less fun than Hollow Knight. If Silksong had come out as a new IP, fine. It's a hard game. Acceptable. But it's a sequel, and it's not for Hollow Knight fans. It's for Godshome fans. Aesthetically, it's beautiful. The music, characters, and locales are amazing. Mechanically, I found it nothing but a chore.

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Posted on: September 10, 2025

DynaChris

Verified owner

Games: 399 Reviews: 3

For the Hollow Knight sickos

Did you 100% the original Hollow Knight on Steel Soul mode? Was it easy for you? Then Silksong will give you the challenge you've been looking for. If you struggled to beat the first game, Silksong will be the most frustrating experience you'll ever have in the Metroidvania genre. Right out of the gate, Silksong pulls no punches. There's a joke going round that Hollow Knight was the tutorial for Silksong, and you'd better believe it. Even early game bosses are tougher than anything the original game threw at you. My biggest issue with the game is you start with 5 masks (health) and bosses do 2 masks of damage - even on contact with them. You heal for 3, if you can manage to do enough damage to be able to heal, but from max health you die in 3 hits. This makes that first health upgrade feel worthless, as you'd still die in 3 hits if you can't do enough damage and get another heal off. This is Silksong's progression in a nutshell. It gives you plenty of tools, but upgrades are hard to come by and don't feel impactful. By the time you have a weapon upgrade, the enemies you're facing are tougher, so you won't feel a difference. It doesn't feel satisfying, and coupled with the brutal difficulty, the game feels more frustrating than anything. I've rolled credits on this game twice, and the extra stuff it wants you to do to get the "true" ending is ridiculous. It feels like the game was made to be hard for the sake of being hard, rather than providing a satisfying challenge. It demands mastery of its mechanics to finish the game, let alone complete it. That or dumb luck, which is what the majority of boss fights felt like for me. If you're a hardcore Hollow Knight fan and want a massive challenge, this is for you. If you're more of a casual gamer, give it a miss, for your own sanity's sake.

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Posted on: September 13, 2025

Tougheart

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Games: 75 Reviews: 1

A tedious game is not a difficult one

Top notch design, music, combat. all ruined by stupid traversal decisions and unnecessary penalities for error that the game itself forces you to make. Example? two damage hit bosses are everywhere, you with 5 hit points for a long time (not that getting a 6th makes it any better), you will die a lot, and the trip to the boss is worse than the boss fight itself, and they are strategically placed to make the trip back as tedious and frustrating as possible. Team Cherry made a masterpiece with Hollow Knight, they copied a lot of the good things from it here, but they confused tedium with difficulty, and the result is a beautiful and enchanting game that is less enjoyed by the frustrating obstacles put in your path all the time.

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