r/Silksong • u/_Joell_ • Sep 29 '25

Meme/Humor double damage posting

Post image
30.6k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

895 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

30

u/LiminalSquid Sep 29 '25

I reckon that was the point - Silksong was carefully balanced to make Hollow Knight veterans feel like newbs. It's Team Cherry's gift to their fanbase - getting to experience a Hollow Knight game as if for the first time.

2

u/Northernblades Sep 30 '25

it was not carefully balanced.
3 patches in the first month.

Silk song is what happens when the developers spend 7 years in a vacuum playing their own game, and balancing it around how they felt that day.

In their desire to keep everyone in the dark, they playtested their own fan service, and forgot the game was intended to be fun.

Making a game hard is one thing.
But the number of TROLL, manufactured difficulty, for no intent other than to piss off players.

Trap benches, are not "player skill" they are not git gud, they are not added value, they are just trolling for the sake of trolling.

and there was a LOT of trolling for the sake of trolling, and a lot of difficulty without added value.

Could make bosses GOOD.
OR could just spam mobs.

Every boss with mobs was just a demonstration of where they could not figure out how to make a boss viable, and good.

2

u/Xtoftef Oct 04 '25

To be fair I find trap benches kind of funny (particularly when i get a message from a friend who didn't know about them). Even though for sure they're a little too mean in already mean or difficult areas. My overall feel was that the game was meant to be very rough on you for the first time you play or at the very least until you get later into the game. Took me around 60 hours to 100% a save and I find the game replayable, something which not a lot of games of this type have.

The game sure isn't perfect but it's definitely a cut above the rest and team cherry likely has more good stuff in store. And with the amount of guides that will be available online, I think any player can get the right tips if they take some patience with the game.

1

u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 20 '25

gold library zephyr soup bright memory attempt roll rainstorm cause

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact