Hollow Knight: Silksong

Well, I loved Hollow Knight and that is why I really anticipated this game. And after a long wait, I feel really disappointed. I mean, it is pretty much the same game. It controls well, has a good world building, nice combat action, flawless art and sound direction. But the game is a downgrade from Hollow Knight. It is clear that Team Cherry wanted to replicate the challenge in Hollow Knight, but in their desire to be more challenging, they just made a game that wastes your time with long runbacks, few checkpoints, and annoying enemies. It is not that hard if you are willing to repeat over and over again the same section or boss, but the fact that you have to go through long stretches just to retry some challenging section is tiresome. All in all, Silksong is not organically hard, it is hard in a way that the developers just try to annoy the player as much as they could. Team Cherry is an awesome designer in terms of boss battles, but they really are not very good in designing levels. Bilewater is the worst level I have ever played in any video game. Whoever designed that has very little idea of fun or even challenge. I never felt satisfied beating a section, I felt relieved the game was a little closer to finish. And that is the main comparison point for me: In Hollow Knight, I wanted to play more as I advanced in the game; in Silksong, the game got worse every stage.

MUITO DIFICIL, um conselho, joga hollow night primeiro, e mais de 20x mais dificil, porem e uma obra de arte, a dificuldade as vezes da nos nervos, todos os boses dando dois de dano, bixos em todo lugar, mas quando se passa de um boss que voce ficou HORAS jogando pra passar, o grito, o choro, NAO TEM COMO DESCREVER, tudo nos dois jogos, E EXTRAORDINARIO, RECOMENDO DEMAIS!!!

Acts 1 and 2 were very fun but Act 3 is such a slog I dont even know if I will bother to complete the game its genuinely so boring and the boss fights are boring and I just want to end the game.

it's insane.

I have been grappling with this review, because how could I possibly give a thumbs down to such an amazing game? A better question, is how I could give a "recommended" rating to a game where my prevailing feeling is 'wishing for it to be done so I can play something I actually like'. Hollow Knight: Silksong has a lot of improvements over the original, and some downgrades, but I think at its core, my problem is that its sensibilities are meant to appeal to a very specific type of player of the original and not much else. For me, while I enjoyed the challenges and boss fights in Hollow Knight, they were more like spice on the actual meat of the game: exploring a beautiful and mysterious world. When I got stuck on something, I would simply leave and come back later when I was stronger. In Silksong, it feels very much like the devs saw this kind of over leveling as a problem to be fixed. There is very little meta progression, and every nook and cranny of the world is filled with challenges meant to have you stuck on them for days before you progress. Rarely in Silksong will you find a powerful upgrade just hidden in some room out of the way, or at the end of a little puzzle. Now, for every charm or shard, there is a 5 stage gauntlet with a mini boss at the end, or a boss with a long walk past several difficult enemies. And when all is said and done, said rewards feel much less useful as the progression is much more horizontally focused in Silksong, most of those upgrades enabling different gameplay styles that don't feel much stronger, even situationally. I have not finished the game yet, and I think I will take a break, as I am getting very sour on it. I really hope the devs curb some of these issues in future updates so those of us who are a bit less masochistic can enjoy the game as well. The world is vast and beautiful, but for now it's just not worth all the baggage for me.

Best metroidvania i played in recent years. Sadly with some of the worst game design decisions i've also seen in the last years. It is baffling how Team Charry could drop the ball so hard when they already had HK as an example for superb game design.

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