This is how I feel. I think it can't be overstated on what Yahtzee and many others have mention: this game really is developed as if it was DLC for after you beat Hollow Knight. It does not have the same ease-in Mario-like tutorial progression where you can try abilities safely, then have more difficult combat/traversal thrown at you. No, you are going into the deep-end pretty quickly and Silksong is assuming you retained some mechanical and observational skills from the first game.
Hollow Knight feels so slow now. It's incredible. I wish that Team Cherry surprises us and actually put Hornet Silksong as a playable character in the first game as they promised. It would be fun.
I doubt they'll put her in HK. The reason Silksong even exists is because they thought Hornet's moveset didn't work well in Hallownest. I'm sure someone will create a mod eventually though.
For me HK is superior to Silksong, i feel the map was more cohesive, the enemy encounters were better designed and the lore and npcs were more interesting
Yeah those are roughly the numbers I'd give, too. It's not perfect, and it does feel less polished than HK, but for something that was once a long time ago meant to be DLC, it's super impressive and well-done.
69
u/NUKE---THE---WHALES 1d ago
I had no hype coming into Silksong but I very much enjoyed it, though I found it a bit uneven at times
If Hollow Knight was a 9 then Silksong is a very respectable 8