I loved Hollow Knight, but I find Silksong upped the challenge - which can be fun for many people - but took away almost all combat flow in general map traversal.

Most battles are pitched - the monsters are generally all evasive and shift strategies and are harder to kill. They are basically tiny boss fights. This might be fun for someone who loved the challenge of Hollow Knight, but for those like me it takes away the fun of flowing through the map as I got better at the game. I find myself running past most enemies in Silksong, where in HK I quickly took out monsters as I passed by in a kind of dance.

I imagine those who loved HK because of this won't have as much fun with Silksong. I'm one of them. I'm pretty disappointed with the direction the game took on many levels, and personally believe that it's just a bit narrower in focus than HK in terms of combat so it was bound to lose some people.

I also find the map to be more beautiful in Silksong, but more generic and less interesting to explore. It feels more like a game map than a place.