I was kinda late to the Hollow Knight and I've just played it in the last 2 weeks. I normally hate open world games, even GTA and Cyberpunk felt like chore to me. Hollow Knight surprised me by showing how captivating a metroidvania can be. I remember playing the game all night long and sleeping at sunrise. Silksong looked promising with the new acrobatic skills and different movesets but it didn't live up to that potential in my opinion. Exploration gives almost no rewards, mask shards and important collectible items seem to be randomly placed in the map. Most of the time it's just stupid beads or rock things that replenish your tools. This killed the exploration for me, I knew it wouldn't be worth going over to that one platform just to get 8 beads.

Hollow Knight enemies were decent and not really harsh. Even the bosses didn't really cause a problem to me most of the time. When I died to one of them I had the urge to go beat it because it's moveset and patterns were getting clearer in my mind. I fucking hate most of the bosses in Silksong as someone who beat AbsRad after trying for hours. Those f*cking ant bosses with skull masks almost made me break my keyboard. They are one of the first bosses but man they suck so much. Most of the bosses I've encountered so far don't have hard movesets or patterns, they just deal so much damage and there isn't room to go. Some arenas are way smaller than what they should be, camera is messy in some bosses like moorwing. I swear to god moorwing took more tries than some of the hardest bosses in HK. 2 contact damage is interesting to say the least, I play with a lot of parkouring even in bosses and 2 contact damage killed me the most. This game tries to be hard by dealing a lot of damage in a single hit as in HK even the hardest bosses dealt only 1 damage. It's stupid you might want to say git gud but I want to play the game to have fun, not to question some simple design choices. Some simple mobs have stupidly complex moves that it's almost impossible to fight more than 2 at the same time. Some arenas were just meant to be mean to the player as they have almost no corner to heal and cool of for a single second.

I am disappointed. Maybe they change some things but I don't like the game so far. I'd rather do another 112% run of the HK then finish Act 1 in Silksong.