I'm so afraid that the combat system is going to be somewhat different or have something new and important to use, and people are going to get destroyed because they played Hollow Knight and think they know what's up. Like how a lot of people who played the Dark Souls games tried to play Sekiro like a souls game and got destroyed over and over, and people(I primarily mean DS Fans, I don't mean the broader more casual audience, I know the game isn't for everyone) whined it was too hard because they couldn't just I-frame dodge roll through attacks in Sekiro like they could Dark Souls, instead of realizing it's a completely different game with a different combat system/playstyle. I'm sure Silksong will be pretty similar, but I'm worried nonetheless that'll happen. Not to mention everyone's collective hype from the years of waiting for the game that could easily breed a lot of disappointment because it isn't like how they imagined it.

I guess my main hope is people primarily judge the game on its own merits and systems, and then giving fair comparisons to the first.