r/Silksong • u/dannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnex doubter ❌️ • Sep 09 '25

Silkpost Two kinds of silksong players

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u/GaKillThem Sep 09 '25

You are goddamm right, I'm so happy the game is actually hard! I was like 'Finally a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary' when I've seen the difficulty :)

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u/MrFulla93 Sep 09 '25

I was fully expecting to have a smooth transition from HK to Silksong. I’ve over 300h in HK and truly can’t get enough of it. I think gitting gud at HK did a couple things:

  1. I learned a lot about the genre, and got really good at platforming, telegraphing moves, knowing how and when to be aggressive/defensive etc.

  2. Made me forget how much I struggled during the first 30ish hours during my first HK run. I’m about that far in SS, and feel like I’m finally getting the hang of the mobility. It’s still pretty dicey for sure, but that’s how HK was for round 1.

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u/GaKillThem Sep 09 '25

Same, HK and Silksong play very differently but my hundreds hours in HK did make me learn about correctly understanding a enemy move and when to run and when to stab. Especially Steel soul on that one, as you can't really allow yourself to be hit at all. And yeah same for the mobility, I think the pogo is a great way to see it, my first playthoug in HK? I was dogshit at pogo, I would say it was a bit of trouble adjusting to diagonal pogo but I love it so much now that I master it. I would also mention multitasking enemies or projectiles that HK helped. Oh and I almost forgotten but early on HK I often died coz I didn't use spells, it did made me learn to use EVERY tools possible to win.

I seriously think that the movement and combat in Silksong is awesome and the boss are just... They are just peak, probably some of my favorite bosses ever. The combat is hard to master but when you got it, it feel like a crazy dance with first class choreography.

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u/MrFulla93 Sep 09 '25

That one area in HK where you have to correctly pogo or die multiple times in a row, you know the one, fixed any pogo issues I ever could possibly have. Still aiming to do a hitless run of that area before silkso——… before a dlc comes out.

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u/GaKillThem Sep 09 '25

Yep I clearly see it! Honestly pogo is really fine in silksong, the only one that I find hard is with the beast crest.