Silksong’s difficulty is "fine" according to Team Cherry. Read on to learn more about how developers provided ways for players to mitigate the game’s difficulty and their reasoning for making the game harder compared to its predecessor.
Silksong Difficulty Addressed By Team Cherry
Multiple Ways to Mitigate Difficulty
Hollow Knight: Silksong developer Team Cherry admitted that the game is indeed much more difficult than its predecessor, but provided players with multiple ways to mitigate it. In an interview with Dexerto on September 18, Hollow Knight series co-creators Ari Gibson and William Pellen explained how players can cope with the game’s difficulty.
According to Gibson, the team wanted to give players more freedom to explore the game, allowing them to take on multiple routes and divert from the main quest. He elaborated, "Silksong has some moments of steep difficulty – but part of allowing a higher level of freedom within the world means that you have choices all the time about where you’re going and what you’re doing."
While the community has voiced out concerns regarding difficult boss fights, Gibson said that it’s "fine" as "they have ways to mitigate the difficulty via exploration, or learning, or even circumventing the challenge entirely, rather than getting stonewalled."
Regardless of players’ complaints about the overall difficulty of the game, Team Cherry continues to improve Silksong by releasing new updates. Its second patch went live last week to address tool-specific bugs and adjustments to some enemies.
With Team Cherry’s continued efforts, Silksong remains within the top 15 best-selling games and the 5th most-played game on Steam. Here at Game8, we gave Hollow Knight: Silksong a 98 out of 100 for taking the original game and making it even better, making every second of the six-year wait worth it. Read more about our thoughts on Hollow Knight: Silksong below!
Reason for Silksong’s Difficulty
With all the improvements and adjustments compared to the original Hollow Knight, Gibson noted that the difficulty of Silksong is intended to correlate well with the new features and changes. Gibson stated. "Hornet is inherently faster and more skillful than the Knight – so even the base level enemy had to be more complicated, more intelligent."
Pellen added, "The basic ant warrior is built from the same move-set as the original Hornet boss." They said that on top of Hornet’s core movement of dashing and jumping, the basic ant warriors can also evade and check players. This was done so foes can have more ways to catch Hornet, as players have more mobility compared to The Knight.
Instead of downgrading Hornet’s abilities, Team Cherry decided that the overall setup of the game must match her speed and skills, creating a more dynamic and challenging game.
Hollow Knight: Silksong is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC. To stay up to date with the latest information about the game, check out our article below!
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