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I spent all weekend playing Hollow Knight Silksong and I'm totally enthralled, but nothing could completely live up to the hype after so many years

Silksong is a stunningly ornate game, and it doesn't go in for novelty for novelty's sake.

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The good news is Silksong has a true cheat code for a different difficulty setting, the bad news is it makes the whole game exponentially harder

Hollow Knight: Silksong should be harder, actually, said nobody at all

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PSA: One of Hollow Knight: Silksong's hardest early-game skill checks is an enemy cosplaying a boss that's destroying everyone too stubborn to come back later

Just wait for that upgrade

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All Silksong Pale Oil locations and how to upgrade your needle

Grab the needle upgrades from Pinmaster Plinney and complete the Pinmaster's Oil quest.

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Dread it, run from it, Hollow Knight: Silksong gets hit by the difficulty discourse as players can't decide if they should "git gud" or acknowledge "legitimate issues" Team Cherry has with the Metroidvania

Is Silksong too hard?

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Chinese-speaking Silksong players are calling out the game's lackluster translation, and Team Cherry has promised improvements

Silksong players in China aren't happy about the game's translation, but Team Cherry promises improvements 'over the coming weeks'.

TechRadar

All of Silksong's top mods make the game easier, including a returning Hollow Knight QoL favorite: An always-on compass without wasting a tool slot

I'm a big believer in friction, but I get the compass.

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Hollow Knight: Silksong’s reviews are slowly eroding as players find it ‘too difficult’

Players angry about difficulty are adding up.

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Silksong takes a Steam review beating, falling to 'Mostly Positive' after a sterling launch thanks to a Chinese localization so bad Team Cherry has already promised to "improve it"

A blemish on Silksong's otherwise stellar reviews

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Update: Hollow Knight: Silksong sinks to 'Mostly Negative' Steam review status among Chinese gamers over its bafflingly bad translation, with Team Cherry promising to improve it

The extent of the issues makes it sound like a tall order.

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Official Hollow Knight Discord link

Join the party.

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ICYMI: the 8 biggest tech stories of the week, from IFA 2025 to the Hollow Knight: Silksong launch and the iPhone 17

Our reliable recap will fill you in if you've missed what's been happening in technology over the last week.

TechRadar

Is Silksong everything we hoped? 5 PC Gamer writers react to the first hours of Team Cherry's extraordinarily hyped sequel

Were those six years of Silksanity well spent?

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Hollow Knight Silksong review bombing is underway for an unexpected reason

There's always something.

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"We were scared as hell when Silksong was announced to release on our day," indie dev says, but "now it seems it was a blessing in disguise"

Jetrunner benefitted from the Hollow Knight black hole

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Silksong News: New Game Just Broke Steam - Here's What You Should Know Before Buying the Game

Hollow Knight: Silksong overwhelmed global digital stores minutes after release, leaving thousands unable to buy the game due to server crashes.

Tom’s Hardware

Silksong crashes Steam, Nintendo eShop on release day — highly anticipated indie video game took six years to arrive and is already one of the most played games ever on Steam

Hollow Knight: Silksong has become one of the biggest releases in recent video game history. The game crashed digital storefronts worldwide on release, and soon became the #3 most-played game on Steam behind Counter-Strike and Dota 2.

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Do you need to play Hollow Knight before Silksong?

It's not compulsory, but you might not want to miss out on all the Easter Eggs.

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Hollow Knight Silksong review: "Worth the wait and then some, this isn't just more Hollow Knight but an evolved, spindly beast all its own – even if it's fiddly at times"

TechRadar

Hollow Knight: Silksong has barely been out for a day, and players are already complaining about its difficulty level – ' I feel like they’re really overusing double damage'

Some players are finding Hollow Knight: Silksong a little too difficult.

PC Gamer

How to beat Fourth Chorus in Silksong

Trounce this boss so you can finally leave the Far Fields.

TechRadar

Despite bringing Steam to its knees, Silksong attracted more day one players than the Battlefield 6 open beta

After a single day, Silksong currently ranks as the seventh highest peak concurrent player count for a single-player game on Steam.

The Guardian - AU

Hollow Knight: Silksong launch crashes online gaming stores

Steam, the Nintendo eShop and Playstation Store among those that crashed on Friday, unable to cope with demand for the Australian-made game

PC Gamer

Silksong newcomers, I can't stress to you enough that you should buy all of Shakra's map items ASAP

Hollow Knight veterans will know, but don't leave Shakra without buying him out.

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Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone voices somebody in Hollow Knight: Silksong, but he won't say who "so as not to spoil any surprises for anyone"

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