Hollow Knight: Silksong is a metroidvania style action adventure game developed and published by ‘Team Cherry‘. Hollow Knight: Silksong came out the 4th of September 2025 on the Xbox Series X/S & Xbox Game Pass, Nintendo Switch 1 & 2, PS5, PS4 and PC. X35 Earthwalker has dived into Hollow Knight: Silksong and has a lot to say already. This game is excellent and has more silk for us to encounter. Let’s talk about this.

Hollow Knight: Silksong right off the rip is so far an excellent game. So much has happened already and this game doesn’t show mercy. Yes Hollow Knight: Silksong is a hard game. Don’t listen to fake aura fools who say games like this isn’t hard. It’s a hard game. It’s obvious but players are controlling Hornet. A character those who played Hollow Knight would know. She is basically attempting a climb. Reach the peak and demand some answers. Already X35 Earthwalker likes Hornet as a character. She is polite, comes off as mature and easy to get along with. Calling people sir and speaking with respect. She’s also dangerous and powerful. Liking Hornet so far.

The enemies work together in terms of design to ruin your day. They are placed to be annoying and can drain your life real fast. There’s even bigger enemies who hit you for two points of damage. Now of course when you can increase your health it will be less of a problem. The average player will have a tough time. Now remember when we said that Hollow Knight: Silksong is a metroidvania type game. These games have their patterns. You start off with no powers and abilities. you lost them all somehow or can’t use them. She off course must find abilities to get stronger and reach places they couldn’t reach before.

Now the game has overalled been a good treat. We like metroidvania games and most are very good. The biggest issue so far with Hollow Knight: Silksong is the bosses. There was one boss in particular who was a bad boss and not fun to fight. Its issue was that it had too much health. The bosses before and after weren’t a problem. This shows that a few things lacked good design. Besides that boss things are very good and challenging. There’s one quite scary dark boss that’s like a bat even had a cool feature. If you meet and talk with a certain character that character can join you in the fight against the horrible monster. That was cool and reminded us of instances in Elden Ring. This was cool to see.

The whole crest system is a welcome thing. It changes up how you attack, your attack rate, downwards attack and what tools you can equip. We advise players to try them all out. You could get surprised. X35 ended up switching his crest and staying with it for a good while. Use those memory lockets to unlock slots for additional tools. This allows players to actually create a build of sorts and even switch up depending on the boss or threats you are facing. The down attack does matter as some are harder to control. So when you want to bounce off the red flowers. There’s even a challenge area based on that. There’s many crests. So experiment and give things a chance. Search the world and get what you can.

Overall Hollow Knight: Silksong is an excellent game without question… but yes, Hollow Knight: Silksong is definitely overrated. People acting like it’s the greatest game ever and better than everything before. Not close. Yes, it is excellent and a good time for sure. Right now the game is feeling like a solid 9/10 right now. Very few errors. Respect the game for sure but calm down. We are looking forward to more of what Hollow Knight: Silksong has to offer… whether silky or not. We know it’s going to be great. Unlike the first Hollow Knight game, the story is sounding actually interesting. Talking to the pilgrims, the singing characters and different locations and trials and faith is so cool. X35 Earthwalker will conquer this game too. Now Hollow Knight: Silksong may have singing bugs but they don’t sing as good as… the ‘Earth Walk!’