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DO NOT BUY Hollow Knight： Silksong

2025-09-04 · 9 min

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    Hello, welcome back to a new video.

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    So recently I've been playing the brand

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    new Silksong, the sequel to the very

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    popular roguelite Hollow Knight, and I got

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    it on Switch too because I think that's

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    the kind of device you want to be playing

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    this type of game on.

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    And as an avid fan of roguelites and

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    Hollow Knight in general, I knew I just

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    had to play this game.

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    Unfortunately, so far it's been kind of

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    bland, boring, and uninspired.

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    It lacks a certain kind of luster.

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    So first of all, my main complaint with

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    this game is it's very bad— uh,

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    ah,

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    it is very basic in terms of gameplay.

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    Basically all you have is a jump button,

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    attack button, and the other buttons don't

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    really do anything apart from that one

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    which heals you if you've charged up some

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    of these gray-white things.

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    There's no roll button and there's no

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    block button, so all these buttons Nothing

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    does anything.

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    If you click the right thumbstick, it does

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    something like a weird slap, but why would

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    you want to do that with the right

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    thumbstick click?

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    That's— you got this horizontal slash and

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    you got upward slash and downward slash if

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    you jump like that.

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    I don't know what that actually does, but

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    where's the rolling and where's the

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    dodging and where's the blocking?

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    Nowhere.

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    So the gameplay feels a bit bland.

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    Graphics are basically just a 2D game, not

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    really much to expect in terms of

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    graphics.

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    The art style is nice as always, like the

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    other game.

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    Music is quite nice too, and the sound

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    effects are okay, I guess.

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    So I don't know what that does, doesn't

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    seem to do anything.

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    Maybe like a taunt.

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    Doesn't really seem to do any damage.

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    So far the game is kind of boring and

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    you just run around this green cave.

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    I think I'm lost.

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    So the combat, you just spam this button

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    over and over again

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    and there's not much else to it.

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    It's only £16, so I guess it's not too

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    bad.

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    Oh, I'm back here again.

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    So my feelings with the game so far is

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    it's kind of

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    boring, and it doesn't really use the

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    Switch 2's hardware in a noticeable way.

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    It could probably run on anything really.

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    There's no graphics that are 3D, it's all

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    2D.

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    It doesn't really tell you where to go,

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    which is kind of annoying.

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    So yeah, pretty disappointed with the

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    sequel.

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    Doesn't do anything that Hollow Knight

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    does differently.

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    Combat, very boring, 2 out of

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    10.

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    Look.

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    Oh, oh, you go this way.

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    Okay,

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    could have told me.

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    I don't know why I'm dying.

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    There are these weird environmental things

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    where it just stops you from moving, and

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    I'm not sure what you're supposed to do.

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    Uh, rest.

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    Okay, so you rest in these glowing bits

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    and And then what?

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    There's no shop or anything.

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    Also, you can't double jump, which is kind

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    of lame.

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    I don't know why it makes you cut down

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    these vines either.

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    Pointless.

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    Oh, is that a boss?

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    So that's what a boss looks like.

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    The Moss Mother.

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    It'd be nice if you get different combos.

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    What?

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    I was healing and it killed me.

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    See, there's no block button or dodge.

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    What are you supposed to do?

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    Oh.

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    Stupid fucking game.

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    This

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    game sucks.

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    Easy!

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