Why i regret buying Hollow Knight： Silksong

Hello and welcome back to a new video.

So as you can see, I'm playing the brand

new Hollow Knight: Silksong game, and I

was a massive fan of the first one, Hollow

Knight, so I knew I was going to play this

anyway.

And I decided to purchase it with the

purchase point of only £16.

I think it is quite a good price point for

a new game compared to newer games which

are coming out for like £70 these days,

which I think is just stupid.

I don't think a video game should ever be

that expensive.

Uh, so yeah, I was quite happy with the

cheap price point of this new game.

Unfortunately, I do feel like I kind of

regret buying this, mainly because it just

doesn't seem to be as good as I was

expecting.

It doesn't quite have the features that I

was hoping for in a sequel to Hollow

Knight, and for those reasons, I don't

really feel like I can fully recommend

this game as it is right now.

So it plays quite smoothly, as you expect

on a £400 device like the Switch 2.

And the gameplay is pretty much what you'd

expect if you played the original game

before.

Very basic.

You don't even have double jump.

You got a long press to hold jump to jump

higher.

You do a little button click like that,

you jump a little bit, and you hold it

down longer, you jump higher.

But there's no double jump.

And the basic attacks are very basic.

You basically just got one slashing move,

and these other buttons don't do anything

at the moment.

Obviously you're going to have to unlock

them later on in the game.

Uh, but yeah, the game is pretty much what

you would expect if you've played a game

like this before.

It doesn't really do anything that

differently from the original game,

and you might be fooled into thinking

you're just playing the original game

without actually playing the sequel, cuz

it doesn't really seem obvious that

there's anything new in this iteration of

Hollow Knight.

It's basically just a new character and

new enemies, which basically— I mean,

they're new enemies in the way that they

look different, but they basically just do

what you would expect them to do from the

previous game, which is they just kind of

aimlessly hover towards you and do an

attack.

And then some have projectiles, and then

you've got a boss fight here and there,

which is basically the same as the first

game.

You've just got bosses and they do

attacks.

And you gotta learn the patterns,

and then you just defeat them and you get

some points.

And there's like some objects puzzles in

the game as well, which is nice if you

like puzzles, but they're not really like

proper puzzles.

It's more like flip a switch and you open

a door and then you get into this room and

then you do this thing.

Pretty basic stuff, really.

But I felt like for a sequel of this game,

I thought maybe they would add a bit more

to the game.

So you got like a special enemy here.

I don't know what that is.

Oh, it's not an enemy.

There's a lot of dialogue in it, which is

kind of tedious to have to read through.

And then you can buy stuff from this

person,

like a map.

A pen, a compass, but it's quite expensive

if you've just started off, you don't have

many points.

But all these NPCs that do useful things

like that, they're kind of just scattered

all around the map, so I don't know if

there's a hub or a way to teleport to

them, because it'd be kind of annoying

having to backtrack every time to find

them to buy their stuff.

The game feels very grindy at times.

Oh, you're just grinding them to get those

currency things.

And for that reason, I have to give this

game a 2.5 out of 10.

Maybe if it came down in price, I could

recommend it.

Doesn't seem to be any bugs from my

extensive testing.

Oh, there is a shop.

120.

A brooch,

a mask shard,

a key.

As an avid fan of the first game, I knew I

just had to play this game, but it's so

rubbish and boring.

As you can see, the rubbishness.

Rubbishness transcends all rubbishness.

Okay.