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Hollow Knight： Silksong Switch 2 gameplay and performance review

2025-09-05 · 10 min

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  1. 0:00

    This is Hollow Knight: Silksong on the

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    Switch 2.

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    My first time playing a game like this,

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    and, uh, it's quite an interesting game.

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    It's got a very unique art style,

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    I guess you could say.

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    Uh, seems like a pretty basic game, but

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    enjoying it so far actually is pretty fun.

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    Really enjoying the art style and movement

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    systems, quite fluid.

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    And, uh, you don't really get much in the

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    beginning, you got to wait until later in

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    the game you unlock more stuff.

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    Uh, so it seems like you need to grind in

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    the game to get further, which makes

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    sense.

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    And then you got these rest points

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    Music's quite nice.

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    Uh, this is what it looks like on the

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    Switch 2.

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    It probably would look nicer on an OLED

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    screen.

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    No OLED for Switch 2.

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    Friend.

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    Ah, I picked up that red thing.

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    I don't know what they do.

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    I need 30.

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    Oh

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    my

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    God.

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    Mm, raw velvet.

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    Oh my God.

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    What?

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    Stupid fucking game.

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    Oh, now I'm all the way back here.

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    You joking?

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    Oh my God.

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    Oh,

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    this

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    game's so fucking boring.

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    Combat is not fun.

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    You just hit them a few times, they die.

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    No blocking or rolling, so bare bones.

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    Cult of the Lamb is so much better, and

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    Hades too.

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    I guess this is supposed to be

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    atmospheric, not

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    action-packed.

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    Like Cult of the Lamb, Hades 2, very

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    fast-paced, action-packed.

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    This, I'm just walking round and round in

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    fucking circles.

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    I don't know where I'm going.

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    Why does everything look depressed?

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    Why are all the NPCs just sitting around

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    looking depressed?

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    God, this is so boring.

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    It looks nice, but it's boring.

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    Why don't they make it more obvious which

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    way you're supposed to go?

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    Like, am I supposed to go down?

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    Am I supposed to go up?

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    Boring.

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