Hollow Knight: Silksong

Item: Hollow Knight: Silksong
Rating: 61
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-10-03

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Summary

Exceptional art and sound design
Fluid and dynamic combat
Rewarding exploration and content
Excessive and artificial difficulty
Poor progression and reward system
Unsatisfying combat and boss design

Emotions

Frustration23%Satisfaction18%Disappointment15%Excitement10%Anger5%

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61%

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Reviews (sample size): 2000
Helpful reviews: 93%
Unhelpful reviews: 6%
Protest reviews: 1%

61%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
39%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 15453
Negative points: 19307
Gameplay points: 13899
Perf. points: 129
Rec. points: 3557
Misc points: 5823

Point	Description	Importance
Exceptional Art & Sound Design Description Players consistently praise the game's stunning hand-drawn visuals, intricate animations, and diverse environments. The soundtrack is frequently described as a masterpiece, perfectly complementing the atmosphere and enhancing emotional immersion during exploration and boss battles. Importance 72%	Players consistently praise the game's stunning hand-drawn visuals, intricate animations, and diverse environments. The soundtrack is frequently described as a masterpiece, perfectly complementing the atmosphere and enhancing emotional immersion during exploration and boss battles.	72%
Masterful Boss Design Description Boss fights are a major highlight, described as creative, challenging, and memorable. Players enjoy learning complex movesets, adapting strategies with tools and crests, and experiencing the immense satisfaction of overcoming difficult encounters, often feeling like a 'dance' rather than a chore. Importance 71%	Boss fights are a major highlight, described as creative, challenging, and memorable. Players enjoy learning complex movesets, adapting strategies with tools and crests, and experiencing the immense satisfaction of overcoming difficult encounters, often feeling like a 'dance' rather than a chore.	71%
Rewarding Exploration & Content Description The game features a massive, intricately designed world filled with secrets, hidden passages, and optional areas that reward curiosity. Players appreciate the sheer volume of content, including quests, collectibles, and lore, which makes exploration consistently engaging and offers excellent value for its price. Importance 69%	The game features a massive, intricately designed world filled with secrets, hidden passages, and optional areas that reward curiosity. Players appreciate the sheer volume of content, including quests, collectibles, and lore, which makes exploration consistently engaging and offers excellent value for its price.	69%
Fluid & Dynamic Combat Description The combat system is lauded for its speed, fluidity, and responsiveness, offering a significant upgrade from its predecessor. Players enjoy the acrobatic movement, diverse tool and crest combinations, and the satisfying feeling of mastering enemy patterns to create a 'dance' in battles. Importance 69%	The combat system is lauded for its speed, fluidity, and responsiveness, offering a significant upgrade from its predecessor. Players enjoy the acrobatic movement, diverse tool and crest combinations, and the satisfying feeling of mastering enemy patterns to create a 'dance' in battles.	69%
Innovative Tool & Crest System Description The new tool and crest system is a significant improvement over the previous charm system, offering extensive customization and encouraging diverse playstyles. Players enjoy experimenting with different combinations to adapt to various combat and exploration challenges. Importance 63%	The new tool and crest system is a significant improvement over the previous charm system, offering extensive customization and encouraging diverse playstyles. Players enjoy experimenting with different combinations to adapt to various combat and exploration challenges.	63%
Team Cherry's Dedication & Vision Description Players widely commend Team Cherry for their unwavering artistic vision, meticulous craftsmanship, and commitment to delivering a high-quality game at a fair price. The long development time is seen as justified by the game's polish, depth, and overall excellence, often surpassing expectations. Importance 61%	Players widely commend Team Cherry for their unwavering artistic vision, meticulous craftsmanship, and commitment to delivering a high-quality game at a fair price. The long development time is seen as justified by the game's polish, depth, and overall excellence, often surpassing expectations.	61%
Engaging Protagonist & Narrative Description Hornet is praised as a charismatic and dynamic protagonist, with her dialogue and interactions adding significant depth to the story and world. Her agile movement and diverse toolkit make playing as her enjoyable, and her personal journey resonates strongly with players. Importance 59%	Hornet is praised as a charismatic and dynamic protagonist, with her dialogue and interactions adding significant depth to the story and world. Her agile movement and diverse toolkit make playing as her enjoyable, and her personal journey resonates strongly with players.	59%
Enhanced World-Building & NPCs Description The world feels more alive and immersive due to a large cast of unique, charismatic NPCs with engaging storylines and dialogues. These interactions, combined with rich environmental storytelling and deep lore, contribute to a vibrant and memorable game world. Importance 53%	The world feels more alive and immersive due to a large cast of unique, charismatic NPCs with engaging storylines and dialogues. These interactions, combined with rich environmental storytelling and deep lore, contribute to a vibrant and memorable game world.	53%

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