As you ascend to the peak of a haunted kingdom as the comically blunt, badass bug Hornet, Hollow Knight: Silksong introduces a bunch of interesting characters but also a large number of devastatingly difficult enemies that will likely have you backtracking to explore its beautiful environments as you calm down from the frustration of not being able to beat them. This game weaves a web in more ways than one — the intelligent way areas of the deceptive map are hidden adds to the fun of untangling this game's story as if it were a really tight silk knot, while tools and map resources can only be purchased with hard-to-come-by currency that is easy to lose, cleverly forcing hoarders like me to accept and surrender. That is, until you have four heroes on a mandatory rest break, two out of commission and five separate crimes taking place, the clock ticking down on each of them and you're wondering how it's possible for the one gig you took a chance on letting Waterboy handle has somehow gone so thoroughly awry that the city is facing flooding.
Author: Gianfranco Di Giovanni, Don Sheil, Angus Truskett, Gemma 'Gem' Driscoll, Velvet Winter, and Joshua Wong
Published at: 2025-12-14 22:00:42
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