Year after the success of Hollow Knight, we finally got our hand on its safe sequel, Hollow Knight: Silksong. After release, it went up in the steam diagrams, despite the brutal difficulty in comparison with its predecessor.
Silksong is still fresh out of the gate, with many people who discover new details about it, but enough people have now gone through the tough levels for us to have a good overview of how it is compared to its predecessor. Is it better than Hollow Knight? We will remove each one down to its nuclear elements and see which one is higher.
Artwork and soundtrack: both
They are both beautiful
Before we go into it, let's give each title because everyone with functional eyes and/or ears would fortunately give. Both games are fantastic with hand -drawn art that makes you question all your artistic ambitions. It is further improved by the smooth and sharp animations that can be seen from the smallest critters to the most huge animals. To follow such pleasant and wonderful images, you have sound effects to give them even greater life with a soundtrack to compete with some of the best. You don't even feel bad when it comes to meeting the same boss repeatedly because their music goes so hard.
Content: Hollow Knight
Got a lot going on and then some
Silksong contains a lot as it is, with the theme to climb up to the top to reach the final area, but the map screen shows a lot of empty space just waiting to be filled. This is where Hollow Knight stands out, because even after you have unlocked all areas, you are overwhelmed by the large scale.
So now you have gone through the main adventure of Hollow Knight and carefully found all collectibles. That means you're finally done, right? Of course not, you have several free DLCs to go through and humble all the so -called skill you have built up. Grimm Troupe will make you hunt for difficult enemies over the hallownest while taking on two new Bosss: Hard and painfully hard. Godmaster will make you go through several boss rush with new managers at the end of each. Life blood and hidden dreams add new areas and dream -like opponents to the face. It may come one day when Silksong's DLC nuts up it quite a lot, but at the moment Hollow Knight takes the whole cake.
Difficulties: Silksong
Tricky adjustment, valuable challenge
Hollow Knight is not a simple game, and even after you know how things work, it is difficult to break habits and easy to make mistakes. Silksong takes that concept and wraps it in the silk of an even greater challenge that will breed unhealthy amounts of frustration.
The most important contributor to this is the horn itself, as Team Cherry has worked hard to ensure that you are playing a completely different character. Everything about the horn differs from the knight: hitbox, movement rate, jumping, attack rate, attack area, healing ability, skills and more. Trying to learn the knight and learn the horn is the first important and engaging challenge.
Then all things try to hinder you from nailed walls to explosive flowers. Many of Silksong's enemies are defensive and retreat while attacking, which forces you to hunt for them and put you in more danger. The aggressive enemies will cause problems with their troublesome movements and attacks that allow them to divert the horn.
Then you have the platform sections, which will make you question if you have ever played a platform player before (red flowers, said enough). Last but perhaps most important is the managers. They are tough, fast and love AOE attacks. The more progress you think you are making in a fight, the more you fear that they will whip out a new move that you are completely unprepared to avoid.
Hollow Knight is still a very tough cake, but bite in silksong guarantees you a meeting with the dentist.
Controls: hollow knight
Sharp, exactly and fast
When talking about checks, this was another element in which both titles stand out, but it is at the technical level. What we want to talk about is to feel, and while Silksong feels nice and smooth, it feels hollow knights just better. This is a decisive factor when it comes to enjoying a game, especially when it is a soul -like game.
You want an immediate response with each push of a button, and hollow knights have received it. The knight's movement may look unnatural, but that is the point. He is a kind of machine that is made for a specific purpose and has the capacity to fulfill it.
Any movement that the knight does can be short and accurate, which is perfect for the split-second decision you will make. Each new meeting has you to stand on the line between fight and flight, and the knight can accommodate you no matter where you knock on the toe, and even if you are incorrect.
But all this is balanced by some of your strongest attacks that require you to slow down and choose just the right moment, which you will learn to discover during your adventure. And what helps you develop all this speed and precision? Why the fact that many of the managers also use them.
Silksong controls are solid and feel more natural to the organic character of the horn, but the knight's almost robotic measures make him the preferred choice for exact and accurate features.
Story: Silksong
I want to know more
Be honest, even after you reach the credits in Hollow Knight, you were not really sure what happened … and there is nothing wrong with it. The knight's story is vague at best, but it is part of the charm, and yet Silksong's story is in some way even more charming.
The main reason for this is the nature of the horn. You are no longer an unnamed, voiceless, seemingly lifeless shell struggling through an adventure; You are a decorated and experienced warrior with an honorary code, a personality, history and a defined goal in mind. This helps the story feel fuller while highlighting the mysteries that appeal to both us and the horn.
Due to the influx of dialogue, other characters have more to say, which further enriches Pharloom's world. This is not the dying world of hallownest; This is a world that apparently under the siege of a mysterious force, and the horn is directly bound to it.
We know the horn, but this story shows that we have barely scraped the surface and we want to dig deeper. What adds even more is the concept of wishes, which are inquiries made by the citizens of the various Pharloom, reveal more about the condition and gives clues to the various mysteries.
There is definitely a compelling story in Hollow Knight, which reveals itself through context and games, but Silksong pulls us in with more direct story and weaves an attractive story.
The winner: A move
They have both games
Both Hollow Knight and Silksong are worth playing in their own right. They give us the luxury of being loosely connected so we can play them in which order we choose. They are both beautiful in presentation and get involved in games.
Even cutting right to the heart of the thing shows that they balance each other, each one gives more or less in critical areas. At the moment it is a draw, but if Silksong follows a similar path to Hollow Knight, we can see that it will be even bigger and past its predecessor.
