Silksong Is Harder Than Hollow Knight, And it’s Hornet’s Fault

Levi Winslow
9/18/2025

After eight years, Silksong is here, and it's tough. Very tough, actually, to the point where some players believe it's much harder than its 2017 predecessor, Hollow Knight. That difficulty increase is exactly by design, though, according to Team Cherry in a new interview.As spotted by Dexerto while attending Melbourne's ACMI Game Worlds exhibition, Team Cherry co-director Ari Gibson and developer William Pellen spoke to the exhibition's co-curator Jini Maxwell for a new book. In the book, the ACMI Guide: Hollow Knight Silksong, Gibson and Pellen contextualize why the sequel is harder than the original, and it's actually because of Hornet.When designing the game with Hornet as the playable character, Team Cherry had to buff the enemies she faced. The team's overall philosophy was to "bring everyone else up to match [Hornet's] level."Continue Reading at GameSpot...

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