[akavel]

In the same boat here - I played it for a while, but was (and am) sincerely super confused what people find so amazing in it. I mean, it's an ok game, and I get that some people may like it, why not; but the repeated claims of it being the best of all time, to me totally baffling. Already the respawning of the critters, and the grind to get some coins to get such a basic game feature as a map, two early aspects that I definitely don't like, and personally find somewhat disrespectful to my time.

[pharrington]

You absolutely don't have to grind geo to buy maps, or really anything (except three very specific charms) in Hollow Knight. Just kill stuff as you go exploring. However, if you don't like the game's combat, then the game is definitely not for you.

[thaumasiotes]

> I played it for a while, but was (and am) sincerely super confused what people find so amazing in it.

That's very easy to explain. It's a Kickstarter effect.

Boardgamegeek is a website that, among other things, aggregates ratings of board games into a big master list of which games are the best, kind of like imdb.

The list has been corrupted by Kickstarter - it turns out that, when a game with a Kickstarter campaign comes out, everyone who reviews it is someone who backed the Kickstarter, and those people are personally invested in the idea that their game is good. You have to wait for quite a while before a Kickstarter game's rating can be usefully compared with a normal game's.

The waiting period for Silksong seems to have had a similar effect on the people who bought it right away.

[pharrington]

Nope! Alot of people just really love the game. I'm one of them! I only heard about the game after its release, and the first time I played it was in during the end of 2017. The only expectations I had for it were that it was a difficult exploration game. What captivated me was the music, the level design, getting lost before realizing what exploration options were available to me - I could go on forever about the game.

[bernds74]

Same here. Hollow Knight was simply wonderful - the graphics, the music, the characters, the boss fight designs, the melancholic feeling of the world. It's hard to say whether it was my best gaming experience ever because there's stiff competition, but it's definitely in the nominees. And I only heard about it way after the Kickstarter campaign.

[thaumasiotes]

> Nope! Alot of people just really love the game. I'm one of them! I only heard about the game after its release, and the first time I played it was in during the end of 2017.

Considering it released a couple of days ago, I don't see how this can be true.

[FumblingBear]

They're referring to Hollow Knight, not Silksong.