Hollow Knight: Silksong is out. Do you know that? You most likely pieced that collectively. After seven years of ready, Crew Cherry’s long-awaited 2D action-platformer is right here and kicking folks’s asses. However on PC, 1000’s of gamers are utilizing mods to assist them overcome the difficult recreation.
Silksong launched late final week on Xbox, PlayStation, Change, and PC after almost a decade of ready. And first reactions to the sequel are virtually completely optimistic, with followers loving the small tweaks to the Hole Knight method and the bigger dimension of its world. Plus, that $20 price ticket is sweet in an period when every thing is dearer than ever. And Silksong, like Hole Knight, isn’t the simplest recreation on the planet. Many gamers are even claiming that Silksong is tougher than the OG. This has led to a lot of discourse on the internet about how hard it is or isn’t, and about game difficulty in general. However for those who’re enjoying on PC, there’s an answer: Simply mod Silksong and make it simpler.
If we hop over to Silksong’s mods hub over at NexusMods, a preferred PC modding website, you may see there are already 60+ mods out there for the just lately launched platformer. And lots of the hottest mods out there for the sport make it a lot simpler to play. The most well-liked mods for Silksong embody one which provides well being meters to enemies, one other one which stops enemies from doing double injury to the participant, and one which exhibits the participant’s place on the map always. All of those mods have over 15,000 downloads. An automapping mod has 9,000 downloads. One other free PC mod that will increase how a lot injury gamers deal to enemies has over 7,000 downloads.
In reality, the one mod extra fashionable than all of those mods that make Silksong simpler is the mod wanted to run any of those different creations. That mod, “BepInEx 5 with Configuration Manager,” has over 28,000 downloads as of September 8. That’s lots of downloads for a recreation that’s barely been out every week. In fact, not all of the mods for Silksong are about making it simpler. However these mods, like one which provides ultrawide assist and a loss of life counter, solely have just a few hundred downloads or fewer.
Evidently the folks coming to NexusMods for Silksong mods largely have one purpose in thoughts: Make the sport much less difficult. I count on reactions to this may fluctuate rather a lot, however personally, I land on the aspect of “If folks want to make a game easier or harder with mods, and it doesn’t ruin it for other people, then whatever.” However I’ve been on the internet lengthy sufficient to know that ain’t a common take.
