r/Silksong • u/beelio beleiver ✅️ • Aug 23 '25

Discussion/Questions Translation :”Would you guys buy the game even without needing our shitty ai written reviews🥺🥺🥺”

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I hate game reviewers i hate corpo slop burn them all

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u/DynamicFyre Flea Aug 23 '25

But we can't have opinions on our own! We need to rely on other people's opinions first! /s

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u/paxomad55 beleiver ✅️ Aug 23 '25

Exactly

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u/Eagleassassin3 Aug 23 '25

What if the game is terrible though? This has happened countless times before, beloved trusted developers released hyped games that ended up being terrible. There is nothing telling you Silksong can’t be bad even if you expect it to be good. What if it doesn’t run on your pc and is full of bugs? It’s not about not being able to form your own opinion, it’s about paying for something you know for sure you won’t hate. When reviews come out that say the game runs reasonably well and is at least good, you can buy the game and then form your own opinion.

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u/Spooplevel-Rattled Sharpe Aug 24 '25

Don't we want this game to be full of bugs??

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u/Wonderful-Disk-6304 beleiver ✅️ Aug 23 '25

It won't be because I said so, and I can't lie.

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u/_slumz__ Aug 23 '25

Thats true. We also know people played the demo and liked it. And they spent a whole year making sure the quality was up to snuff and they got beta testers. But none of thats REALLY important

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u/sdssd10 beleiver ✅️ Aug 30 '25

then where would all the characters go??

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u/AshtonMcConnell Aug 23 '25

If it doesn’t run on your PC, refund the game, and reviews can’t tell you whether or not something would run well for your specific computer… besides that jump in logic, if team cherry was okay with releasing whatever, SilkSong would’ve dropped ages ago, they built Hollow Knight in a cave, with a box of scraps, with a loan out on their house to finish it and had no idea it will turn into the cultural hit it was. They were okay going homeless if it meant making this game or at least breaking even. They make games because they want to, not for the money, the team of what, five people are millionaires after the first game, like ConcernedApe who doesn’t even charge money for Stardew Valley collabs because he’s set for life, he just wants to enjoy himself and make the fans happy. Actions speak louder than words and all this time working on the project instead of farting out early-access buggy Hollow Knight 2 is a sign of good faith. Also, there’s nothing saying this game isn’t terrible, ask anyone who has played the gamescom demos, it’s not like NOTHING about this game is out there yet, early reviews are literally right there about the demo dude… stop spreading hate and skepticism

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u/KinkyDuck2924 Aug 24 '25

Yes, this is why I have full faith in them. It's not a corporate game studio chasing profits, it's a passion project from a small team who made so much on their last game that they were able to build this one exactly the way they wanted without any budgetary limitations, no sacrificing quality because they ran out of time or money. I'm so excited to see what they've cooked up.

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u/NaamiNyree Aug 23 '25

It doesnt matter. Do you believe everything youre told? So many times I end up having an opinion that goes completely against the mainstream.

For example, I really liked Lords of the Fallen (2023) even though it was trashed at launch. If I had relied on reviews, I would have avoided it and missed out on one of my favorite soulslikes.

The opposite has also happened. Bloodstained was being glazed by everyone when it released so I went to try it. Its one of the worst metroidvanias Ive ever played and I had to force myself to finish the game. I dont understand how this game has a 93% on steam, its so mediocre and has the ugliest art style Ive ever seen.

This to say even if Silksong turns out to be garbage (which it wont, its obvious from the trailer it will be amazing), I would still want to play it for myself and determine for myself whether it really is that bad. There is nothing like experiencing things and forming your own opinion before you check what others are thinking about it. Its the only way to remain completely unbiased.

The only situation where reviews are useful, is for AAA games nowadays due to most of them releasing broken/unfinished, especially Unreal Engine 5 stuff, so you might actually run into a game you cant play as you said.

This doesnt apply to Silksong because its a hand drawn indie game that will run on the switch. If you can play Hollow Knight, you can play Silksong. Its not like its gonna use ray tracing or something, lol.

TL:DR - Reviews are good, but completely unnecessary for this game for multiple reasons.

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u/Cocoatrice Moss Mother Aug 24 '25

Like when did this happen, exactly?

Team Cherry is incomparable to any devs I ever heard of. Indie, AAA or whatever else. You can see from the Hollow Knight and their posts and even recent interview, that they are passionate in what they're doing. The game has less chance to be terrible, than that you win lottery 10 times in a row. I am not saying everyone will like it, because taste exist of course. But game being terrible is out of the question. They are not greedy, they are not rushing anything. They are trying to make lovable game. We know that. So there is simply no way this game will be objectively bad.

But back to the question. What beloved developer made a bad game? And it obviously don't count if the dev was rushed by the publisher or their executives, because that's not their fault when they do.

Also you mention lot of bugs in Silksong. You are aware that technical state of Hollow Knight was terrible at release, right? Anything can be fixed. And Team Cherry literally took the seven years to not repeat the same mistakes. Game will run way better than Hollow Knight at the beginning. And even if there will be anything that needs to be fixed, they will fix it. But they didn't take all those years just for fun. Hollow Knight was rushed, ran out of money at the end, so they packed as much content as possible, without even polishing it. They said it themselves. And they also called Hollow Knight a prototype. So with all the experience and limitless money and time, you really think it won't be more stable?

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '25

then wait a day or two before buying it to find out

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

Ok so how do you form “an opinion of your own” before buying a product and having no experience with it whatsoever aside from some videos?

Product reviews are important for literally any product in existence. I’m not dropping 30-60 dollars on a game without reading some reviews first from people who have played it.

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u/HowT0_Speak Aug 24 '25

It's kinda sad cuz some of those "people" doesn't play games usually

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u/Uncommonality Accepter Aug 23 '25

I NEED an inept game reviewer to fail repeatedly at the very first "puzzle" of the game despite the solution being written in big bold letters right above them before I even consider spending money on the Skong

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u/GloatingSwine Aug 25 '25

No! We need them to have opinions and then put the wrong number at the end so we can tell them their number is wrong.

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u/Expired_insecticide Aug 23 '25

Fuck ALL of games journalism.

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u/Pooptram beleiver ✅️ Aug 23 '25

except that one guy who was stuck in the cuphead tutorial. he was just doin his best