Hollow Knight Silksong has attracted a huge number of players and received many reviews. Many have heard that the project was criticized for poor translation into Chinese and "difficulty", and a user with the nickname Newbie Indie Game Dev decided to delve deeper and highlight more specific problems of the game.
He analyzed almost all Silksong reviews on Steam — about 260 thousand pieces. Then he compiled a graph with popular words, which reflected their frequency, sorted by tonality.
- There are complaints about the economy: they complain about "grind".
- Phrases related to enemies dealing double damage tend to be more negative, with approximately 45% - 60% positive tone (tonality).
- There are mentions of "long runs" — players are unhappy that they need to return to bosses, the placement of checkpoints also does not please some members of the community.
- The reviews mention FromSoftware projects — Dark Souls and Elden Ring, they are found about 1700 times and at the same time 67% with a positive tone.
- Reviews that mention flying enemies are mostly negative, and the "many flying enemies" themselves have 43.48% positive reviews in 69 reviews.
Newbie Indie Game Dev admits that his methodology is not ideal (a positive review may include a negative comment about difficulty / bosses, so the result is distorted). Nevertheless, this work gives a certain idea of the "pains" of the community.