Some Silksong players are clinging stubbornly to its release version as the 'first major patch' kills a secret technique and makes bosses a smidge easier

A screencap of a cutscene in Hollow Knight: Silksong. Main character Hornet faces the screen with her white face and angled black eyes. Her red cloak twists in the wind.

Have you played Silksong? No no no, I don't mean that rank imitation that passes for Silksong today. I mean original Silksong, purestrain Silksong, pre-patch Silksong. Everyone knows Silksong's patch one—the game's "first major patch"—which hit yesterday, really just fouled it all up. It made things too easy. It turned our beloved Silksong into, well, you didn't hear this from me, but it's pretty much a baby game now.

Okay, okay. Community response to the patch, which makes its early game easier and its mid-game cheaper, as well as kneecapping an advanced technique or two, isn't quite on that level, but folks certainly are lamenting the now-nuked techs they worked to uncover. For instance, plenty of players are sad to see the back of "float override".