With Hollow Knight: Silksong’s huge launch in full swing, community debate about its qualities and flaws has gone back and forth, with some players insisting their criticisms about things like the game's difficulty are valid and shouldn’t be instantly dismissed as "hate."
There are mechanisms in both games that allow you to remotely retrieve your body if you are desperate not to lose it. Hollow Knight is definitely less forgiving than Silksong in this respect though.
Exploration is a task that has inherent difficulty in the genre, it’s uncommon to have actual points of no return as you describe, but if you can’t see through a particular segment to the next checkpoint, yeah sometimes giving up will cost you. An actual point of no return probably means you’re on the cusp of a sweet new ability though.
There are mechanisms in both games that allow you to remotely retrieve your body if you are desperate not to lose it. Hollow Knight is definitely less forgiving than Silksong in this respect though.
Not having the mechanic to begin with would be better than a thing that merely makes it less bad, because even then there’s still an opportunity cost.
Exploration is a task that has inherent difficulty in the genre, it’s uncommon to have actual points of no return as you describe, but if you can’t see through a particular segment to the next checkpoint, yeah sometimes giving up will cost you. An actual point of no return probably means you’re on the cusp of a sweet new ability though.