Skong 2: the second Skonging

[meager oar]

Based on one the tools you pickup

[tired elbow]

Bro how much hp does ||savage beastfly|| even have?

||I used every single one of my spike balls + boomerangs, with poison, and that mf was still alive||

[brisk trench]

||85||

[sour ocean]

||RIP Bone Bottom||

[lofty reef]

||Echoes Act 2||
||Immediately fall down elevator||
||I can't believe Hornet is fucking dead||

||"Tell me your sin"||
||(Breathes)||
||"You have committed an act beyond forgiveness, go back to work" ||
||Just like real life||

[lofty reef]

Alright

I found the best boss

I don't need spoilers to affirm that to me

[fallow cedar]

Man idk if i should spoiler the name of it but I just got huge scammed for 850 beads

[tranquil peak]

which one

[lofty reef]

who else but ||Cogwork Dancers||

[tranquil peak]

oh yeah fair

personal fav boss is an optional one, but insofar as mandatories i still pref ||widow||

but ||clockwork dancers|| win out on aesthetics

[tired elbow]

||my fave is currently lace, 4th chorus being a close second||

[tranquil peak]

||4th chorus feels like my favorite aestheticslly so far too tbh, or maybe second. it has such a unique animation compared to anything else across HK/silksong, and its such a fun moment passing by it the first time and going "oh thank god that things not attacking me" to walking back and going "what the FUCK"||

||super cool boss, just kinda simply/easy when u actually break down its atks||

[brisk trench]

||i saw 4th chorus in one of the trailers so as soon as i saw him in game i was like "okay when is this guy gonna wake up so i can fight him"||

[tame jay]

||the first time i walked by was like "oh god oh fuck it's going to start up when i walk by"||

very cool fight

[fallow cedar]

Honestly most of the major bosses have such aura

[meager oar]

Bro the most fucked up thing is when ||you see 20 of them lined up in the underworks||

I was genuinely like wtf

[tranquil peak]

RIGHT

i was horrified for a sec

[sour ocean]

||The Widow fight|| is so much fun

[fallow cedar]

Just found out the requirements for one of the endings

Yeah that ain't happening

[meager oar]

First balance patch for skong was announced

[fallow cedar]

The two fights they nerfed i dont think they needed to

[meager oar]

I think bird is justified

[fallow cedar]

One you can choose to have help and the other if you deal with the adds first is a cake walk

[meager oar]

And they didn’t really say reduced damage

So could just be ai diff

To avoid situations where you just get fucked by placement

Which is an issue with plant

I already beat both tho so this balance patch doesn’t change much for me

The enemies I think actually need nerfs are ||savage beastfly in 4th chorus arena, and phantom||

Though with the second I think it’s just like

A minor ai change

The first is a major ai change

Cause wdym he can just leave ||you on 1 platform sometimes||

With ads shooting at you

Boss invented by the devil himself

[brisk trench]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/829904540778233876/1414828190769221682/SPOILER_image.png?ex=68c0fcee&is=68bfab6e&hm=4b90ba83e533c81d7cc5728ba91e174e4388bb91d8d71c84bd17da03568c4e2b&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=756&height=759

[lofty reef]

I encountered ||your friendly neighborhood thespian|| and there is a way to get fucked over by an attack combination that I think should be nerfed, but didn’t really detriment the fight much

I agree the 2 bosses they did pick to nerf honestly did not need to be nerfed

[fallow cedar]

He can leave you on no platforms

So you have to float until one regens

[lofty reef]

The first fight can force a brief situation of no plats too that you have to blindly jump to the ones coming back

[fallow cedar]

Honestly though I didnt find the SB refight to be that bad, save traps for when they summon adds and its pretty much over

[meager oar]

I just dislike the low platforms + ads thing

Never encountered no platforms

But I just don’t think that should happen

As well

[fallow cedar]

It happens when he does two vertical attacks in a row and the 3 remaining from the first attack are bunched up

[sour ocean]

Oh my god fuck the second ||Ant Guard fight||

[meager oar]

Yeah but in my experience he just falls into the lava usually

for the second

Like I think the idea is cool

[fallow cedar]

I really like it when he does that cause its heal time

[meager oar]

But the execution is kinda lol

With how it can work

[fallow cedar]

I think the fight would be much better if the adds didnt have their projectiles stick to the platform

[meager oar]

I think just making the boss smarter to not go for platform destruction past the 1st when there are ads

Would dramatically improve the fight

Cause I can see ur meant to juggle both

But being on 1 platform with both alive is kinda unmanageable

And you can use traps, but you get to a point where that isn’t practical

Cause ur trying to manage all this other stuff

[meager oar]

How the hell do u use them lol

Cause if you preplace and he goes high they just disappear

[sour ocean]

All of that for ||mere rosaries||

[fallow cedar]

Sting shard blow up on themselves and leave poison if you have the tool equipped, but other than that, you can easily bait it into its path

And if the big guy doesnt trigger them, the adds certainly do

Other than that, spamming helps

[tame jay]

oh so now they fix the fucking reaper chapel

I had to try it 6 times

[white gull]

Damn I'm gonna miss down + jump float

[tawny bolt]

Y’know I really wish pretty much every single boss except like

The first one and ||Lace|| didn’t 3 shot me

This message brought to you by ||moorwing|| a boss I know objectively doesn’t seem that hard but when you only have 5 masks

[meager oar]

That 2 second mask increase is gonna hit me like crack

[meager oar]

The best way I found to do phase was 2 was just camp the platform

[tawny bolt]

what platform???

Also I really hope ||Garmond and Zaza|| aren’t a “you suck! Have some help!” Mechanic

[meager oar]

The one on the very right of the arena

That’s slightly raised

[tawny bolt]

I didn’t even know it’d let you go that far over

Ugh

Got it

[lofty reef]

Me, who towards the end of ||act 2|| still hasn’t gotta the first set yet

[sour ocean]

||When he roars, and does the rapid slice attack you can get a pogo going quite easily with the crest|| ||Reaper||

You then ||only take damage from one attack in the second phase||

Provided you can dodge a few of the attacks every now and again

[tame jay]

i liked ||moorwing|| tbh

[tired elbow]

||do you get locked out of act 1 when you start act 2?||

I'm currently at ||last judge|| which i assume is what triggers it

[lofty reef]

||Very temporarily. You'll need to do act 2 for a little bit before you can get travel points back to act 1||

[tired elbow]

||should probably finish sinner's run then||

[fallow cedar]

Depends on how you get to act 2

One way takes a little exploring to get you back to act 1, one way plops you right in the area that let's you travel back to act 1

[tired elbow]

I see

[fallow cedar]

Idk if I should leave a cryptic hint about one way to get to act 2 cause like theres a mechanic the game doesnt tell you about you need to use

Ill leave it in spoilers

||when your visions cloudy and stalkers screech, musical guidance is what you need, luminous fliers lead your path, entranced by your musics grasp||

[meager oar]

Depends on who you fight

If you fight ||phantom|| the exit of that boss arena is the station in act 2

If you fight ||last judge|| you’re a good while off

[tired elbow]

I think imma go with ||last judge, already at her arena anyway||

[lofty reef]

||I should not have to be guessing 50/50's in a boss fight||

||Savage's Beastfly's rematch sucks more than its first fight.||

[tranquil peak]

FINISHED SILKSONG FOR RELA THIS TIME

WHOO

[still parcel]

but what about skong 2

[fallow cedar]

I dont know if I should post a job application meme or if i should congratulate

So consider this statement both

[lofty reef]

||"This is your driver, Hornet. I left your food order on the table since I smashed in your front door a few hours ago."||

||This cheap bastard just paid me with half of the rosary being what he charged me to open the damn door before.||

||Wait hold on why is the Pilgrim's Rest supplies available again||

||And now Bone Bottom's supplies are available again. This intentional?||

||ok cool tomorrow I grind lol||

[meager oar]

Alright I’ve hit a point in the game where everything feels uninteresting

Dk what to do

Why does every other boss feel uninteresting to face in this game

For context I just fought ||the unraveled||

[lofty reef]

I just fought ||the union||. I think I may have been underpowered, that one took a few more tries than normal and didn't feel unfair.

Maybe it was the punishment curve, taking 4 damage off bad movement feels rough.

For perspective, 6 masks, 1 needle upgrade, and I got stubborn and finished the fight with no tools, ||Thread Storm||.

||Sweet Sauna and Hell Bell tho||

[brisk trench]

https://fixupx.com/feydemon/status/1965191577577684997?s=46&t=ZIfF073n731cDF-X4fVfTw

nes 🎨 (@feydemon)

how hollow knight bosses feel after playing Silksong

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FixupX · Sep 8, 2025, 11:12 PM

[meager oar]

2 silk hearts is kinda sick tho

[brisk trench]

defeat savage beastfly
check its journal entry
||"defeat 1 more to complete the hunter's notes"||

the fuck you mean "||defeat one more||"

[tame jay]

jesus christ I just quadruple parried one of the stabby crow's circle attacks

[tame jay]

alright ||silk storm|| obtained

I think that's all I really had left to explore before continuing with the main story

[tame jay]

oh I forgot about ||mount fay|| I can go do that first

then it'll be onwards to finish the ||blasted steps and sinners road||

man there's so much content here

[meager oar]

Don’t you need part 2 stuff for that

[tame jay]

no idea I walked out of ||the slab|| into it and didn't bother going any further at that point

we'll see tomorrow

[unreal crypt]

||savage beastbug|| took like 15 mins, good fight

[sour ocean]

The ||Roaches suck lol||

Also the ||Barbed Ring would be really good if contact damage wasn't so punishing in this game||

[tame jay]

apparently so

[tired elbow]

HELL YEAH

[tame jay]

killed a ||giant conchfly|| and now I'm scared

||why did the other one leave when will it pop out of nowhere to kill me||

oh boy ||nail art|| time to never use it

[tame jay]

oh boy ||last judge|| time

||that needolin bit at the gate was crazy||

[sour ocean]

||those poor pilgrims, man||

eyyy

[tame jay]

unpleasant runback unpleasant phase 2

I suppose it is time to git gud

[tired elbow]

||The first conchfly on the runback is actually satan bro||

[tame jay]

||the first one isn't that bad you can sprint past it||

||the second one paired with the guard guy? insanely evil||

[tame jay]

alright that wasn't terrible

actually easier than savage beastfly

amazing

||act 2 here we go||

||fucked up that they don't maintain their elevators, say what you will about the pale king but his kingdom kept running after he died||

[sour ocean]

It took me ages because I didn't realise you could ||just jump over the dash attack||

[tame jay]

||choral chambers|| is like exactly my vibe I love it

[tired elbow]

||magnetic dice is a funny item||

||wont do anything 95% of the time but its optimal in act 1 boss fights because its the only yellow charm that does something||

[sour ocean]

No spoilers please, but I still haven't a clue ||whether this a prequel or a sequel||

[lofty reef]

The mob rush at ||the forum||
Is it possible to get a second nail upgrade before doing it?
That is so long

I want to guess I got to the last wave but I'm not even sure about that

[sour ocean]

|| yes ||

I can tell you where if you'd like

[lofty reef]

Appreciate it, but I'll refrain from that for now

That is the first time I feel grinding it out is not worth and I'll go find something else to do

On the other hand, since I accidentally explored ||the Sands|| before making way back to ||the high hall||, I'm rich now

[lofty reef]

Never Fucking Mind
I did it after getting to 7 masks

[lofty reef]

||Lace's second fight|| is sick

[tawny bolt]

working through ||Shellwood|| now
yes i know i'm slow but i have other stuff i can play too

[tawny bolt]

made it to ||sister splinter||

god that boss is gonna be annoying

btw quick ask
||cocoons|| don't dissapear if you save and exit right
i'm on switch version so that isn't necessarily relevant but curious given my circumstances

[tired elbow]

They do not

[tawny bolt]

cool i figued but also knew y'all would know better

[tame jay]

i thought it was neat once i got the pattern down

||the summons doing 2 masks is a bitch though||

[lofty reef]

Yup.
Happened upon a tips and tricks thing on the Hollow Knight reddit
This was a lategame boss. I did it way too early.

[lofty reef]

||Sherma please, don't go to the mad scientist ward alone||

[tired elbow]

Ok after seeing some streamers play

Man people really need to use traps/tools more

[tawny bolt]

https://www.tumblr.com/shencomix/794397204470202369

Shen Comix

-# #shen comix #comic #comics

Tumblr · Sep 11, 2025, 1:10 PM

[sour ocean]

Shaw

[lofty reef]

So it turns out I had what I needed for it in my pocket…. For like 5 hours

And just forgot I had it

I though ||going through Hunter’s March immediately|| was my Metroid moment but this might take the cake

[meager oar]

This is why we fight ||phantom||

10 second run back

[lofty reef]

Ok so I got an early ending and decided to spoil myself slightly by just seeing what area of the map I had left
Oh boy, I missed ||2 areas on the right side of the map||. Gotta go back through ||Sinner's|| yipee

||(Actually tbf, Sinner's killed me like once. still stressful to navigate.)||

Oh
||Sinner's Ground Part 2||
Well at least I got to a bench without dying

Well
I got the gimmick of ||the Mist||
Shit

I'll figure that out later
Back to ||piss dimension||

[fallow cedar]

Just found the ingredients quest

https://tenor.com/view/war-vietnam-ptsd-shell-shock-moment-gif-3022747568394546158

[brisk trench]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/996108937445244998/1415780048916582492/SPOILER_technicallythetruth-v0-olmmclrhxfof1.png?ex=68c4736b&is=68c321eb&hm=4e8b7543d7ac580ab3f23c098bb97d2a3a3b8e4b5809959f8f235dd146d296e2&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=398&height=676

[tame jay]

||just ran into the cogwork dancers||

||oh my god I get it dot gif||

[still parcel]

finally, skong is difficult

[lofty reef]

Finally
||The double Jump||
Now I can play the game

[tame jay]

||o7||

[lofty reef]

||Found the floofer||
||Got immediately concerned when I heard battle music||

[tame jay]

oh my fucking god I didn't even realize the pinmaster was in ||bellhart|| I've been doing everything with the base pin

[unreal crypt]

Beast Crest second tried || last judge ||

vroken

[tawny bolt]

||sister splinter|| is gonna be kicking my ass

wow this boss does literally everything annoying

[tired elbow]

Its getting nerfed next week

If you want to wait

[tawny bolt]

nvm got it thje very next try

[tired elbow]

Lol

[tawny bolt]

i did the goddam roaring knight pre patch I can do this

idk why the fight just clicked for me that attemot

probably helped that ||I did really good about managing the ads||

oh thank god this is a real game now
I got ||cling grip||

[tawny bolt]

man this game is pushing the broke bitch hornet agenda

i think ||great conchflies|| might be my first first try win

god even the enviromental hazards do two masks of damage

oh huh ||blasted steps|| is practically ||at the citadel||

maybe i should go back and clear out the other areas more
I'm still on 5 masks

welp good thing i probably didn't have many beads on me

i think i'm on DKC reflexes where i'm used to some "coyote time" when rolling/running off a ledge

hmm

seems i can't get there on my first visit

rip all my money again

game almost tricked me into buying the ||bench at the top of blasted steps instead of the fast travel||

[tawny bolt]

oh my god ||she's naked and in jail||

you know what

I'm saving this part for another day

[fallow cedar]

A lone cog does not turn

[tame jay]

it's such a goated sequence

[sour ocean]

I see now why they nerfed that hazard

[lofty reef]

||I just finished exploring the slab||
||Do they intend for you to get here earlier than what I did? The Heretic key just led to an alternative way out, and there were torches around the area despite needing the double jump to get the Aposate key?||

||... is that what the cages were for||

||Does getting caught by those cages send you to the slammer?||

[tame jay]

yeah there's a few places where you can get caught

[lofty reef]

Welp

[tame jay]

I got that in far fields

it's got a whole sequence for it, was really neat

[lofty reef]

Guess Hornet gets to the ||break the law of existing|| with no one to oppose her

[sour ocean]

In today's episode of Hollow Knight: Silksong... Hornet gets banned from the zoo

[tired elbow]

||https://youtu.be/_s_pumI-nrM||

[fallow cedar]

Ye you can OD on lifeblood

[brisk trench]

discovered ||the slab||

||that whole sequence was crazy. did they put in the unarmed moveset just for this one area?||

[tawny bolt]

Given how they describe the games development I wouldn’t be surprised

That’s where I left off last night myself

[tame jay]

just got ||a house|| this game is so fucking peak

[tame jay]

it's so good

[lofty reef]

Just got the ||Reserve Bind||

Well gee, this would have been helpful for ||Bilewater||

[lofty reef]

I found the ||Parry.||
This is being injected directly into my veins.

ah god was this accessible from ||sinner's road|| and I went the long way around?

[sour ocean]

The difficulty of this was greatly overstated

I might actually do some of the courier deliveries for fun

[keen dove]

https://x.com/zhornetzzz/status/1966588942578229493

Hornet (@zhornetzzz)

X · Sep 12, 2025, 7:45 PM

[tawny bolt]

I think a lot of it (as someone who hasn’t finished act 1 yet) comes from the fact that in boss fights Hornet effectively has 3 health for a long time

If you can’t find a window to heal

[sour ocean]

oh I meant the wish quest in the screenshot

[tawny bolt]

ahhh

[lofty reef]

I ended up caving in on prerequisites for ||Act 3|| because I had done quite a lot and couldn't get the mainquest to start it.
||I was missing Kratt||
That was it
This little shit

[tired elbow]

||at cogworks core rn,
This shit is just the white palace again||

[lofty reef]

||FUCK||
||I had to kill my favorite character||
||FUCCKKKK||

[unreal crypt]

70 minutes of repeated pogo

[sour ocean]

I didn't find ||Cogwork all that bad||

White Palace was worse imo

[tame jay]

I had some trouble getting up the right side to open that shortcut but it got a lot easier once I realized that ||dashing while on a wall pushes you up||

[sour ocean]

Similarly, I do not down dash nearly enough

[tired elbow]

TIL the game has a taunt button

[lofty reef]

I had minor issur with ||Trobbio|| being an RNG fest on the bombs in tandem with other attacks
||Fuck tormented Trobbio||

Edit: Only took 4 tries but it honestly felt like good rng

[tame jay]

garama

[sour ocean]

Guy brushes into you: 2 masks of damage
Same guy actively trying to vore you: 2 masks of damage

never mind get FUCKED

[tame jay]

spool extender feels so good

[tawny bolt]

okay message recieved game
||the slab and mount fay|| are ||get hornets shit back|| and come back later kinds of places

i suppose time to scope out the right half of ||greymoor||

stopping for now after ||hitching a ride to greymoor with the fleas||

[meager oar]

What the fuck

This might be the hardest boss in the game

[tame jay]

||trobbio|| is so fun wtf

[meager oar]

Only if you have ||parry|| imo

||phantom|| pays infinite dividends on progression it’s crazy

Also fuck this bitch

She was fun but a clusterfuck

||first sinner|| you will not be forgotten

[tired elbow]

Lost to the tail end of a gauntlet bc my controller battery died

[meager oar]

||high halls||?

[tired elbow]

||The far fields lava pit||

[meager oar]

Oh lol

[tired elbow]

||requires clawline to reach||

[meager oar]

You are not as far as I thought you were

[tired elbow]

I have zero free time

[meager oar]

I’ve already beaten the game

[tired elbow]

What can i do

[meager oar]

I’m ngl the game is kinda bad

Early on

Lowk

But it’s really good in the late game

[tired elbow]

Metroidvania™

[meager oar]

Nah even hk didn’t feal that bad early game

But like Hornet with movement vs early game hornet makes you think ur playing a different game

Knight doesn’t really have crazy movement tech

[tired elbow]

Honestly spike ball early on already made me feel like i was in creative mode

So not much to gain from there

[meager oar]

Ultra super creative mode

[tired elbow]

HK didnt have nearly the amount of zoning bs you can pull off here

Its really fun

[meager oar]

||this is grappling hook right||

[tired elbow]

Mhm

[meager oar]

Yeah that replaces your dash in boss fights

Imo

Since it always takes you the correct distance

And deals damage

And lets you have follow-up

And it feels faster but idt it is

[tired elbow]

The silk cost feels kinda meh rn but i think its just loss aversion kicking in

[meager oar]

But it feels that way

[tired elbow]

Since its just 1 and youre probably getting it back

[meager oar]

It goes neutral if you hit

At worst

[tired elbow]

Oh shit it pays for itself?

[meager oar]

And as I said it gives free follow-up

[tired elbow]

Only used it for platforming so

[meager oar]

Well it matters most in some of the platforming sections

||since you grapple onto mobs||

And you have to chain it

[tired elbow]

Thats crazy i need to use it more

[meager oar]

The game changed for me the second I realized I can use it offensively

Instead of just as movement

Like it’s less movement to me now

And more just an attack

[tired elbow]

Icic

Should also probably start collecting trinkets and make some builds

||double jump|| shouldnt be too far away i think

[meager oar]

You’ll notice a lot of the later game bosses move around a lot and are hard to hit and are very finicky

This is team cherrys way of telling you to ||grapple|| and hit them rather than just run up

[meager oar]

Idk have you unlocked the ||slab||?

[tired elbow]

I know how to get to it because my brother got it on accident

[meager oar]

Oh sure

Gotta go through this games white palace

To get it

[tired elbow]

I wanna get my ||nail oil|| first tho

[tired elbow]

||Cogworks core|| wasnt so bad

Should be fine

[meager oar]

||Core|| fucked me up

And then I got ||dounle jump||

And it was easy

[tired elbow]

Path of pain prepared me for this

[meager oar]

I did pop too

[tired elbow]

Didnt even need to switch to a downwards pogo

[meager oar]

Well

Diagonal might actually be more useful there

Atleast near the end

But yeah moral of the story is ||grappling hook = this is your new basic attack button now||

[tired elbow]

||Wanderer's|| no startup lag probably compensates for it

[meager oar]

Did you upgrade it yet btw?

[tired elbow]

Yea

[meager oar]

Nice

[tired elbow]

You only upgrade it once yea?

[meager oar]

Yeah

[tired elbow]

Aight

[meager oar]

But you get some other upgrades

||extra charm slots||

||1 blue 1 yellow||

[tired elbow]

Neat

[meager oar]

Perma

Like

Shared between them all

[tired elbow]

Honestly need ||more charm slots for beast, 2 red 2 yellow aint it||

[tired elbow]

Waow

But yea next week i should hopefully at least get ||one of the 3 dreamers, or whatever the silksong equivalent name is||

[meager oar]

Didn’t you say you did ||cog core||?

[tired elbow]

Yea

||i beat cogwork dancers but havent reached any of the 3 guys yet||

[meager oar]

Me at endgame

With both unlocked

[meager oar]

Ah

The tricky parkour is the one up top

[tired elbow]

Yea i only unlocked the shortcut

[meager oar]

It’s neat how the 3 are divided

||one arena, one platforming challenge, and one boss||

[tired elbow]

And got midway until i realized there was probably a boss, then dipped

[meager oar]

||There isn’t||

[tired elbow]

Well shit

[meager oar]

The boss is the one on the way to the ||forum||

[tired elbow]

Assuming that's the left one since that hard requires ||double jump||

[meager oar]

||high halls is like a 10 wave arena||

[meager oar]

Nah it’s the ||right||

[tired elbow]

Not ||the trial of the fool again||

[meager oar]

||high halls is left||

[tired elbow]

Oh

[meager oar]

Well

||high halls is some platforming, and then an arena||

But there’s a bench between the 2

And the bench is free iirc?

At the very least you get a shortcut the skip the ||parkour||

[tired elbow]

Still need a 7th mask dying in 3 hits suuuuuuucks

[meager oar]

7th mask hits like crack

No cap

[tired elbow]

I'm genuinely considering the skull trinket

That gives you 1 extra unhealable hp

[meager oar]

The hell else are you gonna use

Tbh

[tired elbow]

Poison and uhhhh

What was the other one

Forgot

[meager oar]

||The extra heal or the quick heal ||?

[tired elbow]

Neither

Lemme see if i can find a screenshot

[tame jay]

the ||shield bell ||

[meager oar]

Noob bait

[tired elbow]

||Sawblades||

[meager oar]

I’ve been debating that one

The one where you get a ||damage aura in jumping right||

?

[tired elbow]

Yea

[meager oar]

It felt bad

Like on paper it’s nice

But I feel like it never hit

[tired elbow]

It kinda did, i really want ||weavelight||

[meager oar]

Except vs exactly 1 boss

[meager oar]

Idr how I got that one

[tired elbow]

Bc on paper that thing is ||infinite silk skills||

[meager oar]

||Silk skills|| are noob

||Tools|| are the real broken shit

Mostly bc ||poison ||

Tbh

That shit is broken

[tired elbow]

Extra dps is never bad tho

[meager oar]

I think ||tacks + poison|| unironically shreds every boss

[meager oar]

The windup is the real killer

Oh yeah do you have ||magma bell||?

That shit is really useful for some portions of the game e

[tired elbow]

i do

goated against ||last judge||

[meager oar]

Only useful silk skills feel like ||needle|| and ||parry||

And ||parry|| is just good bc it lets you hit damage in phases where you otherwise can’t

And the boss is immune

These phases are also usually dogshit to dodge

[tired elbow]

imma be honest i still need to do ||sinners run||

[meager oar]

Dogshit area that leads to more dogshit areas

[tired elbow]

it's royal waterways all over again

[meager oar]

I mean it leads to a good boss fight that unlocks ||parry|| when you beat them and is the ||alt way to get to act 2 ||

Btw when u beat the game search up the any% speed runs

They go crazy

Unironically

[tired elbow]

i imagine

movement and damage optimization goes crazy in this game

aight i'll try to get ||great taste of pharloom|| done tomorrow, cya

[tranquil peak]

fun fact

50ish of these hrs were thurs-tues

the remaining 1-2 hrs were wed-sun

[tranquil peak]

||weavenest atla||

[tranquil peak]

||i think the one u get in act 3 is good too||

[still parcel]

sheesh but good shit

[sour ocean]

You're crazy ||Sharpdash|| is incredibly fun

[sour ocean]

||First Sinner|| is an insanely fun boss fight

[meager oar]

I feel like it’s outclassed depending on what you wanna do

If you want an iframe dodge ||parr|| is easier to hit, while for ranged options silkspear is a classic

And ||dash that deals damage is just a basic damage option||

[fallow cedar]

Something that actually has me annoyed at this game is there isnt a ||flea map like there was a catapiller map in hollow knight||

[lofty reef]

Playing through more of ||act 3||
Is it bad that the only boss I like so far in the main quest is ||Seth||?

||Nyleth|| was way too easy and ||crust king felt like I had to play lame a lot of the time due to his untelegraphed jump and zoning coverage||

[lofty reef]

You will eventually get this

[fallow cedar]

Oh there is one?

Thank the lord

[fallow cedar]

If you could tell me where in spoilers id appreciate it

Got the normal ending, gonna work towards the true ending tomorrow

First tried the final boss so im feeling good

[lofty reef]

So the guy you can get it from is ||part of the flea caravan.||
You find him in ||Putrified Ducts||
The best way to get there requires double jump to get to ||Memorium||
||Through the memorium out the side of it to a cliff.||
||Climb the cliff, you get to the ducts||

[fallow cedar]

Okay ty

[tawny bolt]

got the ||crest of the reaper|| maxed on on slots

[tame jay]

||architect's crest|| is cool as hell wtfffff

[sour ocean]

I beat the final boss

Now I'm going to beat them as Fox only, with items turned off

[sour ocean]

I don't buy into that sort of over optimised style of playing

[meager oar]

I mean I don’t even know the numbers it just felt worse to use in all cases

So could also just be a play style diff ig

The worst crest so far for me has been the one you get from ||first sinner||

Deals infinite damage but the wind up is so long I could do a full any% speedrun in the time it takes to finish

[tranquil peak]

yeah agreed

im a p big believer on the last one u get

which ist u have

[tranquil peak]

||most broken crest in the game imho||

||i prefer witch's for personal reasons but architect makes so many fights completely free||

[meager oar]

I think the 2 are flexible depending on the boss

Since nail combat with ||architect|| feels kinda ba d

[tranquil peak]

it feels fine imo but ur defs meant to abuse ur ||nail art||

[meager oar]

I’m bad at using those

So maybe just a skill issue

[tranquil peak]

||for some reason the nail art on architect is WAAYYYY stronger. i saw someone show the numbers and for most crests the nail art does like 1.5-3x dmg compared to normal, but for architect its like 5x for some reason, its obscene||

[meager oar]

||Witches + grappling hook + parry|| is the most fun boss build for me

It’s like playing an anime

[meager oar]

wtf

[tranquil peak]

yeah for most the last bosses i did it was like

[meager oar]

Also feels like excellent dps since I’m always on top of the boss

[tranquil peak]

||Witch's crest
Last silk skill (trying not to spoil)
flies+either saws or curvesickle depending on boss
warding bell+injector pack+mirrors+poison for blues
dice for yellow||

the only boss i didnt dot his for was (act 3) ||lost lace bc her fight is so fast i didnt feel i could witch's bind her reliably enough, ended up doing wanderers for her just cus the quick slash mattered||

[meager oar]

I’m ngl I hope the eventual dlc gives nail builds more tools

Sin e tools are so obscenely broken rn

[tranquil peak]

i rlly hope they add ||quickslash||

||i wanna see how fucking fast wanderers can go||

[meager oar]

Honestly ||flee juice|| is basically this

Thought honestly it and the ||fire buff thing|| could both use upgrades

Mostly to duration

They run out too fast

I also really hope the add a version of grubsong in

Energy blades would be cool

[tranquil peak]

nah tbf

||flea juice goes kinda crazy||

[fallow cedar]

Can anyone tell me how to get to act 3

||I beat lace 2
I got all the fleas
They're in the purified ducts
All wish board quests are done
But the care taker isnt initiating the quest for act 3||

[meager oar]

||Have you been inside your house and already beaten the final boss Atleast once?||

And freed ||the green prince||?

[tranquil peak]

also ||just to make sure but the fijal quest does appear on the bellhart wishboard. assuming u kno but just to be sure||

[meager oar]

||don’t you have to talk to the guy specifically, and then he gives you the quest to start act 3?||

[fallow cedar]

Found out what it was

||didnt do shakras quest cause I didnt have the map finished||

[tranquil peak]

||nah he puts it on the wishboard first||

[sour ocean]

I'm consistently getting to like 90% of the way through the fight

so I'll get this tomorrow I think

caffeine deployment may be in order

[tame jay]

hm i am not enjoying ||mount fay|| very much

[meager oar]

i think it was fun in hindsight but i also wouldnt wanna do it again

though the only platforming section ive genuinely enjoyed enough to do multiple times between games is white palace

[tame jay]

I just don't like being rushed

||thank god the cloak turns off cold damage that'd be miserable if it didn't||

[sour ocean]

LET'S GO

[sour ocean]

Entered ACT 3

[tranquil peak]

welcome

👁️

[sour ocean]

Act 3 cutscene spoiler ||there's a mouse pointer visible lol||

[fallow cedar]

I can see how theyd miss it assuming its part of a flame effect cause of the orange tint but that is funny

[sour ocean]

also found a bug involving the ||Abyss vore monsters, if you leave an area with one on it'll despawn your sound will remain muffled until you kill one||

[sour ocean]

Wow the (Green Prince spoilers) ||Verdania arena fucking sucks dick, holy.||

[sour ocean]

Follow up ||Fun boss, but Verdania is a dogshit runback||

[tame jay]

https://x.com/BurnedTraveler/status/1968304116238791073

Burned (@BurnedTraveler)

This quote has been stuck in my mind for days

X · Sep 17, 2025, 1:20 PM

[keen dove]

every single person who played silk song has told me "maybe the pale king wasnt actually all that bad"

[fallow cedar]

Its mainly just how well maintained hallownest was

Like say what you want about his methods he kept that ship running pretty well

[sour ocean]

It certainly seems like Pharloom was fucked frame 1

But also The Pale King had the gift of foresight

[brisk trench]

hallownest stayed okay for a while after the pale king disappeared but pharloom immediately went to shit as soon as the haunting started

hallownest's decline was much slower

[sour ocean]

Pharloom was shit before the Haunting began, especially the underworks

[brisk trench]

haven't gotten there yet

i just beat the phantom

[sour ocean]

I shan't spoil specifics

Apologies

[brisk trench]

i know act 2 is like a few rooms away so i'm gonna go beat the cliffs first before i start act 2

[fallow cedar]

Made my first moves into act 3 ||entered and exited the void and got my nail fully upgraded||

[tawny bolt]

Last I played I finished up ||the slab|| and I need to play more skong before people get more comfortable spoiling on other platforms

[sour ocean]

I need to do that, but I couldn't think where to go

[fallow cedar]

For which one

[sour ocean]

Latter

I've already done one ||post-Void pass||

[fallow cedar]

||you need all fleas and to visit the flea caravan||

[sour ocean]

Eh? I just got ||the flea mother tool from that||

I'll go check it out once my pc is reinstalled

[fallow cedar]

Youll know if you've ||got them all when you talk to the tall skinny bug who should be all alone||

[fallow cedar]

Im on the final boss of act 3

||god damn theyre kicking my ass, 2 masks, the mix ups, and sucking away my silk crazy||

I can probably cheese it if I can farm more shards with the ||cogwork fly, poison, and architect crest|| but damn

[sour ocean]

||KRATT WANTS HORNET TO BOUNCE ON IT?||

[tawny bolt]

Yup YouTube videos already getting more comfortable name dropping what I assume is the final boss in the titles

[fallow cedar]

It is done

[fallow cedar]

Bro is a creep to the end

https://tenor.com/view/vegeta-in-the-rain-vegeta-rain-cloudy-dbz-gif-13994573155178415068

7 years, mainly silkposts and my bricks unshat

Idk how to feel now

Onto zote boat

That final boss needs tweaking though ||getting 2 mask damage when they just teleport on you sucks ass||

[tawny bolt]

Got the second ||Skarrgard|| fight done

It is no long broke bitch Thursday

I entered ||chapel of the beast|| and died to spikes

[tawny bolt]

Not doing that boss tonight I think

[tawny bolt]

Did some side quests

Gonna give ||widow|| one or two more tries

Got it next try

[sour ocean]

I have two questions:

1. Why did the Bell Beast have a silk heart?

2. was SHAW an anti-vessel slur this entire time?

[brisk trench]

idk what the in universe reason for the bell beast thing was but the mechanical reason is so that there's an unmissable silk heart so you don't get softlocked during the harpoon sections

[sour ocean]

Ye

I assume Bell Beast just vored one at some point

[tranquil peak]

alrl

v close to a true 100%

currently missing ||journal memento, flea minigame memento, and crawfather memento which i STILL havent gotten the summons for, and then a few relics||

[brisk trench]

beat ||the last judge||

i heard that the runback for that fight was crazy but when i did it it was nowhere near as bad as i was expecting

[tame jay]

it did get nerfed but i didn't find it that hard originally either

[brisk trench]

the only part of the runback that was really annoying to me was the bug at the beginning that shoots spikes at you

but other than that you can just run through the whole thing in less than a minute

[tame jay]

i never had a problem with the first conchfly bc if you're sprinting you just go right past it before it wakes up

[unreal crypt]

please tell me im done

nope

fell down a hole back to where i started

[tired elbow]

||the chef fight in sinner's road sucks so much aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaass||

||why does it effectively do 4 damage per hit||

||why does it drain my silk||

||why does it do the savage beastfly thing where it randomly accelerates without any sort of telegraph||

||why is the arena so tiny||

||IT'S EVEN GOT A SHITTY RUNBACK ON TOP||

[sour ocean]

I find a lot of the complaints are significantly overblown

My main 2 are some bosses could have their health reduced a little bit & reduce contact damage to maximum 1 mask

[sour ocean]

Oh and make some of the blue tools yellow, because there's basically no competition for yellows

[keen dove]

https://x.com/SnakeDraws/status/1969317769666564243

Snake (@SnakeDraws)

#silksong experience so far

X · Sep 20, 2025, 8:28 AM

[tired elbow]

Yknow deepnest wasnt even that bad

[sour ocean]

Say what you will about the Pale King, but at least he cared about his subjects

[tame jay]

holy shit it's ass jim

[fallow cedar]

...do you consider his kids his subjects too?

[meager oar]

Fucking finally (ending spoiler)

Apparently this is the rarest ending

And I can see why

[tired elbow]

||THERE WAS A PALE OIL IN THE VAULTS THIS WHOLE TIME DUUUUUUUUUUDE||

[tame jay]

alright I think it's time to go back and retry the savage bitchfly

[tame jay]

||HAHAHA FUCK YOU ONE DOWN ONE TO GO||

[tranquil peak]

||alr all i have left to do in skong now is journal and i have everything i can get on this save file||

[sour ocean]

No

Though even then he does care about his kid(s)

[meager oar]

Did you get all the lore tablets and all ||6 songs + all the lil mini achievement things you can only get in act 3? Also which version of Silkshot did you end up getting||

Also this game is soooooo good man

[tranquil peak]

||if u mean the mementos, yeah, hunters journal is the last one im missing||

||got the deepdocks one for silkshot, that+shakra and garmond duels in act 2 are the only things im "missing" on this save file but i also cant do much abt that||

||admittedly tho i proba wouldnt be using silkshot anw even if i got the true one so idm too much. cogflies+curvesickle/sawblades all the way babyyyy||

||and yeah i have 100%ed materium, all quest mats+relics+cylinders||

[brisk trench]

https://www.tumblr.com/barryogg/794243907936550912

A Dyson Sphere in every home

-# #sherma #silksong #i'm so sorry

▶ Play video

Tumblr · Sep 9, 2025, 8:33 PM

[tranquil peak]

turns out ||theres a max lmao||

[brisk trench]

yeah it's 20

i found that out when i got to greymoor and used the rosary machine there

[tranquil peak]

IT IS DONE

||ALL ACHIEVEMENTS (except steel soul/speedrun stuff cus i dont wanna), ALL MATERIALS/CYLINDERS/RELICS/MEMENTOS, 100% COMPLETION. RAAHHH||

[tranquil peak]

68 hrs of game

now i can finally stop playing this for the foreseeable future

[tame jay]

the mist is fucking me up
||why can the fucking pattern screamers phase through terrain man this is annoying||

[tame jay]

found ||phantom, reminds me of the hornet fights from hk this shit is peak||

[tranquil peak]

yeah ||phantom|| is a big fanfavorite

[sour ocean]

Oh, Valk, you're actually missing 4 achievements

So you're not quite done!

[tranquil peak]

[sour ocean]

Also act 3 spoilers ||finding Zaza alone was so sad||

[tame jay]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WEZawrTgfgQ

[tired elbow]

||does act 3 start immediately after doing whatever is locked behind the 3 melodies?||

[meager oar]

||No you need a specific quest that you get after doing all the other quests||

• some other shit

And it’ll be really obvious

[sour ocean]

Act 3 Spoilers: ||Outcast Gurr is definitely a boss in Hollow Knight Silksong||

[glossy halo]

I LOVE ||BELL BEAST||

[glossy halo]

Am I just really blind or are there no benches in ||hunters march||

[brisk trench]

there is one but it's near the end

[glossy halo]

I see

I found the connection to the ||deep dock bench|| is that what you were talking about

Woahg ||dash|| has been unlocked this shits crazy

[brisk trench]

oh wait if that's the point you're at in the game you can't get to the bench in ||hunter's march|| yet

you'll need an upgrade you don't have yet

[glossy halo]

Is it the one that lets me ||fly on this air shit||

Ok I’m actually done playing for the day have to go out but this game is fire

The movement feels really good but just a little hard to control sometimes because of the divekick thing

[brisk trench]

yes

[glossy halo]

Wowee zowee

Guess I have some more explorathoning

[glossy halo]

I found the ||trap bench||

[tired elbow]

||TROOOOBBIOOOOOOOOOO||

[meager oar]

||trobio when you have parry = 🐐
trobio when you dont have parry = suicidal thoughts||

[tame jay]

||Absolute ||

||I fought him before even touching sinners road and it was still peak, theater kids just got that flair||

||cross stitch is fucking broken though||

[tired elbow]

||yea i did the fight without cogwheel and without parry, was pretty fun||

||speaking of btw cogwheel is fucking broken||

[meager oar]

The fight is unplayable

Sorry not sorry

[tired elbow]

||have you considered just jumping over the tornados?||

[meager oar]

Idk the just home in on me

[glossy halo]

Is the ||chapel of the beast named for the savage beastfly ||

[tired elbow]

Yes

[glossy halo]

I’m dead

Ok actually this fight is fucking stupid

[sour ocean]

I chose to believe it's named for Herrah the Beast

[sour ocean]

Presumably there are other Weavers with similar titles

[glossy halo]

Extremely based

Spawner boss

wtf new mechanic unlocked

Was this boss entirely optional…

[sour ocean]

Required for 100%

[glossy halo]

Ok I actually hate this moveset

[tame jay]

I think it's mildly funny but I cannot fathom the power of people who actually main it

[glossy halo]

The dive just feels so dogshit personally

||shakra is way too nice and normal for nothing bad to happen to him||

[sour ocean]

Her

[glossy halo]

Word

[sour ocean]

@glossy haloping me when you get to peak boss fight music

[glossy halo]

I have met ||nuu||

What the fuck.

[sour ocean]

Act 2 Spoilers ||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC9LS9KuCJo||

What the actual fuck

[glossy halo]

||I have traveled with the fleas…||

This game is so delightful

I fucking love these guys

||what the fuck is this cutscene||

||Haunted bellhart ||

[tame jay]

||jesus christ||

[tired elbow]

Notably this enables ||reaching the citadel via wisp thicket, skipoing both last judge and phantom||

[sour ocean]

and all you have to do is an agonising skip

[glossy halo]

||Widow?||

Speaking of ||holy shit that’s not how I thought that fight would end||

Was it ||scripted so the divekick started the cutscene||?

[sour ocean]

yes'm

[glossy halo]

Probably 2nd favorite fight so far

[sour ocean]

Behind Bell Beast?

[glossy halo]

Oh third actually

[sour ocean]

Who's the other?

[glossy halo]

||lace bell beast widow||

[sour ocean]

Ah, fair

If you had said ||Sister Splinter I would've been mad||

[glossy halo]

That fight was dogshit

This game has a sick fetish so far for spawner bosses and I hope that doesn’t carry through

[sour ocean]

you accidentally skipped a boss I quite enjoyed, but a lot of other people had trouble with

[glossy halo]

Where

Wormways?

[sour ocean]

||Travelling in the Flea Caravan deletes it from the game ||

[glossy halo]

NO FUCKING WAY

Can u tell me about the boss then

[brisk trench]

||it's an extremely difficult boss fight called the moorwing||

[glossy halo]

Or post gameplay if u can find a video of it

[sour ocean]

||Flying, shoots buzzsaws at you||

[glossy halo]

In canon does this mean that ||the fleas nodiff the moorwing||

[sour ocean]

||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_-I5oavy_I||

[brisk trench]

you don't get anything for beating it btw

other than the journal entry

[sour ocean]

I enjoyed the fight at least

[glossy halo]

Personally im glad I missed this actually

[sour ocean]

||once you're good at bouncin on it he's not too hard||

[brisk trench]

||i tried the fight 3 times and then gave up and cheesed it using the reaper crest||

[sour ocean]

||what's the cheese?||

[glossy halo]

Don’t I know it

[glossy halo]

||How much gameplay have I missed holy||

[brisk trench]

||if you go up to the ceiling of the room the boss fight is in, you can hit the moorwing through the floor with down attacks but it can't hit you since its projectiles can't go through walls. the reaper crest is the only one you can get at this point that has a large enough hitbox to reach through the floor though||

[glossy halo]

I feel like I’ve been to pretty much every corner of the map accessible to me

[sour ocean]

You've missed a doorway somewhere then

[glossy halo]

There was a locked door near the fleas that I couldn’t figure out how to get into

Is that where it is

[sour ocean]

no

Do you have the ||cloak upgrade?||

[glossy halo]

Yes?

||the floaty?||

[sour ocean]

ye

Did you explore ||Greymoor via Far Fields||

[glossy halo]

Yes

That’s the area with ||the birds and everything|| no?

Like where the ||fifth flea is||?

[sour ocean]

ye ||go west from the bell station & you'll find the area it's in||

[glossy halo]

So like

||between where the caravan is and the halfway home||?

ish?

[sour ocean]

Roughly, it's about as ||far west as the flea caravan is||

[glossy halo]

Okok

||Once I got the caravan I did just immediately go to belhart||

[sour ocean]

||yeah I think it's a slight oversight tbh||

[tame jay]

you can still fight it dw

[sour ocean]

||Like the fleas should make mention of a monster on the road or something||

[tame jay]

it just shows up in a different room

I liked the fight tbh but the runback was atrocious until I realized that I was missing a wholeass shortcut

[tawny bolt]

Made it to ||the last judge|| after running out of non-side quest stuff to do

Aside from uh

||beastfly||

I’m pretty happy I at least got past the second stagger on my first try

[glossy halo]

Worrying

[glossy halo]

Maybe the fleas just annihilated it

[sour ocean]

They should find their own damn brethren then

[glossy halo]

They can’t walljump or dash

Just teleport instantaneously across the map

[tame jay]

https://tenor.com/view/hollow-knight-silksong-sherma-gif-2986195004408800413

[sour ocean]

||Widow's theme|| reminds me of a ygo theme and I'm not sure which

[tired elbow]

Including instrumentation closest is probably like, passionate duelist

Some parts of it do sound similar to some vrains themes tho

[glossy halo]

||reaper unlocked||

||I still just prefer hunter||

[sour ocean]

Crazy

[sour ocean]

It was Passionate Duelist, thank you

[tired elbow]

[glossy halo]

???

Don’t hate

||They made it default for a reason||

[tame jay]

crazy

[glossy halo]

Sigh

The kids don’t see the vision

[sour ocean]

||Your invitation to Reaper gang remains open||

[glossy halo]

||Are the hitboxes different||

[sour ocean]

Reaper gang's pogo is way better

And the sprint attack is a cool uppercut

[glossy halo]

I noticed

The pogo feels weird

I like having a divekick

[tired elbow]

||Architect clears ||

[glossy halo]

Also what does reaper bind do

[tame jay]

the delay takes a bit to get used to but once you do it just feels miles better than all the others

wider hitboxes is crazy too

[tired elbow]

For about 6 seconds or if you get hit, hitting things drop silk balls

[glossy halo]

If you say so holy

[tired elbow]

Each ball is 0.5 silk

[glossy halo]

Sigh I’m too ass at the game for this I need healing

[tired elbow]

The bind still heals you

Its just a bonus

[glossy halo]

Nvm then

[tame jay]

ye it's great

[tired elbow]

The part i dont like about it is the lower dps

But its fine, ish

[tame jay]

being able to heal then basically immediately have enough for a spell is cool

[glossy halo]

Speaking of

I just wanna make sure am I only supposed to have ||2|| spells right now

[tired elbow]

Yea

[tame jay]

idk where are you

[glossy halo]

Uh

I just ||unhaunted belhart||

[tame jay]

sounds about right, yeah

[tired elbow]

I finished act 2 with just ||3 skills||

[glossy halo]

Word

Progression feels so strange I have like 10 places I still need to go

I’m excited for ||worms||…

[tired elbow]

Yknow

After ||bilewater||

||i treated royal waterways way too harshly||

||the flukes werent even that gross||

[tame jay]

another w for the pale king

[tired elbow]

||trapped bench that deletes half of your exploration progress and infects you is fucking bullshit||

Oh yea i also noticed i suck at ||playing architect||

[sour ocean]

I can't use it, it feels awful to me

||Witch|| crest would be goated if the ||heal didn't suck the life out of your enemies||

[tired elbow]

I either ||pop 5 traps and forget to still swing for damage, i forget to charge, or just lose to my own visual noise||

||my shell fragment stock is also chronically low now||

[sour ocean]

||Bilewater never asked for this||

[tired elbow]

||to the point where i only start pulling shit out after phase 2 of bosses||

||oh yea i also only got it after the dmg nerfs and i'm kinda mad now||

[sour ocean]

They nerfed Dark Magician Girl?

[tired elbow]

Yea dragoon costs 100 points so the shining sarc engine is much worse

[tired elbow]

||oh yea i'm at mother silk now ||

||could already reach it a while ago but i wanted to explore a bit more first||

||i still dont know how to dodge the blades that go off screen, fight feels like more unfair radiance||

[sour ocean]

||they're not too bad as long as you don't hit them||

[meager oar]

its only lower if you play as aggressive as possible

if you hit and run then its pretty goood

[tawny bolt]

Question

Can I pogo off of ||the spike trap|| tool

[sour ocean]

it is done

[sour ocean]

Sherma??

[tame jay]

act 2 ||what a beautiful video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glmckOZYrGk||

[sour ocean]

+2

[glossy halo]

Are the ||wormways|| just horrible on purpose

[tame jay]

||they do be ways with worms||

[glossy halo]

Every possible terrible gimmick combined at once

[tired elbow]

They're honestly tame for silksong areas

All things considered

[tame jay]

deepnest but you get infinite silk so it's not really that bad

[glossy halo]

I did just discover that u can hit the worms

Which makes it more tolerable

I’m pretty sure I’m done with the area for now though

||big scary ominous door that’s just barely inaccessible ||

[tame jay]

remember it for later

[glossy halo]

I fucking love bell beast he’s my goat holy words cannot express my sheer adoration

The stag was fire but bell beast is beyond comparison

[glossy halo]

Also does anything happen if ||you donate to bell bottom or is it just a scam||

||evolved hunter crest ||

Back to hunter crest I go…

[glossy halo]

I know I made the joke already but is ||sinners road|| horrible on purpose

[glossy halo]

||gambling unlocked||

[tired elbow]

i have learned the power of ||clawline in combat||

[sour ocean]

It's such a peak play style (aside from when it isn't)

[tawny bolt]

So far the boomerang is my favorite tool

[glossy halo]

The straight pin or whatever it’s called has been my personal goat

The first one

[tame jay]

longpin has a special place in my heart

[sour ocean]

I wanted to like it, but I just couldn't get it to work

My favourite tool is Flea Brew & Buzz Saw

[glossy halo]

I used longpin once and it cooked but it just doesn’t feel satisfying

[tired elbow]

Spike ball my beloved

[white gull]

tacks = gg

conchcutter is also fun

[tawny bolt]

I need to get back into ||last judge|| attempts but I’ve been using boomerang + spike trap for it

With the ||”your tools have poison” charm||

[glossy halo]

I’m also currently getting cooked by that boss

||pun unintended||

[tired elbow]

||use the magma bell|| if you arent already, you two

||taking half damage is super nice||

[glossy halo]

Does it ||reduce all fire damage||?

||I never got it because I thought it was just a gimmick item to make deep docks easier||

[tawny bolt]

Yeah I did get that advice already
I acquired that by sheer coincidence before making the initial climb up to the boss

[tired elbow]

Yea it does

[glossy halo]

Word

[tranquil peak]

buzzsaw+cogflies goated

[sour ocean]

I only really used the flies for ||void heart cleanup||. I didn't enjoy using them

[tranquil peak]

i just like summoning lil' guys

i remember how much i tried making summon builds work in HK before realizing they were ass LMAO

(altho as a still viable, if suboptimal, thing, grubsong+sprintmaster+weaversong WAS a banger)

[sour ocean]

Weavers in Silksong: ||highly advanced technological race capable of manifesting their souls into a physical form. Raised to consciousness by a god they despise & fear. Hunted for their lineage & dragged back to the almighty Citadel where they are forced into servitude||

Weavers in Hollow Knight: cute lil summons

[tranquil peak]

its funny bc i think uhh

is it the weird fucking woman in the wall at the bottom of deepnest?

comments on the weaverlings if u have them out

[sour ocean]

Wetnurse or midwife or something

Someone should make a mod for HK to change the Weaversong charm ||to summon Weavenest Robots||

[glossy halo]

||last judge kamikaze attack please don’t tell me I have to survive the boss after that||

FUCK

This boss was not as hard as anticipated

I’m just a very impatient person

Favorite boss so far

[glossy halo]

I liked widow as well but

Idk judge was just so cool

The runback was a little rough but mostly just cause of the one fly

[sour ocean]

I didn't mind the runback

You can just sprint past the fly

[glossy halo]

Idk I was getting a little cooked by it

But it wasn’t bad as ppl made it seem

[sour ocean]

That's Silksong in general

[glossy halo]

Yeah unless there’s a huge difficulty spike between acts (very possible) this has not seemed as insanely difficult as ppl made it seem

Not that it’s easy but I would say I’m having a pretty similar time as I did with HK1

[glossy halo]

@sour ocean ||cogwork dancers are peak||

[still parcel]

to me, idk if its just a ton of exp with hk, but i did not find silksong difficult

[glossy halo]

Ok but actually the runback to this boss is dogshit

[sour ocean]

yes

[glossy halo]

This may or may not take me 5 hours

[sour ocean]

worth it

[glossy halo]

It’s a very cool boss

Phase 3 is just cooking me a little bit

I keep ||getting stuck where the boss lands after the pattern attack||

Nvm

That was not as hard as I thought it would be

The hardest part is ||how phase 4 made me cry almost||

[sour ocean]

||It got peaker though||

[glossy halo]

That’s fucked up

Why do they look like ||the green prince||

[sour ocean]

||wouldn't you look like the Green Prince if you could||

[glossy halo]

Probably not

[sour ocean]

wtf

[tired elbow]

||https://youtu.be/Ab0MYoe1w5k?t=11m5s||

Damn the pale king really was onto something

[glossy halo]

I don’t like that I haven’t seen ||shakra|| in quite some time

HOLY

I just watched ||zaza give some frauds the work||

||I knew he had it in him||

[unreal crypt]

callm e green knight the way i clove her dnacer

[glossy halo]

||Nuu|| quest finished

What the fuck.

[glossy halo]

Ok I finally found ||shakra|| again

I was worried…

[glossy halo]

Ok does this character have a purpose

Because I just found her snogging some bosses corpse

Like what is her deal

[tame jay]

||she just wants to taste, don't judge||

[glossy halo]

||Is she actually just a joke character||

[sour ocean]

did you play the original Hollow Knight?

[glossy halo]

I didn’t finish it

Is she in that game?

Holy bird

I just got to the ||faydown cloak||

[sour ocean]

No, but the Hunter in that game is epic & cool. And as Silksong's NPCs tend to be opposite to HK's, you end up with Nuu the Hunter who is Goofy & Gross

[glossy halo]

Word

Also

Just got ||twisted bud||

What the fuck.

||why is it screaming at me||

[brisk trench]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/507388259165536263/1423475544187732038/image0.jpg?ex=68e07268&is=68df20e8&hm=5e7932a247dfdea1a0f0d94405e95ed60e9c730a6bd48961a7719c036ce529eb&=&format=webp&width=888&height=930

[glossy halo]

https://tenor.com/view/shaw-silksong-shaw-mewing-hollow-knight-hollow-knight-hornet-gif-10701033448015821325

[tired elbow]

ok now to go to ||act 3|| i need to

checks notes

||meet shakra in bilewater||

[brisk trench]

stuck at the ||savage beastfly|| rematch

i can't believe they make you fight this fucker twice

[tame jay]

I just cheesed it

bc there's no bounds on the arena and if you go far enough away the adds despawn

[tired elbow]

I just used ||artifact's charged attack|| until it died

[tired elbow]

There is a known glitch involving the spool fragment obtained from the flea caravan, saving and quitting via the menu without sitting in a bench first causes it to not track your progress properly and you lose the fragment permanently

[fallow cedar]

I just prioritised the adds and kept throwing myself into the grinder

[glossy halo]

||bilewater spawn room|| runback

[glossy halo]

I put that off to the near future

THERES ANOTHER ||FLEA CUTSCENE||