#Hollow Knight / Silksong

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random orchid
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Then suffer your lack of iframes in bosses instead...

hearty oak
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I dont think the bosses dealing 2 damage is such a bad thing

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being able to tank and spank in a metroidvania is kinda boring.

random orchid
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I meant your 'suffer for being dropped into lava and respawned on top of an enemy"

gentle swift
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I crashed out after taking 2 contact damage on a stunned boss

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Twice

hearty oak
hearty oak
random orchid
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Oh dear, that sucks Barbarossa

cloud belfry
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Also, there's one specific boss where I dislike how they deal 2 points of contact damage, as they do a lot of teleporting around with no warning, causing you to run into them by accident whenever you try to go anywhere

hearty oak
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thats just soul sanctum again.

random orchid
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I still have no idea how to fight ||The Savage Beastfly I hear in Pilgrim's Rest||

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It doesn't even look reachable on the map.

cloud belfry
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||It's an absurdly stupidly hard to find secret, I can tell you if you want. It'll probably save you 3-4 hours of looking||

gentle swift
random orchid
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One thing

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Is it in the same zone at all

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Or do I need to look elsewhere

cloud belfry
random orchid
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uuuuggh

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I gotta scour that entire zone again then

cloud belfry
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Yeah, the amount of secrets in Silksong is cool but you'll be bound to miss a lot of them. I spent a lot of time (probably a few hours total) in that area looking for that exact secret, as well as another thing for later

random orchid
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Is it a ||Completely hidden hollow wall?||

cloud belfry
random orchid
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FUCK

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alright

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I'll do it tomorrow, i just saw the time.

hearty oak
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how many phases can one boss have?!

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screw this

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Im taking a break

random orchid
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It doesn't have phases

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It is, however, a very punishing boss especially the fewer upgrades you have going into it

hearty oak
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I assure you green

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It has phases

hearty oak
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Phase 1 is no minions.

Phase 2 is 1 minion.

Phase 3 is 2 minions.

I’m hoping there’s not a stage 4.

cloud belfry
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||I've had that boss summon 2 minions on the first minion-summon, so either it's a higher chance at low health, or I just got lucky with no minion summons earlier (though the 2 summons were still summoned pretty early)||

hearty oak
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FINALLY! AHAHAHAH! BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD LILLY!

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||well that. uhhh. is an awful moveset.||

lofty carbon
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||I was able to get good use out of it a few times, but it's definitely very situational||

hearty oak
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also got ||reaper moveset. and found 3 different ways to the same damned city. tonight has been productive.||

hearty oak
tulip osprey
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You do remember what you unlocked just before this one and which ability was needed to defeat him , right ? || Glide Mantle , the nearest bench for him is at the lady who made the mantle ||

hearty oak
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||I mean yeah. But that’s not a reward for beating him. The dude just pops up and seals progression.||

tulip osprey
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He only activates after you complete the quests and is only reachable again with that

hearty oak
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I still would have liked some beads.

cloud belfry
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||Fourth Chorus is basically the boss you have to fight to get the glide mantle||

hearty oak
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||while true, I feel like there was a better way to go about it.||

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||dunno quite what, but as it was it just felt weird.||

hot cedar
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||get used to it||

fading cargo
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At least it means that Gurm is almost at the next good farming spot

hot cedar
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you guys farm?

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||I still think the Conducters Gauntlet was bullshit||

cloud belfry
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Agreed

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It's the only reason why I haven't done another playthrough yet, I really just don't want to go through that again. Especially not with the base health or spool length

hot cedar
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||im going to crash out over Groal the Great||

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||What the fuck do you mean I have to do an entire gauntlet fight with a boss that deals DOUBLE DAMAGE over a pit that STOPS ME FROM HEALING???||

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i have never felt this level of sheer anger at a game and continued to play

hearty oak
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Boss ||well you were annoying.||

hearty oak
hot cedar
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Same

hot cedar
hearty oak
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BLOODY FINALLY! (mobility)

wary topaz
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I went back to Hollow Knight for a bit to try to get better at Pure Vessel, but I feel super sluggish when playing HK now.

random orchid
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It's so different, isn't it

hearty oak
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Mhm.

fading cargo
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Gurm, I'm twice as far as you are zone wise, but i still don have it lol. How the hell are you dealing with those stupid challenge rooms ...

hearty oak
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theres a LOT of stupid challenge rooms

random orchid
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Yeah

fading cargo
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My answer is: yes 🙂

random orchid
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And a challenge zone

fading cargo
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All of them lol

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But specifically ||Hunters March|| because thats where you got this i assume

hearty oak
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so, hint, not there.

random orchid
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Indeed

fading cargo
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||crow nest|| pisses me off as well

random orchid
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It's a different zone

hearty oak
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I thought it was there too, but nope.

random orchid
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||CRAAAAAAWWWW||

hearty oak
random orchid
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I loved that zone for the chaos and the fact it forced me to use tools

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I am so glad I started using them lol

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I need to swap mine around again...

hearty oak
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Boss ||I hate this asshole. well and truly. this is my fourth time on phase 2.||

fading cargo
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F*** ||ninja crows||

hearty oak
random orchid
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You know you can deflect things by hitting them, so you can pass through their models right

hearty oak
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annnnd Im dead.

random orchid
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So like

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A throwing weapon against you you can hit and it stops being a danger

hearty oak
fading cargo
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Ohhh tools are really fun to use,

hearty oak
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the issue is not the mechanics

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the issue is informational overload

random orchid
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Fair.

fading cargo
hearty oak
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its one of the reasons why I could never beat NKG.

its too much too fast.

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mechanically I know what to do

random orchid
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I wasn't specifically talking about your boss, which I found the fuuuuuuuunnn in.

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I was talking about Raz's problem

hearty oak
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oh fair enough

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ah

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my bad

random orchid
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It's actually worse to do that in that fight

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Since it doesn't do that for you

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It just makes them go off trajectory and that's harder to deal with

hearty oak
random orchid
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Do you use tools much Gurm

fading cargo
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Will see how it goes when im back at home and try playing again after a week of break lol

hearty oak
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typically in bosses to deal with adds

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why?

random orchid
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Read this at your own discretion. ||In the Hunter's March there's a hidden merchant you can now access for sure, that sells the Boomerang. If you angle it right you can easily get 7-8 hits in and it's typically able to ignore boss attacks that would knock it aside||

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The specific spoiler in there helped me a lot with a good handful of bosses

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I need to experiment with more tools, some of them are pr. good but I'm not sure of their benefit compared to like

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Others

hearty oak
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oh yeah I found that ages ago

random orchid
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ah

hearty oak
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I just

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never liked it

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I prefer ||the spike ball of stabbins||

random orchid
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||Huh, I don't think I found that||

hearty oak
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||forge lady sells it to you||

random orchid
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||OHHH. The trap||

hearty oak
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||its essentially the thing the hornet 2 uses in hollow knight. sadly we cant pogo off of it. but its still nice as a burst DPS option.||

random orchid
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Kay I do know that one, I used it for a while as an alternative but swapped it when getting a different trinket

hearty oak
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ahhhh

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gotcha

random orchid
wary topaz
hearty oak
random orchid
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Huh.

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I swear it let me...

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Maybe I tried and I mistook it since it does react when you hit it

hearty oak
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Ill try again

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yeah no it just

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it doesnt pogo

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okay Ive got a question

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how am I.... 9 areas in and STILL dont have a single weapon upgrade?

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am I just stupid?

wary topaz
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||It's normal||

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||You're still fighting Widow, right?||

hearty oak
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yes

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phase 2 keeps kicking my ass because theres too many bells

wary topaz
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I haven't found a way to refight Bosses, I kinda want to try to speedrun my way to where you are, just to attempt that Boss again

hearty oak
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I love when my pogo sends me INTO a projectile I deflectedd that then kills me

wary topaz
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I'm trying to remember the Moveset. I don't think Pogo is a Move you have any real opportunity to use, besides one Attack that I can think of

hearty oak
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you have a number of chances to pogo

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there are always chances to pogo

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I continue to believe that people do not use the pogo enough. yes its different from HK but it is glorious.

wary topaz
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I mean in the sense of good for dodging / opportunity to do damage (without taking it yourself) that you don't really have otherwise

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I got more into the rhythm of dash -> Jump -> Slash -> Dash out

hearty oak
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dash is junk. cant go through things.

wary topaz
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Not safe for you Gurm
||Somehow it makes the Moveset feel clunkier the way it resets Horizontal Momentum||

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||Like, I want to Dash -> Jump -> Doublejump, but the Doublejump makes it so I am back to base Walk Momentum||

hearty oak
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annnnnd. dead.

wary topaz
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GG!

hearty oak
wary topaz
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Maybe I enjoy the dash, because of my time playing Terraria, with Shield of Cthulhu, where it moves you in the horizontal direction, but you still keep your Vertical Momentum during the Dash.

hearty oak
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oh see yes but terraria is a VERY different combat style

wary topaz
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I am aware, but in a sense of "I am already used to the way it works, and am not starting from 0"

hearty oak
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each combat system requires different concepts.

hot cedar
hearty oak
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bloody finally (upgrade)

random orchid
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The main upgrades you get are Tool upgrades

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like

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there are more Tool damage upgrades than Nail damage upgrades

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use them

hearty oak
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Ill think about it

random orchid
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then perish for the lack

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though admittedly I haven't used my current toolset as much because I haven't enjoyed it as much

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I got the ||Silkshot thingy|| and tried it, but it seems mostly inferior for damage considering it costs extra to use...

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My main problem?

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Craft metal

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I need more of it

hearty oak
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"perish for the lack"

green Ive been collecting them. I just. tools use an expendible resource.

stabbing the boss harder doesnt.

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what if I need those shells later?

random orchid
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Yes but you get the expendale resource back from every single kill and can store more for later

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You really need to use them to not suffer

hearty oak
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but what if I need them later?

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later, some adventurer finds my corpse with 60 bead strands and 500 shards fully stocked on all tools

lofty carbon
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I think the fact that there’s a cap on how many you can carry is meant to encourage you to use them, because think of all those shards lying on the ground going to waste

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Oh the horror

hearty oak
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it makes me want to use them less

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I cant build a proper surplus

random orchid
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You do have a proper surplus and get more of a surplus every time you upgrade cap. 😛

hearty oak
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I only can hold 500 green! I want at least 2 grand!

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preferably closer to 10 grand!

random orchid
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Not even close to happening

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Just use them

hearty oak
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NYEH

random orchid
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Look

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You are going to suffer if you don't

hearty oak
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Look

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Ill use em when I feel like it

random orchid
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Fine.

hearty oak
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leaning towards hording them forever

wary topaz
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Gurm, I only really use them when I think "Okay, this Fight is annoying me, and is going to be a major pain if I don't use every tool at my disposal"

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Trust me when I say this. Even if you SOMEHOW RUN OUT. You can build them up again pretty quick

random orchid
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I use them to kill trash mobs on the road that would annoy me unless I have a boss to kill, then I save them

hearty oak
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theres a reason I hoard

random orchid
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oh dammit

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I found a new ||crest, with all that implies, and now I regret spending my memory lockets wastefully...||

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I guess I'll just have to use an older one of the same kind and deal with it that way...

wary topaz
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||I have literally only used Memory Lockets on the Hunter Crest. ||

random orchid
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|| there's good reason to use them on others. I just used mine a bit too early and found one I really want to try in full.||

random orchid
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maaaan

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||The courier missions are fun||

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||Route planning and running like hell is super fun.||

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Sadly I know have to fight an annoying boss who deals 3 damage per hit, which makes my life miserable

cyan lantern
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wat? the only boss i know of that does 3 damage is || dearest grandmama || and that's only on one attack

random orchid
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Maybe I miscounted. ||I'm fighting the fly cook and thought I had 3 HP but perished to the buttslam||

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I could've sworn I had 3 when I got hit

hearty oak
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Mechanic ||the NPCs will sing to the dreamneedlethingy. oh my god thats adorableeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee||

random orchid
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||And enemies.||

hearty oak
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neat

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map question ||anyone know whats up with this room? its got an exit supposedly but all Ive found is bells. and not hte breakable kind.||

random orchid
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||One way wall. you haven't found the rest of the area next to it yet.||

hearty oak
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gotcha

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thanks

hearty oak
random orchid
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||You still will, depending, but yes it's more usable.||

hearty oak
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||I mean sure.||

random orchid
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||Some enemies will still attack during it or will attack on hearing it||

hearty oak
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dialogue spoiler ||moooooooooooooood.||

wary topaz
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||How nice of Team Cherry to turn you into a Character Lofty ||

hearty oak
wary topaz
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Abyss Shriek

hearty oak
wary topaz
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Radiance isn't a Sound. Though I do suppose Radiance IS Screaming to be let out.

hearty oak
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I mean

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I’d say it’s close enough

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Let the Vessel yeet some orange faith goop out.

hot cedar
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||i hate groal the great and the bilewater runback so god damn much i swear...||

hot cedar
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||I finally did it
with CHEESE||

hearty oak
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Area ||you navigate the mists. by playing the dream strings. to the butterflies. OF COURSE. HOW DIDN'T I FIGURE THAT OUT EARLIER. ITS COMPLETELY OBVIOUS.||

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||positive news: found where the mist came from. its a giant organ. as in the instrument? I think?||

hearty oak
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Boss ||well that fight was a weird mix of Hornet 1 and 2. wacky. kept screwing with me. shes dead now though.||

hearty oak
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Boss ||well you were annoying.||

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cutscene ||oh right htis game has cutscenes. ACT TWO TIME!||

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||time to leave and come back from the OTHER entrance!||

hearty oak
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area act2 ||oh wow the game REALLY gives you opposite ends to work with there. its fun to have both available though.||

hearty oak
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||city. city big.||

lofty carbon
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||extremely||

random orchid
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I am very glad I found a bunch of memory lockets. Having additional slots helps a lot

hearty oak
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@inner coral while she does state she lacks the crucial emptyness, and I do agree to that, it is still debated weather or not void was used within her creation.

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a worm cannot screw a spider

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thus

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how tf was the kid made

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and thus

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the lore debate

inner coral
hearty oak
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......

inner coral
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The y is an important distinction

hearty oak
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we literally walked inside of the bastard.

it was a giant worm.

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wyrm is a form of dragon

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that was not a dragon

inner coral
hearty oak
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we know what it had after it arrived

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it became the Pale King

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was there some inbetweenie nonsense? not that we know of!

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anywho. wyrm/king screwed a spider..... somehow

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I blame the Void.

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why do I blame the void? easy scapegoat with zero lore to refute me!

except that one line of dialogue.

hot cedar
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uhhh

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counterpoint

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hornet was not dunked

hearty oak
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yes dunking is how you create true void beings.

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Hornet is not a true void being.

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Im just blaming the void about how a wyrm/king had child with a spider.

hot cedar
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well

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you are wrong

hearty oak
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..............

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okaaaaaaaaaaaay then buddy.

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thats

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a productive statement right there.

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Silk Song act 2 ||I found Sherma again. no idea how she got in. or is alive. but she is wonderful and living her best life.||

inner coral
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||He||

hearty oak
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||SHERMA IS A DUDE?!||

hot cedar
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||Yes. I was surprised too||

hearty oak
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||SHERMA YOU BEAUTIFUL BOY! I will protect you and burn this kingdom to the ground. you just enjoy your bath lil guy.||

hot cedar
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||OH you found Sherma in the bathhouse?||

hearty oak
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yea

hot cedar
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||that scene is incredibly cute, i love his little splish-splashes||

hearty oak
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||the splishy splash of a boy living his best life.||

hot cedar
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||indeed||

cyan lantern
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in addition to Hornet being || gay for Lace || she has || 3 mums. Herrah her biological mum, the Pale Queen who raised her, and Vespa (bee queen) who trained her ||

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no void

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just a lot of girl power

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the first part might be headcanon

hot cedar
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pfft

hearty oak
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Hmmmm interesting

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But what

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If as a bit

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I still blamed the void anyways~

hot cedar
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-shrug-

cyan lantern
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The Void Did Nothing Wrong

hearty oak
hot cedar
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honestly, all i know for certain is
||the pale king did get togather with herrah to create hornet as a form of treaty between hallownest and deepnest. Godly stuff and stuff||

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||silksong is making me frown because there is an obvious shade in that cocoon that hornet leaves and for the life of me, i don't know why, unless its just a THING||

cyan lantern
hot cedar
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is it really?

hearty oak
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Yup

hot cedar
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i thought it was just a Vessel Specific thing

hearty oak
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Yesnt

hot cedar
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because, hk

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yk*

cyan lantern
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the vessel specific thing is the shades being able to actually do things

hot cedar
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-gestures to the abyss-

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aah

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okay, fair enough then

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the last time I brushed up on HK lore proper was for creative writing

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so it's been a while...

hearty oak
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As far as I know, which I could be wrong, everything has a lil hint of void in them. Trickles.

Vessels and the knights had that juiced up to…. Crippling degrees.

hot cedar
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dunked in it for the sake of the kingdom, to find an Empty Vessel

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a shame it was doomed from the start

hearty oak
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There’s a reason it took

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Millions of children getting chucked into the abyss

hearty oak
cyan lantern
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vessels didn't have it juiced up, they had existing void formed into something that resembled a soul

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they're void homunculi

hearty oak
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A soul that is more void than soul

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Rather than more soul than void.

cyan lantern
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it's not a soul

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there is no soul

hot cedar
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i wouldn't say homunculi cause that implies they were artificially created

cyan lantern
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they have no will, no emotion, no voice

hot cedar
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they WERE biological children of wyrm and root

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just...

hearty oak
hot cedar
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messed up

cyan lantern
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not when soul is a literal primordial force in that world

hearty oak
hot cedar
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they do

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to a degree

cyan lantern
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hmm. there's a line in the game about 'no will to break'

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as being one of the traits of vessels

hot cedar
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yes, but thats from the PK talking about his perfect idealized vessel

hearty oak
cyan lantern
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and the MC of the game is 'called' back to hallownest, presumably by the ailing Hollow Knight

hot cedar
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he's not describing what the vessels are, he's describing what he wants from a vessel

hearty oak
hot cedar
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yes

hearty oak
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The Knight was

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Little Shade was an escaped failure.

cyan lantern
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yup, i'm saying it wasn't necessarily the MC's will that brought him back to hallownest

hot cedar
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i mean

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that's up for major debate

hearty oak
hot cedar
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we also werent the only character "called" back to hallownest

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quirrel was too

cyan lantern
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yup, but that was specifically by a dreamer, and for that specific purpose... although it is a bit odd how that syncs up with your lil guy doing things

hot cedar
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i think the knight has a will, which is why they do the things they do

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we can actively make choices

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to make choices is to think
to think is to be

wary topaz
hearty oak
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you presume I am capible of READING?!

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FOOL!

hearty oak
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screw your puzzle, I HAVE POGO! (act 2 area)

wary topaz
hearty oak
cloud belfry
cloud belfry
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Well, most of the time you have solid ground to fight them on

hearty oak
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not as of late

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Ive had to deal with 3 seperate rooms of a similar description

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so I dunno

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probably?

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that room specifically I think ||goes to the bath house?||

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maybe?

loud mirage
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Meme video above

lofty carbon
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Got the speedrun achievement

hearty oak
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Nice

lofty carbon
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Honestly, the 100% speedrun achievement feels really attainable since I did my normal 100% playthrough in a little under 50 hours, and I should easily be able to shave 20 hours off of that at minimum

random orchid
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there are so many areas I want to explore before progressing...

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I gotta remember to go clear ||Bilewater|| before anything else, I finally fought the ||Cogwork Dancers||

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who were

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a surprisingly fight?

wary topaz
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In my opinion that is a really fun fight. It's not THAT Hard, only taking me 3 Tries, but it's so much fun.

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||The End is somehow super sad.||

random orchid
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It took me a single try and I got hit... Twice.

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I think the pacing of it was just easy for me to comprehend, plus I'm currently a Bastard who's probably overgeared for it

inner coral
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It also helps that they're super telegraphed

random orchid
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I'm also using the Tool Heavy crest with maxed tool damage

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so I'm kind of brutal to enemies

inner coral
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Yeah that'll do it

worldly oyster
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well I finally got 100% so I can open this channel 😄

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had a blast, that is all

random orchid
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I keep getting spoiled by memeeeesss

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I physically can't play as long as I want so I have to do it in bursts

worldly oyster
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yeah that's why I'm not saying more

worldly oyster
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and I see people are already finding ways to completely break intended progression, interesting

hearty oak
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Pogo is widely accepted progression breaking nightmare.

random orchid
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The dev team accepted that if people want to be wildly unprepared for their adventures and rush ahead then they can. Or they're speedrunning one of the two

hearty oak
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Could be both

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I’ve seen many a speedrunner speedrun in a way that gets them way over their head and they have to figure it out.

random orchid
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I'm just glad i've been obsessive about exploring everything else before advancing

hearty oak
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It’s been helpful.

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Although I still occasionally find things I probably shouldn’t

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And then bash my head in

random orchid
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especially trinkets and tools

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I just got a new one that's super useful

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So much damage... And so much easier to use than my previous toy

hearty oak
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Oh?

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What did you find?

random orchid
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Have you been to the ||Blasted Steps||and fought the ||Drill face bugs that shoot red drills around?||

hearty oak
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I’ve personally been enjoying ||the Longpin. Does a full stab worth of damage and doesn’t care about parries or armour.||

hearty oak
random orchid
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||I got their drill||

hearty oak
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Well then

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Very nice

random orchid
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||It bounces and pierces repeatedly on hit||

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I also have grenades

hearty oak
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I do not enjoy the grenades

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I like ||spike mines and longpin.|| those two together have helped me though just about everything

random orchid
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I found the former of those to die off and the latter lacked the DPS I needed. Though mostly that's because I ||Picked the crest that specializes in Tool use and its regular attacks are clunky||

hearty oak
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||Architects crest is wacky. Not my personal choice.||

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||I’ve enjoyed my time on Reaper, but I need more blueeeeeee.||

random orchid
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||You have been using the lockets, yes?||

hearty oak
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||yes my Reaper is maxed out. Ive still got 3 spare though in case I find something I like better ||

random orchid
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||mmm right. I'll just say there's merit in using them even on crests you don't like.||

hearty oak
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||yeah Ran told me when I asked. Ive been using the extras beyond the core 3 when I get them on Wanderer and some others.||

random orchid
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mmm

hearty oak
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||Im really hoping I find something nicer but..... I think I might be stuck with Reaper.... which would annoy me because as much as its nice I dont even like it all that much.||

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||like is it too much to ask for big sweepy blade profiles? is that too much? I just want so much reach even gods cry. Architect was close and then it TOOK AWAY MY SILK MOVE.||

random orchid
#

||You have... What. Hunter, Reaper, Wanderer, Beast and Architect?||

hearty oak
#

that.... sounds correct

random orchid
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||Lol, lmao, you'll never use Architect with your Too Good To Use Syndrome||

hearty oak
random orchid
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||There's two-three more if I remember right but I haven't been able to unlock them yet||

hearty oak
#

fair nuff

random orchid
#

||I barely ever used the silk moves tbh, the tools feel way more natural||

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||So it was an easy choice||

hearty oak
hearty oak
random orchid
#

||It is but that's what I have the nades for||

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||And it doesn't reduce my healing capability||

hearty oak
#

fair nuff.

random orchid
#

I almost never used spells much in HK base, anyhow

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Even when I had mastered Godhome to the point where I was literally walking into enemies to kill them faster

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It just broke my flow too much

hearty oak
#

in HK I didnt because it was too many to remember, but with SiSo its just, a single button, and thats easy to remember how to use.

random orchid
#

I used it to dodge more than kill tbh

wary topaz
#

YouTube recommended this to me, I recommend it to you.
||https://youtu.be/Cu_zNGSdv4s?si=UJ6A044PcFOP6eUD||

Spoilers for Act 1 of Silksong!

I am... extremely fond of the bell beast. Thank you Team Cherry for this lovely game!

(Don't look at the unfinished Hollow Knight song. Don't. don't look at it)

Lyrics:
I'm not one to strategize
I am one to try to win the game
by picking fights until I beat them by brute force
I will die a hundred times
I...

▶ Play video
hearty oak
#

well aint that lovely

hearty oak
#

Far Fields Act 2 ||this lava gauntlet is bullshit.||

random orchid
#

oh shit

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I didn't realize, but the game autosaves after getting certain major items

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so you can rollback to get specific achievements if you need to???

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That's so cool

wary topaz
random orchid
#

Also found my best Rosary grind spot. Fast and easy to memorize.

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Too bad I still need so goddamn many

inner coral
hearty oak
random orchid
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haha

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I found something gurm will hate

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||Widow, but harder||

hot cedar
#

||oh i found that too||

hearty oak
random orchid
#

It seems to have one of the best silk skills in the game behind it. Also bleh. I need to travel more of the map and it's getting more difficult to cross it

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Quests in every direction, but I'm slowly narrowing down the areas I need to clear yet while also losing my mind over how many things I surely missed

random orchid
hot cedar
#

oml

hearty oak
wary topaz
#

Like, I literally took a weeklong break from Silksong after getting stuck on a Boss, and literally beat it within 3 Tries once I came back to try again. I can guarantee, if I kept trying when I was originally struggling, it would have at least taken another 10 tries.

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If you're calm, it's simply much easier to process things, and act accordingly, than if you're annoyed with the game

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...I suddenly feel like I would be better at studying for things, if I were to look at the Material more than like a week before an exam. Because I wouldn't be super stressed and anxious.

Brain? Can we please start studying for things BEFORE those things hit?

shrewd kettle
#

|| puppies! ||

random orchid
#

slowly clearing the map

#

slowly

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I think I'm almost at the point where I only have ||The citadel|| remaining

#

I do feel bad I've been looking stuff up but

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I don't feel like I'd want to do a second run of this game

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It'd be painful

wary topaz
#

I am showing my Map, so pretty big Spoilers.

I am not annoyed at all. Nope.

random orchid
#

There's one closer than that.

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But you ||Have to risk being infected by the muck grubs fairly regularly|| for it

wary topaz
#

Where the sad Smile is?

random orchid
#

No, that's a trap.

wary topaz
#

Because I fell for that one.

random orchid
#

If you want it, ||There's a section where you have to deal with a bunch of trapped hallways with the buggers. You want to go far bottom right in that room||

#

||It's going to require using the hookshot line to escape getting grubbed, but if you manage it it cuts out half of that.||

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I ended up taking your route tho, so I wouldn't get Grubbed. It wasn't too bad.

hearty oak
random orchid
#

oh my god

#

||ROSARY CANNON||

#

I'm so tempted to try it

wary topaz
hearty oak
#

Awwwwww

wary topaz
#

OH MY GOD. ||You can Summon the Bell Beast at Stag Stations by playing the Needolin.||

hearty oak
wary topaz
#

Okay hmmm.
||Got a Second Ending, but...|| ||Somehow it still feels weirdly bad. ||

wary topaz
#

Oh, okay.

#

Hmmm

lofty carbon
#

Oh, is it what I think it is?

wary topaz
#

I would presume it is what you think it is.

random orchid
#

I am at the final steps of act 2, and then I can do Things.

#

MANY things

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So many tings I gotta do including a shitty ending I'm going to hate trying to get

wary topaz
#

With the Going Back Mechanic, can you jump foreward again too?

random orchid
#

No idea!

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If it's like it was in HK it should be fine to just

#

headbutt the thing and be done with it

#

And then you'll respawn at a previous bench and can continue in that save

#

I think I've stopped having things to spend rosaries on, so I might just do the foolish thing..

random orchid
#

I...

#

I beat the game?

#

That was it?

#

... Welp. Time to keep looking for stuff.

#

Now this'll be more difficult.

#

POGO TACTICSSSS

gentle swift
#

Which pogo?

random orchid
#

||Trying for the hidden ending for having the Cursed Crest and then beating GM Silk||

#

||I have found most of her early attack patterns can't hit you if you pogo off her head||

wary topaz
random orchid
#

||Consistently hitting phase 2||

#

Conistently gertting hit once each time tho

#

bleh

#

There, got it

#

apparently in that state doing regular strikes is considerably more consistent damage than using pogos or the like, despite pogos and charge strikes hitting twice

#

Swapping to that cleared the stages easily

hot cedar
hot cedar
#

||i wish you the best of luck, getting that one was a trial of patience for me||

random orchid
#

Already cleared it

#

It wasn't actually that difficult once I set my mind to it and figured out the most effective damage

#

and yes, it was the boss you were thinking of. I had... Way more trouble on earlier bosses, but that's fine.

hot cedar
#

yeah

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||grandmama silk is really not hard. it's like last judge and cogwork dancers where the difficulty is actually just in your positioning skills rather than the actual attacks||

random orchid
#

Kay. Got to the next part of the game. Sadly, haaaaands.

#

I made good progress tho so I'm happy with jt

hearty oak
#

this. was not. worth it. (farfields)

shrewd kettle
hearty oak
#

nice

fading cargo
#

im at 72 hours in Act 1 .....

#

But a lot of that is just AFK i guess

random orchid
#

Oh I'm so stupid

#

the fucking

#

rooms with all the shells in the wall

#

you can keep attacking them to get shell fragments

#

so you can restock safely

wary topaz
#

Green. How long have you been playing without knowing that? (To be fair, it's agonizingly slow)

random orchid
#

I am halfway through Act 3

#

at 87% completion and 35 hours

#

Now the painful part

#

do I go looking for everything

random orchid
#

Yeah alright I will. I found a decent-ish site that I can cheat for it, so I'll be able to hunt everything down now that everything is available.

#

I 100%'d HK, I can do it again for Silksong.

random orchid
#

I AM GETTING MY ASS BEAT BY A CLOWN

#

and I am ANNOYED

random orchid
#

Clown defeated, it is now time to continue my rampant nonsense in completing Silksong 100%. And god knows I would not have found some of this shit otherwise...

random orchid
#

I feel a little bad that there's so many NPC dialogues I missed or can't find now. Mrgh.

random orchid
#

arrghjhh

#

Getting my ass beat yb ||Skarrsinger||

#

I am not good at dealing with all of the add phases beforehand, and they keep deflecting my tools so it's not as effective for me to use it

#

There's not even a bench proper so I gotta deal with nonsense

inner coral
#

Might I recommend a change in tool then?

random orchid
#

I do know some tools that would work better, but unfortunately I'd have to cross half the zone for a bench. Might do it if I can't clear it tonight.

inner coral
#

There should be a bench just nearby

random orchid
#

Not for that one, at least not with an annoying runup in either direction.

#

I'll give it another shot tonight.

inner coral
#

Just checked and there's one like 2 feet away, if you'd like to know where :>

random orchid
#

Oh I see it now.

#

I'll use that.

#

Thank you for telling me.

inner coral
#

Ofc :>

random orchid
#

I've had to change my entire build to even try to get close to this boss clear...

#

I'm getting tilteeeeddd

#

GOT IT

#

3 hours

#

But I got it and now I can move on and get the final few upgrades before fucking around with everything else that needs doing for 100%

#

I've given up on the hunter's journal now that I know it's not required

loud mirage
hearty oak
#

little ghost you fool

wary topaz
#

Well, Time to reset.

random orchid
#

At the final boss, but sadly I have work. Darn.

wary topaz
#

I keep seeing spoilers on YouTube...

random orchid
#

yeah

#

It's worse now because the game has been out 'enough' and the algorithm has always been a dick about it, same with the uploaders

wary topaz
#

I've basically just ||left the Abyss for the first time, and am still in Deep Docks.||

random orchid
#

Ahhh.

#

Yeah there's a bit left

wary topaz
random orchid
#

||Yes but depending on how much you cleared during acts 1 and 2, you probably don't have much left besides cleanup iirc||

#

||Plus with the Beastling Call it's absurdly fast to get around the map||

#

though apparently I skipped several boss fights by accident because I'm in "I want to be done" mode. Sad.

wary topaz
random orchid
#

rip

#

Youtube is a bastard in that way

#

The only unfortunate part, if I fail to complete this final fight before my Shards run out, I'm going to have to either backtrack for more or swap my style again...

wary topaz
#

Never used any

random orchid
#

You cap out at 20

#

If you're full up and have 20 shard bundles you can fully top off from zero twice before you're dead out

wary topaz
#

Pretty sure I have maxed Tool Capacity and Damage

#

I know for a fact I am still missing 2 Masks though, but have my entire map filled out so far

random orchid
#

One thing I do find annoying, they really only put the combat helping tools on Blue tool slots

wary topaz
#

||I did find a Mask Shard in the Abyss||

random orchid
#

Yellow tool slots are mostly misc support and useless for a boss fight

random orchid
random orchid
#

Two slots for combat useful items

#

I have 3

#

technically 3 if you find knockback annoying

#

And I'll admit I forgot about the Barbed Bracelet but I'd never use it because it effectively makes your healthbar two hits

#

and I am NOT good enough for that

wary topaz
#

Honestly, I barely swap out my Tools

random orchid
#

I've been swapping them fairy consistently throughout the game, tbh

#

I have a plan for another swap when I get back home to make my life easier

wary topaz
#

Also, I kept with Hunters Crest the entire game.

random orchid
#

Mix of ||Architect, Reaper and Hunter||

#

if I run out of tool slots I'll go for one you haven't found yet

#

err, shell shards

wary topaz
#

Also, YouTube has spoiled me on one Synergy, but for which I don't know if it's even pheasable if you die more than twice

||Lifeblood Phial + Architect Crest||

random orchid
#

... Ehhh?

#

I can see it.

#

There's some other tips you can use with it. I might actually use that instead...

wary topaz
#

Want me to explain how the synergy works?

#

because there IS more to it

random orchid
#

I know of a few.

#

Though the reason why I hesitate is mostly because I know that I use all of my tools in combat, and don't really have a tool to dunk...

wary topaz
#

honestly, I mainly like to use my Tools with Pollip Pouch, to get damage when I think it's too scary to walk up and attack, but I still feel like I need to get damage in

random orchid
#

I also don't tend to live long enough to actually run out of tools in a single fight

#

since I'm judicious with both needle strikes and tool strikes.

random orchid
#

VICTORY

#

I have WON

wary topaz
#

GG

hearty oak
#

nice

wary topaz
#

Honestly, I'm taking a bit of a Break because
||3 Back to Back Arenas full of annoying Enemies, both Flying and Grounded, and with Arena Layout that makes ground Space either a commodity, or Nonexistant, in a Gauntlet where if you die in any of them, you start over and have to do them all again||, is kind of a lot.

random orchid
#

... Wait which? I never saw that many back to back

wary topaz
#

||Coral Tower||

random orchid
#

||Oh that one. ... You can attack the coral to break it I think, if that helps?||

wary topaz
#

HUH

#

I LITERALLY TRIED THAT WHAT

random orchid
#

I used tools

#

Bombs do it

wary topaz
#

BOMBS??

random orchid
#

You didn't find those then

wary topaz
#

I mean, I might have, but if I did, then I certainly have not remembered it.

#

I need to check

#

But not right now

random orchid
#

I used the Tool spam so it worked out pretty well

#

Even if I didn't nremember right, using those is helpful

#

Keep things at range

inner coral
hearty oak
#

I do love standing perfectly still in the air to get nailed by projectiles doing up to 3 damage at once and completely knocking me out of the heal.

Who knew I’d ever miss how baulders shell worked.

wary topaz
#

I do love using Warding Bell, so at least if I get hur out of my Heal, I am now down more HP than I was before.

hearty oak
#

I just. I wish being hit while in bell didn’t cancel the heal.

random orchid
#

laughs in tool

#

Healing? I need more toooools

hearty oak
#

You have an addiction

#

You already have too many tools.

random orchid
#

as if I ever actually used the active reload much

hearty oak
#

Exactly

random orchid
#

I needed to heal so much more than that because I suck at dodging with Hornet

#

It's a lot harder than with the Knight, especially since it's never dodges at right angles

hearty oak
#

I’ve found hornet far easier to dodge with.

#

Because you actually have mobility

#

Although. I do miss shade cloak giving me actual Iframes.

random orchid
#

It's too much mobility. :U

#

I made it work but also I used the clunkiest Crest for actual combat.

hearty oak
#

Green.

You need to work on your fundamentals.

random orchid
#

So that probably didn't help

#

The fundamentals were actually pretty worthless for my build I just needed more tools and occasional pokes

#

And like 20 heals

hearty oak
#

…….

wary topaz
#

Green, go back to Hunters Crest

random orchid
#

No

#

I beat the game

wary topaz
#

Yes

random orchid
#

I got 100% by game standards I am not doing mini games anymore

#

I am also glad I didn't need to 100% the hunter's journal and everything else

wary topaz
#

btw, where do I get the thing to see my Completion Percentage? Is it in a new Story Area, that I am going to find with thurough searching, or do I need to go back for it somewhere?

random orchid
#

This one's way nicer for that

hearty oak
random orchid
#

I did like 90% of it and then realized I wasn't having fun anymore, so I decided against it

wary topaz
#

I only did the Hunters Journal entries that I got naturally, or that were convenient

random orchid
#

From the sounds of it, you've missed it and will have to go back later for what you're looking for, Xsor

#

Btw Tacks are very useful, highly suggest thise

wary topaz
#

I mean, I presume I will ||need to go back for the final Boss, but other than that I mean||

random orchid
#

||you definitely did not. As for going back I think you have to wait until you're ready for the final boss ||

inner coral
#

||You can go back without being ready, I think the bell is fixed when you leave||

fading cargo
#

Well i think finally its time to get back to SiSo

inner coral
#

Good luck

latent violet
#

Just wanna say

(Act II, SoK) ||Conch Cutter our beloved. It's so fun to drill through a boss with them...||

#

||It's quickly become one of our favorite tools, alongside the Cogflies and Silkshot||

random orchid
#

||Conch cutter was on my team for AGES. May I suggest tacks?||

latent violet
proven spear
#

“Voyage across and beneath the salt-stricken seas in this thrilling expansion, free for all players”

random orchid
#

.... The MINES CALL FOR ME

#

I hope that it doesn't require a fresh save file

#

Otherwise I'm waiting for the whole set of expansions and then doing it all at once

hearty oak
# random orchid I hope that it doesn't require a fresh save file

it shouldnt. from what it looks like its gonna be the same thing as what happened with HK, in that its a new zone, new bosses, some new gear, and a fun little romp.

the only thing that might be problematic is silk songs acts and that you would be jumping into a final act versions of those zones but ehhhh probaly fine.

fleet turtle
#

been playing through silksong, started back on christmas evening

#

not super far obviously,

#

gotten to ||clearing out bellhart from its haunting||

#

got put through three different runback sequences with The Birds, The Sticks, and The Bells yesterday, so i was pretty exhausted and had to finish that little arc today

fleet turtle
#

been a week since that. new approach to beating bosses and stuff and i've gotten significantly deeper now since then

#

it's very appreciable the artistic differences between og HK and silksong

hearty oak
#

yeah its nice

fleet turtle
#

i suppose this is what you get for 7 years of improvement and development, but you can sort of tell a silksong area vs a HK area

#

more varied environment, more detailed parts, a color palette that is not predominantly blue

fleet turtle
#

the game is great but two sticking points that kind of stand out to me as someone who hasn't ever played a metroidvania before

  • contact damage. not really related to metroidvania but i think contact damage in this sort of game is really quite annoying especially for more nimble enemies.
  • the state of hidden walls in this game
#

i've been streaming in a vc and i've had the lucky mentorship of a friend who's already played through the game to point out random things of note to me. a couple hidden walls and areas are really quite egregious

#

perhaps if i had played HK sometime between now and the preceding 7 years before silksong came out i would've been trained to keep smacking walls everywhere, but some of them are basically or entirely invisible to an observer

#

i went through a pretty rough sequence of Deeper Docks (bombs), The Worst Bossfight in the Game (quest), The Worst Gauntlet in the Game (right after), and Silent Hill. partly of my own volition though the last part was my mentor trying to guide me to a couple goodies for other crests

#

for the silent hill part ||i have no idea how you're supposed to know that the needolin helps guide you when you play it near the flies in the area, since you're not told at all||

hearty oak
#

||I just pressed random ass buttons trying to interact with the fireflies.||

inner coral
#

Yeah, silksong was pretty obviously made with the intent of "hk players need a bigger challenge", and a lot of the base world building (eg hidden walls) relies on the same secret-finding exploration of the first game

fleet turtle
#

sometimes i'm definitely feeling like i'm paying for the sins of my forefathers in a sense

hearty oak
#

you are, and I am sorry.

fleet turtle
#

mostly through pogo platforming pre-reaper's crest

#

not really sure on the spoiler status on things like that actually

#

like area names or whatever i'm not so sure as to what's up lock or not

inner coral
hearty oak
#

Silksong is very much so an adendum to the mechanics you were meant to have learned and mastered in HK, in a new form and with a difficulty spike.

its smoother than it possibly could have been, but the game is absolutely going in expecting HK experience and there are going to be weapons grade bad times for those like you who do not have such experience.

#

that doesnt forgive it, thats not meant to defend it, it is merely that yeah. the game expects things it probably shouldnt.

inner coral
#

If absolute radiance in hk was the tutorial, silksong's the unit test

fleet turtle
#

yeah i skipped over HK because i've been super spoiled on it for a while and didn't quite want to play through 'baby's first metroidvania' (according to my friends)

inner coral
#

I mean, even if you know everything there is to know, it can still be a fun experience to play through it at least once or twice

fleet turtle
#

this is a pretty huge diversion from my typical haunt of PvE shooters so it is mostly my first go at this type of game

hearty oak
#

they are right in some ways and wrong in others.

I'd say HK is more your "nearly perfected standardized metroidvania" a gold standard if you will.

#

at the time it was revolutionary because of relatively low market saturation, afterwards well. if you've played a post HK metroidvania you've played something close enough to HK mechanically that a lot of skills are transferable.

hearty oak
fleet turtle
#

i mean i have been enjoying it pretty well, it just has its rough spots sometimes when i go through things really quickly in succession

#

it also helps to have someone watching and sharing the experience, which is what my friend has been doing

hearty oak
#

thats nice.

my biggest hell with SiSo so far was the god damned lava arena for A SINGLE. MASK. SHARD.

#

everything else has been.... well I wouldn't say great but interesting and mostly enjoyable.

fleet turtle
#

yes that's what i referred to for the worst boss fights and gauntlet in the game

#

i went through that ||optional gated area|| in deep docks, got bombed to hell, then immediately went on what i originally intended of doing that bossfight

#

and then after that i was kinda on a quest for more slots for my crests since i've been puttering around on reaper's only for a while now

#

which led me to the spooky area, which genuinely did kind of scare and stress me out until i was informed that i could tool the problem to death

hearty oak
#

I do enjoy being able to stab the fear away

fleet turtle
#

i was playing matador with reaper's crest pogos until i could just use spine shards on the problem

#

spine shards in general solve a lot of problems

hearty oak
#

they really do

fleet turtle
#

the most substantial difference really between my mentor-friend and me is currently their preference of crest for bossfights (wanderer's) and how little they used tools compared to me

#

maybe i use them a little too much (expended like 700 on my first go at ||beastfly||) but that's why you can buy bundles of them anyway

hearty oak
#

ehhhh I mean.

#

tools are a tool

#

if the game lets you do it, I say do what you find fun.

#

I like stabbing things and hoarding shards, so thats what I typically do.

#

I know Green REALLY REALLY liked tools and went super into using them.

fleet turtle
#

i mean i am partly getting those memory lockets because i unlocked the crest that is literally only tools

#

i probably won't use it a whole lot because running out is pretty easy + reaper's is really great for spacing, but i'm at least interested.

hearty oak
#

I like reapers but I've yet to find a crest I really honestly enjoy, and Im thinking Im probably just not gonna find one.

TLDR: Im looking for a bonk crest. beeeeeg damage. stupidly slow swings. the cult of bonk from the souls series.

mayhaps Ill find one in the docks expansion. who knows!

fleet turtle
#

i mean as far as i'm aware reaper's really the best you'll get

#

HK/SiSo's weird damage system also has all crests doing the exact same amount of damage each swing, so it's moreso a matter of how many you can hit

hearty oak
#

oh sure reaper is close but it. it lacks that weight.

#

I dunno

#

I've always been stupidly picky about movesets.

fleet turtle
#

it's really interesting

inner coral
#

There's one that's like a bear claw. Hornet isn't exactly good at slow tho

fleet turtle
#

i'm kind of afraid of having pretty wonky muscle memory after swapping them but it's kind of just something i'll have to live with

hearty oak
inner coral
#

Fair enough

fleet turtle
hearty oak
#

yeah.

#

if I had to guess quite honestly Ill probably eventually end up with wanderer as my crest of choice.

#

because I mean

#

have you seen the DPS it can do?

fleet turtle
#

disparagingly, the crutch crest, but it's hard to separate from it after having such a not-annoying time fighting enemies and platforming with it

#

yeah i mean i feel like wanderer's kind of intended for that sort of deal

inner coral
#

||Wanderer's is a reference and return to the HK moveset||

hearty oak
inner coral
#

shaw, you say?

hearty oak
#

geh tuh perhaps?

fleet turtle
#

that's sort of just my general assessment of it since you literally trade overall DPS for way better range/anti-air

#

not that someone else has stated that except for me

hearty oak
#

I mean reaper is just. really really good at just. bein there and doin stuff.

fleet turtle
inner coral
#

Reaper is the heal crest

hearty oak
#

wait what crest are you refering to boring?

fleet turtle
#

reaper's for range/anti-air

#

wanderer being a ||HK-reference type|| crest

hearty oak
#

yea.

#

anywho, use the crests you like, grow as a person, don't listen to the seething static that is the internet. the usuals.

inner coral
hearty oak
#

||sure its not the DEDICATED spells crest, but those sweet sweet thread gains.||

inner coral
hearty oak
#

and in my experience a LOT of the people who chain themselves to meta options and meta choices..... cant.

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there are those in these types of games who can take the optimal setup and OBLITERATE with it, there are also those I know of and have seen who follow those exact steps and instead of learning or improving blame the build.

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the reason I encourage people to go away from optimization is not because optimization is bad, I love optimization, but it is more about finding what works for you, on an individual level, and figuring out the tools and tricks you know how to interact with so that you can interact with your environment in a more fundamental way.

inner coral
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oh yeah no sure. some people just. don't expect to encounter hardship. in a game whos entire premise is "hey this game is kinda hard and beating stuff will be rewarding". glares at certain Elden Ring players

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sorry me and the Elden Ring community have..... disagreements.

Im an old cranky bastard who learned through pain and torment via the old souls games. and a lot of newer players who joined in with Elden Ring.... didnt.

inner coral
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Entirely understandable

cloud belfry
late tusk
random orchid
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Look at this cool art

inner coral
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Nice

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Noibat and Noivern