Silksong Discussion (soiler warning)

[red river]

THE SILKSONG! THE SILKSONG IS REAL

[steel needle]

SILKSONG REALLLL

[dapper summit]

CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER

[sharp plinth]

SILKSONG........ ON SEPTEMBER 4!!!!!!!!!

[steel needle]

SEPTEMBER 4????

[mellow sigil]

oh wait the article about why did they took so long already came out??

[steel needle]

LETS GOOOOO

[clever furnace]

TWO WEEKS

[slate stump]

TWO WEEKS

[mellow sigil]

now thats exciting :D

[carmine sigil]

TWOOOOOO

[dapper summit]

i cant believe the clown wigs are being thrown rn

[red river]

Nah but on a real note? I’m thinking about like £30-40

[sharp plinth]

SILKSNOG

[steel needle]

it feels so weird now that the wait is almost over

[sharp plinth]

SILSKONG

[clever furnace]

REALLY??

[red river]

Like my ass wouldn’t take out a bank loan for it

[clever furnace]

LINK???

[mellow sigil]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-08-21/why-silksong-team-cherry-s-sequel-to-hollow-knight-took-so-long-to-make?srnd=undefined
is that the right one??

[distant holly]

it was inclusive btw @limber scaffold

[gentle cedar]

guys silksong tomorrow

[clever furnace]

ITS FUCKING PAYWALLSD FUCK OFFFFFF

[sharp plinth]

its at team cherry's website 100%

[mellow sigil]

is it?? I could read it on my phone

[hollow nest]

the silk piece is real !!!

[clever furnace]

HOW

[gentle cedar]

why is it telling me to pay for an article what is this garbage

[sharp plinth]

silikson

[gritty nimbus]

silksong is secretly getting delayed for 30 more years

[distant holly]

check web archive, for unrelated reasons

[mellow sigil]

wait Im confused is the body of text thats below the "this article is for subscribers only" is the article or something else...

[sharp plinth]

ITS REaL

[timber pelican]

My wife is hornet i love her so much

[mellow sigil]

am I stupid

[sharp plinth]

same

[misty isle]

Its finally over.

[clever furnace]

Put the link in?

[mellow sigil]

LINKLINK

[red river]

It will probably cost at least 2 dollar

[sharp plinth]

silksong

[mellow sigil]

no way

[clever furnace]

Nothing there

[red river]

Maybe it will cost a quarter, it will come with a barbershop haircut as a pre order bonus

[mellow sigil]

Im ps its already free I dont know why does it says that its for subscribers only

[red river]

Silksong subreddit in shambles. How are supposed to silkpost now?

[sharp plinth]

no more silkposts....

[distant holly]

i’m sure somebody would put it later

[mellow sigil]

it will finally become..... a normal subreddit

[sharp plinth]

NEVER

[mellow sigil]

about the game

[red river]

DLC in 2027

[sharp plinth]

NEVR

[distant holly]

it’s too late

[timber pelican]

You've been skonged

[velvet trench]

The silksanity scars will be permanent

That sub will be cursed

[distant holly]

deltarune didn’t become a normal subreddit afaik

[carmine crypt]

silksong so soon

[clever furnace]

I am literally going to mail the person who paywalled that article LET ME INNNNN

[carmine crypt]

doubt it though

[serene oxide]

one character did look similar

[mellow sigil]

they still have 3 chapters to wait for

[carmine crypt]

would be cool

[red river]

YES YES

[timber pelican]

I hope the knight (little ghost) gets reincarnated in silksong

[hardy jolt]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IM LITERALLY SO HAPPY

[carmine crypt]

we ALL are

[red river]

Final boss

[pulsar viper]

it's been renamed -futaba

[distant holly]

||"The king of nightmares" boss (copy pasted from hollow knight without changes)||

[hardy jolt]

IM HAPPIERRR /SILLY

[timber pelican]

Oor it's Shakra possibly

[carmine crypt]

watch hornet die at the end

[mellow sigil]

they didnt release it today Im not happy /j

[carmine crypt]

or maybe we will have another ||cloth|| situation...

[barren ingot]

oh no that implies it already came out
people are gonna get so confused

[dapper summit]

finally.

Silksong before GTA 6 🔥

[distant holly]

no?

[barren ingot]

(I usually see release date trailer for ones like this)

[timber pelican]

Im gonna give myself schizophrenia in honour of this game

[distant holly]

release trailer isn’t release smh

[bleak arrow]

silksong in 2 weeks

[mellow sigil]

I hope lace x hornet is at the very least implied

[distant holly]

you should buy a thread of silk to play silksong

[distant holly]

hornet x shaaw

[red river]

Silksoon

[barren ingot]

has anyone analyzed the shot that showed like, a huge chunk of a world map?

[shadow lagoon]

you know what I'm doing

[red river]

Peak plushy material

[distant holly]

why they included this

[velvet trench]

Fireborn is reading it on stream rn, idk if there’s a non paywalled one or not

[rapid swallow]

https://archive.ph/pGucD i think thisll work?

[clever furnace]

I HAVE THE NON PAYWALLED LINK

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-08-21/why-silksong-team-cherry-s-sequel-to-hollow-knight-took-so-long-to-make?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1NTc4NjYzOSwiZXhwIjoxNzU2MzkxNDM5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMUNMTUpHUFdDUFcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.oTN8q1m9pNWFv7oW-n3vzq-hRWAxrDx9B7iF80RdTzk&leadSource=uverify wall

[shadow lagoon]

I only went to the end to see the release date. I didn't want any spoilers.

[barren ingot]

maybe it's a great plateau moment and the reveal is that that chunk is actually a super small piece of the total map

[mellow sigil]

it was already non-paid for me what did I do!!!!

pirating without even realising it somehow

[tawdry osprey]

That’s a cool link

[mellow sigil]

/j

[clever furnace]

Does it work for everyone?

[sharp plinth]

the monksilly has got to this thread

[mellow sigil]

anyways Im gonna go read the article finally

[rare fulcrum]

I'm happy for all HK players out there
now you can finally put the "Silksong tomorrow" memes to rest

[sharp plinth]

silksong will be out tomorrow on september 3rd

HUNTER???????? LIKE HUNTER RAIN WORDL:?????

RAIN WORLD X SILKSNOG COLLAB CONFIRMED

[quasi hearth]

how we feeling fellas

[desert kraken]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZmGBEm8XdM there is rw ambiance at the end of this!

[cosmic frigate]

i cant believe the new dlc for rain world, hollow knight scugsong is coming out in just 2 weeks!

[barren ingot]

||reminds me of the ghosts from the forest temple in ocarina of time ||

[sharp plinth]

Hollow Knight: Downpour

[mellow sigil]

ugh nvm it's nothing interesting, it was just too big and ambitious and they took their time

who could have possibly guessed that thats the case right

[drowsy zephyr]

Silksong

[sharp plinth]

ok im tired of reacting to everyone with monksilly

[barren ingot]

good hype-builder at least
the thought that they spent all that time actively making fast progress is a good sign for the overall amount of content

[timber pelican]

Get ready for the sequel to Silksong, "Hollow Knight: Ralsei edition" where Ralsei from Deltarune appears and has his own game in HK style

[clever furnace]

Quite possibly the funniest reason they went silent. They managed to do the exact opposite of what they intended

[velvet trench]

That’s not how development updates work

[barren ingot]

I think it would have happened either way

[mellow sigil]

oh yeah its very positive for the game
the author of the article just said that they had a "fun reason" and I thought it will be something special I suppose??

but whatever good for skong

[pulsar viper]

i think it wouldn't have mattered if they did dev updates or didn't -futaba

[barren ingot]

the seemingly obvious answer is just to do updates like

• 12 rooms added
• 1 creature added

doesnt spoil anything

[torpid zinc]

i thought this game was like an april fools joke fr

[timber pelican]

Yeah I think people would've gotten upset either way, the fandom is just impatient

[opal totem]

Dev heaven turned out to be real huh

[split sluice]

SILKSONG!!!!!!!!

[drowsy zephyr]

People would get annoyed by waiting >5 years. Makes sense

[inner island]

IT WILL RELEASE TWO DAYS BEFORE MY BIRTHDAY

[distant holly]

avoiding spoilers
put a map of few regions in the trailer
smh

[gentle cedar]

i think the years of radio silence with "we're still working on it" would've made the community more than happy enough tbh

[velvet trench]

Lmao

[rare fulcrum]

The wait is over.

[mellow sigil]

its actually quite nice that silksong took so long because they were busy making a good game and not because they were in development hell or something .....

the silksong fandom forgives team cherry! * yay sound from fnaf *

[oak swift]

SKONG

[opal totem]

Given they're still enjoying game dev silksong dlc sounds very real

[velvet trench]

I mean HK had dlc right? It was just free

[split sluice]

New ending: clown no more

[oak swift]

Still dlc, just free

[velvet trench]

Ya

[pulsar viper]

CLOWN NO MORE. WE'RE FREE -futaba

[oak swift]

The deniers are in shambled

The doubters rejoice

[drowsy zephyr]

The skong is here. Take off your clown wigs

[oak swift]

AND THE BELIEVERS NEVER BACKED DOWN!!!!

[rigid drift]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[oak swift]

GET ME MY GODDAMN BEER!!!!!!!

[pulsar viper]

CLOWN WIG DISPOSAL IS NOW AVAILABLE -futaba

[opal totem]

He's not wrong

[oak swift]

Such a funny line lol

The community that came from this was hilarious

[split sluice]

True, but you’re replacing it with even more fun

[mellow sigil]

why are Team Cherry having so much fun. Why are they so whimsy. They think its all sunshine and rainbows huh??????

[split sluice]

BECAUSE IT’S FUCKING SILKSOOOOONG

[pulsar viper]

I mean wasn't the silksong subreddit literally sacrificing people -futaba

[mellow sigil]

/silly

[oak swift]

Gods the only thing that'd made this worse is if the game was mid or omly alright , people are gonna crash out hard

[velvet trench]

r/silksong got described as feral in that article lmaoo

[oak swift]

The silksong subreddit sacrificed half of their mods and many people lol

[mellow sigil]

reading that article i doubt it will be mid ngl

[oak swift]

Seems like it worked

[opal totem]

Judging by the trailer it's at least as good as hk

[misty isle]

The gameplay looks far more dynamic

[mellow sigil]

Im crying while the skong sub was burning in the flames of hell and suffering TC were having soo much fun

[distant holly]

'Hollow Knight' dev reveals that 'releasing the game' takes players’ 'fun'. Read more at http://localhost for 9.99 dollars.

[oak swift]

Im gonna hold my breath, as much hype I still have to dial down my expectations

If my expectations are too grandiouse, then I'm gonna suffer playing the game lol

[pulsar viper]

TC were just having such a good time making a video game lol -futaba

[mellow sigil]

tbh I don't have expectations at all I don't care for skong much

its gonna be gud and thats enough for me

[oak swift]

Fair nough

[mellow sigil]

ah how easy it is to not be a HKSS fan in our times

[timber pelican]

skilk skong

[opal totem]

I kinda fear the crest system, sounds overwhelming

[oak swift]

Im gonna try to be as spoiler free as possible for now, so hopefully it goes well

[latent oasis]

Silkin and songin 🥀

[timber pelican]

watch there just be Bladee. In Silksong. Just him. Not a bug version of him at all or anything just. Just him.

[distant holly]

probably a good time to buy more ram

[timber pelican]

Togore in silksong when

[misty isle]

Cant wait for Silksong to lag hard on my device

[split sluice]

I’m getting it day one

[distant holly]

it has the same requirement on steam as hk? well it was like this

[pulsar viper]

Can't wait for "today is September 4th, 2025. This is araraura, your host for today, bringing you, for the last time, your daily silksong news" -futaba

[split sluice]

My mechanical engineering homework can wait I need to play silksong

[distant holly]

i don’t think it would be way worse tbh

[distant holly]

but there would be updates for silksong

[cosmic frigate]

dont forget the dlcs

we need araraura to tell us about them or we wont know

[gentle cedar]

if the price doesn't put me 1 million dollars in debt i'm also getting it day one

[chilly crown]

so much hype over this song

[split sluice]

I imagine silksong wouldn’t be more expensive than like 30 USD

[chilly crown]

lemme know if this music is as good as it sounds

[velvet trench]

Silksong ost is gonna be fire

[split sluice]

https://youtu.be/zRs58D34OLY?si=qZXh9ePqw7e6Xfy7

[opal totem]

Trailer ost was really nice

[split sluice]

Enough said.

[velvet trench]

7 years for Christopher Larkin to cook 🔥

[distant holly]

"today is september 4th, 2025. this is ari gibson, your host for today, bringing you your daily silksong news"

[split sluice]

SILKSOOOOOOOOOOONG

[inner island]

i only played 2 hours of hk but i WILL be playing silksong day one

[mellow sigil]

ngl I still find the "dont wanna spoil" reason to be silent a little silly

[mellow sigil]

you still have time to complete hk!

[split sluice]

I think the biggest issue was that they didn’t say ‘hey we’re still working on it’

[inner island]

ture....

ill play today and may stream it here

[split sluice]

Go play HK for the next two weeks

[mellow sigil]

they literally said that that's the only thing tjey have to say haha. But I don't think it would have hurt?

[opal totem]

Oh yeah, dlc basically confirmed

[latent oasis]

They said it once or twice in their discord. It just didn't gain traction.

[velvet trench]

You should!! Its not a massive game, you can definitely experience most of or all of it playing casually for two weeks

[split sluice]

Fire

[opal totem]

And we got dlc release date as well

[latent oasis]

2032 😭

[split sluice]

I can pretty easily get the speedrun achievement for 100% completion

[velvet trench]

That was a joke by the writer cause they said they had “ambitious” plans

[split sluice]

No that’s obviously zoteboat

[mellow sigil]

its actually pretty endearing how passionate and excited they are about their work
I wish I was as excited about my art......

[clever furnace]

Reddit is literally breaking rn

[gentle cedar]

just realized the hk channels don't have slowmode enabled </3 its so bad in there rn

in the server i mean

[velvet trench]

Yup

[chilly crown]

[blissful rock]

skover

[barren ingot]

ok bye silksong thread I'm not actually that interested in silksong discussion so I will be leaving now

[blissful rock]

yooo temmie is in silksong

[gentle cedar]

no way temmie in silksong

[mellow sigil]

oh yeah it is pretty overwhelming

joined the hk server just to get a peek at the insanity

[flint linden]

the slong is real

[mellow sigil]

oh my god it's insane over there

[distant holly]

kinda lowkey unfortunate to play day 1, because hk dlcs kinda changed experience and i played when they were already here

[opal totem]

Why not have both experiences

More reasons to replay the game

[gentle cedar]

i played hk a good bit before godhome iirc, replaying for the new content wasn't that bad

[velvet trench]

Its all optional anyway, its not like the existing rooms get changed or new enemies added to base game areas

Just extra things

[gentle cedar]

yeah true

personally i just want to beat my brother's ass as soon as silksong comes out i will not let him get a leg up on me

[velvet trench]

Silksongs probably going to be the only new game i buy on launch instead of waiting for a sale

Im just too excited

[gentle cedar]

i'm hoping release already puts it at a decent-ish discount since some games already do that

[opal totem]

Wonder what the price will be

[gentle cedar]

it would be so much easier justifying a day one purchase

[opal totem]

How much was hk? 15$?

That's a steal

[gentle cedar]

yeah hk is so cheap for what it is

[opal totem]

Doesn't seem like tc is concerned with money so silksong will probably be not much more

[junior helm]

#server-announcements message
she looks like a little witch riding on her broom (needle)

[hollow laurel]

I’m guess at most it’s going to be 20$

[opal totem]

My bet is 25

I don't want to give any less for silksong

[hollow laurel]

Or maybe it’ll cost the same as hollow knight

Speaking of hollow knight… I should replay that game

[fervent tree]

https://tenor.com/view/hollow-knight-gif-1317513878955975206

[pastel talon]

as the pale king once said,, "no cost too great"

[red river]

“… unless it’s more then 2 dollar”

[blissful rock]

(my brother pointed this out a while ago)

[red river]

[blissful rock]

is zote from pharloom

[velvet trench]

Probably just where shellwood or whatever comes from, like an export or something. Or maybe zote visited there in the past, who knows

[pastel talon]

need to see his ancestors and they're all shaped like grey prince zote

(the horrors)

[mellow sigil]

I wanted to be productive today but skong stole all the time from me....

[distant holly]

it’s not the same . it’s like playing a game with few percents more content, because you don’t know anything yet. but if you replay, you would know everything except just few things from new dlc

[pastel talon]

same amount of content in the game anyhow

and it gives you an excuse to call it replayable

[distant holly]

few charms and bosses actually affect first time experience . some new things could potentially be useful only if you aren’t good at game yet tbh

[opal totem]

Still doesn't take away the discovery of the entire base game on the first playthrough

I'd be doing several playthroughs anyway, dlcs just add more reason to do so

[blissful rock]

zotes mom will be in silksong

[distant holly]

well yeah, but you wouldn’t find e. g. some charm from dlc that could make you have a different tactics for bosses (well not charms in silksong)

you wouldn’t replay the game for ||dreamshield||

[golden geode]

OMG SILKSONG REAL

[distant holly]

but some small things could be useful on first playthrough

[opal totem]

Do you think silksong will have wayward compass

[distant holly]

it should?

why wouldn’t it

i don’t think there is any game having a map but no locator at all

[opal totem]

There has to be one

[distant holly]

it’s lowercase, hence isn’t a name

not uncommon for places to be named after trees, stones, whatever

[drowsy zephyr]

Why not?

[distant holly]

bad gameplay experience 💔

[drowsy zephyr]

I know, I'm just kidding

[opal totem]

If it's a part of an intended challenge it's not bad

[distant holly]

same reason why games have coyote jump

[opal totem]

But silksong is probably not just about navigation

[distant holly]

challenges have to be fun

not just making the game annoying

[opal totem]

Fun is subjective

[distant holly]

i mean, i unknowingly used quite a lot of things added in dlcs on the first playthrough. it probably would be a bit less fun/balanced otherwise.

it’s just a bit more things to explore while exploring the game . it’s just not really the same when you know everything and intentionally go search for few new secret rooms (unless you plan to replay the game anyway).

though, specifically ||godhome dlc||, is pretty much a completely side quest, so this would be fine

but the ||grimm|| related quest would be kinda impactful, considering you get a charm slot from it . which means i wouldn’t be able to use my build for the final boss if i played on the release

[opal totem]

Yeah, poor people who had to fight the final boss pre dlc without wayward compass in their build

[red river]

Maybe wayward compass will be inbuilt to hornet

[velvet trench]

Real

[distant holly]

hornet is made of wayward compasses, as opposite to void

[velvet trench]

It will either be built into the map, or maybe like a permanent item you get imo

[distant holly]

hornet just has mind to think /j

[red river]

Low-key glad the demo at gamescom didn’t show off more stuff, can’t wait to see how big the game is

[distant holly]

silksong will have at least 2 regions

[opal totem]

The map fragment from the trailer seemed pretty small

[velvet trench]

It was only a section tbf

Showing the whole map would be

Kinda bad in a trailer lmao

[distant holly]

not really? it’s like idk one region from hollow knight

[opal totem]

Seemed like it included several regions

Small ones

[drowsy zephyr]

Too bad I might not complete HK before Silksong

[mellow sigil]

people in the sub will probably start going insane over future dlcs the cycle will never end

and than over their separate future projects

they can't be saved.....

[distant holly]

zoteboat 2033

[split sluice]

Zoteboat 2036

[oak swift]

Since we dont know their work schedule, I wouldnt be suprised if they took a good few breaks during development to not let that dreaded burn out happen :D

[oak swift]

That is a bit early

Probably gonna be at least 2040

[lusty wind]

Can you believe it guys? Silksong, just two weeks away. Silksong is in two weeks! Woohoo! I'm so happy about this information

[pulsar viper]

silksong in two weeks!

[mellow sigil]

I cant joke about "skong not real" anymore. What am I supposed to do with my life

[opal totem]

Silksong dlc is still not real

[mellow sigil]

thats not the same.......

it doesn't feels the same....

[tawdry osprey]

hos

[opal totem]

What do we think about the gremlin

[velvet trench]

I hate it but it’s kinda funny

The way hornet slapped it xD

[distant holly]

watcher update isn’t real

the lore reason why hornet has masks instead of the same hp as a boss, is because it’s not hornet, but Hero, as confirmed by the demo’s settings

actually it’s kinda funny that it’s similar to watcher, in that both were initially just a small additional thing for the base game, but ended up being bigger than the base game

[mellow sigil]

I don't want to joke about that

[clever furnace]

Ughhhh I wanna 100% hollow knight before silksong but all I have left to do is ||the pantheon of hallownest || my ass is not beating that in two weeks

[velvet trench]

Yeahh I’ve had the game for like 3 years and have not been able to beat that

Really annoys me since it’s the only achievement I don’t have

[rigid drift]

hey guys did you hear the news

team cherry just announced that they're gonna start working on a new dlc for hollow knight

apparently with hornet as a playable character

[distant holly]

i don’t have an achievement for the normal ending

[foggy moon]

👻

[spring terrace]

SKKSISLKSKSSONG

[spring terrace]

TRUE ME TOO

[slate stump]

Same I only did true ending

[clever furnace]

lol it’s the same with rain world fuck challenge 70

||“What if we give you a challenge that relates to absolutely none of the gameplay in the main game and made it a requirement to 100% the game”|| what if I killed you

[velvet trench]

Yeah i havent gotten the challenge or expedition achievments either

But thankfully those arent needed for platinum

||stupid pantheon of hallownest|| is

[hollow laurel]

It’s simple you just have to remember every boss in the game and then beat 3 really difficult fights in a row

[clever furnace]

? They’re needed for 100%

I play on steam so idk what platinum is

[hollow laurel]

Platinum refers to PlayStation 100%

[velvet trench]

Ah, on playstation u get a special platinum trophy for getting most or all other achievements. Sometimes theres optional ones you dont need for platinum, usually dlc ones or just really hard and optional things in the game

[hollow laurel]

Which usually is the same achievements

[velvet trench]

Yus

[clever furnace]

Steam you need 100%

Still would bug me anyway even if I were on PlayStation

Haha bug

[hollow laurel]

Hollow knight reference

[velvet trench]

HK does need p5 for platinum, bit thankfully it doesnt have the beat a game on steel soul one

I would not be getting that lmao

[clever furnace]

I need a separate console with hollow knight to practice the last three before fighting them for real on p5

The fact you go like what half an hour before fighting them? And having to fight all the other bosses in that half hour???

[velvet trench]

Yes I hate it

Ive never even made it to ||abs rad||

[hollow laurel]

Once you get to them the first time you can practice them

[clever furnace]

I know ||nkg will mess me up and pure vessel with mess me up more. I also know absrad will royally mess me up despite never facing them ||

[clever furnace]

||you get ngk and pv to practice but you still have to go through 40 bosses to get to them ||

Practice can only go so far

[hollow laurel]

Honestly nightmare king grim is one of my favorite fights of all time so I never struggle much with him (I struggle more with his first fight lol)

[velvet trench]

Yeah. ||I like godhome and the challenge and replayability of it, but I hate the fact that an achievement and an ending is locked behind the p5 gauntlet. Its incredibly unreasonable to expect ppl to beat that if they want to 100% the game imo.||

[hollow laurel]

||also i might be miss remembering but don’t you also have to do the special flower ending for an achievement?||

[clever furnace]

||only for an ending ||

Not achievement

[hollow laurel]

Oh awesome

[velvet trench]

||techincally two endings then, one is the normal p5 ending where ghost becomes shade lord, second is if you give godtuner a flower and do the p5 ending, ghost becomes shade lord but the flower vanishes them and we have no idea what happened||

[hollow laurel]

I really should do p5

Maybe I’ll have the motivation once I complete silksong

[split sluice]

p5 ending spoilers ||I really hope we get more shade lord content at some point in some form, it really seems like it would be way too interesting to ignore||

[clever furnace]

I fear it’ll mess with my gameplay because I’ll be used to silksong

[hollow laurel]

||doubt it unfortunately||

[clever furnace]

We’re gonna be busy with new lore, from the whole “haunted” part. But who knows

[split sluice]

I’m not saying silksong is the right place for it at all

[velvet trench]

Frrr ||I really hope silksong has at least some reference to what happened to hallownest. Maybe thk even shows up or smth, since theyre released in the p5 endings iirc||

[clever furnace]

Yeah no I understand wanting some of the old lore still

[hollow laurel]

||didn’t team cherry copyright something that seems unrelated to the world of hollow knight?||

[velvet trench]

Oh?

[hollow laurel]

||I seem to remember they did a bit ago and that makes me think they aren’t doing hollow knight stuff after silksong||

Might be completely wrong though

[velvet trench]

Hmm based on the interview that gor released today I doubt it

[hollow laurel]

Yeah definitely

[clever furnace]

I’m honestly so glad there’s a silksong thread in this Server. The official discord is not good at all lmao. This place is so chill

[velvet trench]

They said they were having a ton of fun with the game and even after release plan to keep adding new content for months and years to come

[velvet trench]

Frr

[hollow laurel]

Oh awesome

[clever furnace]

They’re currently arguing over whether furries are problematic. Please make it stop

[velvet trench]

Yea the hk discord can be pretty toxic ngl, I barely ever talk there

[clever furnace]

Wait it’s moved onto elves now. What

[velvet trench]

But its useful for news and events and things

[hollow laurel]

When silksong release date just got announced today????? Why

[clever furnace]

I blame it for being Reddit

[velvet trench]

True

[clever furnace]

Thats just How the server is

It’s not good

[velvet trench]

The fact thst the reddit got called out by team cherry is so funny

[clever furnace]

The silk posts?

[velvet trench]

One sec

[clever furnace]

Honestly took one look at the emotes and cringed I knew it was gonna be toxic from that

[hollow laurel]

Idk why but a bunch of community’s I’ve seen over the last few years have just suddenly started to go downhill

[hollow laurel]

Shockingly fast

[velvet trench]

"Feral messages"

[hollow laurel]

Glad this era is almost over

[velvet trench]

Silksanity will not be forgotten, the scars will remain forever

[clever furnace]

Really? I would hope the toxic shift would’ve left some communities alone especially fandom ones. Real shame

[velvet trench]

I would check on r/silksong like once every few months and I watched them descend into madness in real time, it was wild

[hollow laurel]

I’m on twitter so i mean…

[clever furnace]

Ah

[velvet trench]

Rip, i never use twitter or bluesky, its toxic

[clever furnace]

Well thats Twitter so it explains a lot

I thought you meant discord

[hollow laurel]

Some really cool community stuff just suddenly took a sharp downturn and I’m here just wanting to see cool art…

[clever furnace]

Reddit as well but I feel it’s always been like that there

[velvet trench]

True, online spaces can just be like that though

Ive seen some wild stuff on the rain world reddit and other rw discords, this one just has good moderation so you dont see it

[clever furnace]

I am seriously impressed for the moderation here

The influx of new members is gonna be hard though

I’ve seen some. Interesting. New people. To say the least

[clever furnace]

Idk how the rw Reddit is

Is it different to here?

[velvet trench]

Its...okay? Full of spoilers though

And can be a bit toxic to new ppl or ppl who have headcanons and things

Ive seen several posts where someone doesnt know the lore well and instead of explaining or linking them to the info theyre just rude abt it

[clever furnace]

Ehh thats bad but considering Reddit is basically radioactive In toxicity is probably better than what I’m used to. I hope

[velvet trench]

Yeah its better than most subreddits tbh

[clever furnace]

Yeah thats Reddit. For a forum site they fucking hate people asking questions

(On subreddit for colouring)
“What do you mean you don’t know the basics of quantum physics??? You don’t even know STRING THEORY??!?!? DIE!!!”
(10000 upvotes)

[velvet trench]

It was so funny seeing the difference in the silksong and hk reddits. Silksong was just absolutely insane and the hk one was really chill

[clever furnace]

I see it occasionally get a bit heated here but thats on deep lore if anyone is new and asking questions everyones pretty chill

[hollow laurel]

“How dare you not know about (insert niche lore piece only .0001% of the community knows about)”

[velvet trench]

Occasionally silkposts or news hints would creep onto the hk reddit and the reactions were just so concerned

[velvet trench]

Ya this discord is incredibly chill and welcoming, probably the best community ive ever been in tbh

Even in heated lore debates it never gets toxic

[clever furnace]

I saw someone posting some weird edgy stuff on silksong like what are you doing

[clever furnace]

Rain world discord spoiled me I expected other servers to be chill then joined hollow knight. Whiplash was insane

[velvet trench]

Literally the only times I see toxic behaviour is from new ppl in #offtopic-agenderal , thats it. Everywhere else is super nice and helpful

[clever furnace]

Yeah and they get banned in like 5 minutes 😭

Some of these new members feel like timebombs waiting to go off (get banned) if their profiles are anything to go off

[velvet trench]

Yupp

[clever furnace]

Case in point

[hollow laurel]

Wow

[clever furnace]

Guys we have a silksong release date. Can we not. Bully people in the discussion thread. About Silksong

Anyway it’s nice seeing genuine hype and not toxicity about the release on here at least. Just people excited about the game

[hollow laurel]

Every few hours I remember that silksong is in 2 weeks and I grin… 2 weeks… I can’t believe this over half a decade wait is over

Taking time out of work and everything

[clever furnace]

2 weeks is still nuts to me. Like I was expecting at least a month

In my heart I was hoping for a shadow drop but 2 weeks is great

[hollow laurel]

Yeah I was thinking mid September not right away

[hollow laurel]

Unfortunately this could not have been the case because of kickstarter backers and such but it would have been awesome

[velvet trench]

Yeah 2 weeks is so soon! I dont even know what to think except im both so excited to play it and also confused that its over ig

[hollow laurel]

It’s going to be so surreal booting that game up

[velvet trench]

Frr

Im hoping the internet will be somewhat okay with spoilers, avoiding them will be a chore

[pastel talon]

hope it has a steel soul mode after beating it

or whatever the equivalent of that would be for hornet

[velvet trench]

Probably will, or some type of challenge like godhome

Might be future content tho not on release

[hollow laurel]

Nah I’m removing the social medias I’m on I cannot afford to risk getting spoiled

[pastel talon]

yeah i’m deleting a lot of apps for a bit

subscribed to too many hollow knight youtubers

[velvet trench]

Im too chronically online (and also pretty busy irl september to finish it quickly). Ive managed to avoid watcher spoilers for like 6 months, I can manage a few weeks I think

[hollow laurel]

Can’t delete twitter cause that’s how I get my news for one game but I can only pay attention to one account for that lol

[pastel talon]

wishing you the best of luck cause i think the sales for silksong will be 100x what watcher’s had so far

[hollow laurel]

Yeah watcher has been surprisingly unspoiled for me

[pastel talon]

limbus company starts posting about skong

[velvet trench]

True, I meant more like social media wise (mainly youtube and discord). I follow more rain world creators/content than hk anyway

[hollow laurel]

I would cry

[pastel talon]

oh okie, hopefully no massive youtubers cover it day one but they might

[velvet trench]

They probably will but as long as no major spoilers in the thumbnail ill be fine

[pastel talon]

i’m gonna get it off game pass day one and then buy it for achievements on steam later

[velvet trench]

Cute emote

[clever furnace]

Pretty sure it’s called silk soul mode

[pastel talon]

would hornet even have soul though

[hollow laurel]

Yeah?

Maybe?

[pastel talon]

people always argue if she’s compromised of void or not

[clever furnace]

Well we might find out

[pastel talon]

methinks so

[hollow laurel]

2 WEEKS!

[hollow laurel]

Might be excited for September 4th

[pastel talon]

sobbing

i think their calendar (and walls) are marked

[clever furnace]

I like how everyone has september 4th and then there’s one person with september 14th

[pastel talon]

they didn’t get the memo chat

mods blast them with vengeful spirit

[clever furnace]

10 days late

[hollow laurel]

Maybe they can’t play for those 10 days who knows

[clever furnace]

Silksong released and they’re still here 😭/ref

[hollow laurel]

Honestly an exciting thing two weeks in a row on Thursday is awesome

The future is looking bright for me :)

[clever furnace]

Anyway it’s getting late I need to prepare for silksong (sleep) gn chat

[hollow laurel]

Alright have a wonderful night

[pastel talon]

brighter than the radiance /silly

the future's too bright! it's blinding me!

[hollow laurel]

Ahhhh

Idk these next few weeks aren’t going to feel real

[pastel talon]

i wholeheartedly agree

weathered the storm for seven years and the journey has finally come to an end

[hollow laurel]

Took this screenshot earlier…

[pastel talon]

[hollow laurel]

Doomed, I don’t remember the trailer coming out but I can’t believe it’s been 6 years since

[pastel talon]

i think the concept music came out around then too

[hollow laurel]

Checked my steam achievements earlier and got jumped by the fact that I completed hollow knight in October of 2018

[pastel talon]

that's so surreal to think about

[hollow laurel]

All I know is that I’m getting a good night sleep that night (or I’ll try)

Honestly I’m quite glad it isn’t a week earlier or I would be DOOMED

[pastel talon]

i'll more than likely have to sit up even though team cherry and i are both australian

it'll cater to an american timezone

[hollow laurel]

i think it’s 10 am est

Not sure what time that is in Australia though

[pastel talon]

that'd be like midnight here i think

[hollow laurel]

Ah yeah that makes sense then

[hollow laurel]

By this I mean whenever there is new limbus story content I don’t go to sleep untill I’m caught up…

Usually means I’m up really late cause it releases at 11 pm for me…

[pastel talon]

sobbing

korean time only like an hour or two behind my timezone fortunately

that's the only saving grace of living here

i think updates are out at two in the afternoon

[hollow laurel]

Lucky

[hollow laurel]

I refuse to get spoiled

And I know I don’t have the self control to stay off social media

Whatever, silksong is in 2 weeks

[pastel talon]

i couldn't avoid spoilers for kong lu's uptie story for a week cause everyone immediately assumes the community wasted their lunacy in the banner

(i egoshard every new id)

[hollow laurel]

I did

Why? I have no clue lmao

[cosmic frigate]

where did you hear this?

[hollow laurel]

I don’t remember, not trying to spread misinformation but that’s just what I’ve heard

[cosmic frigate]

mmm ok... i need an accurate time so i know when to go to sleep so i can wake up to silksong and play it all day

[hollow laurel]

Oh Xbox has a countdown I think

Hold on let me find it

Oh it’s only on the app apparently

Eh too much work maybe there will be a timer elsewhere in a few days

[foggy moon]

Pilkpong

[buoyant garden]

Skilongk

[gentle cedar]

gliskons

[urban wolf]

skong

[chilly maple]

[timber pelican]

Silksong deltarune rain world crossover when

[chilly maple]

Y'all we got Silksong before GTA6, this is (not) crazy

[timber pelican]

I dont get why ppl play gta when you could just steal a car irl /j

[dapper summit]

florida

[timber pelican]

Or detroit

Or a lot of non US cities too

You'd be surprised how crazy places can be.. even more than Florida

[urban wolf]

south florida specifically

[dapper summit]

i will post this at a random time in a random server with no context

thank you nineflavorjam for the post for me to screenshot this

[hollow laurel]

Incredible

[hardy jolt]

@dim harbor wait you play hollow knight? didnt know that thats awesome

[dim harbor]

was confused how you found out at first
but yes i did beat fully hollow knight

[hardy jolt]

awesome :33

[dim harbor]

indeed, will buy silksong the moments its out

i saw the clock

[hardy jolt]

SAMEE

[dim harbor]

just sad that it comes out the moment my school starts

[hardy jolt]

AW

[dim harbor]

yeah, can t play it as much, but still should be able to find some time

[opal totem]

Silksong spoiler

[clever furnace]

Good morning my silk and singers. I slept terribly last night but thats ok because Silksong IS IN 12 DAYS 10 HOURS 44 MINUTES AND 45 SECONDS!!!!

Has anybody heres beat ||p5 if so what was your charm setup for the last stretch|| I know I probably (definitely) won’t beat it in two weeks but it gives me something to focus on

[pulsar viper]

I believe we used a super aggressive spell build with ||soul eater and shaman stone|| -eira

With the goal basically being "kill her before she kills us" -eira

[hardy jolt]

meanwhile i got super agressive nail build >:3
fragile strength quickslash longnail mark of pride

[pulsar viper]

Since shriek is uh. Very good! On that boss -eira

Building up some shade souls for the last phase also helps take the pressure off and it's a lot easier to do that with a spell build -eira

I think ours was probably eater, twister, quick slash, shaman's? Or smth like that -eira

[clever furnace]

||Bit uneasy about overcharm, how much more damage do you take?||

||don’t think I’d overcharm on the last stretch for sure… pv and absrad already do 2 heart damage||

[pulsar viper]

I'd say take out steady body grubsong because steady body can be wacky if you aren't used to it -eira

[clever furnace]

||I’ve beaten pv on ascended but only by the skin of my teeth ||

[clever furnace]

Grubsong seems worth it

Steady body is really funny I used it RELIGIOUSLY through most of my playthrough and then stopped using it and now I can’t go back lol

[pulsar viper]

Idk us going with the "we kill them before they kill us" seemed to work out pretty well so we don't have any of those super survival oriented plans -eira

[clever furnace]

Yeah I was thinking about going for a heal heavy build for the last stretch but don’t know if it’s worth it

Does the last fight and fast?

||I might try it on pv||

[pulsar viper]

Its not a fast fight but you can make it faster -eira

[clever furnace]

Practice

[pulsar viper]

In particular having access to lots of spells takes pressure off the second half -eira

Since you don't have to chase her down -eira

[clever furnace]

Hhhh ||pv isn’t really a spell heavy fight… how did you fare with a spell heavy build against them?||

I think it would absolutely be worth it for ||absrad|| but ||idk about pv… I struggle with them a bit||

[pulsar viper]

Two words. Ddark abuse -eira

[clever furnace]

Hmm I’ll probably practice that fight more

Ddark messes me up sometimes because I don’t get to the I frames fast enough

[pulsar viper]

Using your ddark less entirely as a combat tool and more as an extra dodging tool can help sometimes -eira

It's just a different way to play tbh -eira

[clever furnace]

Yeah I struggle with the dodging tool, I’ll definitely practice the fight trying ddark more though

[pulsar viper]

Spell focus vs nail focus is anyway -eira

[clever furnace]

I use it too late

||im dreading absrad last phase though||

||the heat seeking orbs are literally going to be the death of me||

[pulsar viper]

That's what the shade soul and shriek is for, keeping some of those saved up if you can makes it a lot faster -eira

Less time to make mistakes -eira

[clever furnace]

||I could try pogoing off screen but I’m not confident about controlling the character off screen||

[pulsar viper]

You can either go the "careful take your time to dodge everything" route or "fuckit we ball the shorter her healthbar the shorter time I have to make mistakes" route -eira

Whichever sounds easiest to you -eira

[clever furnace]

lol yeah. I’d usually go with the first but mannn the pressure

[pulsar viper]

There's nothing stopping you from just parking your ass on the platform and waiting for her to come to you -eira

You get a feel for when you have to move after a bit -eira

[clever furnace]

Well we’ll see how it goes… for now I still need to get past ||nkg||

[clever furnace]

Anyway heres my favourite clip from the trailer

What bug even is that thing supposed to be

[opal totem]

I think it's a slug

It also has a snail shell looking backpack on the trading card art

[royal nimbus]

soon...

[hollow laurel]

2 weeks till we know!

[red river]

Smackable

[clever furnace]

Trading card art??? 👀👀👀👀

[opal totem]

Yeah

[clever furnace]

How have I not heard of this where can I find it

[opal totem]

https://steamdb.info/app/1030300/communityitems/

[clever furnace]

WHAR

LETS GOOOO

ITS GETTING MORE REAL BY THE DAY

Oh my god there’s a character called zaza

[clever furnace]

We are never going to hear the end of that are we. I’m tired of the jokes already

||Phantom looks interesting ||

[velvet trench]

Zaza

I like all those designs they’re quite unique

[clever furnace]

I feel like team cherry should open up pre orders or else steam will crash lmao

At least everyone gets the game when it comes out

…please

[carmine crypt]

silksong in less than a fortnight

[clever furnace]

Silksong fortnite real

[distant holly]

so they don’t already?

they all have like spikes and stuff

some are made of bones

[velvet trench]

Yeah steam is absolutely crashing lmao

[distant holly]

actually pretty cool silksong would have multiple towns

funny, but zote might have been here, being a traveler, but ||probably won’t because saving zote is optional in hollow knight||

[clever furnace]

How do you even begin to theorise about a hollow knight characters nationality

Other than maybe their voice actors

Anyway ||Grimm|| is absolutely French

/silly

[red river]

Perchance

[clever furnace]

||The land of storms is obviously britain because it’s been abandoned by god and is perpetually dark and rainy||

Just like britain

[red river]

Britain isnt that bad

I would know, I only get stabbed twice a week

[clever furnace]

Royal waterways is hmmm France maybe

Fungal wastes is australia obviously

[red river]

Farloom is Detroit

[clever furnace]

Kingdoms edge is russia because there Is a corpse of a god and nobody lives there. As we all know Russia has a population of 3 people

Happens to the best of us

Green path and the hive is just my backyard sorry guys

Ya

As we all know the new coral section in Silksong is actually based off of rain worlds “the watcher” making rain world real

[distant holly]

that’s true

[opal totem]

I wish corals were real

[foggy moon]

This thread is in offtopicgen so sadly we need to <@&981421790339403807> 💔

[grizzled geyser]

Sighhh

[foggy moon]

Or else... The lizard 💔

[grizzled geyser]

Summoned here by no rw discussion ping

😔

[undone patrol]

why are we yapping rw in silksong thread

[clever furnace]

It must be in the millions now

The real reason silksong took so long

[digital robin]

Remember people, the real Silksong was the mods that we made along the way

like that one person that is doing the Hollow Knight map as a Watcher modded region XD

[north mango]

Just realized this thread was opened. That was so much scrolling and skimming to catch up.

[cursive shuttle]

Me when I don't know, I ran out of jokes.

[distant holly]

i forgor 💔

wait how much no rw spoilers here?

is it forbidden to talk about a move survivor can do?

i just saw that hornet in silksong can do a move that works exactly like this , when you turn around and jump

[dapper summit]

https://youtu.be/zRs58D34OLY i got recommended this

5 years ago???

[urban wolf]

I'm... I'm gonna do a fuckin hornet cosplay now

[dim harbor]

well atleast they know

[pulsar viper]

Silksong comes out on a Thursday hell yeah we don't have classes on Thursdays so we can just play silksong all day -eira

[carmine crypt]

i still have 4 days of summer vacation AFTER skong drops

this is so peak

[acoustic grotto]

How are you still on summer break in September? 😭

[carmine crypt]

we got our summer break at almost the end of june

[distant holly]

why do you think there is no classes?

[pulsar viper]

college, all our classes are monday wednesday friday. unless this is a joke i'm missing? -eira

all we'll have is homework to do and we'll make sure to clear our schedule as much as possible for Silksong Day -eira

[distant holly]

smh there is no classes because of silksong, that the /j of the message

emoji unrelated

[pulsar viper]

TRUE -eira

i've legit heard about people using their vacation days from work for this and i believe it -eira

if i waited 6 years for a video game which i have, i wouldn't want to go to work either -eira

[distant holly]

well, that works too . i thought of that THEY have canceled classes

[foggy moon]

I miss when my schedule could look like this 😭

[acoustic grotto]

Dang bro

[clever furnace]

I FINALLY BEAT ||GPZ|| ON ||RADIANT|| LETS GOOO

Now on to ||oblobbles||

I genuinely thought it was impossible

||marking and oblobbles still remain though… and then absrad but at least her attacks are telegraphed ||

[digital robin]

Marking? You mean ||Markoth||

?

[clever furnace]

Hdhxhdhf autocorrect I swear

My favourite boss. Marking

I’m losing it over this ai summary

[glossy fossil]

I cant wait for silksong

exciting!

R.I.P. Mosssong Theory, but that was doomed from the start

[timber pelican]

AI summary is hilarious but I'm mostly looking at the title... kinda sounds racist 💀. Ima have to watch the video sometime to figure out what the person actually meant

[acoustic grotto]

LOLLLLL

I identify as a little white guy (I’m 6’3’)

[mortal zodiac]

I’m 6’7

🥱

[main mural]

When this doesn't affect me (i have gamepass)

[main mural]

I didn't watch the video or know what the creator actually said, but this seens similar to a point my friend bought up

She problaby also saw this in another place, but she pointed to me the fact that most metroidvanias have white colored protagonists

[distant holly]

they also have pitch black eyes

[hardy jolt]

ODLER

[slate stump]

Oh god ai sucks

[main mural]

ERR

[hardy jolt]

HEHEH

wait does it not work in threads

[main mural]

@hardy jolt What, you have ascended role

[hardy jolt]

you barely check raincord anymore ive done alot of rwscs since then

ODLER
ping me in misc chat

[mellow sigil]

man I feel so sorry for other indie game devs

imagine releasing your first game ever in the same time as SILKSONG😭😭😭

[mortal zodiac]

Literally baby steps

[calm apex]

The song of silk is real

[opal totem]

Do you think silksong is canon or official au

[mellow sigil]

oh my god

[slate stump]

Peanut touch!

peanut touch!

I hope peanut touch is in silksong wouldn’t that be peak

[opal totem]

I hope silksong explains the peanut lore

[storm sierra]

pretty shaw

[slate stump]

I think it’s pretty peanut touch

[opal totem]

I'd like to inform you that I found a cool gif of bitch slap scene from the trailer redrawn with rain world characters

[dapper summit]

peashaw

[umbral fiber]

peanut song

[clever furnace]

Get peanutted 🥜

[opal totem]

I refuse

[distant holly]

they don’t do it

[mellow sigil]

I mean some people are delaying their games but I doubt everyone can afford it (🥜)

aw you're already immune arent you

[distant holly]

scary

[mellow sigil]

NO YOU GOT PEANUTED

[slate stump]

Everyone will become peanut

[distant holly]

it works like randi moth 52

[wispy cedar]

@oak swift your Silksong privileges have been revoked

[oak swift]

HUH?

YOU CANT

[clever furnace]

Oh god here come the clickbait videos

Ai profile picture too

[carmine crypt]

the hollow hornet?

what even is this

[carmine sigil]

I can't wait to cut grass in silk song ghhh

I love HK grasssbsjjdjejd

This is my favourite blade of grass

I will get a favourite in silk song

[carmine sigil]

Pfttt

It looks like very pretty grass :D

[distant holly]

oh... that’s the final boss

the Silksong

[velvet trench]

I mean, theyre shown in the opening cutscene lol

I wouldnt say thk is a spoiler

Yeah but yk from the intro that theyre in the egg, and most will assume theyre the final boss

[distant holly]

you don’t really see the full view of them

really idk why would hollow knight spoilers be forbidden in hollow knight 2 discussion

[urban wolf]

I'm just here for the hype because memes

[distant holly]

then it’s your fault . like if you would go to #downpour-spoilers for downpour memes

i think it should be changed when the game actually releases, there definitely will be hollow knight spoilers in silksong

[urban wolf]

Oh I already know plot

[opal totem]

I think this character is very cool (hollow knight spoilers)

[mellow sigil]

who tf is that some noname

I bet theyll never appear in any hk content ever

[opal totem]

Definitely wouldn't expect them in silksong, a small indie team wouldn't go out of their way to get the license to use a character from the game as big as hollow knight

[mellow sigil]

ofc they didnt get a licence they just stole everything

[clever furnace]

MARKOTH ON RADIANT, I AM A GOD

GOOD LORD I M SO GLAD ITS OVER

Yeah. On paper

[umbral fiber]

my fav hk character and boss 🥹

[distant holly]

[clever furnace]

My wrists are suffering from playing too much hollow knight

I’m trying to do bindings in preparation for p5

[opal totem]

Oh right, markoth

Now I remember what ended most of my p5 attempts

[clever furnace]

Quick question did you practice/beat him on radiant beforehand? Wondering if me beating him radiant will help me get past him on p5

[opal totem]

I practiced yeah

I'd say just practicing bosses on ascended/radiant will prepare you better for p5 than doing previous ones with bindings

[clever furnace]

I’ve done most bosses radiant thats why I’m going on to bindings so I can get extra health

[opal totem]

Fair

[clever furnace]

Did you do all bindings p1-p4 (not all at once) for the extra health?

I’m gonna do p1-p3 for sure but idk abt p4

[opal totem]

I think I did bindings on 1-3

[silver nimbus]

I just bought hollow knight, y'all think I can do 112% before silksong comes out?

[hollow laurel]

Yes

Well it depends, how much free time are you willing to give for it

[alpine yarrow]

hollow knight silksong am i right

[distant holly]

i only got 110% on steel soul 💔. i just wanted to get achievements for steel soul, 100% steel soul, and 100% under 20 hours at once, so i didn’t get enough time for the last p4

[clever furnace]

Did you die

[distant holly]

no

[clever furnace]

Oh right did you get the achievement

[distant holly]

it was 19:50:xx time or something

well it was a bit less when i decided to leave godhome to beat the game

[clever furnace]

I just need to beat p5 and I’ll have all achievements

[distant holly]

i never actually beat the normal ending , i think i can get it when attempting speedrun 1 and speedrun 2

[gentle cedar]

they look like some sort of centipede or something which makes me rlly happy

if me and my friend ever do vc gameplay to eachother i already called dibs on being their voice its gonna be so peak

[silver nimbus]

Infinite

[gentle cedar]

you could probably get 112% in like 30 hours

on prior knowledge of the game but still

[pulsar viper]

With a guide you could do it pretty fast but that's not really the point -eira

[hardy jolt]

🔥

[urban wolf]

already?!

[clever furnace]

Why are people so obsessed with pv hornet

[distant holly]

hornet... is... void

[clever furnace]

Yeah but she’s not ||pure vessel|| thats a different character silly

[mellow sigil]

Im here silksong isnt real

you guys are so insane you literally hallucinated a release smh

[opal totem]

You're just jealous we'll have fun hallucinating playing silksong

[mellow sigil]

I should just hallucinate watcher update

[clever furnace]

How many times did everyone here fail p5 before they beat it

[mellow sigil]

I still didn't beat p5

[tawdry osprey]

thought you were talking about persona 5 for a moment

[opal totem]

Took me 6 attempts I think

[clever furnace]

GOT TO ||ABSRAD|| LETS GO

I died immediately but still

At least I can practice them now

[hardy jolt]

mid no jonis blessing /silly

[silver nimbus]

Hollow knight ducking sucks, I have a skill issue so I have to farm geo to buy upgrades and it's so fucking tedious

Like I have to shed blood across the entire region, save, and do it all over again, it's so tedious

[pulsar viper]

Have you checked with the modding community on if they might be able to help recover a save -eira

Like in the Modding Server -eira

They know hk inside and out atp if anyone could recover your saves it'd be them -eira

Victory? -eira

I'm guessing steam cloud failed too? -eira

[clever furnace]

Damn, didnt know modding was that risky. Did you manage to get it back?

Idk what I’d do if I lost my saves I have ||most bosses radiant and a 100% steel soul save||

Damn

So it’s gone?

I wish hk had a workshop it’d make modding so much easier

[distant holly]

hope new nintendo direct will have silksong release date announced

[cursive shuttle]

Wayward Compass ultimate goated build.

[cursive shuttle]

YOOOOO

THIS IS A NATIONWIDE ALERT, HOLLOW KNIGHT IS ON SALE!!!

[hollow laurel]

My mission has been completed (gifting it to someone)

[digital robin]

Pretty bad, it doesn't even use Pale Court charms

[digital robin]

Pale court charms are really cool

I like their take on Fury of the fallen

[distant holly]

new charm idea: calm of the healthy

at max hp, you deal 75% less damage

it has no other benefits

[digital robin]

Pip cost?

I say such an OP charm needs kingsoul cost

[clever furnace]

Quite the conundrum /silly

[digital robin]

It just means that they will play silksong for 9 days straight today. Trully a normal thing to do, you know?

[limber scaffold]

spoils all of silksong

[hollow laurel]

:(

[clever furnace]

wait....... geometry dash reference...........

[opal totem]

https://youtu.be/BAkZGOiDp3U

Is this real

[mellow sigil]

absolute silkbait

ofc silksong will be bad! They're literally rushing it!

[opal totem]

He claims to have never died because game too easy

I sure hope it is

[clever furnace]

Like 90% of “hollow knight is bad” videos are just for those juicy views and comments. It’s too good a cow to milk

[red river]

I do empathise with them, perhaps they do not like metroidvanias

They’re probably like “oh popular indie game” and realise they do not like it, but don’t understand that it is rather hard; so to vent they cry about it on YouTube

Most videos I’ve watched have them crying about features of literally every metroidvania

[opal totem]

Most people who don't like the difficulty usually aren't any obnoxious about it

A lot of "criticism" I see is about game dragging on for too long, lack of direction and same looking areas

Recently saw a post about ori dev criticizing hollow knight pacing because it doesn't give you new upgrades every 30 minutes

[red river]

I’m obviously going to have a biased opinion on the game, but the same looking areas look the same for a reason. For instance, ||greenpath|| is a path to the ||queens gardens||

[opal totem]

That's like the only case of areas looking samey I can think of

Everything else is pretty distinct

[red river]

I’ve seen people saying that most areas are grey corridors. Which I think is wrong

[opal totem]

Hollow knight has a pretty dull color palette for the most part but it's definitely not all grey corridors

[red river]

I do hope silksong has a more vibrant colour palette, based of the trailers this seems to be the case

[opal totem]

It definitely does

You can see how it changed since first trailer

[red river]

8 days!!!

[opal totem]

It does

[red river]

Since the 2019 trailer, you can see how they have tweaked the aesthetic to be more bold and vibrant

Hidden Balatro mini game

[opal totem]

Can't wait to play as silksong

[red river]

Silksong will be using a brand new technology called “frames”. When played in rapid succession they can make an illusion of movement

[clever furnace]

I mean I don’t mind people criticising the difficulty, the game could have some accessibility features I was more so pointing out the fact that people who make videos about it are usually just doing it for views and overexaggerating everything to get comments

[clever furnace]

There is also that side of it which you get ALOT in video games. Like people just not liking the genre but not realising it

[mellow sigil]

you can't genuinely dislike a game for its genre/just because its not your thing KNOWING that its literally one of the most popular metroidvanias in the world and than go on and assume that its objectively bad though

objectively bad enough to make a video out of it

[clever furnace]

I think they just… don’t realise that metroidvanias aren’t for them. Gamers aren’t exactly known for their intellect

[mellow sigil]

peple toopid or peple smart and self-conscious hhhhhmmmmmm

[clever furnace]

Anyway I get people can be annoying about not liking games but I hate it when it just delves into ableism/elitism like please tell me why an optional easy mode would ruin the game for you

It’s a shame because I see both disabled people and casual gamers in discussions about difficultly who just want to be able to play a great game

[mellow sigil]

too bad Im exploding you goodbye

[clever furnace]

I shouldn’t have expected a silksong fan to be able to read thats on me /silly

[mellow sigil]

NOT a joke and NOT silly

[clever furnace]

Quite the conundrum

Difficulty in games is also really funny like celeste is renowned for getting insanely difficult in the end but there’s so many accessibility features and the devs are really chill about it

You see this all the time on reddit like completely unironically

Gamer moment

REAL gamers are accepting and cool with people playing games in the way they enjoy most

[red river]

The silksong subreddit is borderline crazy atm. It’s literally just people trying to spread the most convincing misinformation

[clever furnace]

I’ve heard about death threats

[clever furnace]

Ok wow you weren’t kidding https://www.reddit.com/r/Silksong/comments/1n0yhv3/i_finally_beat_coral_king_oh_my_god/

[red river]

I SAW THIS EARLIER! I was worried someone got an early copy or something

Its such insane quality for a silkpost

[opal totem]

I think TC should've offered review copies to some popular content creators, I agree with not giving any to "game journalists" but it'd still be nice to have reviews on release

[red river]

I suppose there not offering pre orders so the lack of review copies is somewhat excusable

[opal totem]

I feel like they're just doing the bare minimum for release

Less work for them I guess

[clever furnace]

Team cherry isn’t exactly renowned for interacting with their fans a lot

[opal totem]

I think they have Leth for that

[red river]

Too much risk giving away review copies. Too many people would spoil. It would be like giving golem the ring of power, too much temptation

[opal totem]

I doubt CCs like fireborn or blue would spoil anything

[red river]

Yeah but you never know

[clever furnace]

Isn’t that what an nda is for

I mean I understand why but it does kinda suck

[red river]

Hell maybe there are reviews ready for release🤔

Silkposts perhaps perchance

[clever furnace]

Unrelated but look at this animation https://x.com/venz228/status/1958811384810283093

Venz (@venz228)

SILKSOOOONGGG

X · Aug 22, 2025, 8:40 AM

[red river]

The knights reflection in the nail

[opal totem]

I hope nothing bad happens to these guys

[red river]

I can’t believed one of them is called ||zaza||

[opal totem]

He can parry so he's probably good

[red river]

There seems to be a lot more Npc’s in silksong, very exciting stuff

[clever furnace]

lol apparently loads of games are delaying because of silksong

Damn even silksong has been delayed

[red river]

That’s why rockstar delayed gta6 /silly

[inner island]

team cherry pls delay silksong we are not ready

[red river]

On a real note what will the silksong subreddit even do

Talk about the game?

[hollow laurel]

Act like the game never released

[mellow sigil]

noones believing this

[mellow sigil]

of course no what are you talking about

they can't be recovered
even if they don't pretend the game never came out they're gonna be insane about future dlcs

[clever furnace]

Ghhhhh I’m getting better at ||absrad|| tried ||p5 whoever decided to put gpz directly after markoth needs jail time ||

||Invincible Fearless Sensual Mysterious Enchanting Vigorous
Diligent Overwhelming Gorgeous Passionate Terrifying Beautiful Powerful Grey Prince Zote more like stinky poopy displeasing annoying imbecilic unpleasant small lazy dumb irritating bothersome ugly weak grey prince zote||

[clever furnace]

||died in absrads climbing phase.|| Ouch

But hey I think I’ll be able to beat ||p5|| before silksong at least

I’ve beat ||absrad on ascended so||

[velvet trench]

Nicee

Maybe i should try beat it before silksong too...

Though the furthest i ever got was ||nkg||

[clever furnace]

I would recommend beating bosses you struggle with on ascended first, I did most on radiant and it really helped

[velvet trench]

I havent played hk in like two years so prob all of them

But yea will do

Good warmup for silksong

[clever furnace]

Yeah two years could be rough to get back into

It took me like 2 days straight of practicing radiance to get the hang of them lol

[velvet trench]

Lol nice

I have no finesse i just spell spam and dodge

Works for most bosses lmao

[clever furnace]

You have the play style of a pro

Seriously though spells can be op

[velvet trench]

I didnt even use the nail in the ||pantheons until p4|| since ||pure vessel|| was too tough

[clever furnace]

Ddark has saved me enough times to let me let go of the grudge of I frames not kicking in fast enough

[clever furnace]

Yeah you will need to focus on nail for some bosses

[velvet trench]

Frrr thats op

[clever furnace]

ESPECIALLY nkg and pv

They’re like. 90% nail damage

[velvet trench]

Nkg is pretty easy w spells imo

[clever furnace]

You could check for a spell based strat though

[velvet trench]

If u ||get under him when he does the spam attack and use the wraiths, then when he dives at you use ddark etc etc||

[clever furnace]

I only really use wraiths at the flames

As much as I love ddark I don’t trust the I frames to kick in before he kicks me

[velvet trench]

Mm its about timing, eventually u just get used to it ig

[clever furnace]

Different playstyles, I’ve got the nail moveset ingrained in my brain now

[velvet trench]

Mm