#Hollow Knight
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||bilewater is like the only area i actively dislike tho||
||it’s like the deepnest of silksong for me||
||deepnest if it had an STD methinks||
||honestly the boss isnt That bad but like runback and gauntlet beforehand go fuck yourself||
I'll do an all bosses one once I've done those but I'm still missing a good chunk of those lmao
there's so fucking many
i probably would like ||putrified ducks even less if it was as big as bilewater tbh||
now that i think about it
i cant think of another area i dislike tho
my only other complaint is that ||i havent found a way to go through the underworks from left to right, there is just a big fuck ass wall in the middle of it with no indication on the map so i think can go through but then cant. it makes the elevator there basically useless||
||the abyss is ass but it gets brownie points for the escape sequence||
Why|| tf are so many areas hidden by small holes in the roof||
relevant later
cause it’s hollow knight
or not
hollow knight: silksong
Both bosses I struggled with will be made easier 😭 || splinter sister was easy, I only struggled due to the minions ||
I didn’t know about || Garmond and zaza helping with Moorewing until way after the fight ended || so I hope I’m not locked out of potential future stuff
||is that the ant||
crazy
if it is then yea agreed
||also I got the 3 hearts via an alternative method, I did not get the heart of the woods, I got a different secret heart that completed the mission instead||
my attempt count on ||the other hearts were pretty good but that one took more than 5 at least||
||I got all 4 lol||
which I did not know would happen until my objective updated lol
I was hoping I'd get something special
but nah
probably just a completion percentage
||so I can still go back and fight the other boss on this file?||
probably
||I got all 4 before using the hearts at the shamans tho||
so idk if it'd be different
i dont see why it would be tho
I thought this was a bug ngl
cause its not a secret ending right
obtain it
oh so i should have it
yeah it's just for ||beating that specific boss||
thats it right
yeah
but no alt ending with it u can just straight up skip one of ur objectives?
thats kinda strange
I mean it like makes sense
i night just go do all of them b4 i continue main then
I couldn't find it the first time lol
but that's just me being lost
||I did first try clover dancers which was cool||
||Krust king I got on my 2nd attempt but I died to the 3 gauntlets beforehand more times than I'd like to admit||
||also for carmelita i basically skipped phase 2 by timing my first ever stagger with the flint dagger and then dps her from stagger to phase into phase 3||
i died 5 on those
i first tried him and died 2 times on the rooms
||carmelita I was testing out new crests so I died a shit ton and then eventually swapped back to reaper and got it in a few more tries lol||
yeah im sweating rn cause i wanna win our lil competition we have going on lmao
I was very close to beating it with ||shaman|| but got lazy
for 100%?
OH
the death count thing
yeah fair I didn't do any of that so I was fine with throwing away attempts to test stuff out
enjoying the fight type shit
I am curious how many attempts final boss will take you tho cause I was sweating my ass off and it still probably took me close to 20 but I wasn't counting
guesstimation
||the shamans give you unique dialogue for having the clover dancers heart and point it out||
they're like "damn how'd you find that?"
i see
omg my friend got this bug too lmao
bosses HATE this one simple trick
My favorite part about silksong is killing the same 2 enemies for thousands of rosaries just so I can buy a few things
Aw yeah
doug doug jumpscare
i never had to rosarie farm
im not seeing what other people are seeing about the economy apparently
they might just be dying and losing their money more often
Easier to die in this game + not turning extra money into bands
i have so much money i dont know what to do with it anymore
i am basically at 100% tho
so pretty sure my money is worthless
check your privilege white boy
mad cause im rich and single (#cash) 🥱
did anyone else find the ||cogwork dancers|| to be really easy
Yeah
Mostly. Really fun fight tho
Hardest part about them is sometimes their actual hitboxes are bigger than what it looks like it would be
I thought it was pretty easy but i enjoyed the fight
I just rolled credits
Fire game, I liked silksong so much more than I liked hollow knight
||The Lace fight in the cradle is PEAK, I felt like I was fighting a player. I changed my setup to something really fast and it genuinely was like super smash bros melee, final destination, (almost) no items, fox only type shit||
yep this game was much better
like it actually made HK look like a crowdfunded incomplete project (which it was)
not to say HK was bad it was also still amazing for what it was

bro's already running chinese this tryhard
stay mad
it's free timesave for no cost (besides trying to figure out how to change it back when i inevitably have to)
any%?
clearly 100%
xd
I'm still working on getting 100% and all achievements (that are possible this run)
if some big skips are found maybe
I am not looking forward to 100% steel soul
idrc too much about like actually speedrunning it, I mostly just want achievements
ye
Only your manual save. The autosaves after ||the Cursed one|| are untouched.
Speaking from experience: I didn’t ||have to dispell the curse twice|| and I was using an autosave to revert my progress a bit.
If it’s what I think it is, ||you’ll find it very easily while doing a special Wish.||
Otherwise have fun lmao
the message itself is a spoiler 😔
a little but it's ok
as long as they don't actually say what's in it I think it's chill
Tbf ||it’s not like you are going to assume there ain’t an act 3, three acts is like the storytelling thing||
the humble 5th act:
real
yeah i ||got to it today having seen the message so it was less like wtf but i havent seen anything else||
it's pretty crazy
I dont understand, it says if you revert to a previous auto save it'll delete everything after it
just tried it on a separate save, i see what you mean now
Only 4 more achievements now
So glad I’m done with the hunters journal that was painful
does it actually work?
can we do that other ending without losing our game
when you load an autosave it wont delete all of your future autosaves, it'll just delete the save that you were currently on
so you can still go back to your most up to date autosave
say for example you beat the ||bell beast||, then played for like 5 more minutes and picked up a frayed rosarie or something
do you guys know if anything needed for all achievements is permanently missable
then you went back to your autosave from after you beat moss mother
your most up to date save, the one with the frayed rosarie, is gone
but your autosave from after ||bell beast|| will be there
so you only lost like 5 minutes
that's what we're discussing right now, one of the endings is technically unobtainable after a certain point but you can revert your save to before that point and do it then
and you'll only lose progress up to your most recent autosave
so I would recommend picking up a tool or something just to make the autosave up to date and then reverting the save after
so that you basically just have an autosave that was right when you picked up the tool
tl;dr I wouldn't worry about it too much
I heard about that im talking about like tools and stuff
oh no i dont think so from that end
cuz apparently theres some things that only spawn if you do them in earlier acts
need someone to make a save analyzer for skong like there is for hk
hk speedrunning discord is already working on a bunch of stuff i saw
that was fast
they already are nerfing 2 act 1 bosses
which is lame just my opinion 
again, I hope not
The 2 hit basic enemies and the 2 hit environments
they're nerfing one of the 2 hit environments in act 1 as well
Honestly I think that’s fair because there’s no point for it to do 2 damage
which ig is fair but I think having more 2 hit enemies and environments so that you actually have to respect them instead of just running through it without a care is a good thing
and, tbh
the prob is that they def designed the difficulty knowing people would play hk first except a lot of people who never played hk heard about silksong and just went straight for it
It’s a fucking environment
in the late game you can STILL just run through them anyways
people who've completed p5 are also complaining tho
Ngl the platforming section in ||cogwork core|| pissed me off bc of the two hit environment
so many people are complaining about ||savage beastfly|| too and like, idk
I just don't get it
everyone's got their own experience
Ngl his ||refight|| was a bitch but the normal one was fine
Just because of the ranged adds
i think the only thing that peeved me was when ||I would get the sound of a pogo off of a gear but still take the two damage||
yeah 1 shot it
||the false feedback hurts||
but typically that only happened when I was trying to ||pogo point blank, or on a gear the was moving towards me||
so there was still counterplay
same
was pretty unfun
very beautiful fight but also just freelo
and i got ||there late||
Idk why everyone thought that the ||hunters march|| was the worst place ever I thought it was chill
||hunters march|| was cool!
i saw someone ||never discovered the bench so he did the runback from outside the zone which sucked ass||
it was very clearly an area a step above the rest for sure
but it was like, a neat challenge
||the guy guarding entry from the zone made me wanna come back to it later so i came back to it like way later lol||
made it freelo
definitely no ||bilewater||
Most bosses in this game have taken me like <= 5 attempts
ok OK OK
oh yeah its pretty bs to deal 2 dmg from the start but thats the brunt of the difficulty complaints
I will say 1 good thing about ||bilewater||
||the vertical section is sick||
||I love pogoing off the big guys to stack silk on them||
wtf man these enemies are already doing 2 damage...
I personally thought the difficulty scaling was perfectly fine but ik not everyone had 80 hours in HK going into the game so it makes sense
can't say I would feel the same if I hadn't played HK before
I can’t wait for 1 year later when we finally get the godhome dlc when every boss has been lobotomised
im claiming my 100% before the nerfs award
I’ve been too busy with cooleg
I think nerfing act 1 is chill
im gonna still claim it cos i dont know if anything im yet to do has been nerfed
Just don’t touch past it
Imagine getting to the end of silksong godhome and the final boss is just the fkin hk anyradiance mod
I reckon that the speedrun achievement will gatekeep so many people out of platinum trophy
It was chill in hk because base hk is short af
But 5 hours for skong might actually be kinda hard
the 5 hour thing isnt thatbad since it's only up to the normal ending
5 hours also doesnt seem that bad cuz if u think about it theres not actually that much to win
the record is already at like 1:1x or something right
routes are being developed that u can just yoink
BlueSR has a 1:like20orsmth posted
he has 1:17:05 atm
and its fwr
it was pretty recent idk if theres been another pb
The ||breakable mask thing that gives you a free hit at 1 hp saved my ass on that fight||
That tool is epic
100% seems annoying but once you know what to go for, 30 hours is a long time
steel soul is the big kicker
As I’m replaying for the 100% in under 30 hours achievement
I’m realizing I did a lot of difficult areas before I should of
||like I got to deep docks from going through hunters march||
💀
||i did the forebrothers right after clockwork dancers||
And I did the ||savage beast fly for the beast crest before entering greymoor||
this is probably relatively easy tho right
do u have a good checklist of what counts as %
I know you need a certain amount of memory lockets to gain a % but do they count as % themselves?
i dont think so right
did u use the one that only allows u to tick like 50 things before u have to pay
Idk what one that would be
I haven’t been marking anything as complete just looking and seeing what I don’t have
it was like mapgenie.io or something
i didnt use it, it was a friend i havent gotten 100% yet
I did a similar thing
Maybe. There’s a late-game thing that could really screw with that and I’m hesitant to call the time commitment from loading an earlier autosave worth it.
Nah ||Groal|| runback and late-game economy need fixing too.
You should not be forced to grind for 100% but currently that’s your only option.
late-game economy I agree with
||groal|| runback is fine cause ||of the secret bench|| but it still blows lol
that place is SUPPOSED to be evil though so I get it
yea because the bosses are so early on and should be easier anyways it's fine
||nerfing last judge or anything past that tho and id be disappointed||
||it's really hard to find though because you're conditioned to not want to go into the maggots as it's essentially a 3 damage environment||
||but you have to go through one to find the secret passage||
||nah even with that it sucks||
||but it seemed like they wanted to make their own blighttown so i presume they want us to spit at them for that area||
you've got some balls using that charm lol
tried it for like 10 minutes and realized I wasn't built like that
idk what charm that is, is that why you took three damage?
Idk I put it on for this fight cuz her attacks are super easy to dodge but if I fuck up I take 4 damage lmao
XD!!
fair enough
she’s a fun fight
also funny hollow knight thing, alpha is streaming the game rn and doesn’t know that there’s not a reward for beating grey prince zote multiple times
i think he’s beat him like 4 times already
||I think this is a much better design thank the strength charm btw it feels like there's an actual downside||
well strength charm was literally just a buff
well only in late game
oh true
but like
ig there isn't really an issue with tools also only being a buff
realistically
if you have breakable strength + 1 nail upgrade you shouldnt ever die again
until like idk, at least mid game
it definitely made steel soul a lot easier
my issue with strength specifically is that it was just so clearly better than everything else and you get it so early on
besides like idk, shaman stone
which you also get early on
very broken in goshhome
yeah silksong tools seem much more balanced than HK charms
||except caltrops/tacks if you use those you're CRINGE and BAD!!!||
||tacks + poison||
I was using them for a while until I found ||wanderer crest|| I can't lie
even then tho they are only situationally useful cause ||what're they gonna do against a flying enemy||
which I think is also pretty neat
now
||the flying mechanical bees + poison? bro||
||letting the game play for you lmao||
yeah true
I used them a couple times but not too often
never used ||poison|| tho
anybody know if filetime goes up while you're paused
apparently not
||or 4, or 5 even, or 7||
||3 act structure is far from the only one||
||yeah but its the most known||
Depends on where you're at
I only played hollow knight for like 16 hours or something and didnt do any of the post game stuff or anything. I didnt think silksong was too difficult at all
3 act is just kinda western centric
I think the enemies are stronger for sure but you get more flexibility in this game to deal with them in different ways so i thought it kinda evens out
Tbf I grew up with diablo 2 which just has 5 acts for no reason
I think silksong is a step up in difficulty mostly ||cause there is less room for error with bosses, 5 masks and 2hp damage means you actually only have 3 masks at best, since you can only take 3 hits. It's fairly punishing||
||hk facetanking bosses was just way more of an actual strat lol||
I think it's bullshit that bosses and certain enemies do double damage go ahead and cancel me
I dont
It just means there is less room for error vs those
Like they just do more hp damage
You also heal more
I also get why it's a thing, bind lets you heal 3 damage after a short delay
and you can heal midair
Better heal is compensation and the game is generally meant to be harder than hk
I mean it's not cause of bind I think it's the other way around
You heal more cause they deal more
yes
I was healing mid fight WAY more in silksong than hollow knight
Idk, I'll fight whatever they throw my way but I won't sit here and pretend it's not a little frustrating
I have had zero frustration so far lol
pogo into bind feels so good
Anyway uh I havent updated my progress here in a bit and I like having some overview of how far I've come so far lemme check my achievements
I was livid fighting some of the stuff in silksong ngl but id be disappointed if i fought every boss calmly
Gotta be near act 2 end lmao
I think for me it's the enemies doing double damage that kind of frustrates me
I'm tryna explore n shit and I get pelted so much
Time to find mask shards
Is it
I can think of a way to do act one in like
An hour if you don’t get owned by bosses
Where are ya at
feels a lot more like a "souls game" than hollow knight
IM STILL ON ACT 1, THIS GAME IS FUCKING HUGE
in the way that the basic enemies murder you
Act 1 mask is good pace
Especially if you do the jump dash thing where you jump, dash and hit the ground, jump again
Very end (I’m assuming) of act 1
Apparently saban didn't find a needle upgrade the whole time??
Tbf I think this is good
I'm really surprised at how that was possible
I think getting all achievements should be a challenge not a given
As someone who has a lot of platinum/100% lists a lot of them are ass and just 'play the game' not actual achievements of any kind
If you don’t ||check up in bellhart|| it’s super easy to miss
Who doesnt
Check
Wdym check
It's not even hidden 😭
I'm out here hitting every single wall I see
Go up
It’s not clear there is an up unless you try and go up
I know multiple ppl that missed it
What I always miss is hidden entrances in ceilings
That's actually so surprising, ||checking the higher area of bellhart|| was like my first instinct
Same
I was like ||why these bugs going up what is there||
i tried ||pogoing the bodies, got a bit sad i couldn't then thought I couldn't go up||
...||the fucking worm pit that does double damage in Blasted Steps... fuck you!!!!!!!!!||
😃😃😃😃😃😃
Getting nerfed to 1
Patchnotes
Fire gas money
I didn't find ||moorwing|| that hard btw did people really get rolled that badly?
the fact it did ||two one hits was so troll for deliveries||
I did not fight this till act 2
||moving the fleas to citadel skips it entirely||
Oh wow
Idk I been exploring as much as I can before doing the main objectives, not so much sidequests
Ye
Same
I am currently refusing the main quest and going insane
How is there
More map
I accidentally did a main area thinking it was a side area because I went into it from a very different direction
happened twice now
ive had 3 instances of frustration that were all skill issue
||first time moorwing, first time sinner’s road + bilewater, and the high palace during my speedrun||
Closest I got was [act 2 again] ||the bilewater frog boss cause it's the only time I actually found the runback a bit too long lol||
||did you have the secret bench?||
||ye||
THANKFULLY I ||got the secret bench after my first attempt and beat it on try 3||
ye it’s still ass either way icl
Also ||voltnest|| annoyed the shit outta me
||you hit the lightning, 2, or 3 masks if the game feels like it and then it flings you into the side for a possible 4th||
||it's like oh okay guess I reset||
isnt the first one literally free though
or do u mean an upgrade past that one
||first is free then it's oil||
||gotta find the npc I guess||
got my first not free needle upgrade today and it was incredible to kill early enemies in like 2 hits when I was backtracking for a quest
||i think i had 9 masks by the time i found it so no biggy||
game gets easy late game imo
i think in my steel run im going to prioritize ||getting as many toolkit upgrades asap||
theyre so huge especially before you can actually access the nail upgrades
im so mad they kept it as steel soul and didnt make it silk soul or smth btw
||they already used that for act 3||
||the mission is literally called silk and soul||
that wouldve been peak then
You gotta be kidding me
FOUR?!
LOL
i didn’t find my the needle upgrade place until deep into act 2
||high hall gauntlet to be exact||
I think I found an arena worse than the one in ||high hall||
Act 3 spoilers
That one ain’t Act 3-exclusive btw.
Yeah I know I just thought since I didn’t need to go there during act 2 I’d do it during act 3
Worst mistake ever and I’ll make sure i avoid stuff like this happening for steel soul 100%
Yeah, the less time you need to stay in Act 3 the better I’d imagine.
i’m not at act 3 yet nor do i know the mechanics but everyone makes it sound like king von is running around
Paper soul mod where it’s steel soul and one health
hardcore hell rush soul
i think it’s really cool the game does this ||to not make areas like this irrelevant by the time you have too many upgrades ||
Got so many assignments so I haven’t been able to play 
||i did the mist today and it was such an awful experience but also did mount fay and had a lot of fun||
i also think i’ve somehow missed a big area since i’m still missing a stag station
||mount fay is very fun||
I reached the end of it, but decided to come back to it later. || I hope there’s a right side entrance to it (I assume there is) ||
u finished it?
the mist part
i think so
I mean it’s really just a “you solve it or you don’t”
||unless there was more after the phantom||
||did u ever figure out u could play the needolin to have the flies guide u||
yeah i solved it pretty fast
i just don’t think it’s. a good puzzle and the enemies are annoying
thematically it works just the gameplay wasn’t enjoyable for me
got spoiled on this by reading a steam review spoiler day 1
thought i was safe 😔
Decent game
Are all quests required for 100%
Because i cannot for the life of me find this stupid fucking ||pollip||
No but a lot of them are
Percentages as far as I can tell:
57% - ||tools (1% per tool)||
6% - ||spells||
4% - ||nail upgrades||
5% - ||mask upgrades||
9% - ||spool upgrades||
7% - ||crests||
3% - ||silk hearts||
9% - ||movement/lore abilities||
Probably a little incorrect about the last few but that’s like mostly it
So ||hidden bosses and quests that don’t give you one of the things on the list|| won’t add to completion
Most of them do though
I think the 9% checks out. It’s probably ||8% abilities, 1% Everbloom (this I can confirm counts)||
||Actually wait there’s only 7 abilities, no?||
||tool upgrades|| also do not add to completion ||once you have the basic version of a tool, finding an upgraded version of it won’t change the %||
Would hunters crest count as you have that at the start of the game
||you can enhance it, tho unsure if that updates %||
Ok I think my remaining percentage is 12% ||Tools|| and 1% ||across nail, mask, and spool upgrades in addition to the last Silk Heart||. So that leaves 2% for the last category
Doubtful
Mainly because ||it can be done twice||.
Yeah
Have you ||bound with eva?||
I’ve looked around how to do that but no one seems to have a clue exactly on the how to.
That’s one of your 2% for sure
I presume ||it’s the only reward I have left to get from her.||
You need to find ||enough memory lockets (and possibly use them but idk)||
Probably
||Think I’m 4 away from opening them all, I just haven’t used them because I feel sufficient with my Hunter, Witch, Shaman rotation.||
I’ll do so later.
If not then you just haven’t found enough yet
Not able to try right now.
Fair
Glass soul
3 achievements left
No ||tool pouch upgrades?||
Too many for them to reasonably be part of the completion count.
Did you not do Any% then Speed Completion?
No
They do count as %
They do?
Idk the game counts them separately in the achievement list.
bro my game complete time was 23 hours
I be wandering
My first time doing 100% was around 50 hours
I just redid it for the achievement
I’d say confidently this is what you need for 100%
||51% - all tools
9% - all spool upgrades
8% - all tool pouch & crafting kit upgrades
7% - all crests
6% - all silk skills
6% - all ancestral arts
5% - all mask upgrades
4% - all nail upgrades
3% - all silk hearts
1% - getting the everbloom||
||isn't there 57 tools though?||
|| 51 tools and 6 silk skills||
makes sense
I knew some of my percentages would be wonky but I didn't realize those counted as part of the 57
||still a little confused why drifters/faydown cloak aren’t in there, but Tbf there’s a lot in this game that you just don’t need or don’t count towards 100%||
pretty sure this was pulled from game files
||can u get 100% without going into act 3?||
||oh u cant cause u need the flower||
||no act 3 lets you get access to a handful of stuff||
Ok that final boss fight was fun
It was somehow like 5x easier than the || 2nd lace fight|| 
Did in under 10 attempts
Adding those together is giving me 101
u might be counting an extra nail
if u put 4
the free one might not count as a %
i also got 101 though
cause i put 4 for nail
||I’m also not seeing why evolving the crest would count as a % if every other upgrade to something doesn’t count||
can't say I had the same experience cause I ran out of shards for final boss lol
||for grandmother silk?||
💀
I did that boss first try but the one you were thinking about yeah absolutely
I got that one in 2 lol
but yeah I agree ||lace 2|| is much harder than ||silk mommy||
It was kinda disappointing because ||lace 2|| kicked my ass for a good bit
Then the next fight was a walk in the park
i died 2 times total on those 2 fights
I didn't mind it cause it was still fun even if it was easy
and both were on the former boss
Still agree fun fight even if it was easy
||and then i died 18 times to lost lace somehow||
||lost lace is mean||
I think it's awesome but it's pretty rough
I think like story wise n stuff its cool
can be hard to see sometimes
but the actual fight is lame as hell
artificial difficulty all over the place + visual clarity is very low
It’s personally my favorite boss it’s a good challenge and gets easier when you know how to play it
idk what about the difficulty is very artificial
||black abilities on a black stage with a black boss model||
Could be worse
most of the time I could see what was happening tho
||the actual lighting is not bad unlike some areas that make it hard to see||
||i think it's very cheap and lazy to add nonsense aoe traits to abilities that already existed, and her 2 "unique" abilities arent something she even really casts it's just screen vomit for the sake of "difficulty"||
I think it’s not a problem when you know what to look for
I definitely prefer ||lace 2|| but I think ||lost lace|| is still pretty good
was thinking about making a boss tierlist youtube vid
thoughts?
Would be fire
havent updated it after beating the others but this was what it looked like up to that point
based ||first sinner and father flame|| takes
yeah unfortunately i think thats the only S tier boss in the game
but it was a very good one
||tormented trobbio had the set up to be S tier and then they basically did nothing different with him from his first fight||
very underwhelming
I enjoyed it cause I liked the first one
oh I forgot there's still 1 boss I haven't done
since it wasn't required for 100% and I haven't gotten hunter's journal yet
||the lifeblood alchemist||
yeah didn't seem like it
I saw my friend fight it lol
Here’s my tier list of bosses
||pinstress slander what the||
I fought it again today and it wasn’t that fun
probably not but I enjoyed it
i liked him
i swear he had one attack that could actually hit you and he just spammed that shit
the tornado spin move
that move kinda pissed me off but other than that he was chill
the parry spell is good vs that move
i literally wouldn’t get hit by anything else i just got tilted by it
they should add move stale
||it was like making that one crow enemy also have sword attacks and it honestly wasn’t enjoyable||
i got parry yesterday unfortunately
I had fun lol
||I liked the nail art attack||
I liked it the first time but just replaying it made me change my mind
I dont like the fights where they force u to be afk
that fight forced u afk waiting on like 2 moves to fight back on
the grimm “cutscene” attack was very interactive at least
learning nkg was still my favourite time in the series
nah cause of lot of them have this like dash back or teleport away mechanic
which makes hitting them literally impossible unless u throw something at them
oh yeah
||the phantom, i think that’s the boss after the miss||
has infinite i frames
catch them with ||harpoon||
for no reason
to be fair its kinda her gimmick considering the spell she gives but yeah they do that a lot in this game
frustrating as hell
I honestly think it’s a bit easy
i mean more when she does like the desolate dive attack she just has a bunch of i frames
i liked that fight yea
she is NOT the hollow knight
i found all the actual character bug fights quite easy
idk what to call them
i don’t think the bosses are the hard part of silksong in fairness
except early game they were weirdly tuned but i think they’re getting nerfs
sister splinter and moorwing werent even that tough 😭
||does the 4 heal actually help that much, it felt kind of underwhelming||
I definitely struggled more with enemy guantlets than I did with bosses though
for sure
||Moorwing a little but sister splinter feels weird because it was easy||
some of those gauntlets were fucked
high halls gauntlet with no nail upgrades was miserable
||the khann 3 arena gauntlet was fucked up||
even tho i only died 2 times i could see how that one would take people a while
top 3 tilt moments for me were
||coral tower||
||bilehaven/bilewater runback||
||beastfly 2 lmao||
I dont think anyone I know actually found it
and i first tried him
so i didnt need it
I think some tools definitely turn Silksong into baby mode
like silksong no tools is fairly hard
||I think cogfly + poison charm is gross||
For me it was
||savage beast fly 1 (I did it before greymoor)||
||bilewater run back||
||high hall arena (mainly because of the final wave)||
the forum was definitely up there for me
i don’t be using tools really
I will never be taking off the broken mask
I didn't use any tools at all on ||lost lace|| cause I was out of shard lmao
thing
I feel like it was learning to actively use spells in hk all over again
||like i run the bug honey thing and sometimes remember to use it, and my charms are literally just compass, the bell heal, and the rosary magnet lol||
yeah except like heavy belt
Magnetite dice my beloved
xD
that's blue ain't it
Nope it’s a yellow
has anyone found a use for the needolin charm at all
or does it literally not have a use
||you can needolin to stun enemies||
wtf
does it regardless, tool makes it better iirc
i see
i was sitting here thinking the whole game thinking it was gonna be an easter egg or secret
I agree tho
I feel like it could be a sleeper pick and have some solid uses
But I’ll never know because I just run past whatever it is and face tank damage 🔥
wait a minute
I just found out ||there's a steel soul exclusive tool||
||"Increases the quantity of crafted tools and is a yellow"||
Is it related to the coin purse tool?
that sounds really good
yes
||theres a bit of steel soul exclusive things||
yeah ik about the hidden boss as well
which is cool
looks really boring to fight but it makes sense as to why lol
||I don't think they'd throw a hard boss at you in steel soul only||
||steel assassin sharpe||
run ender 💀
not sure he even exists
but if he does it would be there
he doesn't currently that's for sure
or if he does literally NOBODY has found him lmao
I'm assuming he'll be DLC
it would be cool if he was like a steel soul mode gulag boss
like where if u die u have 1 chance to continue ur file and u have to beat him to come back to life
would be wild
man it's kinda crazy how ||bilewater|| of all places has one of the best themes in the whole game
It's crazy how a place that ugly is one of the biggest on the map
||nah father flame was mid it's literally just pogos and like 1 type of attack||
literal first try
||I'd put it under 4th chorus|| that's for sure
you know what @hushed sable I WANT you to get the ping for this
i put it high cause its cool
I put it high cause it looks racist and I think that's funny
||im sad i beat first sinner so quickly i forgot they existed||
but that one was a good one in retrospect
anyways where can I find this tier list maker
okay genuine question unrelated
||ive been seeing so many people complain about the difficulty of savage beastfly, am I insane or was that one not bad at all?||
I got bodied by it but I was also kind of trolling
||I went to hunter march early and did it early and it didnt take me that long, and the far fields one wasn't that bad either. like as good of boss fights obvious, but just very forgettable fights for me||
||I can kinda understand the far fields one at least cause of the lava||
yeah the normal one was fine
i might have died like 40 times on this we didnt count it unfortunately
but i died a shit ton on that one
I think I was at 13 deaths on it lmao
im just the goat at fighting mid enemies
it was like my 3rd highest death count on any boss
i dont think it's in my top 5
but i didnt keep track of any I just know ||moorwing|| felt longer than all the others
I got that one in like
2-3
didn't give me much trouble but I did find him quite late
yea I was trolling on that one
now that Ive started speedrunning i do him first try
just about learning the pattern
ig you could say that about them all lmao
REAL question tho is what are y'alls favorite OSTs
it's funny you ask that I was about to start going through the whole catalogue and adding it to my playlist
probably tomorrow
probably act 2 citadel
i will say just at first glance the music in this game isnt as iconic as hollow knights but it might have to age some more
OH ||the abyss lava sequence too||
you havent heard it in the bg of enough yt videos yet
i stay watching wirtual vidoes
ill hear it soon enough
he always has HK music in like every video lmao
give it 6 months and a few of those songs will be everywhere
after going through and skimming the OST mine are definitely ||Lace, Widow, Sister Splinter, Bilewater, Trobbio, Cut Through (Groal), and Karmelita||
there really are a lot of bangers
I wasn't paying too much attention to it while playing but after going back it's like
damn this shit good
dude for ||such an annoying area bilewater|| had a banger that kade it tolerable
fr
I think my favorite is definitely ||Sister Splinter|| though
that theme is fucking tough
wish it wasn't so short
it’s weird cause it feels like something youd hear in city of tears as well
they knew they needed e mellow relaxing song to cool you off
Sister Splinter - Hollow Knight Silksong Menu Login Screen OST Official Soundtrack Chapter Song Lyric Video Hollow Knight Silksong Trailer Music Hollow Knight Silksong DLC OST Hollow Knight Silksong OST Silksong Soundtrack Silksong DLC all endings Hollow Knight Silksong all soundtracks Hollow Knight Silksong DLC Hollow Knight Silksong PC Modded ...
I only used || 2 cogfly || the rest was just pure skill. I beat the second phase || (when it goes below bridge and starts pulling down rocks || in under a minute
like dude
it’s a good one but idk if id say my favorite, there’s unfortunately (or fortunately ig) so much stiff competition
There’s a lot of good ones
Idk what the one is called for when || you free bell heart ||
Or unless it’s just the same || as bell heart and I’m misremembering ||
||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkNbFtCd_DA&list=PLbNT78Q7M14x4ysLOAkock4ESwW-RNOcA&index=14|| this one?
Bellhart - Hollow Knight Silksong Menu Login Screen OST Official Soundtrack Chapter Song Lyric Video Hollow Knight Silksong Trailer Music Hollow Knight Silksong DLC OST Hollow Knight Silksong OST Silksong Soundtrack Silksong DLC all endings Hollow Knight Silksong all soundtracks Hollow Knight Silksong DLC Hollow Knight Silksong PC Modded Hollow ...
Worked
Now at 85% and a good 4.3k Rosaries off buying everything.
Have one area I still need to find but honestly I’d rather just grind it out now.
Hunter’s Memento is going to be awful to grind as is.
||I don't even think that area adds to your completion at all ngl||
if it's where I think it is
I’ve heard it starts with a ||V. Verdania I think it might’ve been called?||
if you want good rosarie farm go to ||whiteward and farm the 3 big dudes that crawl||
yup
Heh, ||maybe I can finally find that last Silk Heart doing that. Supposedly it’s somewhere there.||
with the ||rosarie increase tool|| each bench cycle gives you 156 rosaries and it takes like maybe 30-45 seconds per cycle
maybe a bit longer actually but still
it's the fastest I could find, especially in act 3
Honestly I’m probably going to just get a guide soon; I’m only missing 2 Mask Shards and 1 Spool Fragment aside from shops and those are not going to be fun to hunt for in a map this big.
yeah that's what I did at the point you're at
not really worth blind searching
imo
Maybe idk
That’s in regular too
Bad news for me
I’m pretty sure most of what’s left for me to do right now involves exploring || Bilewater || (other than quests)
I’m also missing so many || keys ||. There are like 5 || different locks ||
I’m just going to number this so that I can parse this properly.
57% - ||Tools and Silk Spells||
9% - ||Spool Upgrades||
6% - ||Crests||
5% - ||Mask Upgrades||
4% (each) - ||Nail Upgrades||, ||Toolkit upgrades||, ||Pouch upgrades||
3% - ||Silk Hearts||
1% (each) - ||Needolin||, ||Dash||, ||Wall Jump||, ||Harpoon||, ||Faydown Cloak||, ||Charge Slash||, ||Sylphsong||, ||Everbloom||
Honestly not to bad for not knowing the run well and dying constantly
Now it’s just steel soul achievements left
I have 53%
Which is both less and more than I would’ve thought
Though 29% is left to || tools || alone
Does anyone have a hint on where I can find ||Verdania||? Last area I haven’t run into. Currently checking ||Sinner’s Road and Bilewater|| for potential ins; I have ||freed the Green Beetle||.
LATE GAME SPOILERS:
||lost lace is kinda crazy, wowzers||
(True Final Boss spoilers)
Well I searched up how to get to ||Verdania||.
||God doing Lost Verdania first and seeing the contrast with Verdania was creepy as fuck.||
yeah it's a neat place
speaking of that,|| I did Verdania as my first one of the hearts and you can do the mainline wish with it, so now I have the hunter heart in my home keepsakes instead of the conjoined one lmao||
same except with ||nyleth heart||
big
Also how bad is ||beat game while cursed|| achievement It seems really annoying
Have heard of that. Does seem like a good route to go for with Steel Heart since ||that acquisition process is just in a dream so a death shouldn’t delete your save, unlike Seth and Enraged Conchfly||.
Just set it up when you’re ready to face the final boss with 7 Masks and it’s pretty doable.
Easier than ||Karmelita|| tbh.
I only ever used hunter through the whole game lol, so the slight different moves throws me off
Whelp
I played around with most of them
All bar ||Architect|| I think ||as I just don’t use Tools||.
Tbf I did ||cure it|| so imma have to start a new profile either way for it
as long as you get ||the bud in act 2|| it should be pretty doable
bc I got it ||early in act 3|| so that was not happening LMAO
Idea: get speed completion speed runner, steal completion and ||beat game while cursed|| in the same run 😃 😃 😃

Speed Completion?
It seems really generous so eh.
Should’ve had an acheivement to beat ||lost lace while cursed||
I’m at 91% atm and I’m only 8-9 hours over the threshold.
I mean genuinely speaking its prob easiest to go for steel completion and speed completion on the same file
less time in steel soul means less chances to die right
got true ending today 
Yeah but steel soul at same time lol
Good argument.
That’s exactly why Steel Heart exists lmao.
u gotta remember playtime also gets cut in like half after the first playthrough since u already generally know where to go and boss patterns
Tru, I just want to see when something be inevitably does it in like 4h
4h sounds like an unrestricted time honestly.
Then ||Harold quest|| to end it off
You need to grind quite a bit for 100% here.
I ended up 2.8k Rosaries short myself.
Not required for 100%.
just realized with all the other shit I have to do this weekend ill have to push off skong again :(
Yeah but ther is already like 150+ rosaries per minute farms
Yeah, just more fuel to the challenge run fire tho
An All achievements run
NMG I feel would be closer to 7h.
But who knows since no one’s even put out a TE speedrun yet.
||Probably because of all the Wish shenanigans with getting Silk and Soul to trigger.||
The more I play the more I realize I need a lore guy
I need someone to make a history of pharloom documentary
mossbag o7
capitalism
…
Not the word I would use.
||Like you litterally can’t even explore the place in full as far as I could tell; it’s that screwed up by Abyss shenanigans.||
not that bad but it's a little hard
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guys this hunters journal is a pain in the ass
There’s at least 1 enemy that I’m saving for later, bc I really can’t be bothered to deal with the || beetle thing || in || memorium ||
chat should i finish my 90% save or should i just get 100% when I do the steel soul one
feels kinda pointless if ima do that one anyways, unless im trying to do it to make sure i know where everything is
I mean nothing to lose by getting the last 10%
time
it's not as fun exploring when there's no risk anymore yknow
already pretty much decked out on that save
when did u have risk in ur casual playthrough
when I could die
i wonder if hk:ss will have as insane as a modding scene as hk
hk had an entire fuckin fan made dlc as a mod
Maybe eventually
Sheesh
I might join the hype out of curiosity but I want to first like. Use the next week to do what I can for a game jam before I start training for new full time job
The art looks neat and cute :3
there's a reason the knight is hollow 
there's a reason the song is... silk?
idk
pics or it didn't happen
that is
not the link i wanted
How many Blue Masks can one get in Hollow Knight Silksong?
#hollowknightsilksong
there we go
it turns into ||hiveblood except your hp will fill all the way back up to full||
and regens faster
yea i saw the comment
which is sick
too bad there isnt ||like a path of pain type area it would be useful in||
there kind of is but it's much smaller than it lol
This is on steel soul btw
lol
yes it did
||cogs do 1 dmg now||
peak
fair enough 
that was my only big complaint abt the game so I‘m glad it got changed
||cog dancers?||
is it not because you're in ||act 3 now and the machine is broke||
it doesn't say anything about them in the patch notes
i noticed while on a new save
they still do 2
we mean like ||the environmental cog damage||
well I just got the Hunter's Memento so I'll be doing new file stuff soon
especially considering i’m in that area rn
that grind was fucking horrible btw
so obnoxious
👀
im only at ||the cloak|| rn for steel
If I unpaused I would have died frames later
Besides I just want to get the achievement done so I can take a break from silksong for a bit
And easier
It’s just significantly more annoying.
yea but i gotta do 100% steel anyways
do em all at the same time
I’m gonna attempt both my steel soul % runs at the same time but ||act 3 requires you to beat the game anyways so I’m guaranteed to not get both achievements at the same time lol||
ight, good game

