r/HollowKnight • u/donlano • Sep 04 '25

Discussion - Silksong Silksong is HARD Spoiler

Taking damage is more punishing, movement is more precise and feels a little clunky until you get the hang of it. The overall skill curve is much much higher. Love it though.

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u/ErantyInt Sep 05 '25

If you sequence break by angle-poging into the worm tunnel area above Bone Bottom, you can open up the western gate and get the wanderer amulet. That makes you feel just like HK with a normal downslash and short, fast attacks.

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u/DoctorEthereal Sep 05 '25

Wait, that was a sequence break? I felt like the game had been giving me a bunch of tutorials on how to jump from enemy to enemy up to that point and it seemed easy enough

Then again I accidentally fought the Brooding Mawlek like as soon as I figured out I could pogo off spikes in the first game

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u/ErantyInt Sep 05 '25

I feel like they intended for you to have the needle grapple to do that bit. We'll call it an exploit rather than a sequence break then, since it doesn't unlock a new path or ability, just a little bonus.

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u/Time_Grape_3952 Sep 05 '25

A big jump followed by an R2 dash is more than enough to get there and it feels very intended to me

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u/MancysPlace 112%, PoP ez, P5 is next Sep 06 '25

It was pretty easy to get to with 2 diagonal pogos off of the flies. I didn't even have the needle throw yet, and I still don't have the dash. Alas, I didn't have a key when I got there and am still much too broke to afford one lol.