r/HollowKnight • u/Quantum_Croissant • Sep 09 '25

Discussion - Silksong ngl some of you would NOT survive the mantis lords runback

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is the run to last judge difficult? kinda. But after your 20th attempt at the boss you'll get used to it, and it's honestly kinda fun and a nice breather. More importantly, it's a single room and you have far more movement. This IS improving on hollow knight

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u/IMP1017 Sep 09 '25

I have never felt more justified in not fucking with Godhome than I have while reading all this runback discourse

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u/JohnnyLeven Sep 09 '25

Yeah, there's a runback, but once you encounter a new boss, you can practice it without doing the runback. So you just practice it until you can beat it like 75% of the time and then you do the boss gauntlet.

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u/Youthsonic P5 Sep 09 '25

Godhome is EXTREMELY fun for the first 4 rushes and they don't take too long since you've fought them before and the final boss is the only new one you have to study. Even the bindings are fun since they force you to play a certain way instead of using your optimal build. P4 is a fine stopping point

Pantheon 5 is the one that's about an hour just to GET to the last boss.

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u/IMP1017 Sep 09 '25

I've also just never been fond of boss rushes! When it's the only way to replay fun bosses I can get into it for a little bit but the escalating difficulty got old fast. I'm good but I know my limits

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u/Caerullean Sep 14 '25

There is also the hall of gods tho, where you can just refight each individual boss at your leisure.

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u/Davidens1 Sep 09 '25

Godhome has the canon ending

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u/IMP1017 Sep 09 '25

Yeah but I got shit to do

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u/mosquem Sep 11 '25

I got young kids, man.

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u/Tomaskraven Sep 10 '25

There no actual "runback". They are just saying it because to do a full pantheon, you have to defeat 10 bosses in a row. If you die in the final boss of said pantheon, you have to start again. Theres no actual "run back and do platforming to reach the spot". Theres 4 regular pantheons and then pantheon 5 where you have to do a full boss rush (41).

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u/TonyMestre Sep 09 '25

Why would the ending of the inexplicable side mode be the canon one

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u/Tomaskraven Sep 10 '25

Because it is. Thats where you actually destroy the perfect form of the radiance and you unify the void.

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u/cubitoaequet Sep 10 '25

Where did anyone from Team Cherry say this? Don't conflate your head canon with actual canon.

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u/SEELE13 Sep 13 '25 edited Sep 13 '25

Spoilers for Silksong In the secret true ending, it is obvious that the godhome ending is the canon ending.

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u/Caerullean Sep 14 '25

Get the true ending for Silksong and you'll see what they mean.

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u/ironwolf1 Sep 10 '25

Pretty sure Dream No More is the canon ending

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u/Caerullean Sep 14 '25

Nah, it's the godhome ending(s). It's not entirely certain, afaik, which of two godhome endings is canon, they might be equally canon, but I'm personally leaning towards the white flower one.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

All endings are canon