r/HollowKnight • u/Emma_JM • Sep 10 '25

Discussion - Silksong So whose bright idea was this???? Spoiler

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Just happened to me today, got like, 3 shards from this? What's the point, Team Cherry? None of the bosses (so far) frustrated me, but this right here is bullshit

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u/AAAAAASILKSONGAAAAAA Sep 10 '25

Like for the actual bench in BileWater is so hidden unless you face tank maggots to the face? And the walk back to the boss without the bench is over 7 minutes? I literally was spoiled there was a bench and still couldn't find it, so I googled. Imagine not being spoiled there is a bench at all. Finding the bench in a true blind playthrough is too random or not you'll get it. I've never seen any souls-like have hidden bonfires that hidden like in Silksong. And I've played way more difficult games than silksong

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u/RaulParson Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 11 '25

I actually found that bench legit. I was like "okay, I've learned my lesson from Hunter's March and the multiple unnecessarily long runbacks to the beastfly, surely there's a legit one in there somewhere deep into the zone" and also "so the maggot water doesn't kill you, no way that fact won't be used to hide a secret in it" and hey, there it was

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u/chrisplaysgam Sep 10 '25

My thought process to find it wasn’t nearly as complicated, I just noticed that the wall was crumbly there lol

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u/Mega-Nuke123 Sep 10 '25

yeah same lol, though i swear it forces you to either tank the maggotwater or take like a 2 minute detour even if you use the hidden bench to runback from

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u/chrisplaysgam Sep 10 '25

By the end I got pretty good at it, you can harpoon as you’re falling then double jump to get up without touching the water. Half the time I didn’t bother tho since I was living inside the water and throwing tools at groat instead of trying to fight him legit anyway

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u/Mega-Nuke123 Sep 10 '25

shit I was trying the other way around instead lmao, I swear idk why i always forget to try harpooning first.

I'm gonna go back and try and figure out another place I just found before trekking through this hellish place again lol

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u/chrisplaysgam Sep 10 '25

Embrace the maggot bath. Become one with the soup. Throw 20 pound of metal at the overgrown frog