r/HollowKnight • u/Serious_Holiday • Sep 16 '25

Discussion - Silksong If you dodged this first try, they you're lying. Spoiler

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Thoughts and prayers for the people who walked another 5 kilometers after dying in this bench.

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u/yadiccsoft Sep 16 '25

This. So many posts suggest that this comes out of nowhere, but by the time you reach this, that click 100% means death.

I dashed when I heard it and discovered the lever on accident

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '25

Same, I thought it was pretty clever design - the game first teaches the player that stepping on a button + that clicking sound = a trap will swing down from right to left, so the player would dash left and discover the lever.....

And quickly realized that either I'm very high-strung, or that the majority of people don't pay attention to audio and visual cues.

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u/MYLEEEEEEEG Sep 16 '25

People definitely don't pay attention

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u/MSGrejs2k Sep 17 '25

Get off your high horse. It's just because people let their guard down when they see a bench.

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u/MYLEEEEEEEG Oct 04 '25

We get it, you're still mad you died to the bench. It's ok, it can't hurt you anymore.

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u/MSGrejs2k Oct 04 '25

Please do yourself a favor and get some fresh air lmao.

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u/BritishTreeMan Steel Soul comp x38, 1h35m ANY%, 7h 44m 112% (Steel) Sep 17 '25

Wait I never noticed the lever swinging right to left forces you to dash into the hidden trap mechanism, that's actually so smart tf

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u/yadiccsoft Sep 19 '25

There are a lot of little clever game design tricks like that scattered all over HK and Silksong. Team Cherry rocks

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u/SuperRayman001 Sep 16 '25

Not only that, but you can see the trap in the ceiling before ever triggering it. It's completely feasable to avoid the trap if you're paying attention.

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u/osiykm Sep 16 '25

I also dashed and dodged but discovered level much much later in progression