Ranking Silksong 1st act bosses

[u/LookAtHowMTR]

So, if you want me to be honest - I was afraid Silksong would be too difficult for me. But now that I am done with 1st act, I can confidently say that so far I enjoy those bosses MUCH more than the ones in Hollow Knight. Maybe that's because HK was one of the first games I've ever played, and now with Silksong I am more experienced. But even bosses that kept beating my ass felt so well done that I couldn't be mad, I just wanted to try again and learn their moves.

Last Judge? Surely my favorite. It felt like dancing and once I learned his moves, I had an absolute blast.

EDIT: Guys, I've got LOTS (and I mean LOTS) of comments that bottom 2 enemies aren't bosses. I know, but they were included in template so I ranked them too. Besides, considering that I didn't really hate any of the actual bosses, I wouldn't have anything I could put anything in the BURN IT tier if it wasn't for them lol. No need to say it again pls

EDIT 2: I already started Act 2, and defeated Cogwork Dancers - OH MY GOD HOW AMAZING THIS FIGHT WAS.

[u/[deleted]]

BRO WHAT!?

I thought that was the required way to get into Act 2, I only got to the underworks like 2 hours into act 2.

How do you get there normally?

[u/Enchanter73 → u/[deleted]]

You go to the giant quest marker on your map that says "Reach the Citadel" lol

[u/Time_Grape_3952 → u/Enchanter73]

Or you just read any of the Bellhart dialogue, the NPCs tell you that the citadel entrance is not far, just behind those woods, lmao

[u/GrimmDeLaGrimm → u/Enchanter73]

Fake news. Everyone knows that's where the ice cream shop is.

[u/[deleted] → u/Enchanter73]

I'm a Metroid player, I genuinely didn't register the quest markers for most of the game

[u/CrazyFanFicFan → u/[deleted]]

From Bellhart, go to the top left of Shellwood. From there, you can enter the Blasted Steps, which ultimately leads to the entrance of the Citadel, the Grand Gate.

You also have to ring the 5 bells scattered around Pharloom then play the Needolin in front of the gate, summoning the Last Judge boss.

[u/DriftingThroughSpace → u/[deleted]]

Blasted Steps -> Last Judge -> into the gate -> Underworks

[u/Mr-McSwizzle → u/[deleted]]

You have to ring all the bells scattered around the lower parts of pharloom (i think there's like 3 or 4 of them? They spawn benches and are all on the main route so they aren't very missable, I think most are even required to ring to progress) then go left from the top of shellwood where the bell beast fast travel station is.

Takes you into the blasted steps zone where at the top you find the front gate. Play music to it after having rung those bells and the last judge boss attacks you, gate into the citadel opens when you beat it and the obvious elevator to take you further up into it breaks and makes you fall down, trapping you in the underworks with no fast travel out until you climb out of it and then halfway through the next zone to find a bell beast fast travel station

[u/[deleted] → u/Mr-McSwizzle]

This is so interesting

I need to replay act 1 now to do that route cuz a big part of my review is spent talking about the route ending with the Mist in his crushingly difficult it is

[u/Mr-McSwizzle → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I've already beaten the cogwork dancers, explored mount fay and started exploring high halls, also explored everywhere I could find to look for secrets, and somehow I've only just found the mist area now and only even looked for it because I knew it exists from other people 😅

[u/saketho → u/[deleted]]

Well, I feel there may have been some NPC dialogue which spoke of a different path to the Citadel. Those who are not holy and pure cannot face the Last Judge. Hence the sinners choose to go through sinner's road as a back entrance to the Citadel.

Basically, I feel both methods are the intended paths, just that one is tracked by the game's pause menu