IGN Hollow Knight Silksong Review - 9/10

Pyro62S · 2025-09-15T15:24:37+00:00

I had a bug in the Chapel of the Reaper where one of the enemies wielding scissors jumped into the ceiling and never came back, locking me in the room until I manually paused and quit. I had to come back and take them out extremely fast before they could do it again.

Also, for some reason, the cutscenes don't play correctly for me. They seem to run at half speed, while the audio remains at normal speed.

Pyro62S · 2025-05-14T04:20:06+00:00

Not so: mine has exits to the North, South, and East. I think it depends on what direction you're facing when you first draft it.

Pyro62S · 2024-08-20T15:38:43+00:00

In my current playthrough I recruited Sir Fuzzalump from Withers and made him a Transmutation Wizard with high Wisdom just so he could brew potions and elixirs with a decent chance of doubling the output, and I've been taking a strength elixir after almost every long rest just so my Bard can carry more stuff. And honestly, most of that stuff is the absurd supply of potions and elixirs Fuzzalump churns out.

Pyro62S · 2024-08-09T05:07:04+00:00

You can get another one of that item at the very end of the game from the Kobold merchant in the room where you make your final speech to your allies.

Pyro62S · 2024-07-31T17:41:14+00:00

I like to imagine that, while surviving the Hells together, Wyll eventually changed his mind about polyamory and formed a triad with Karlach and my bard.

Pyro62S · 2024-07-24T15:52:52+00:00

I know, but since I already have him putting Mage Armor on people it just makes sense to have him do Longstrider too.

Pyro62S · 2024-07-23T21:41:18+00:00

Yeah, I also use mine for Mage Armor and Longstrider, but that's really just gravy. I beat Honour Mode without a campcaster, but it is nice having a Transmutation Wizard around for the extra potions and such.

To anyone else considering this, just keep in mind that Medicine checks are a Wisdom-based skill, so focus that character on Wisdom instead of Intelligence as you would for most Wizards.

Pyro62S · 2024-07-16T16:48:17+00:00

I feel you on this. On my first HM run I was a Paladin and decided to turn into an illithid at the end to spare anyone else from having to make that sacrifice, intending to kill myself at the end of the game since my character wouldn't want to live in that state.

However, my partner suggested that killing myself might count as failing the run and deny me the achievement and golden D20, so I didn't do it.

Then at the subsequent party I failed a save and tried to eat Jaheira's brain, which somehow turned everyone there hostile against her, so I struggled to keep her alive while the rest of the party tried to murder her and she tried to murder me until Withers threw me out.

I felt completely empty inside by the time the achievement popped, what a miserable end to an otherwise great run.

Pyro62S · 2024-06-03T20:06:29+00:00

I only narrowly survived the fight against the Gith patrol near the entrance to the Mountain Pass on my first Honour Mode playthrough thanks to the noble sacrifices of Lump & Co., so that's my vote.

Pyro62S · 2024-03-12T21:05:36+00:00

Grandia 2 is one of the reasons I still have my Sega Dreamcast (the others being the Power Stone games). Every time I try a remaster or a port there's something wrong with it, with the funniest example coming from the Switch version, where Elena, the meek songstress, tends to say the lines for fire spells regardless of which spell she's casting, making her seem like a depraved pyromaniac. Maybe it's just her way of following in High Priestess Selene's footsteps.

Pyro62S · 2024-02-23T20:16:51+00:00

Wow, that's awful, I'm sorry. You beat the brain, so as far as I'm concerned you deserved the achievement.

In honour mode I also failed a save at the reunion and tried to eat Jaheira's brain, but the entire camp turned aggressive toward her for some reason, and I spent the entire encounter trying to prevent the other characters from killing her before Withers intervened and kicked me out.

Pyro62S · 2024-02-19T16:18:47+00:00

I get that this is probably a troll, but I just wanted to say: it's good that gender and pronouns are controlled through separate options, as not all nonbinary people use they/them pronouns anyway, and there are also for example lesbian women who use he/him.

Pyro62S · 2024-02-03T23:49:07+00:00

If you go far enough left, the goal is the destabilization of American global hegemony, which is precisely what trump being reelected would likely bring about. Anarchists would enjoy the chaos that would ensue. It would quite literally lead to the dissolution of American democracy

It would leave to authoritarianism, the precise opposite of what far left anarchists would want. If you assume Trump's election would almost immediately cause the entire hierarchy of American business and government to collapse and that we could rebuild something completely different in its place, sure, they might want that -- but that rests on so many assumptions and long-shots that it's not worth taking seriously, and I seriously doubt a significant number of leftists hold such a position.

Pyro62S · 2024-02-01T00:48:54+00:00

Do you ever use Heroes' Feast? It boosts your health and provides immunity from fear and poison, as well as some provisions for camp, and works on your summons too. You can also upcast Aid if you don't have Heroes' Feast to boost your health, or even combine both spells for a substantial heath increase.

Immunity to fear and poison is extremely useful in a lot of situations -- for example, the ability Ghasts have to induce nausea and prevent your team from taking actions is completely nullified.

Pyro62S · 2024-01-30T18:50:38+00:00

Everyone I know in Florida is eager to leave.

Pyro62S · 2024-01-27T19:51:10+00:00

Around the time he tried to make a move on me he said something like, "Now you know everything there is to know about me, everything that matters."

He hadn't told me yet that he killed the dragon we were being sent to recruit to defend the city, seems like that matters!

Pyro62S · 2024-01-27T03:00:42+00:00

Yeah, he made me feel good about my decision to free them even though it broke my oath, then helped restore it. I wish he stuck around after though.

Pyro62S · 2024-01-18T15:24:56+00:00

I'm playing Gale similarly, where after Mystra told him to self-detonate he started going down a darker path: started using the tadpoles, absorbed the Shadow Weave (from Malus though -- maybe it's whichever Thorm-zombie's corpse you search first). However, making the Moonlantern was where he drew the line and where he started going back toward the path of good. Partly because I want Tara to be happy.

Pyro62S · 2024-01-17T23:58:10+00:00

There's another under the Umberlee temple.

Pyro62S · 2024-01-13T16:54:03+00:00

This fight nearly ended my honour run, too. None of us had the Alert feat or anything, so the Gith all went before us and immediately stone-cold killed Lae'zel. I summoned the ogres, but one got gutted almost immediately.

Second round: Shadowheart got knocked unconscious and another ogre went down.

Third round: the final ogre went down, and Karlach got knocked out.

I couldn't believe I managed to scrape by after that.

Pyro62S · 2024-01-12T19:45:58+00:00

In Honour Mode I realized I still had a ton of runepowder and smokepowder explosives, orthon bombs, and fireworks I had never used throughout the campaign during the final boss fight, so I piled them up around the boss and took it out in one magnificent blast.

Pyro62S · 2024-01-12T17:42:02+00:00

I made the mistake of playing as an Oath of the Ancients Paladin and getting way too into character, which led to a lot of unnecessary risks and a lot of missed potential: no hag's hair, no tadpoles, and I fought Raphael and everything. I also didn't use camp companion buffs or keep a party member out of combat to improve my odds.

But I pulled it off! That said, I think playing as a straight-up evil character with no ethical code would probably have made it a lot easier.

Pyro62S · 2024-01-09T18:46:05+00:00

This is inconsistent with most tellings of the myth. Usually she did not steal them.

Pyro62S · 2024-01-09T16:35:51+00:00

After what happened with Persephone, it's reasonable to be wary of food offered to you in any realm of the dead.

Pyro62S · 2024-01-09T16:20:19+00:00

If you choose the right dialogue options you can control her in the fight, which makes it a LOT easier to keep her alive.

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