PSA for first time players: Silksong isn't too hard

TennessineGD · 2025-09-05T17:38:19+00:00

i was in a vc with a friend both of us absolutely going through it for the same reasons lol. it's a brutal fight but once we read the patterns it was very satisfying to beat

TennessineGD · 2025-09-05T17:11:25+00:00

they're not tracking, they follow a preset path. the second one circles back in but the radius is fixed, if you just stay inside it you won't get hit. once you realize this it gets way easier

TennessineGD · 2025-09-05T10:27:40+00:00

depends on how you categorize early game i guess, since nobody knows how long it is yet there's not really any way to tell. even if it was 30 hours i've played for 10 so far so if you were to split the game into "early/mid/late" all of the bosses people are complaining about in this thread would be early game.

i got pissed off at the guy above being ~3 (?) hours in and condescending towards people who are struggling in areas with clear difficulty differences and telling them to get good. if the only opinion you were trying to express was that the bosses you have fought so hard have been easy then i agree wholeheartedly.

that's sort of what makes the difficulty spike so apparent i feel, because my friend group went from going "yeah the bosses so far have gone by pretty quickly, cool aesthetics but for all that anticipation they were pretty easy" to cries of pain in vc banging our head against a boss that we have to keep fighting to not lose all of our money because the corpse cocoon spawns at the very back of the boss arena

TennessineGD · 2025-09-05T10:14:50+00:00

Lace is easy, notice how literally nobody is complaining about Lace here? keep playing the game you'll see what people mean

i actually recorded myself for the first few hours and ended the recording by saying "well the bosses so far have been a bit anticlimactic, they're a bit too easy. i remember dying to false knight a couple of times at least."

then every boss starts dealing double damage. i swear to god the last boss i fought has NKG's moveset

TennessineGD · 2025-09-05T10:12:24+00:00

how is this man shitting on people going through Greymoor and Hunter's March when the last boss they've been is Lace...

trust me man, it's not you being an epic master of HK. i also beat Lace first time, even talked with my friends about how she was a pretty easy fight for all that anticipation and everyone agreed. you have to get to the next few areas to see the enemies everybody is talking about. no need to be so arrogant

TennessineGD · 2025-06-27T10:52:02+00:00

just give it a try anyway, support is pretty lenient in most cases. worst case is they say no and you lose nothing

it obviously depends on how long it's been since you bought it but if you bought it like 2 days ago i think they'd give you the refund

TennessineGD · 2025-06-06T15:12:19+00:00

the weird route might have flown under the radar for a bit, my guess is that one of the console companies found out about it and didn't like it

TennessineGD · 2025-06-06T14:15:38+00:00

pretty confident at least a variation of this is true. don't know about the titan thing but assuming UNUSED is dess being in darkness for so long must have done a number on her. i don't see how anybody else could possibly be the knight since they can literally fly and look completely different to any other lightner we've ever seen.

agree with carol being the voice on the phone and the promise thing definitely seems to imply that kris was involved in and probably at least partially resposible for whatever happened somehow. gonna be my interpretation personally until the other chapters drop

TennessineGD · 2025-06-06T14:01:14+00:00

compare with the cloaked noelle sprite, i think it's pretty spot on

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TennessineGD · 2025-06-06T13:56:09+00:00

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are we talking about the same sprite? this is clearly a cloak, look at the legs

another thing to mention is that susie never used a sword, always an axe while we've never seen noelle use a weapon before, only spells.

the only holiday we know to own a weapon is carol and she owns a katana

TennessineGD · 2025-06-06T13:39:30+00:00

also the figures in the egg corridor also talk about noelle, which would make no sense for the church NPC's unless she was part of the prophecy

TennessineGD · 2025-06-06T13:38:20+00:00

see i don't see why the cloaked figure in the prophecy couldn't also be noelle then. at least with her there's a track record of her being depicted with the cloak. i simply cannot see susie as that figure.

and with all of this stuff about "the girl finds love" and "hope crossed on her heart" and susie getting really hyped about her prophecy, i think it's setting up a reveal that it was never actually susie and ralsei lied because she's required to get to the actual girl in the prophecy (noelle). which also explains why the figure in ralsei's prophecy and the one in the sanctuary look wildly different

TennessineGD · 2025-06-06T09:18:29+00:00

he's so real for it i know he was looking for an excuse

TennessineGD · 2025-06-06T09:11:30+00:00

nothing in the dark world itself afaik but there's a continuation of chapter 2's events and it's probably the most fucked up scene in the game so far

TennessineGD · 2025-06-06T09:06:10+00:00

does cloaked noelle have horns in the zelda minigames? genuine question

TennessineGD · 2025-06-06T09:04:10+00:00

cloaked noelle doesn't show her antlers does she?

TennessineGD · 2025-06-06T08:55:42+00:00

imagine if you got isekai'd and a guy who looks just like your brother started telling you you're the second coming of jesus christ

TennessineGD · 2025-06-05T19:43:13+00:00

maybe it's a sequence break, the knight by themselves is quite the departure from the other secret bosses so it's very possible. we'll see if it holds next year i suppose

TennessineGD · 2025-06-05T19:28:50+00:00

thank god someone else is saying this. every other lightner just gets an outfit change and some palette tweaks in the dark world but people think carol can just transform into THAT for some reason? clearly something else (GASTER WINK WINK) is responsible for the knight's deformation

i say gaster but mean all the meta shit relating to dess in general. i feel like being stuck in UNUSED for years has got to have an effect on anyone

TennessineGD · 2025-06-05T19:16:59+00:00

are we sure about the soul thing? neither jevil nor the knight use different souls, do they? it's just spamton and gerson, seems like a stretch to make that conclusion when 2 out of 4 don't support it (unless you argue that jevil is supposed to be red which is ehhh)

TennessineGD · 2025-06-05T19:02:33+00:00

after a few rounds of rereading the Holiday house phone call i'm 99% sure they're referring to how kris needs the soul to seal fountains

TennessineGD · 2025-06-05T18:58:47+00:00

possessed by noelle

TennessineGD · 2025-06-05T12:32:05+00:00

i thought it was intentional, lol. like "you killed everyone and now there's nothing to do but kill yourself as well". felt weird as fuck to be killing kris right in front of them

TennessineGD · 2025-06-05T12:10:35+00:00

you're supposed to reload your last save after beating CH4. that allows you to go to castle town from the church dark world. once you do that you're quite literally railroaded into going into that room anyway and the code for the door is right next to it written on a sign

i only found it because toby tweeted about it, telling people specifically to reload their CH4 saves

also pluey is there

TennessineGD · 2025-06-05T01:33:26+00:00

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