re: Hollow Knight: Silksong Thread

Which attack is giving you the most trouble?

I can’t relate because I accidentally got into the Citadel the back way (which allows you to skip Last Judge). So when I went back and fought her, I had a much more robust kit than a player would otherwise have there and mopped her after 2-3 attempts

I. Didn't. Know. She. Would. Explode. When. She. Died.

Made it untouched for the whole runback.

Didn't take any damage until Phase 3.

Perfected aiming for the outside of her hitbox when doing the pogo attacks in phases 2 & 3.

Finally killed her and while I was sitting there in shock and relief, the bitch self-destructed and killed me before the autosave kicked in.

Took me 3-4 attempts afterwards to take her down again, but I finally did it. On to the Citadel now.

I stalled out on the left side ascent for about 90 minutes because I realized I was trying to jump/float/Clawline too quickly after hitting one of the flying mobs as I was was working my way from cable car to cable car. Even the slightest hesitation after hitting a target with the Clawline can make the difference between having enough altitude from hitting one of the flying bugs and coming up short.

Took me a while to understand that I was accidentally self-sabotaging my runs by being impatient with the jump button.

Still in Act II, and I've hit a bit of a plateau. There's any number of directions I can go and I'm not sure that I'm committed to any one, right now.

I finally found my way into Bilewater in reverse from the way many do it (I went down from Whispering Vaults rather than going over from Sinner's Road once you get the Double Jump).

Apparently I had the ability to go over into Putrefied Ducts from Memoriam since getting the Faydown Cloak, too, but I missed that secret entrance. It wasn't until I saw a Youtube video trying to figure out if you have to open the connection between Bilewater & Putrefied Ducts from the top down that I learned I can get into the Ducts after all.

Ditto for the Wisp Thicket area into the Underworks. I made it to the Father Flame boss and I don't need the kind of negativity in my life that that run back would cause. The Mist area navigating to the Exhaust Organ, too.

I found Trubbio in Whispering Vaults' stage area and didn't feel like banging my head against that particular wall for a while either. I made it to the last phase of the gauntlet to get the Conductor's Melody in the High Halls, but that Choir Clapper mob is a gigantic PITA. The main thing I have picked up in my time since I was working on that one to no avail is the Tacks subweapon that's thrown on the ground. Maybe sticking to the walls and spam those would work. Of course, that means barely using them if at all in the rounds leading up to that finale part....

I ran into the Chef boss in Sinner's Road and attempted that one several times, but it didn't seem compelling enough to make me stick with it the way some of the other bosses like Last Judge and the Cogwork Dancers did to keep at it until I finally knocked them out.

Is there a such thing as a game being TOO open world?

I got the Ruined Tool in the Bilewater Weavenest (Murglin), and consensus seems to be to take it back to the Mount Fay peak and convert it there, rather than giving it to the Deep Docks merchant or the Twelfth Architect.

Finally had a bit of a breakthrough and discovered a few new bosses - the two in the bottom left of Deep Docks, the one in the Marilyn Monroe dress within the bottom right of The Slab. Haven't beaten either, mind you.

Both shortcuts to Blasted lands from Sands of Karak are now open and I have that timed ascent to the top of Karak up next.

Once I finish the Sands of Karak, I need to buckle down and finish Groal in Bilehaven.

There were a lot of red slot subweapons that I'd missed, so I had to take a mental break to pick those up, grab lost fleas once they were able to be marked on the map, etc. The Cogflies have been a game changer.

Having to fight an arena battle just for the opportunity to fight a boss is all kinds of fricked up.

I think I've only gotten to that miserable bastard once or twice. Trying to navigate that gauntlet before he emerges is awful.

Is that where you say "frick it" and get down in the maggots and just hit him when he gets near?

I don't think they patched that one. It seems like every time I find a good way of cheesing one of the harder bosses, it comes out that they fixed the exploits months ago, just after release.

Yeah, I have that bench, thankfully. Right now, I think the most brutal run-back I've overcome was the one for that damned broken bench in Sinner's Road. There was no sense in that.