Hollow Knight Silksong is Stupidly Hard: Let’s Play All of it – Act 2

37 thoughts on “Hollow Knight Silksong is Stupidly Hard: Let’s Play All of it – Act 2”

1. Thank you so much again to everyone who's been supportive of my playthrough! This is the entire Act 2 of the game, with two more parts coming to showcase 100% completion. I really enjoyed my time with the game even if it had some rough parts, and I hugely appreciate the support on my Skong playthrough

2. I loved the sherma remix Well played RT🎉

3. Skong!

4. Incidentally its really fun seeing RT get the hang of the movement and combat (with the ultra short wanderer no less), even starting to remember his abilities exist

5. Wait, that was the end of the story?

6. I know the game (and the fandom) can be difficult and annoying sometimes, but im really glad to see your perseverance and determination! Can't wait for the last 2 parts!

7. Watching these videos has convinced me to never buy this game. This really does remind me of dark souls 2 and im not doing that to myself again.

8. no but for real, although ill probably play the game heavily modded, I do really appreciate getting to see it for real. your playthru may have had its stumbles but its been a pleasure to watch.

9. Act 3 is waiting Dan !

10. We shouldn't have complained about having too much geo in hollow knight

11. Geez, Act 2 really looks so much different, like with the tooling, options, and whatnot. Its still hard as hell, but the vibe is different. Really feels like the trouble with Act 1 is the whacky progression and difficulty pacing… you can argue its for the lore and whatever, but it does reflect on the game's design and has an impact on the player experience.

12. [MAJOR SPOILER WARNING]

    I adore how the UI progressively transforms and expands starting from [1:37:31]. It's a really "meta" way to show that Hornet isn't sealing the final boss' power – instead, Hornet's ABSORBING its silk, briefly attaining godlike strength that she ultimately won't be able to handle – a change that's so drastic it mutates her health bar to the point where it looks like you enabled cheats.

    As weird of an analogy as this is, this kinda reminds me of a gag in Kirby Triple Deluxe on the 3DS, where Kirby inhales a boss' health bar. There's probably other examples out there, too.

    Not to mention that her HP masks change from the mask of Hornet to the mask of her mother, Herrah the Beast. Combine that with her growing extra arms in the bad ending cutscene, and it seems like Grand Mother Silk's fusion with Hornet has awakened latent potential slumbering within the latter – potential that had never been considered, and should never have been realized.

13. TROBBIOOOOOOOOOO

14. It's insane to me how much easier Wanderer is than anything else. Ridiculous DPS for nothing.

15. I'm really glad I get to watch you play this through as someone who has 50 hours in the game then dropped it because I was just done with the bs. It's great watching you enjoy the game while not hiding the critique of some of the insane choices that were made. I'm excited to see all the way to the end!

16. Silksong is just karma for Daneshiro, shouldn't have been such a money grubber smh

17. God I love Trobbio, he's so funny and his song is awesome

18. I know it’s too late because he’s finished the game already. But for the future, use clawline in combat more, it’s so good, especially against flyers

19. taking a drag everytime he mentions path of pain

20. I think a huge thing about the double damage is the fact that most of the bugs that do it dont look like they should. In Hollow knight you could easily tell which bugs do double damage as they are usually massive with large weapons while in silksong not only do you have that but you also have the average joe schmo doing it.

21. 42:46 I've already 100% the game, it took me an hour of mindlessly going through the Mist (i tried mapping it myself), and gave up and looked up how to get through the repeating maps. The fact that RT just figured it out himself with the needolin mechanic speaks volume of his critical thinking when it comes to these games.

    Also, RT is crazy good at first encounters with bosses. Almost always able to clear it first try.

22. TROBBIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

23. seeing how quicly you got to this point made me lock in and beat The Forum encounter first try after many attempts, and riding the high I went back to find hidden encounters and I beat The First Sinner on the 3rd try. Thanks for showing me how much better I could be, it was an eyeopener.

24. There's something so profoundly sad about Conductor Ballador that I can't help but love. The last of his line, the Conductors were the only ones permitted to know the truth of Pharloom's heart, and that is knowledge that Ballador himself questions whether he is better off knowing or not.

    And now he sits, sickly to the point of complete bed-riddenness, while the world around him collapses, all of the power he had been promised when he took on the mantle of Conductor meaningless, as it was all only a fake power, existing only in the absence of the being kept in slumber at the peak.

    He is free of the Haunting, but because of the curse of ordinary, salt of the earth illness wracking his old, old form, he, really, has no more freedom than his haunted kin. An irony, for the caste who stole power of the kingdom, to only be left to rot, not even deserving the effort of being brought into the curse's mind

25. Playing through Act 2 and seeing how the Citadel operates, especially in terms of Beads, has made me come to the conclusion that this is Amazon’s dream come true

    To think, having to have your own workers PAY to go on breaks!

26. okay, you playing for Sherma so you could play and sing together was so freaking cute, I loved it!!

27. Somebody is a sore loser. Get guu. Garama!, Edeedo!

28. This game is so money hungry, it's like if every level in a Mario game costs 40 coins to access, and each level only contained 50

29. 7:14 dies irae???

30. There is absolutely no way I'd have the skill or patience to succeed at this game. Thank you RT for this video and getting a chance to experience what it has to offer.

31. 45:08 My clumsy ass anytime I enter a bathroom

32. Damn, dan got the bad ending

33. Glad I decided not to try Silk Song. For how difficult the game is I'm disappointed with the ending. What happened to Hornet? What happened to Pharloom? What happened to all the great characters that were met along the way?

34. “So there’s this king, and he asks the Menderbug, ‘How many seconds are in eternity?’ And the Menderbug says, ‘There’s a mountain of pure Pale Ore. It takes an hour to climb it and an hour to go around it. Every hundred years, a little spider comes by and sharpens her needle on the tip of the Pale Ore mountain. And when the entire mountain has been worn away, the first second of eternity will have passed.’ Now, you may think that’s a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that’s a hell of a spider.”

35. TROBBIO

36. RT is clearly better gamer than me, i used used architect crest and spam using tool in the high hall mob rush

37. I like how much people adore Trobbio, my favorite thing are the people saying he’s a mix of Zote and Grimm.

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