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• Team Cherry Defends Silksong's Brutal Difficulty, Reveals Why Early Patches Made It Even Harder

  by Sherry Eddings Aug 10

  In the months since Hollow Knight: Silksong finally landed on PC and consoles, a curious pattern has emerged. Players who spent years begging for a release date are now flooding forums with a very different kind of plea: for help. The sequel's punishing boss fights and labyrinthine zones have sparke...
• Team Cherry Addresses Hollow Knight: Silksong's Steep Difficulty in Rare Developer Commentary

  by Sherry Eddings Aug 10

  Since its release earlier this year, Hollow Knight: Silksong has been simultaneously hailed as a masterpiece and condemned for its merciless challenge. While the original Hollow Knight was no walk in the park, its sequel has proven to be a punishing gauntlet that has left many players torn between e...
• Unlocking the Secrets of Trail's End: A Guide to Shakra's Hidden Quest

  by Sherry Eddings Aug 10

  In the sprawling world of Hollow Knight: Silksong, Hornet's journey is littered with mysteries, but few are as tightly locked away as the Trail's End quest. This secret side tale belongs to Shakra, the lanky cartographer who’s been selling maps to players since the beginning. Sure, she’s a bit of a ...
• How to Crush the Silksong Speedrunner Trophy in Under 5 Hours

  by Sherry Eddings Aug 10

  Bagging the Speedrunner trophy in Silksong isn’t exactly a walk in the park. The community often ranks it right up there with the brutal Steel Soul and Cursed achievements. The challenge? Finish the entire game in less than five hours. It sounds like a tall order, but trust me, with a solid route an...
• The One Silksong Secret I Wish I Knew Before Act 3: Permanently Erasing Clawmaidens from Pharloom

  by Sherry Eddings Aug 10

  I’ve been spelunking through Pharloom for months now, and even in 2026, Hollow Knight: Silksong still finds ways to knock the wind out of me. The sheer density of secrets in this game is absurd – every crumbly wall, every shimmering crevice, every suspiciously quiet room holds something that could f...
• Whispers from the Wishwall: My Journey Through Silksong’s Hidden Quests

  by Sherry Eddings Aug 10

  There’s a moment in Pharloom, usually when you’re knee-deep in grime and lost in some moss-draped tunnel, where you find a wall covered in faded parchment and desperate scrawls. I call it the Wishwall, and it became my compass, my quiet confessional. The thing about Hollow Knight: Silksong is that t...
• Giving the Phantom the Boot: Silksong’s Sneakiest Act 2 Shortcut

  by Sherry Eddings Aug 10

  If there’s one thing every Hollow Knight: Silksong spelunker quickly learns, it’s that Pharloom never does things the boring way. Just when players think they’ve mapped every dusty crevice, the game throws a curveball like The Phantom – a secret boss who moonlights as a creepy organist and, more imp...
• Weaving Power: Hunting All Silk Skills in Hollow Knight: Silksong

  by Sherry Eddings Aug 10

  In the quiet, cathedral-like chambers far above the fungal groves, Hornet discovered the first thread of true power. It was not so much a weapon as it was a revelation—a crystalline shard of essence known as the Silkspear. This was no mere trickshot. It felt like drawing breath underwater for the fi...
• The Hidden Prisoner: Hornet's Battle Against the First Sinner

  by Sherry Eddings Aug 7

  Deep within the forgotten bowels of Pharloom, where light fears to tread and silence reigns supreme, a dark secret slumbered. Hornet had heard whispers—fragmented tales spun by frightened bugs—of a creature so dangerous it was locked away beyond the reach of even the most zealous jailers. They calle...
• How Hornet\u2019s Sapphic Ships Took Over the Silksong Fandom

  by Sherry Eddings Aug 7

  Even a year after its surprise drop in 2025, Hollow Knight: Silksong continues to live rent-free in the minds of players everywhere. The long-awaited Metroidvania landed with barely a whisper of warning, yet it instantly dominated conversations\u2014and fan artists\u2019 canvases. Among the lush new...
• 8 Delightfully Unhinged Details in Hollow Knight: Silksong That Deserve a Round of Applause

  by Sherry Eddings Aug 7

  Since Hollow Knight: Silksong finally dropped in 2025, Pharloom has been thoroughly prodded, poked, and parried by a horde of eager bugs—and the humans controlling them. Team Cherry, in their infinite mischief, spent seven years cramming the kingdom full of secrets that many players whiz right past ...
• 8 Hollow Knight Characters I Need to See in Their Own Games by 2026

  by Sherry Eddings Aug 7

  It’s 2026, and I’m still utterly consumed by the hauntingly beautiful world Team Cherry has built across Hollow Knight and its phenomenal sequel Silksong. Hallownest and Pharloom are brimming with so many memorable bugs that it almost feels criminal to leave their stories untold. Sure, the Knight’s ...