Hollow Knight: Silksong

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• Hornet can travel faster and is more acrobatic than Knight
  
• Can mantle or clamber onto ledges as well
• Caves around Hornet have expanded to accommodate her height
• Team Cherry approached the enemy design differently since Hornet is a fast and competent fighter
• Cancel out of mantling animations to gain height faster
• Enemies are more complex
• One enemy disguises itself as a discarded skull
• Another enemy is like the Moss Charger, but has more legs and accelerates as it goes with more complex patterns
• Magic isn’t as prominent in Pharloom, but there are strange things happening like pilgrims involved with cult-like behavior
• Hollow Knight: Silksong starts out by getting players acclimated to old and new systems
• More varied areas to start out with, beginning in Moss Grotto and then going into the lava-moated ‘boneforest’ area, which was cut from the first game
• This plays host to the hub town of Bonebottom and the bell-lined tunnel known as The Marrow
• Many early enemies and falling hazards now give out two hits to the health bar
• Hornet can heal with Bind, an ability that uses the silk she gathers by hitting enemies to bandage wounds
• Three masks instead of one
• Team Cherry’s Ari Gibson: “… you spend more time either at full health or almost dead, and the gameplay is kind of snapping between those two states”
• You’ll come across strings of beads, and they can be broken at any point to use as currency
• While strung, you’ll keep the beads if you die; they’re like a banking system
• Some vendors will string beads up for you so that you can pay them a small amount and get them to put back onto strings
• There are around 100 different benches that come out of the floor when approached that act as save spots
• Difficulty intended to be around the same as the first Hollow Knight
• Those that haven’t played the first game can jump in here easily
• Hornet has tools that can be crafted or replenished at benches by using Shell Shards from enemies
• Pimpillo Bomb: area-of-effect blast
• Sting Shards: extend spikes in mid-air or when struck with a weapon
• Straight Pins: can be thrown like kunai
• Straight Pins can be modified to become Tri-Pins to throw three at once
• Hornet learns these tools and their modifications from Pharloom residents
• Hornet is a strong personality with a clear role, and she speaks
• Players will be able to see “a variety of strange places”
• Initial goal is to get to the Citadel, which is at the top of the world
• Hornet’s Crests: customizable, themed loadouts
• Hornet can take on different tasks for NPCs
• Keep track of tasks with noticeboards scattered throughout the world such as Bonebottom
• Tasks go along with the organically unfolding quest lines of the first game
• Tasks seem to involve combat challenges, finding secret locations, and more
• One task, “Gather” has players rounding up Mossberries and bringing them to the Druid of the Moss Temple
• Hollow Knight composer Christopher Larkin is back
• Hornet lost her traditional strength after time being bound in a cage, and is now sort of restoring it; the Weavers are helping her
• Silk Spear: get a superpowered forward lunge and cut through sticky web barriers; uses part of Hornet’s silk supply
• Last Judge: foe that fires rings of flame