Hollow Knight: Silksong hasn’t even been out 24 hours, and already speedrunners are pulling the game apart in search of tricks and techniques to shave off precious seconds from future playthroughs. Already, they’ve made some key discoveries.
A select few in the dedicated Hollow Knight Discord server are sharing clips to each other, laying the foundation for a bustling competition on who can beat the game the fastest. Already, players have discovered a technique to travel faster than the standard sprint, as well as various skips using the aerial downward attack.
Users like SkysThLimit have discovered you can easily bait various flying enemies to ledges otherwise unscalable early in the game. Then, using the aforementioned downward attack (affectionately called pogoing), players can gain some extra vertical distance access rooms early.
This style of skip was numerous throughout the original Hollow Knight too, and it looks like some of the old favourites are still as good as ever. However, several day-one speedrunners have pointed out, Hornet’s unique movement abilities allow for new strategies too.
If you do a jump and immediately dash (once you’ve unlocked it) and repeat the process over and over, you can move horizontally across the ground far faster than if you were just running normally.
These may seem small, but Silksong’s fastest playthroughs will be built on small tricks like these. Considering the game has an achievement for beating it in under five hours, you can be sure maneuvers like these will be sorely needed in the weeks to come.
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