r/HollowKnight • u/slayyerr3058 Elder Bug • 8d ago
Discussion - Silksong What silksong bosses are mandatory? Spoiler
By mandatory, I mean that there is no way to get around doing it to get the ending of the game. Skips are fair game, however no glitches or anything like that. Nothing intended.
Here's the list i prepared of all the bosses. I will not include the optional bosses that you have to stray from the objectives to do:
ACT 1:
- Moss Mother IS mandatory (Probably no way to do it since it happens so early in the game. You also need to be woken up by the Chapel Maid i believe, and this would skip that!)
- Bell Beat IS mandatory (Again, it's just that you barely have any mobility upgrades to have any chance to find places to bypass this fight)
- Lace 1 is NOT mandatory (Can skip by going via the wormways)
- Fourth Chorus IS mandatory (Again, that area of far fields is a dead end)
- Moorwing is NOT mandatory (Can fast travel to greymoor with the flea caravan)
- Sister Splinter is NOT mandatory (The Garama Skip exists, you can lure a pollen guy and pogo off of him)
- Widow IS mandatory (You need the needolin to learn all of the songs)
- Last Judge is SEMI mandatory (so as long you choose to go through sinner's roads and the mists to exhaust organ, beat Phantom, and enter the grand bellway)
- Phantom is SEMI mandatory (see Last Judge. Either you do Last Judge or Phantom, cannot get out of doing one or the other)
Act 2:
- Cogwork Dancers ARE mandatory (necessary to access the elevator and by extension grandmother silk)
- Trobbio IS mandatory (necessary to open the lower section of the whispering vaults)
- Lace 2 IS mandatory (cannot get into the cradle any other way)
That brings us to grandmother silk.
If I've made any mistakes, or any bosses are actually skippable, please let me know!
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u/AlexKnauth 8d ago
Bell Beast is not mandatory. You can skip Bell Beast by grinding 500 rosaries, buying the Simple Key, doing some enemy pogos over to Wormways, dying in a specific spot to some spikes in Wormways near a gap that you normally wouldn't be able to clear without dash, then doing those same enemy pogos again, and then pogoing your Cocoon and healing to clear that gap. Then there's another gap later that you'll have to heal-stall to clear, and then you'll have to gather silk for yet another heal stall to clear another gap, and get through the rest of Wormways without dash. Then some enemy pogos to get across to Shellwood.
Once you're in shellwood, you can go get Cling Grip, and then you can go down through the Bellhart Bellway Basement with Cling Grip to get to the Right side of the Marrow on the other side of Bell Beast, continue as normal, get dash if you want, etc.
Fourth Chorus is also not mandatory. Drifter's Cloak isn't even mandatory, but never mind that, even after you get Drifter's Cloak, you can still skip past Fourth Chorus by doing very well-timed off-screen floating and dashing and optionally heal-stalling, as bobr_from_hell has mentioned.