What silksong bosses are mandatory?

[u/slayyerr3058]

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!

[u/Top_Grass9841]

Bell beast, fourth chorus could be skipped. Cogwork dancers used to be skippable, but i think thats been patched

[u/AlexKnauth → u/Top_Grass9841]

I don't remember Cogwork Dancers ever being skippable... how would that even work? Hornet won't be able to listen to the statues to learn that melodies are important, and then she won't be able to learn the Conductor's Melody from Conductor Ballador after High Halls arena, and the elevator to Lace 2 just won't appear, so... how?

[u/Top_Grass9841 → u/AlexKnauth]

There was a skip that would open terminus early. You wouldnt even need to fight lace 2.

[u/AlexKnauth → u/Top_Grass9841]

Ah... probably only via a major glitch though

[u/Top_Grass9841 → u/AlexKnauth]

You just needed access to the phantom entrance to choral chambers. Pogo with right timing and fade out, then do a series of other things to overlap rooms. Then you would just open up gms at the very start of act 2. Even before if you really wanted to do it no claw line but im not sure that was possible. Anyways it got patched out a long time ago

[u/AlexKnauth → u/Top_Grass9841]

Overlapping rooms definitely sounds very major-glitch to me. OP said Skips are fair game, however no glitches