Hollow Knight: Silksong Fans Discover Secret Mode That Actually Makes the Game HARDER — Here's the Code to Unlock It

Hollow Knight: Silksong is simply a hard crippled — that overmuch is clear. Indeed its trouble is 1 of the main talking points successful the days since Team Cherry’s hotly anticipated sequel came out. But fans person discovered there’s a concealed mode that really makes the crippled harder.

Warning! Spoilers for Hollow: Knight Silksong follow.

Fans person recovered the unlockable Steel Soul Mode Permadeath utilizing a variant of the celebrated Konami code. As IGN has elaborate successful our Hollow: Knight Silksong cheats and secrets usher leafage and successful the video below, you activate this mode by going to the Extras enactment connected the main paper past inputting the pursuing series via the D-pad:

• Up, Down, Up, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right.

If you're having occupation doing this, beryllium definite to cheque retired our Silksong cheats and secrets usher leafage for other advice.

Over the weekend, we reported connected however immoderate Silksong players were expressing disapproval crossed societal media, subreddits, Discords, and Steam reviews astir the game’s trouble scaling and brutal runbacks. There’s 1 precise aboriginal miniboss causing a batch of players a full heap of trouble, too.

Today, September 9, Team Cherry elaborate Hollow Knight: Silksong’s archetypal post-launch patch, which makes “slight” equilibrium changes to the aboriginal game, possibly successful effect to this archetypal feedback from the community.

Thankfully, IGN is present to help. Here's however to unlock and usage the map, however to get Rosary Beads, Achievements and Trophies list, and our ever expanding Silksong Interactive Map. Also, you whitethorn request the Bell Beast brag combat guide. It's a hard one!

We've besides got a communicative connected Silksong's champion mods, astir each of which marque the crippled easier.

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