Renault on 20/10/2025 at 17:17
I've read you can summon NPCs for the gauntlet fight, ala Elden Ring. Seems that likely would tip the scales in your favor.
Tomi on 25/10/2025 at 07:04
Quote Posted by Renault
I've read you can summon NPCs for the gauntlet fight, ala Elden Ring. Seems that likely would tip the scales in your favor.
I've tried to avoid reading too many tips while playing Silksong, but yeah, I read something about that NPC helper as well. I think I know who the NPC is, and he randomly pops up to help me in some normal fights every now and then, but I have no idea how to summon him for the Big Fight.
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It's very much a difficulty gate where you're supposed to do other things. I feel like maybe the big problem there is that instead of a big instant "lol no" you get all these easy waves to go through first that lures you in and makes you think you can beat it until you can't.
Yup. Just like all the other similar gauntlet fights in Silksong so far, a logical ending for this fight would have been wave 5 where the first mini-boss appears. Even that would have been a nice challenge for most players.
But yeah, I've just been doing other things for now. I feel like I've explored everything already, but then I find another new corner of the map or a new secret, and there we go again. I now spend most of my time just wandering around though, but I know that I'm still missing something, because I'm pretty sure that I saw someone using
double jump in that annoying gauntlet fight in a gameplay video that I watched, and I want to have that ability too before I try it again. :D
Thirith on 27/10/2025 at 08:03
While I'm loving the game (primarily for its vibe, world and music, though I'm also enjoying playing it most of the time), I do think that some of the design decisions are questionable, and to some extent the game would be improved by being 80% of its current size, dropping especially bosses and gauntlets that are simply not very enjoyable. Even with those, I am a big fan of Silksong, but there are moments when the game leans into punishing grind and repetition for no good reason other than that being its supposed brand. I definitely felt this less with Hollow Knight.
Renault on 27/10/2025 at 21:40
It makes me sad, but I admit it. Silksong became not enjoyable for me because of the difficulty. I've put it down for now, might pick it up again in the future. I remember getting to tough spots in Hollow Knight that frustrated me, but never to the point where I wasn't having fun or didn't want to go back and keep trying. But that's kind of where I'm at right now with Silksong.
Thirith on 28/10/2025 at 08:00
At which point did you put the game down?
Renault on 28/10/2025 at 16:42
It's hard to get specific on this, it's not for a single boss or anything, just a general sense of running around in circles, not knowing where to go or what to do, or how to progress. It just seems different than the original for some reason. There's a few mini gauntlet type scenarios that I've run into that just have frustrated me, both in difficulty and in how long it takes to get back there from a save point/bench after dying. Maybe it's because it doesn't compare well to other games I'm playing right now. But no pity parties, please, I'm sure I'll get back to it at some point, but for now it's best to take a big ole break.
Aja on 28/10/2025 at 19:37
I wonder if people are forgetting how hard Hollow Knight was. Or maybe I was just a bad gamer. My second playthrough went pretty smoothly, but that happened after I got good at Sekiro, so maybe I leveled up. But I recall my first runthrough being absolutely filled with frustration.
Tomi on 1/11/2025 at 16:20
Apart from that stupid gauntlet I still haven't encountered anything too challenging, but yeah, Silksong can be tough! Okay, there was this swamp monster that caused me some serious headache, but even there the most annoying thing was the long run back after each failed attempt. Come on, if you want to make it tough, at least give me a bench right outside the boss area. Having to kill a bunch of normal enemies and to do some acrobatics every single time isn't the kind of challenge that I'm looking for - it's just annoying.
Since my last attempt at the gauntlet I've been doing other stuff in the game. I've upgraded my needle twice, got two more masks (health) and more silk, and learned the double jump. I think I'm ready to give it another try! But I'm 99.9% sure that it's still going to suck and I'll hate it.
Tomi on 3/11/2025 at 04:22
Well, I did give that gauntlet another try. Aaand I beat it on the first try!
But it's not because I've suddenly become so much better in this game. No. Like Renault wrote earlier, I did get help from a certain NPC (Shakra, a.k.a. the map lady, just appeared from nowhere during the fight) and all I had to do was to stay alive while the NPC did most of the killing. I don't even know what triggered it, but I suspect that it had something to do with a side quest that I played earlier.
So I'm done with the annoying gauntlet now, and in a way I'm happy that there was a sensible way to finish it after all, but at the same time I also found this a bit disappointing.
