Hollow Knight: Silksong fans rally for over a month to support a player tackling Savage Beastfly with outrageous custom rules, including the notorious Groal runback on every try.
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Last month, I chatted with a Hollow Knight: Silksong player who embarked on a quest to conquer a version of the Savage Beastfly boss, altered by outrageous mods and rules voted on by Redditors in the Silksong community. As of today, that player, SuddenlySpoons, has tackled 28 changes to the Beastfly, and the modifications are only getting weirder.
“Day 28 of fighting Savage Beastfly every day until I can’t beat it anymore, but the most upvoted comment on this post decides how I make tomorrow’s fight harder,” reads our hero’s latest update.
Yesterday, Reddit voted to allow SuddenlySpoons to regenerate one health every three seconds.
“This felt like a huge breath of fresh air,” SuddenlySpoons shared in his post. “Now when things go wrong, it feels like I actually have a chance to make a comeback. However, I will admit I beat this run relatively fast, so I’m expecting something evil for today.”
As of now, the top comment suggests adding a random Beastfly to Bilewater, which SuddenlySpoons must now navigate through with every attempt, thanks to the day 24 modifier: “Groal runback.” Yes, the most dreaded boss runback in the entire game, typically found far from the Savage Beastfly, is now just the prelude to one of the most chaotic encounters I’ve ever witnessed in a Hollow Knight game.
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to follow what’s happening in this fight. Random enemies float across the screen, characters like Shakra observe from the sidelines, and lava rains down from above. “PILBY HAS DIED,” one day’s modification declares. “Ass Jim DVD screensaver,” reads day 16, as if that’s a perfectly normal thing to say.
Reddit was less forgiving on day 27, giving the Savage Beastfly a rotating and regenerating ring of mini-Beastflies. The day before that, the Silksong community demanded SuddenlySpoons complete daily Silksongdle puzzles. On day 17, clips of Family Guy funny moments and footage of Subway Surfers were added to the background. Things are getting bizarre, but SuddenlySpoons is still going strong four weeks later. He previously mentioned that day 30 would be a tough milestone. At this point, I’m eager to see just how far we can push this madness.
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