I was being carried by these dudes in some sort of cage but used a sort of silk attack skill thing to break the cage over a big drop, causing us to fall real far down. I wake up and I’m in a mossy area. I walk around a bit before fighting some big bug. After beating it I felt a lot better, nearly like the game wasn’t going to get extremely hard… (goddamn it). I talk to some hobo in a sanctuary before stepping out into a place called Bone Bottom. People kept talking about being pilgrims and ascending. They all said “ascending” so all I thought about when they said that was Gorb. After passing through Bone Bottom I entered an area called The Marrow. It was just bones and bells and simple enemies that were easy to kill. I made my way through the Marrow until I reached the first thing I’d call a real boss called “The Bell Beast”. He wasn’t much of a beast, I kept thinking of him as a puppy dog because of how he moved. I proved to be correct because other people thought this too. I even looked up how I could pet the dog later on and apparently Team Cherry said that you can pet the dog by just hitting it… So now I’m just imagining that “fighting” the boss wasn’t really fighting it… it was just petting it. (how adorable)

After I exited the Marrow, I went to a place called Deep Docks, which is a lava area with annoying flying guys and guys with big forks with bells on their heads. In Deep Docks I met some child who I fought. It took me a couple of tries but I got her. Anytime I died she’d laugh which got me heated to kill her. And her boss theme was so good. She told me her name was Lace. And from that day on, Lace was my arch nemesis. She ran off to go do more sinister things like burning down a school or something and I carefully hopped out of Deep Docks. After that I travelled to the land of Far Fields. A beautiful lush green area with a lot of wind. I got an ability to float down like Mary Poppins (thank goodness) and ended up using that ability to soar high above into the lands of Greymoor.

I entered Greymoor, delt with some annoying birds, met a bar owner, and got my ass handed to me by some giant bird boss called “The Moorwing”. This is what I counted as the 2nd official boss of the game. I died to it countless times, to the point where I learned how to runback to the boss without getting hit while god-pixeling the enemies there. (God-pixeling is when you dodge an enemy and your hitbox is only just outside of their hitbox). I eventually defeated the boss with my good friends Garmond and Zaza and continued on to enter a place called Bellhart. Bellhart was terrifying. Bugs strung up by silk that lead up to an area I couldn’t enter. I traversed to the left and discovered a place called Shellwood. Shellwood reminded me of Queen’s Gardens. I traversed through Shellwood and found the next boss “Sister Splinter”. I died around 10 times to this thing before finally defeating her. Afterwards I was given access to an area of Shellwood I hadn’t gone to before. It led me all the way back to Bellhart where my heart sunk.

I run through some tunnels but accidentally drop into an area. The strings below were strung up by some psychopathic crazed lunatic Weaver called “Widow”. I fought her for what felt like a lifetime before killing her. It took MANY tries but I ended up winning. After that I ended up freeing the bugs below and the place became like a second home. I went back to Bone Bottom, bought all the stuff from the shop, did all the quests on the quest board, and even discovered a new area called Hunter’s March. After all that, I logged off thinking that all I’d done was progress and I was safe…

I log back on the next morning excited for what the game has in store for me when BAM – some big bone tyrant thing runs through the village of Bone Bottom and starts killing citizens. I put an end to it’s life but the village is destroyed. Hope is lost and nobody has much hope left. With a heavy heart, I leave bone bottom to go discover more. When I return they host a funeral where they just chuck someone’s lifeless body down a hole… (kinda funny tbh bc of the sounds it makes). I make my way up a place called the “Blasted Steps” and find the middle-game boss, “The Last Judge”. I fight for a bit but figure out her patterns, putting an end to her life. As she falls to the ground, she explodes… which ended up killing me the first time around. So the 2nd time I was more cautious. I open the gates to the Citadel that all the Pilgrims were describing like heaven. I enter and find some weird balancing platforms that I couldn’t traverse properly, so I ended up using an elevator. The elevator failed and sent us to what I’d assume is the sweat and tears of what making this game for 7 years must’ve felt like. It was a dark, black area with enemies. It was called the Underworks. I traverse the area and make it to a place called the Choral Chambers.

Along the way I discover the final area I’d call a home-base called Songclave (bellhart is my home though). I wrung a bell and people flooded the area. I discovered more and found a place called the Memorium. that place was kinda nuts. Then I fought the Cogwork Dancers. Overall – fun fight. Good music, just a vibe. After I destroyed them, I had to go on a small quest to get melodies so that I could fight Lace who was guarding the entrance to the final final boss. I snatched the melodies from the people and played it at the elevator – which was a crazy theme for a goddamn bug game. Christopher Larkin went over and above for Silksong. Before fighting Lace, I discovered more of the Choral Chambers until I found the most based and underrated motherfucker to exist called “Trobbio”. He reminded me of Troupe Master Grimm, except he was happy instead of calm. I fought him and died to him on purpose any time I felt like the fight would end because the theme is one of the best ones in the game. Eventually though I had to finish the fight and I slayed the guy. His death animation was funny too, he finished with one final “TROBBIO”. Though I will admit, I backed away from the body due to the PTSD I got from the Final Judge.

After defeating Trobbio, I discovered new areas and went to a bunch of different places. I thought I was in the end-game of Silksong and that the game was going to end soon. I was losing interest in the game slowly. I explored as much as I could and did as many quests as I could, sometimes even searching up some stuff. Eventually I had a lot of things completed. So I said “fuck it” and made my way to Lace. We fought for a while and she whooped my ass. I died the most times to this boss out of any that I’d faced. I kept losing over and over again until one fateful night, I struck the final blow to her. Lace looked at me and told me there’s a ruler above who wanted to meet with me. We bonded for a bit about being the daughters of what’s considered Gods and she falls to the floor. I decided to make a trip back to Bellhart and Songclave to see all the NPC’s off one final time before finishing the game. I made my house look clean in Bellhart (and btw got a house in bellhart which is nice) and bought everything for it (yes even the spa and lights).

After wasting all my money on that, I went to Songclave where I talked to every NPC. I talked to the old hobo guy (who turned out to be related to the hobo girl I met at the beginning of the game), and he told me that he could help me with the fight somehow. I thought to myself “That’s AWESOME” and I took his quest to gain the materials for him to setup a trap. I travelled to the Ruined Chapel where I met the hobo girl at the beginning of the game and she gave me one of the items, the next one I headed to bellhart’s tunnels and got one from a hobo guy in there, and already got one from what I describe as the hate and rage of every gamer on earth. Or in other words, Bilewater. I had one more item left and I had no idea where I could’ve gone, until I discovered a place in the Weaver’s hideout place (called the Atla) and got the Snare Setter. I gave all the materials to the hobo guy in Songclave and he said he’d meet me up at the top where the final boss is. He set the trap then gave me a little “heads up”. He told me that the trap would only be set off once a large portion of her health was gone. (I thought it’d one shot her… GREAT). He also says I’ll need to play my Needolin and that I’ll know when to do it…?(the harp on a needle = Needolin).

With that I head into the fight, challenging the Ruler of a Broken Land to a duel. Her name was Grandmother Silk. The boss theme was peak, and I didn’t realise but I accidentally killed her before dying to her. (I wanted to hear her theme more). The trap was set off and I pierced her silk-body with my needle. Usually when in the position I was in, you would bind the boss to you to gain their strength… But after binding once, I thought “I want to finish this game playing the banjo”. So I start playing Needolin. Suddenly, a portal of pure black appears under the boss and void tendrils reach up and grab Grandmother Silk. Desperate to escape her fate, she grabs me. GM Silk was thinking like “If I go down, I’m taking you with me” type. Just as I’m accepting my fate, Lace jumps in, cutting one of Grandmother Silk’s arms clean off and bodying her down into the portal of void, saving my life as I fall down into the Cradle (the arena I fought Lace in the 2nd time).

As they get taken into the void, the strings get darker and I can see there’s no longer a form of control being used on the poor bugs inhabiting Pharloom. The credits roll and I think it was a pretty nice game. After making it back to the main menu, I see void tendrils in the background. Usually it’s a city but I assumed beating the boss changed something. Below and behold, I see my save covered by void tendrils. I clicked on it and the void tendrils began disappearing. When they were all gone the game-save didn’t have my last location on it… Instead it just read “???”. I enter and find myself on the floor below in the Cradle. There’s rubble falling all around me as I make my escape for the exit. As I leave, I make my way back to Songclave where I notice that my friend Sherma was left in-charge of the place and got given a nobility outfit from the hobo. I zipped through the Choral Chambers to the bellway to find my dog wasn’t there… instead replaced with some nasty centipede. I fought it but my dog saved me from death, and introduced me to all his babies. After a sweet reunion, I rushed down to the Ruined Chapel where all the hobos were gathered. They basically blamed me for the entire thing and told me to explore. I went deep into the abyss using the Diving Bell in Deep Docks.

The diving bell ended up breaking and I fell far deeper than I should’ve… and entered the area called “The Abyss”. It was filled with void creatures that were pretty scary. I traversed the area and found the ability Silksoar – letting me fly vertically using my nail like a grappling hook (which is useful). After escaping the Abyss and going through “The Path of Slight Inconvenience”, I made my way back to the Chapel. I talked to the hobos and they gave me a cool melody I could use to wake up the old God’s of this land (since it wasn’t always ruled by Grandmother Silk).