8 Delightfully Unhinged Details in Hollow Knight: Silksong That Deserve a Round of Applause

Since Hollow Knight: Silksong finally dropped in 2025, Pharloom has been thoroughly prodded, poked, and parried by a horde of eager bugs—and the humans controlling them. Team Cherry, in their infinite mischief, spent seven years cramming the kingdom full of secrets that many players whiz right past while panic-dashing from a Moss Mother. But slow down, take a breath, and you’ll notice the kind of madcap genius that makes the studio so beloved. Here are eight tiny, hilarious, and often eerie details that show Pharloom is more alive than your average bug metroidvania has any right to be.

The Bell Beast Is Basically a Hyperactive Puppy

Fast travel in Silksong comes courtesy of the Bell Beast, a hulking critter that hauls Hornet through bell veins—but only after she kicks its carapace in a dominance fight. Win that scrap, and congrats: you’ve adopted a giant, bell-chomping doggo. Leave it waiting without picking a destination? It stamps its feet like a terrier denied a walk. Come back to a station and you’ll often find it curled up snoozing, just like a loyal hound waiting for its owner. Yup, that’s right—it’s basically a velvety, chitinous good boy, and nobody can convince us otherwise.

Ants Gonna Ant—Even in a Fantasy Kingdom

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