Hollow Knight: Silksong hides a permadeath mode

, by Thibaut

Hollow Knight: Silksong hides a permadeath mode

Team Cherry has thought of players who might find the epic adventure of Hollow Knight: Silksong far too easy. The small studio has hidden a permanent death mode in the game's menus.

To activate it, you need to go to the Bonus section of the main menu and enter the famous Konami Code. Here's the combination to use: Up, down, up, down, left, right, left, right. A short animation accompanied by a sound effect will appear when the code is entered successfully.

Then, you need to go back to the main menu and select Start Game and then New Game. Two difficulty modes will then be displayed: Classic mode and the mode we are looking for, called Steel Soul. In the latter, if Hornet dies even once, the save file will be deleted and the game must then restarted from the beginning.

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