It's been less than a month since Silksong finally came out, and during said month, I beat the game in an arduous 72 hours—all three acts, most of the mementos, you name it. Well, turns out I was dragging my little heels, because the game's speedrunning community has already got an Any% to below an hour.
Nebula 's 58 minute, 52 second speedrun (thanks, GamesRadar+ ) shows some already-impressive tech. Firstly, by confirming my 'jumping is faster' instinct (finely honed in MMOs where it was not, in fact, faster) by showing that repeated pogos are the prime method of locomotion for ol' Hornet, here.
What really surprises me, as I watch them tearing through Lace like a knife through… well, lace, is their use of the clawline—it seems like you can use it to interrupt your own swings to get mo