175. Hollow Knight: Silksong's Difficulty, and Alanah's ChatGPT Video

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Alanah Pearce

Troybaker, Videogames, Video Games, Leisure, Mikebithell, Games, Austinwintory, Alanahpearce

4.8 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week, Alanah, Mike, and Austin chat about Hollow Knight: Silksong (yes, it's hard) and how media seems to prefer difficult games, Alanah's recent ChatGPT video (though this was recorded before it was published), and the Freewrite Traveler.

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0:00.0	PlayWitch Listen is a mostly games industry podcast featuring mostly game developers. The show is hosted by Mike Bithill, who is a video game director, Austin Wintery, who is a video game composer and me, a video game writer. This show is entirely sponsorship free and has been for almost five years, thanks to our supporters on Patreon, who also got an extended chat at the start of this episode, and completely add free episodes. But whether you support this show on Patreon or not, we appreciate you watching the show and we hope you enjoy it. You know what else the kids are doing? Playing Silk Song. Are you the either of you, Holonite people? Sounds like not. I didn't think you. Yeah, I dip my toes in Hollow Night back in the day and I have Silk Song teed up. I just haven't had a chance. I'm planning on
0:39.3	doing a Game Maker
0:41.3	Notebook with the composer.
0:43.3	Amazing. Music's beautiful.
0:46.0	Yeah, it's
0:47.4	certainly
0:49.0	his claim
0:51.4	to fame very much twice over.
0:54.7	And I did a concert with him down in Australia a couple, two years ago.
0:58.6	We did like a lecture together, which was funny.
1:00.8	Super nice guy.
1:01.9	So I've been excited, despite the fact that I know I'm in for a vengeful experience.
1:09.3	Have you played the first one?
1:11.7	Yeah, back when it first came out, like I said, kind of, and I never beat it.
1:15.4	It was one of those.
1:16.0	I ended up getting distracted by, I don't remember what now.
1:18.4	Yeah, video games happens.
1:19.8	But I've heard this is considerably harder than the first one.
1:22.2	Yes.
1:22.5	You have a good time?
1:23.1	I played the first one also when it came out and then dropped it because I like didn't know where to go. And so I played maybe two hours. And so then I replayed it this year because the game that I'm working on keeps being compared to Holo Night. And I was like, no, I should really check out this Holo Night thing. Obsessed. I put in like 100 hours into a game that does not need that long to finish. It's incredible. It really, there's something very, very unique about it. it's the sense of discovery that that really gets me. It's incredible. There's something very, very unique about it.
1:49.0	It's the sense of discovery that really gets me. It's just, it's like a big sprawling map,
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