'Hollow Knight: Silksong' In-Progress Impressions | Button Mash

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🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

There's a (silk)song in Ben's heart as he brings on Matt James to share their reactions to one of the most anticipated games of the past several years: 'Hollow Knight: Silksong.' In a largely spoiler-free discussion after roughly 60 combined hours spent exploring the land of Pharloom, they consider what made 'Hollow Knight' and its sequel such sensations, how the hype for 'Silksong' grew, how the new game retains and tweaks the original's formula, whether 'Silksong' is too hard, and whether it lives up to unrestrained expectations. Intro (0:00)'Hollow Knight: Silksong' Reactions (3:00)Outro (1:13:04) Host: Ben LindberghGuest: Matt JamesProducer: Devon RenaldoAdditional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.4	Terms apply. Hello and welcome into the Ringerverse, your nexus feed for all things fandom.
0:51.2	And today, all things silk song.
0:53.9	I am Belminberg, senior editor at The Ringer and
0:56.4	Button Mash hosts, and I'm joined by the Ringer's deputy art director and my unlicensed therapist
1:02.7	when I sent him 2 a.m. messages about being unable to beat bosses in Silk Song. Matt James,
1:08.9	hi Matt. Woo! Happy to be here.
1:11.3	I'm so excited.
1:12.7	Thanks for staying up with me.
1:14.7	You did great.
1:15.8	Counseling.
1:16.6	It was much appreciated.
1:18.4	We are here to share our reactions to Hollow Night Silk Song, an actual game that definitely
1:24.0	does exist.
1:25.3	It's real.
1:26.1	It's mostly spectacular.
1:27.6	It's sometimes maddening, and it's immensely popular.
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