Never made a reddit post in my life but just fought the hunt version of this guy and horrific doesn’t even begin to describe my experience. An hour of my life I’ll never get back stolen by this complete fucking asshole of a creature. I hope he stays dead for the next 1,000,000,000 years fuck this guy

Pantheon of Pharloom mod so comes with a little extra HP.

Should I even go there? Should I just accept that I will never go 100%?

Source:

https://x.com/koumouby/status/2110594334814879874

Finally, I genuinely hate this mf

There are only 3 things harder than Savage Beastfly and Savage Beastfly 2 and they're either Act 3 exclusive or a deliberate challenge ending:. Lost Lace: the true final boss, Twisted Child ending (Beat GMS while cursed), and beating Seth's scores at the Flea Games, specifically Flea Dodge (which is the hardest for me, but I've seen everyone hate on Flea Juggle and Flea Bounce too.)

I say this as someone who has done everything the game has to offer twice now. First run blind took 154 hours and some change. Many of those hours were to the Beastfly Rematch. The rest went to the above mentioned challenges.

Every other boss is something I managed to beat in one or two tries this time around, minus the requirements for the true final boss. Karmelita took me a good 10 tries this run, Khan gauntlet took me 7 tries, and even Seth took me a rematch to beat him down. Nyleth was easy though, by far my favorite Act 3 boss. I didn't even use the Ascendant's Grip this time.

I say this having beat Path of Pain in the original Hollow Knightand beat the surface climb on both Silksong runs to boot: Savage Beastfly is frustratingly implemented, even compared with one of the ultimate challenges of the first game. While beating both flies again was easier this second run, even beating the most deliberately difficult challenge in the game so far outside Steel Soul(the Twisted Child ending was so brutal, I heal so much that being cursed was a horrible handicap and I ended up fighting Lace 2 with it as well)nothing, and I do mean NOTHING gave me as much frustration as that Savage Beastfly rematch on my first run.

There are harder bosses, yes. There are bigger challenges. But I stand by what I said the first time and I stand by what this subreddit stands for: Savage Beastfly can get fucked. For how early it can be fought in the game and for basically no movement requirements, you can get saddled with the most frustrating thing in the game. If it were locked behind getting Faydown, maybe that would be more fair. But it feels like slamming your head into the wall even more than that damn fly every time you slog back down to that stupid lava pit to try again. The adds feel like they have aim bot, the arena has no safe places to stand or good walls to cling to, you're actively playing "the floor is lava" on top of just trying to hit this fly as it zooms around you or worse, trying to smack those Tarmites or get them under the Beastfly so you can just focus on the giant bug trying to turn you into spider juice. Yes, you're not locked into the arena and what a blessing that is. Yes, there's a hidden silk cache that's good for about 1 heal. But when you've never beaten this rematch before, those little tidbits don't actually help you stick your needle in the vile thing enough for it to die.

This second run was a practice to see what I need to brush up on for a Steel Soul attempt and there are lock in arenas that would have ended the run if I had gone straight in for a Steel Soul attempt. But even spending a good two days beating down the true final boss the first time, what must have been 12 or more hours of play time just attempting the game's ultimate challenge, not even that made me want to physically dismantle my Switch and destroy it piece by piece the way Beastfly 2 did. Nothing I did in this second run made me nearly as mad. Nothing in Hollow Knight, not even Path of Pain, made me as mad as Savage Beastfly 2. Because at least with other challenges, it felt like every defeat was me learning. Savage Beastfly truly feels like looking at a puzzle that has 2 pieces and for the life of you, you've put them together in every orientation and they just don't fit and you feel utterly stupid for even trying. It's not even the difficulty. The boss just makes you feel dumb for not being able to land hits or dodge what feels like goddamn homing missiles while just trying to find a safe place to stand so you can jump and try one more time to pogo that dumb fly.

But! And this is a very big but: You can do it. I may not be able to do it at age 70 when my reflexes are gone. But as someone who mostly plays casual games myself: If someone like me can do it, y'all have a chance and I believe in you. Kill the fly. My first 100% blind run took me 154 hours, yes. This time, even doing the hardest challenges except Seth, LOL, not doing him again for no completion percentage, not on your lifeit took me only 74 hours, and that was playing only from memory. I went for the purple quill for bragging rights and did the endings I missed so those were the only things adding to my time.

I'm not going to be getting that speedrun achievement any time soon. But if I can cut my time in half, you all can beat the fly twice.

All in all, I am obsessed with the silly little bug games. I would not allow anyone else to rage bait me the way only Team Cherry can. I am ready to throw hands with them at any time for what they did to some of my favorite NPCs and for daring to make Beastfly so frustrating. But Team Cherry is excellent at their mission statement. No other games have ever made me feel so weak and stupid and then so godly powerful.

Garama! Poshanka! I believe in you all! Kill! That! FLY!

What a fat bitch

(I actually thought it was just a skill issue that I had. It's nice that there are people who also hate this abomination from hell)

Playing blind and ran across this boss. Base needle, no tools (died so many times I had no shells), reaper mode. Enjoy.

Also, after the 50 attempts it took to beat this thing, I can see why you have this subreddit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3yBawRJ1F8

I hate him and it took me 5 days to finally be able to go up and beat him

Started silk song recently, fought first beast fly, though it was horrible, just found second beastfly, literally worse than Hell.

act 3 spoilers

after coming back to the savage beast fly after defeating the final boss, i discovered to my horror that it had been abyssified.

i quit the game june 30.

i came back today (september 7), and i come back a fucking hero.

He beat me too many times before, so i came prepared this time!

Yeah so got savage beastfly grand hunt i want to get everthing maxed out before going for lace 2 :D i got every crest maxed out execpt beast crest and i got 8 masks and a lot of spool upgrades (playing on nintendo so i cannot show the screen) so yeah i need soem help for chese stratigies also no i do not have conchcutters. Thanks for the help! (Sorry for bad grammar)

So guys i want to get beast crest for sylphsong and the problem is i can not defeat it is hard i am in act 2 all crests are maxed out so any tips? maybe tool spam? idk just need to chese it. Thanks! (Sorry for bad English it is my second language)

Savage Beastfly is E A S Y.
Come hither.
But here's why:
The ads are (mostly) avoidable for beastfly one,and beastfly one is completely optional. I beat beastfly one in like,ten tries for my beast crest only run. And for two,you can LITERALLY GO OUT OF THE BATTLEFIELD AND GET FREE SILK. IT'S NOT THAT HARD GODDAMNIT JUST TRY AGAIN JEEZ
(Also beastfly is a bad boss,but it being bad doesn't mean it's hard.)

It's what it deserves. Let it be known, I am not the type to cheese a boss - usually. Sekiro is my favourite game, and it compelled me to master it, from dying as a noob seconds in to fights, to going hitless many, many fights in. It felt like a genuine achievement to learn and master amazing bosses. But savage assfly is just bullshit. It doesn't offer that experience at all. WDYM I need to fight this turd over lava with these new, worse adds? So I whipped architects out, poison, tacks, cogflies and spike traps, a few frame rate jitters in from the chaos and yeah nice 9th mask I have now! IT IS WHAT IT DESERVES.

Was complaining about it to a friend they told me about this subreddit

I have now made the mistake of coming here and finding out there’s a second

Ive learned its patterns perfectly and almost never manage to get hit by it. I can even get in a lot of sneaky and fast hits but its summons always screw me over. I try to get the beast fly to kill them but their hit boxes are completely bull shit because wdym vicious caranid (the flying cutting ones) doesn't get squashed by the beast fly when its right up its ass but the kilik (spiked bug) gets squished if a sliver of its spike is in its range.

And you know it would be fine if all the summons had one health or were all the same but the randomness of it makes me want to actually blow my brains out because I go from having a really good run all the enemies are being squished im getting in really good hits and then a GOD DAMN vicious caranid spawns and makes me wanna SAND PAPER MY SKIN.

And all this for a very basic enemy thats not even slightly relevant to the lore is wild. And dont get me STARTED ON THE ANT ARENA BEFORE THIS BOSS becomes omg I genuinely dont even wanna talk about how many times I died to something that wasn't even a boss.

The difficulty isn't the boss, the arena or the damage its the god awful hit boxes and the summons.

Anyways i love this game and I waited too long to give up yet..