"Insanely hard" Silksong true ending speedrun world record is somehow already under 4 hours: "We have to do the entire game with 5 masks and 2 needle upgrades"

Longtime Hollow Knight speedrunner BlueSR notched a 3:56:12 clear of Silksong's true ending on September 28, just days after setting the previous record at 4:35:56. Hollow Knight: Silksong True Ending Speedrun in 3:56:12! The current record for a bare minimum true ending run of Silksong is more than an hour longer than the most comprehensive Hollow Knight speedrun. For a more direct comparison, the true ending speedrun record for Hollow Knight is just 1:00:59 with load times removed. Hollow Knight: Silksong sicko laughs in the face of the difficulty discourse, completes the metroidvania without taking a single hit because "it did not seem that bad."