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Hollow Knight: Silksong (PC)

Vergil Hornet

A Hollow Knight: Silksong mod that gives Hornet Vergil’s combat moves, weapons and effects from Devil May Cry 5.

Price not confirmed
Artwork for Vergil Hornet, for Hollow Knight: Silksong (PC).

Warnings and review limits

  • Silksong PC, game version 1.0.30000 (creator README listed test environment), BepInEx 5.4.23. README warns that reviving bosses resets that arena room. Fan mod is not affiliated with or endorsed by Team Cherry or Capcom; fan-made derivative sprite sheets are outside the code license.
  • Static exact-artifact review only; no installation or gameplay/runtime compatibility test. Source-to-release reproducibility not established. No guarantee of absence of vulnerabilities.

What changes in Hollow Knight: Silksong (PC)?

Adds Vergil moves and weapons, a configurable HUD and effects, music and voice options, character forms and boss rematches.

From the creator

BrianG77 (GitHub: Modalicous718) ↗
Built with Claude (Anthropic's AI agent, Claude Code) writing the code, the procedural sprite generator and the procedural HUD/VFX art, directed and play-tested by BrianG77. No AI image or audio generation was used: every look and effect is drawn by code.

Creator states AI assisted this mod.

Community responses

Positive comments and independent successful-use reports have not been confirmed. Read the original discussion for current replies.

No independent successful-use report was captured in the reviewed run receipts. This review did not install, launch, or play the mod; runtime compatibility is not established.

Getting started

Install BepInEx 5.4.23, then import the official ZIP in r2modman/Gale/Thunderstore Mod Manager or place its VergilHornet folder in BepInEx/plugins. Official README: https://github.com/Modalicous718/VergilHornet/blob/Mod/README.md

Official mod page ↗