How does one even beat a Hollow Knight thread?

How does one even beat a Hollow Knight thread?

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only started this game recently. How do I git gud?
and is there anything I should know about for a first playthrough, like things that are easy to miss?

just fucking play the game

There's really nothing missable other than Ending A. To make sure you don't miss it I'd do the final boss as soon as it's available, then you can load the file and get the requirements for other endings.

>only started this game recently. How do I git gud?
good question, since I'm shit myself.
For bosses, learn their attack patterns.
For platforming, keep trying.

>and is there anything I should know about for a first playthrough, like things that are easy to miss?
If you die, a shade is created with your geo.
If you fight it, you get your geo back.

If you die again, or quit to menu, that shade is gone and so is your geo.

Anything that you can sell, sell, don't worry.

Just played the DLC content for the first time and beat NKG. Took me a few tries, but he wasn't too bad.
The hardest part was restraining myself from trying to pogo him after his drop kick. Because when he does the second part of the attack he's crouched, and then he stands up in his full height at the end, making you misjudge the pogo jump distance and/or timing, and take contact damage from touching his head.

Also, your soul capacity is impacted until you defeat the shade.

oh that's what that broken glass was, fuck

I knew this already but thanks anyway

>I knew this already
you can travel further in you jump by facing backwards and shooting soul

used by speedrunners for some cheating

>You might die before Silksong is released

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I didn't know this, thanks

You can "jump" on enemies by attacking downwards mid-jump. But that's not all, you can also "jump" that way on most damaging spikes in the game (not all though). And doing so also resets the "cooldown" on your other movement abilities, which usually can only be used once until you touch the ground.

>>I knew this already

You can pogo jump on iron spikes, but not on thorns or crystals.
You can also pogo jump on all enemies and even on your own shade

If you're in doubt where to go, you can go to Dirthmouth to talk to Elderbug who vaguely recommends you the best direction

Will all the bugs of the new kingdom call Hornet "Pale One" or something?
I am assuming she'll have some kind of nickname or title, and that she won't simply be called Hornet.

someone is making a million of these which is pretty sad

Sell me this game Yea Forums.
I'm really considering buying Hollow Knight before the sequel drops. I love 2D platformers and really loved stuff such as Strider. Is it worth the price?

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Considering she was captured by this kingdom’s guard, that sounds feasible. At least for the more prejudiced bugs.

>how to git gud
Go into a boss fight and explicitly do not try to win
DO NOT TRY TO WIN
Only try to avoid death for as long as possible
This is how you learn boss attack patterns
Do this until you can survive all their attacks with ease
Then you can kill
If you go in trying to smash them down from the beginning you'll eventually win once, but you won't be any gud

tfw max summons and cheese every boss.

no

>Sell me this game Yea Forums.
1. pirate it
2. play it
3. ?????
4. buy the game if you liked it

>Is it worth the price?
It's worth at least three times the price it's being sold at.

>>If you go in trying to smash
I'd try to smash Hornet

>step 4.

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the trick is not to like it ;-)

I knew about the jumping, the timing of it is similar to cane hopping in DKTF so it comes fairly naturally to me already - although I didn't know hopping apparently resets cooldowns. Talking to elderbug is a good tip also, wasn't aware of that yet but I can't say I've been lost so far.
good advice, especially since I've had my ass handed to me playing too aggressively with a boss I don't know the moves of.

What will his first word be?

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post yfw Silk Song not coming to Switch

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cute feet

Whete?

thank you for the spoilers, fags

Getting it on PC first anyway

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>muh ctrl+f
don;t you have a subreddit?

Make sure to play with a controller.

I'm about to buy a proper controller for PC because I'm such a scrub

>inb4 just git gud
no really, I'm shit and I agree but this nvidia shield controller is hurting my hands

is this the best I can get for pc? should I use the d-pad or analog?
does wireless add noticeable input lag?

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The N-word.

I hope Silksong will have subplot cutscenes of Hollow Knight trying to mend his injuries and walks around the ruins of Hollownest before going to save Hornet.

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OI CUNT, DO YOU HAVE THE LOICENCE TO BE LOITERING AROUND HERE?

Why doesn't she wear undies?

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>last thread had someone saying Mark of Pride is useless and barely noticeable
Can I just hop in to say it's actually a very good charm?
The difference is clearly visible to the naked eye. I mean, it may not seem like much, but when looked in context, for how much close-combat there's involved throughout the game this bonus can have an actual impact.
I personally love me a bit more spacing, specially since I like to build meter and blast the enemies away with spells, makes much easier for me to keep my distance.

Although, serious question.
Is 3 notches, in your opinion, too high for this one?
Do you guys think it should've been 2?

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>Why doesn't she wear undies?
that's actually pantyhose

Do you guys use dpad or stick?

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I use your mom lmao gottem.

But when Hornet walks it makes a barefoot sound.

What the hell user, I swear I was about to ask exactly that.
Stick at the beginning, but when the platforming and fights got harder I found the dpad gave me better results for the rest of the game.

What does the extra 12% count for, anyway? For example, do I have to kill white defender 5 times to get the extra %?

Because it's the 2010's, cartoon characters without pants no longer is a guy only thing.

I ended up using long nail more often than mark of pride because of not being able to fit a 3 notch charm. For Pantheon of Hallownest I used Long Nail, Unbreakable Strength, Quick Slash, and Quick Focus. Some bosses I do prefer MoP though.

Why do I see so many reviews and videos on this game where zoomers obsess over the lore and muh feels

I’m a story guy myself, but Hollow Knight’s story and lore all just seem so vacuous
It’s one of those things clearly inspired by Souls but without the same reasoning
Say what you will, but Demon’s and Dark have very consistent themes and all the story/lore is related to those themes

I don’t get what the themes of Hollow Knight are even supposed to be
The main plot is about how emotions corrupted a living tool, and so a kingdom fell
Your character doesn’t fail because it’s an emotionless vessel driven by a singular purpose for reasons it doesn’t even know
But I, as a player, am absolutely driven by emotions and persevere because I don’t want to let a hard boss stop me, so I’m in conflict with my own character
Beside that, the dreamers didn’t fail their task of keeping the egg shut, and they were driven by emotions, namely self sacrifice for a greater good

Maybe I’m just not enough of a loremaster, but all of the lore just seens to be “a guy did something foolish and died because he was shortsighted”
Idk dude I like the game but all the feelsy discourse surrounding it seems like nonsense

Reminder that Silksong is going to be even more autistic in terms of late-game challenges because of the systems they put in place.

>Hornet moves faster meaning bosses will also move faster and require even more precision
>Hornet can heal instantly as long as she has full silk meaning bosses will be even more hyper aggressive and NEVER STAGGER
>Hornet has lots of mid-air maneuverability meaning there will be bosses that might not even have platforms in the arenas
>the strongest move in the game, pogoing on enemies, has been replaced by an even harder diagonal pogo move
>more demanding platforming challenges as well that require even faster reactions because of how quick Hornet moves
>tools replace charms meaning they've fucking removed the facetank/quickslash cheese, they removed the minion build cheese, and the absolutely broken spell build is gone forever

It's fucking over mates. Silksong is going to flop because TC pandered too hard to the git gud autists.

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>he posted it again
autism

why would you ever use the stick in a 2D platformer? the d-pad is lots faster

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MFW release date is set for june 12 2020

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HORNET IS A NIGGER

I bought it for 10 bucks on sale and felt bad after playing through it because I didn't pay full price to support the developers. That's how much I liked it.
Exploration and combat are fun as fuck and you will get your money's worth out of the game even if you just play through it once and don't do the DLC or the other endings. It's also constantly on sale, so if you wait a bit, you will definitely get an even sweeter deal.

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Because she's wearing garters instead

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bottomless

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depends on how much you like metroidvanias and whether you can stand dark souls like punishment for death/mistakes

it's a decent game and I enjoyed it but it's not for everyone for sure, it can get really monotonous and repetitive at times

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>I ended up using long nail more often
Dunno about MoP being 3 notches, but I do think Long Nail's 2 notches is too expensive for such a trivial difference that it makes.

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Is there any unintentional faster movement or combat option in this game?
Like instantly attacking after jumping in SotN or AoS which lets you attack way faster

Long Nail just makes spacing more comfortable. It feels much better doing jump in>slash out maneuvers.

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Why don't more bugs wear full suits of armor?

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I dunno about wireless but I got a xbone controller recently to replace my old and busted 360 one and I'm already a bit disappointed.
It feels cheap compared to the price tag, the shoulder bumpers were loose from day one and already a bit creaky, and it was a pain to set up for win7 because microshit have removed all the official manual driver downloads for it.

Typical “make her black” shit, but given the color of her body I guess it makes sense.

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cute and featureless

Same user.

Did not realize this was already posted. Carry on.

SMOOTH FEATURELESS LOLI CROTCH

You people are worse than furries

I rolled my eyes at this so hard that they're now stuck in the back of my head.

i think hornet is a good character

she wears a dramatic billowing cloak-thing that's legitimately /fa/, and fights swiftly, using a needle and thread.

its interesting and imaginative, and i like her design very much.

SHO

If you had some brain it would prevent that happening but alas

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very, very based

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[spoiller]...Kill...me...[/spoiler]

Highlight ctrl+s you dingus.

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Other set I often used was Strength, Quick Slash, MoP, Heart, so I still made good use of MoP. Just depended on what felt more comfortable for a particular challenge. Neither nail extender is needed when using Nailmaster's Glory or spell builds though.

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>Tfw just good the megaman X walljump
It's criminal how good that feels.

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what charm layouts do you use for pantheons/hall of gods?

Mark of Pride
Quick Slash
Unbreakable Strength
Steady Body

>current year
>metroidvania devs still think it's cool to have 100% be over 100%
>metroidvania devs still think it's cool to hide the final third of the game and the real ending behind an obvious fakeout
It was cool when SotN did it because it was the 90s and the internet didn't exist properly, the only way you'd find out was either through word of mouth or a magazine or playing the game more. Now it means nothing and I don't understand the point beyond making me look at more wiki pages.

When the game launched it maxed at 100%. They added content so they added more completion percentage.

>>metroidvania devs still think it's cool to hide the final third of the game and the real ending behind an obvious fakeout

what is youtube

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Are you sure about that chief?

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release when?

just reduce the base game completion percentage or some shit lol, or make DLC a separate completion percentage

what is the rest of my post that you didn't read

>what is the rest of my post that you didn't read
I read it

if it made sense for magazines and word spread
it makes sense today for youtube

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It's a very competent Metroidvania with lots of extra content and with a charming and unique art style.

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Stick because the Switch's dpad is shit.

Mark of Pride is super noticeable.
In fact I always disallowed myself from using Mark of Pride and have held onto that rule to this day. The thought of growing used to Mark of Pride and thus growing unable to properly play without it with the normal reach, always frightened me.

puss puss?

D-pad. Well the Joycon's directional buttons.
Honestly playing games with one joycon in each hand is amazing.

Yes

Happy oldtimer.

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how do i get the last one?

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Keep lifting, bro. Do it for 'er.

Sorry m8
It's unreachable now

pantheon of hollownest

Do you get the Hornet achievements only if you beat her on your first try?

No.

Is this actually canon?

that's fine

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Her dlc is only coming in 2020?

New game brah

it's a whole game and we don't have a date yet

I thought it was still going to be a dlc, if it's a new game it'll be much bigger

it's her wound binding animation similar to HK heal yeah

what? i thought it was just another DLC what the

They accidentally made too much content and decided to make it a new game, which they're giving to backers for free.
Fucking Aussies, man.

Imagine actually donating to Kickstarter lmaoooo

Guys
Real question
Playing on PC. I have no consoles
Do I get a DS4 for dat dere D-pad, or xbone for everything else?

Man, Team Cherry gotta be the most soulful developer out there,

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>another thicc hornet image
STOP THIS

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you prefer sticc

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>Soul
Hehe

I started playing again today, finished path of pain. Wasn't as hard as i thought except for two areas. NKG is currently whooping my ass

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yes

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smol/sticc

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Get a Dualshock 2 for everything.

Why won't the game properly read my DualShock (1, lmao) with USB adapter?

Every other game can

Baby Hornet is too precious and cute.

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>beat regular Pure Vessel
>still can't beat regular Nightmare King Grimm
i just need those notches really bad

LEWD

I hate path of pain.
So much.
I've unlocked the door, then I had to shut it up because I was too tired, reached the part where there is a long ass corridor with moving sawblades... fuck, they all look the same. Just tell me, am I at least halfway?

>first word
no voice to cry suffering

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post pic so i can tell

Meh I'll have to reach there again, so it may take a while.

Hollow Knight is pure

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Just one more reason these motherfuckers are the best boss in the game

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do NOT open this

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That's not the hollow knight you posted

do NOT open this

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Are you sure? Hornet is younger there and the horns are HK's horns

Yeah that's him. Or it. Whatever

Just now realizing this is the ORGINAL Hollow Knight.

Fuck, now this makes me sad.

Scrolling down makes for a cool optical illusion.

God I want to eat Hornet's ass with a spoon.

JOKENPO

Cant wait

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he's literally not

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THOSE AUSSIE FUCKS

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...and by a while I mean 10 minutes. Uh, I guess I'm gitting gud.
This part is fucking me however.

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This is not the Hollow Knight

Holy shit are you guys for real?
Are you the same ones thinking link is called Zelda?

For the love of Radiance, do...not...open this

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this is the last part
good luck

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the one I posted isn't. The one in the comic and the first reply is the hollow knight

aye that is the last part
be advised though, you will immediately face two kingsmoulds at the end of the area, no checkpoints

I don't think it's too high, there's the other range extending charm for 2 slots too iirc

Adding that the effect works upwards and downwards too, it makes it way easier to downslash-pogo for the white palace and path of pain

We refer to the player character as “Ghost” to avoid confusion.

Hollow Knight is the one we actually fight.

WASD

Aight, cool, got to a really low sawblade I don't know how to get past. Guess I'll stay full souls and spam dark dive for the fight.

I'm so fucking desperate for more HK/Hornet interactions. Please don't let me down TC

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you will be let down. I'm expecting 0 closure for Hollow Knight plots

What if Pale King and Radiance fugs

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Is Hornet's vocalising going to be annoying or is it going to be the HK equivalent of Link's grunts

the one with the low travelling sawblade and another sawblade above it? wait for the lower one to leave and then dash under

Judging by the trailer, I think the unfortunate answer is yes.

Protag is not the Hollow Knight
They are, however, made of the exact same stuff, born of the same mother and all filled up with void
No, he's no Hollow Knight, he's the Hollow King

I guess he is, if you think about it.

Bad post

>his
the hollow knight is a girl

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Radiance is the blue pill
You are a mindless drone and think you live in the "right" way

Void is the blackpill: there is no solution and in the end nothing really matters and your life is meaningless

HK is your journey through the redpill until you realize the only one left to swallow (which Hornet refuses to) is the blackpill.

Hollow Knight is explicitly a boy in my language. You enjoy your gender-progressive "it".

>its canon because of this mistranslation
based retard

>it's canon because it says so in a language the developers don't speak

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Here come the seething tranies.

>don't get mad at the user who said HK was a girl
>get mad at the user who said HK was a boy
Yeah I'm thinking you're trannies.

ok /v honest question here
i finished the game about a year ago(dont ask which ending , i dont remember )
i have this urge to start playing again
what is better, start anew or continue with my playthrough ? i must have missed some bosses here and there, a few charms and i didnt touch the dlcs at all
i just fear that getting at the path of pain or whatever is that called, all rusty will break my will to even try

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start anew

The guy who said HK was a girl was clearly trolling. The guy who said he was a guy because of false information is just straight up wrong.

Why? He's alive in the Godmaster ending. We should see flashbacks of his life beyond the end of Path of Pain. There was obviously more that happened that caused him to be a failed vessel.

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_ ____ __ ____ ____ ___

I want to fug that bug?

If they kill him off I'm uninstalling both games

He's bound to die from old age user. "Village Elder" isn't the type of title given to the young.

Not him but
>last time the HK and Hornet are seen is in Hallownest
>Silksong takes place in a completely different kingdom, Hornet got captured somehow
It feels too disconnected from the godmaster endings
A more logical explanation would be SS being a prequel where Hornet visits her ancestors and learns to fight and the shit that went down in Hallownest
Other option is it following the dream no more ending
If you really want it to happen after Godmaster then the only way I can see it happening is Hornet fighting HK and getting kidnapped while she is weakened/resting after the fight, but if that happens why did they even bother with the cutscene of both characters meeting, especially since it is already kind of a plot hole how the HK managed to get rid of the chains binding him

This. And if you needed confirmation, the pantheon of Fuck my Ass with all chains is beatable on good ol' keyboard

I hope bretta is in silksong as a hardened warrior, assaulting villages looking for her ideal prince.

I wanna take Hornet to a nice restaurant!!!

It literally is an "it". It has no genitals and might not be sapient.

Path of pain is fairly hard, but the pantheons are very accessible. You'll need a few tries for the last one

yea, guessed so
only problem is getting the must-have charms as early as possible
but i can live with that

I will accept death by natural causes but I won't be happy. Really hope the last stag and nailmaker make it too but I'm pretty confident they won't even be mentioned.

Hornet isn't gonna fight HK despite the cliffhanger. Probably thought he was still infected but he'll probably do something to show he's back to normal. Well something else besides being a hobbled cripple using his nail to support that broken body, because even after impaling himself the Radiance was still making his body fight.

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She falls for Hornet only for Zote to return and cuck you once again

Don't make Bretta a carpet muncher for fuck sakes. There's enough fags in the base game as is.

Whelp, I finally ran into the Nightmare that is King Grimm. It went about as well as one would assume.

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You got something against gay insects motherfucker?

we're gonna need the rest of this

Yeah it's unnatural and degenerate.

Now do it again.
And again.
And again.
And

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>Hornet isn't gonna fight HK despite the cliffhanger. Probably thought he was still infected but he'll probably do something to show he's back to normal. Well something else besides being a hobbled cripple using his nail to support that broken body, because even after impaling himself the Radiance was still making his body fight.
I sure would love that, but then explain how they will resolve the whole scene then, because Hornet escaping her jail is obviously the start of the game and I don't feel like the game will have a flashback for what happened when they met
Plus I don't see how the Hornet + HK tag team could be defeated by a bunch of weak looking bugs
A fight is the only way all the events line up nicely

Not in the HK universe. God hates everyone, not fags in particular.

I did it.
And I want to kill myself.

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Truly the Hollow Knight was the pain felt along the way.

They both could have been put to sleep. The silkweavers thought HK was going to die on the journey seeing his grievous body injuries so instead they only take Hornet.

>no hiveblood
you did it to yourself

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hiveblood is for pussies

what was his fucking problem

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and those who value their sanity

Who the fuck even was he? Monomon and Herrah have a story but who was Lurien?

I made it through the whole thing and died to the kingsmoulds at the end because I was caught off guard. I still haven't haven't been able to force myself to do a second run.

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It makes enough sense but then the cutscene of them meeting is pointless and it's pretty too overcomplicated for a simple "Hornet gets kidnapped" scene
It's possible but I still don't see it happening

some rich guy who was really loyal to the king

>but who was Lurien?
The police chief of City of Tears?

Many know this pain, user. In time, we'll be ready to brave it all over again.

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Where is this information at?

man, when i did white palace, i didn't even know the existence of the hive
surprised i'm not in a mental asylum because of that

>Beat the pantheon of Hallownest
>Haven't attempted the path of pain yet
Is it easier than PoH?

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It's different.
Have fun, user

It's a shorter platforming challenge, but I think so, yes.

>got past the platforming part
You beat the Path of Pain
And so did I fuck you it's a platforming challenge and the platforming ended

>He couldn't platform on the enemies

Attain acumen
Become better
Create competence
Develop dexterity
Enhance expertise
Find finesse
Handle hardness
Increase insight
Join judgement
Kindle knowledge
Lose lethargy
Make mastery
Network neurons
Obtain organisation
Procure proficiency
Quash quirks
Raise rating
Stockpile skill
Take training
Usurp utility
Value victory
Wrest worth
Xerox xenia
Yield yourself
Zap zeroes

Buy a ps4 controller. It's really comfy.

yes, yes, well done, user, well done... HOWEVER

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>Why won't the game properly read my DualShock (1, lmao) with USB adapter?
>
>Every other game can
Never mind got it to work with x360ce (dinput to xinput) but got my ass handled to me very quick all the same lmao

Master troll

My progress so far. Finished three pantheons, radiant'd every boss I dared to challenge in the hall of gods. I just cant do bullet hell flies and mr nosedive in ascended, let alone radiant

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>Whole place full of statues with UNLIMITED SOUL
Lol WhY dOnT yOu UsE HIvEblOOd?

Which was more kino: challening radiance or realizing that you are NOT the titular hollow knight?

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>Which was more kino
the pain of loving this game but not being gud at it

I'm still trying to get my fucking dash

It's literally an it because the void warps the bug eggs that were placed in the abyss turning them into void-cursed mutant abominations
They're literally the Solid Snakes of the Bug World, except Big Boss is a saw Autist and he fucked a tree so many times she gave birth to thousands of children, who came outta their eggs with no dick to suck or vagina to fug.
Learn your lore you fucking pleblians.

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>realizing that you are NOT the titular hollow knight?
How the fuck is that kino? You realize that as soon as you see the statue in City of Tears unless you are a brainlet.

That's weird because HK works with direct.

>That's weird because HK works with direct.
it got only half my keys and no right stick at all.

>he let Zote die
lol

Any tips for Radiance? What charms should I be using?

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OI VESSEL YA CUNT GONNA DUCK DOWN TO THE SERVO FOR SUM DURRIES YOU KEEN?

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>Any tips for Radiance?
Don't get hit.

>Any tips for Radiance?
do not use dash to evade.
fucking move

How do I into Zote. That fucker ends my 3rd pantheon run every time consistently.

So fucking tired of his shit

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pogo him x1000

Finding this and the following scene.

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Shape of Unn is great to heal and avoid the beams and some of the sword attacks

Get your spacing down to dash through the horizontal sword walls, your vertical hitbox is thinner so you should just stand still for the vertical ones

Dash through and under the light balls spawn points while grounded and they'll break on the ground one by one

Acquire proficiency

The words as you ascended was a brilliant touch

Slow and steady>reckless attacking
Also Tamamo cat a shit

This.

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What was the deal with No Eyes and the Stone Sanctuary and all those dead kids? Did she kill everyone to keep them safe from the infection? Was she a guardian figure for Greenpath that went nuts?

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I wanted to play a new file to kill NKG after I banished the bastard the first time. I wanted peace and quiet in Dirtmouth, so vengefly king got a snack.

Besides, fuck zote. You could fill an ocean with the tears off all those runs ruined by his flailing ass

These threads are making me want to go back and finish the pantheons even though I gave up and haven't touched the game in months.

>tfw you triple parry PV's nail swings
and then die to contact damage

finding city of tears is the most kino sequence I've experienced in a videogame

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"You shall seal the blinding light that plagues their dreams."
"You are the Vessel."
"You are the Hollow Knight."
The sound design throughout this scene is terrific, and especially the jingle of acquiring Void Soul.

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Defensor Blanco is canon?

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What kids? And the bigger question is why is she bleeding void from her eyes?

>Precious children, a monster has come for us in the dark...Will you sing for me?
>Silksong

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BOOPTIS

You should probably make a third save that has all the bosses.

There's a bunch of dead bugs in the Stone Sanctuary and a lot of them look small as if they were kids. She also mentions children in her dialogue.

>I'm still trying to get my fucking dash
You mean you haven't beaten Hornet 1?

Didn’t she rip out her eyes so she couldn’t see the light from the radiance?

what are you talking about? silksong is confirmed for switch

...Lord of Shades...

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Silksong final boss

>struggle through the sawblade hell for over a day
>finally reach this part
>surely, surely this is the last of it
>it can't go on forever
>hours go by, I get a little closer, then a little closer
>covered in sweat, thumbs shaking, hungry, tired, cold
>MAKE IT
>breathe long, deep breath out as I enjoy the soothing long drop at the end
>the path of pain was really the battle for my soul, and I made it out the other side
>life is worth living
>land, get slaughtered by kingsmoulds instantly
Was not a happy knight.
Smashed those fuckers a few goes later though.

that reminds me, are there any other "well protected minds" that require the awokened dreamnail to read?

>soulful
They're more like threadful at this point.

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Bringing it a mask unlocks the true final boss.

He lives at the top of a tall tower with a telescope from which he can spy on everyone below
Either a cop or a creepy loner

Since Silksong is confirmed to have ants, what other type of real life bug do you want to see represented in this universe? I wanna see these scary ass motherfuckers.

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...

pic related

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Soul Tyrant is so fucking annoying. It takes 2 minutes just to get to the real fight and I'm not even convinced his downward thrust is 100% evadable 2 times in a row if he positions himself just right considering shade cloak recast is too slow

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Change directions every time, he always appears behind you. It's the easiest part of the fight for me.

Look at him, the moment his eyes are facing your direction you dodge. This works 100% of the time.

It's always evadable. Always be moving left or right, and when he spawns, do a short hop before dashing away, then repeat.

>do a short hop before dashing away
why
is splash damage only on the ground?

>tfw they never did anything with my waifu

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>Struggling with trial of the fool
How will I ever be able to beat the dlc content when I get there?

You know she wanted to eat you, right?

If i remember right, yes. It's a very wide but short hitbox.

Well we do know she's a Grimm Troupe traitor. You can even see a discarded crimson tent next to her.

Not him but she was the first character I dream nailed. I dashed away.

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I beat the last pantheon but I can't be assed to radiant every boss in the game. Am I missing out on anything or is it just for bragging rights?

I'm finding it useful practice for the final pantheon, but I don't think it does anything besides open the statue room if you get them all on a certain difficulty or higher

So what the fuck was she?

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yes and I'm okay with that

youtube.com/watch?v=wCSIzI11q7I

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Lore. That's it.

She's my midwife.

That's when things start getting intense for sure. I tried doing it without the shade cloak and the double jump for a while but I couldn't. Get the shade cloak and double jump, you'll see a world of difference. If you have them both and still have trouble, well, what you can do is go around the map and get as much lifeblood as you can, that can help.

a spider

I love them

kaonashi

OH SHIT

Anyone have the post of the devs talking about Primal Aspids?

I accidentally kicked his shield off a cliff.

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When you beat them and the mantis enemies stop being hostile to you and start bowing, is when I decided I loved this game.

We need a titan-sized water beetle.

The announcement of Silk Song as an entire new game gave me the resolve to go back and finish the Pantheons in the last dlc.
I spent days practicing the last few bosses and hour after hour each day failing, but the time I managed to get it done successfully I can rewatch and think it looks like I did it with little effort.
I don't know what snapped into place for me then, but I can finally say I'm ready for what's next and I'm genuinely hyped.

thanks, this helps
still getting raped by projectiles but this should increase my odds

How do you love a literal cart animal?

Noice, I was in the same boat as you. Welcome to the 0.8% of the entire Hollow Knight playerbase.

What's next is BINDINGS

There's a small village in Colombia where they openly fuck donkeys. It's even considered a rite of passage for boys.

Why do you know that

Can you dream nail him? I didn't try.

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There was a scene about it in The Grand Tour.

Not him, but I can settle with just beating it normally. You guys can go all out with bindings and beating every boss on radiant.

That makes a lot of sense actually

she's cute though

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Radianting all the bosses is honestly better than bindings. I managed to open the lifeblood door, and that works for me

>Only one binding left for Pantheon of Hallownest
>Haven't played in months
>Load it up
>get to Pure Vessel
>Wonder if they nerfed him, all his attacks seem much slower, especially the blades coming up from the ground
>beat him easily
>get destroyed by Absolute Radiance's first phase
It hurts

Fuck that in all its absolute radiance.
Anyway I was late to the thread but I wanna try sharing some screen shots I had taken from my ps4, I hope they don't look like ass having sent them to myself through the ps messanger app.

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Reminder that their "horns" are their mandibles.

Go to bed Superforge

I give up lads i can't beat Nightmare king grimm

i'm done

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thanks Yea Forums, you are the greetest
I guess it's about time to try to unlock AR

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you can do it user. Learn the input sequences for each of his attacks in a discrete manner. They're always the same.

This is how bugs fug

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It's amazing you can play the game at all, pupper

Aight this might sound like a terrible idea but just follow me through:

The trick is actually to jump upwards before he dives down. His explosion radius is much wider at the ground than at the top and it is therefore much harder to time it perfectly. However, above ground this is almost trivial. You can also attack him while he is readying his dive and end his final phase much faster.

Yeah the other user helped me with that, done with soul tyrant now

>can do xero and markoth
>can't do PV
the fuck?

bug cunny

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I've just saved nkg and pv for last since I'm going for the pantheon after this, so they're fresh on my mind
Got NKG down already, it's really an insultingly predictable fight

Xero is easy to cheese for radiant, with shaman equipped after his other 2 swords come out, can get him done in like 2 blasts

Markoth not as easy but you can still make the fight way easier with elegy

>like 2 blasts
meant shrieks

STOP SAYING THAT FUCKING WORD

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is quirrel dead

bug honey

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It's the first game since Dark Souls to give me that same feel. It's not so much the difficulty or the story and more in the intangible aspect of how it feels to play. The world feels very big and there's something interesting around every corner, both beautiful and deadly. I didn't realize how much I missed the feeling until I played it.

"honey"

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I hope Hornet's game has lots of sections like PoP and White Palace. I actually really enjoyed them and they weren't nearly as impossible as I thought they'd be.

Requires 1800 essense, most people who don't autisticly dream nail anything important wouldn't nail it. I think no body know about the Chozo text is why the godmaster ending is way more blatant about the Shade lord stuff.

I have to say its a great game. I was very surprised. Anyway, a while now I've been going around, getting stuff, fighting bosses and what not. Got the dream nail, defeated some ghosts and basically I've going back to all the regions to try new techniques I've got.

I have some questions

>can now swim on acidic water, double jump, super dash etc

Do I need something else?

>got the Kings mark after defeating the red bug again

Does that open the gate near the Mantis trio? What about some weird black water streams I've seen now and then?

>Colosseum

Beat the first challenge, there seem to be two more. Can I beat them or should I progress more in to the game? The first one was too easy.

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how are you dying

She's not black she's brown. If they had made her actually black she'd look like a spooky African, can't have that.

>tfw you beat that huge gauntlet for a three second cutscene
>tfw you realize it's hidden behind a seal specifically designed to protect valuable things
>tfw you realize some quiet time spent with the Hollow Knight is the Pale King's most cherished memory
Kino

>Does that open the gate near the Mantis trio? What about some weird black water streams I've seen now and then?

it opens a gate at the bottom of the ancient basin, explore there and you will find the answer to your second question, mantis trio gate is opened after beating them

This game has lots of kino moments but the Radiance is unbeatable IMO
>challenge
>face off into the sunset
>the sun grows wings
>the sun fucking manifests
>RADIANCE

Path of Pain wasn't that bad for me, either, which considering I'm a Celeste autist doesn't say much other than it's not AS hard as the hardest parts of Celeste. Still took me a good hour to beat.

That's not posibble, the radiance is gone at the godmaster ending, so there couldn't be any infection

>king’s mark
go to ancient basin again, this also ties into the black streams
>colloseum
test your might on the second, third might kick your ass

>no hiveblood charm
You are a braver man than I. Good job, user.

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The same thing happened to me and it took me literally less than 10 minutes to get back to the end and beat the shit out of those cheap fuckers. Your muscle memory will guide you, if you made it once you can do it again easily.

You think the path of pain is the seal's power made material? If the seal is meant to protect secrets and deter peeping, path of pain is a surefire way to do it

getting hit by a car tomorrow

Soul tyrant more like LOL tyrant.
Winged Nosk is a pain in the ass though.

You don't need hiveblood in the Path of Pain.

damn well when you check for cars look left then right then left AGAIN, that's key, unless you're from one of the countries what drive the other way

Is Hollow Knight only for autists? Why would you waste your life trying to get a hit-less kill against all the bosses?

ants better be some endgame motherfuckers

Hollow Knight isn't for autists only, doing that content in specific may be

Why would you waste your life playing video games? That's an optional thing JUST to appeal to autists, really.

scorpions

I like how seemingly everybody has a version of this screenshot. Quirrel truly was a bro.

what happens to him?

winged nosk's splooges seem closer together the further you get from him
there's a sweet spot after the first one that's about a dash's width wide that you should try to aim for when you hear him shrieking

>NuKiGe
What worked for me was Sharp Shadow + Dashmaster.
He goes to melee attack me, dash through him and walk towards him a bit since the fire's always the the same distance away from where he disappears.
He Imagines Dragons, either I hop over them if he's up against a wall, or I calmly walk up to him and dash through him.
He does the dive kick, I dash through him, then double jump over the flames he leaves behind.
He spouts flame geyers, that time I actually nail him. He's basically Uumuu on a flat surface for that one.
He turns into a puffer fish, I jump over the bottom fireball.

What's really kicking my ass is Nailmaster Sly. You'd think he'd be easier but I can't find openings to deal damage to the twirly buglet.

why play any video game? your accomplishments and achievements don't really exist

Nothing. He sits quietly by the lake, then leaves Hollownest.

ARU NA-SALEGEH
KE SAH

>people have trouble with sly
>beat him in about 10 tries
>meanwhile have trouble for ages with Lost Kin and Oro and Mato and Markoth

which dream boss refight is the hardest? My money is on Failed Champion
>dont get soul when striking him
>uber fast
>double damage
>giant shockwaves

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Failed Champion was actually the hardest boss fight in the game for me. I died to him more times than I died to the fucking Radiance.

>Oro and Mato
The secret with Oro and Mato is that they almost never attack at the same time. Focus on evading whoever's attacking, maybe get some hits in, but unless you hear somebody charging their nail art, you're almost always fighting 1v1. It's like with the Mantis Lords, it's the same fight 1v1 and 1v2, in 1v2 the attacks just come faster.

based

Failed Champion is really the first boss where taking it easy and hanging back is not an option, you have to be up in his face and aggressive and kill him immediately. Learning that from his fight is actually very valuable. Bosses should be killed in less than 2-3 minutes.

What? Failed Champion has 3 attacks and all of them are telegraphed as shit.

You're joking? he has two moves he telegraphs and once you down him once you can dream nail spam abyss shriek on him to down him again in less than 5 seconds.

I don't really understand why people have trouble with Markoth. I just stayed on the floor, and hit him whenever there was an opening in between dodges.
If you were going for a fast kill and hugging his face then yeah I could see the difficulty but his dreamshield rolls around slow enough that he's open to damage half the time.

he has a predictable routine that you can evade until the cows come home
of course it's easier if you wail on him before he can kill you, but that won't work in radiant

>mfw stuck at Watcher Knight send help

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the ascended+ fights remove the floor
still yeah, I don't agree that he's all that difficult until you're doing radiant

>Floor
They're talking about PoH, fucking retard

that part I understood, they only attack one at a time, but there's times when one charges his spinning nail art and the other will sometimes, not always, run in front of you, parry your hit and counter so fast you don't have time to react when you think you have a free hit. i couldn't get the timing down for hours. they probably took me 3 hours to finally radiant. Markoth I understood why people had trouble with, but man, I felt like the worst player ever that I couldn't get Oro and Mato easier than I did. Lost Kin too until I kind of cheated and just beat him with a pet build, but whatever, I beat him once on radiant and that's all I care about

Facetank them.

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Yeah it will. That's what I did on radiant, you get in his face. If he jumps away, that's the only time you jump away just far enough so you can dash through his shockwave, only to be back in his face again and wail on him again. His radiant fight took me about 90 seconds.

>it has to be as hard or harder
Except it doesn't. Often a sequel is easier than the first game even if it has better or deeper mechanics. For an example look no further than.. Well, nearly every series there is?

Pogo.

What have you done with Leg Eater?

what is this defender's crest meme

Sharp shadow and quick slash.
Dodge through them when they strike, hit a few times from the other side, repeat like 3 times for each watcher and they will be dead before the next even spawns.
Just watch out for the roll, it sends them slightly backward before they move ahead, making your dodge end right on top of them and you take damage, gotta simply jump that.

Okay, I do not support “HOLLOW KNIGHT FIGHT OR SUE TC”

But I definitely still want Cherry to expand on void lore.

The Pale King’s machinations gave me definite “Mad Scientist” vibes, and I would like to meet another void user in SS.

Hollow Knight was a decent Newgrounds game.

Steel Assassin Sharpe and his pals are connected to void if you believe Mossbag's theories

>Hanging around in a thread for hours just to randomly quote OP and post shit like this
Why can't people like you get a life?

I mean, I doubt he hung around for hours if he only just posted it. Also, there's nothing wrong with being a Newgrounds game 2bh.

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>radiant pv
>can get him down to health globes easily enough but he usually takes me out sometime around here
>make it down to tendrils rarely
>completely mess up my fengshui and i die
fuck fuck fuck fukc fcku ufkc

Of course that isn't exactly a great insult, but the idea is comparing it to some low-effort flash. Also, unless IP counting is borked then yeah I fucking know if he's been hanging around for a while.

Cicadas

Must be borked, it says it's a new one on my end