Call me a fucking shill but this game is fucking great--well

Yeah, it's pretty good.

Better than Ori, IMO. Much meatier and no weird difficulty spikes.

No, you're pretty much right, it was pretty good. Not the second coming of fucking Christ, but good.

>>384522898
You're a fucking shill. You're not discussing the game. All you're doing is mentioning the game. For no reason. All you want to do is tell people that you paid for it and you're happy; like that is supposed to fucking mean anything to me. Like your opinion means anything to me.

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Your favorite area?
Definitely the Ancient Basin for me. Definitely has the "dug too deep" vibe, which always spooks me.

>>384522898
shill

>>384522898
I loved it. I think i'm about 2/3 of the way through but i'm waitinf for the dlc to drop before I complete it.

when is it releasing anyway? supposed to be this month?

>>384526182
Greenpath or City of Tears.
Love green vegetation areas and dark rainy areas.
Also it kinda reminds me of Burmecia, one of my most favorite scenery in vidya

>>384526332
Yeah, it's this month.
Fuck. That's another 30 hours down the drain. I wonder if they'll change the order in which you play areas and get powerups.

>>384527073
Got confirmed for August 3rd, actually.

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>>384526176
It's almost as if he wants to open a thread with something positive, so that people can discuss the game.
After all, that's what OPs are for Other than sucking dicks

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>>384527176
But... I'm going to be on vacation!
And if I weren't on vacation, I'd probably be right in the middle of Sundered!

>>384527215
That's what generals are for. Bringing up the game for the sake of it is what shills do. If you have nothing specific in mind then you shouldn't be making a fucking thread.

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>>384526176
anon, it's time for bed

>>384527369
Does it ever occur to you that some people on this board actually like video games? Maybe he just thinks it's a fun game and wants to discuss it.
HK doesn't have a nearly big enough playerbase to make a general, and there aren't that many threads about it here nowadays.

>>384526176
cringe

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>>384526182
Deepnest

No other area in any 2D or platformer game made me feel this anxious, especially when visiting it straight after the Mantis Lords

>>384527369
If you think that's what generals are for you didn't see how things were before generals got their own board.

Would I like this game if I mostly hate platformers but loved Ori (cute/beautiful, good soundtrack, responsive controls and good freedom of movement, no shitty ass jumps to something out of screen with extreme precision needed but still challenging, very nice moments like the ginso tree escape I just couldn't get enraged at because of how well-executed it felt)?

>>384528272
Well, Ori was a pure platformer pretty much. The game was all about jumping and arcobatics ("platforming"), where action took a back seat and was mainly an afterthought way to handle character progression

Hollow Knight has a good deal of mobility options but they take longer to unlock, so you might feel very limited movement-wise for the first few hours, and it's much more focused on action. No more auto-target blob that fights for you. You have to kill things with your sword.

>>384528272
It's far harder than Ori and like three times as long for a regular playthrough

I would say you'd likely hate it. Ori only has some aspects of a Metroidvania, while this is a Metroidvania game through and through

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>>384528216
You don't know true horror, friend.
>Get to deepnest without knowing about the lantern
>Most of it is pretty easy
>Don't really have a phobia of spiders and insects, so I'm good
>Get to the dark part
>Ohfuck.jpg
>Trial and error my way over a few spike pits
>Hear a VERY ominous rumbling noise from the left
>It gets louder and louder
>panicpanicpanic
>Suddenly this asshole comes ot of fucking nowhere and smacks away my two remaining lives
>Mfw

>>384528272
Probably. Most of the hardest stuff is optional end-game content.

The difficulty curve is well-planned. It start out very easy and slowly builds up in difficulty. Overall, I still thought it was a little too easy (excepting the end-game stuff like Trial of Fools and White Palace).

>>384528598
The effect of a two-heart damage attack is just so great. It basically makes you feel the impact

I still can't believe I beat the Radiance
Looking back it's all a big blur
of tears

>All the weird semi hidden lore and weird side stories
Was this all kicksarter backers stuff or did they make all these lose ends for the dlc's/sequels?

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>>384527383
come to bed with me, anon

>>384522898
story is too hard to follow. only tiny bits and pieces are scattered everywhere, cryptic shit is said early on that only makes sense in hindsight, by the time I got to the end and fought some shiny moth bitch I had no idea who I was fighting or why

the game is all about exploration, but it doesn't let you buy maps out of order, which is counter-intuitive to the whole exploration aspect of the game. So despite supposedly being a non-linear game, you end up having to guess where the game wants you to go in a linear fashion

the bossfights were fun though

>>384528272
I played Ori first and thoroughly enjoyed it. Then I played HK and fucking fell straight in love with it.
Ori is a bit more of a cinematic journey, while Hollow Knight is much more like an old-school metroidvania. The feels won't blow you away like they did with Ori, but the game as a whole plays and controls a lot tighter and less floaty.

It has much more focus on exploration, and using your noggin to figure out where to go next, getting new movement abilities to unlock new locations.

>>384522898
Can I play this on an arcade stick?

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it alright

>>384528917
>Blue pendant and fragile heart with grubberfly ans quick slash
I was screaming and mashing as hard as possible

>>384528553
I'm not BAD at platformers, they just make me really mad. Watching me play through Super Meat Boy was a friend of mine's favorite past-time because I got stuck very often compared to most other platformers I played.
Fighting I can do, I'm just worried about the platforming really.

>>384528528
>>384528632
>>384528971
Guess I'll pick it up during the next sales then. Thanks for your opinions.

>>384526182
city of tears was really beautiful and fun to explore, fungal wastes had interesting enemies and good music

>>384528957
If you use the dreamnail on random enemies, you can kinda figure out a lot of the basic outlines of the story, like
>Bright light=bad
>Abyss=Good(or at least neutral)
>King is long gone
>Everything is literally fucked by bright light
>>384529161
The platforming in this game is honestly not that hard, nowhere NEAR as hard as SMB. Except for one of the late optional areas that is required to get the true ending

Godspeed.

>>384528216
My experience was more jarring that anything else, I fell down the trap entrance while having a nice comfy time in the fungal wastes

>>384529040
Shaman stone with maximum blue hearts I found easier. That way you only have to hit him when you need more soul to cast more shrieks.

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>>384526182
Greenpath or City of Tears. Both of them hit the right strings with making me realize just how much I love this game.

Why did the devs decide to block off random pathways later in the game? I can't use the main gates of the City of Tears anymore, and a number of passages in the Crossroads become impassable after the infection spreads. I could understand if this was needed to corral the player into a specific place or to keep them out of a place, but they don't actually do that. I can still go anywhere I want, it's just less convenient.

>>384526182
Kingdom's Edge, simply for that moment when you reach it, and the musci kicks in for the first time
Honorable mentions goes to The Abyss, because I love the "dug too deep" vibe too, and because No cost too great

>>384529751
The city of tears is supposed to be a one way passage, for lore reasons.
Infected Crossroads is just fucking stupid though.

>>384526176
>>>/r/eddit/

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>>384526176
>Get to discuss your favorite game of all time AND get to watch someone's autism go nuclear
Man, is there anything this game can't do?

>>384528957
What? I'm pretty sure you can get most maps whenever you want.
I assume you're talking about the map being the black barrier in that jellyfish zone?
You can get that if you come from behind.

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How can my abyss vessel possibly be this cute?

>>384530418
Not him but I'm playing through it first time right now, and it's pretty annoying to have to find the map guy in each level before you can see the map at all. Also I thought the whole point of buying stuff from his wife was so you could make your own map and he would become obsolete but your still forced to have no map until you find him. Fun game though

>>384531008
I have never shared this point of view. I think the lack of a map when you enter a new area makes for more fun exploration. You aren't immediately handed every room you enter. Makes the effort of having to remember rooms until you find the map guy much more satisfying.

>>384531008
Im pretty sure the paper trail that leads towards him can be found as soon as you enter the new area.

>>384531008
>>384531147
I hated it at first, but I kind of liked it after a while. It's another "upgrade" to find, and it was always something I eagerly awaited.

>>384531165
Nah, sometimes he's really far away from the entrance, like in Waterways.

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>>384530947
>Already 100%ed the game
>Just now noticed that Quirrel's mask looks like Monomon's face

>>384531008
I remember thinking the wife's items would let me mark the map too. I think it's worded that way, but "you" means the character not the player.

Her items are still useful tho, as they automatically mark the map with most of the important points.

And I liked finding Conifer. First time entering an area really feels unknown, desperate search for him, hearing his humming always gets me excited, the map he gives isn't fully filled out (but automatically includes places you've already been).
Gives the benefits of the map while keeping an air of mystery and providing an exciting reward.

>>384530418
I've gone through areas dozens of times with no map guy in sight, only to come back later after a bossfight and then suddenly he's there

it's annoying as fuck

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I finished the normal ending just today and am about to bash my head against the true final boss until I defeat it.
I never expected so many hours out of this game but I don't regret a thing.
>mfw White Palace

>>384531538
I noticed it as soon as I met him in front of the library. He said the place was calling him so it just clicked at that point.

>>384531582
What?

I don't even know how this is possible.

What areas/bosses. How far into it are you? Cornifer was always so easy to find. There's always papers every room nearby and you can hear him from far away. Plus, he's usually near the entrance.

In truly baffled

>>384531671
Did you do trial of fools? I was going to try to beat that before final boss but goddamn i may never finish the game this way.

>>384531781
The only one that is hard to find is Fog Canyon. I never found him until I was at the end of the game

>>384531916
Nah, you can do that later, I don't even think it counts for 100%.

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>>384531671
I remember getting lightly spoiled on White Palace and Trial of the Fool being super hard nightmares before I played the game.
The trial was pretty tough, but only when I went there without fully upgraded gear.
As a person who has almost 100%ed Super Meat Boy, I can say that White Palace isn't all it's cranked up to be.
Except for this part
Until you figure out when and where to dash

>>384532039
Regular final boss was a pushover. Is true boss much harder?

>>384526182
Howling Cliffs

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>>384522898
It's a cool game with a lot of fun bits but
>Collision damage, even on fucking fleeing enemies
>Tons of backtracking
>Spikes reset where you are in the room, with the resets often being inconsistent
>Bosses have no health bar
>Enemies hitting you damages you, but that can make you fall into spikes, which is a total shit show

Just did the part where you have to nail-bounce off of the Gorepedes over a huge area of spikes. Every time you hit a spike, you have to restart the entire bit despite there being a moment of respite in the middle of it.

Also annoying is that you can upgrade your weapon a lot, but it's easy to end up on bosses with less skills or upgrades than you should, leading to situations where you have to hit the boss for what feels like hours. Not having health bars makes this issue bigger than it should be because I have no real register of how 'well' I am doing against a boss. I've spent upwards of an hour fighting bosses like Hornet, Mawlek, and Mantis Lords because I was either ill-prepared or had no way to measure how well I was doing.

>Fighting Hornet
>Knock her down
>"Oh! Like every other video game, and even like earlier in this one, I only have to knock her down three times!"
>Knock her down a fourth time, she gets back up
>mfw

>>384532196
Oh yeah. Very much so. I think there was a vote on Reddit where it was voted as the hardest boss in the game, but I'd say some of the dream bosses are probably harder because you probably won't have all the upgrades by then.

>>384526182
I really liked that dirty, dingy, shitty looking area.

Whoops, that's almost all of them.

>>384532146
This part was easy for me because I got it quick. The thing that bothered me the most is that it just kept fucking going. Holy shit, that place is huge.
I'm sure I couldn't have done it without Deep Focus and the Grub charm.

>>384532196
Every one of his attacks deal 2 damage. Do I need to say something else?

>>384522898
Playing through it now
Really loving it.
>>384526182
I just entered into this area :)

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>Until you figure out when and where to dash

>tfw it took me way too long to figure out I had to crystal heart my way out of the last part.

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>>384532446
>That 4chan logo next to his name

>>384532365
Good for you. It's not often you see someone who loves ALL the areas.

>>384532470
forgot to quote
>>384532146

>>384532530
>le reddit and morty
You're not better.

>>384532530
It's just the good ol' cuck badge. They've become something of a rarity these days. Could probably sell it to the guy in City of Tears for a bunch of Geo.

>>384531781
I don't know how much exploring you did, but he is literally not in some areas until after you complete certain plot points

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>>384532470
I just normal dashed through that whole section.

>>384532530
What the fuck? Since when do these exist? It's like one of those screenshots predicting how the site would be in 10 years

>>384532738
there's a last part with 3 consecutive spikes that felt impossible to dash through

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>>384532470
I got that part figured out right away, but I struggled for WAY too long with the first dash, trying to find the correct spot to stand.

I think pic related is the answer, for reference.

>>384532805
They've been around for years now.

>>384532805
Since some good months ago. It was some incentive Hiro invented to increase the number of donations. Needless to say, nobody uses it except for shitposting.
Maybe you missed /vip/, too?

>>384529341
I beat the shit out of the mantis lords with a +0 nail then got lost in deepnest, ancient basin and kingdom's edge before finally entering resting grounds the wrong way.

>>384532684
Perk for buying a 4chan pass I presume? Mind if I borrow it?

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I 100% the game but don't remember ever finishing this guy's quest-line. Actually I only remembered he was an npc after finding him on my second playthrough.

>>384532918
you respawn on this first spot whenever you take a hit. That's how a marked it.

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>>384533062
you Find his body in kingdoms edge with the rest of the trash

>>384532837
Crystal dash

>>384533056
Hey, don't ask me, I don't have one.
>>384533062
After you complete some of the trials you can find his corpse somewhere below the arena

>>384533062
He's the guy looking for the Colosseum of fools, right?
Get's rekt off-screen and you can find his body on Kingdom's Edge.

>>384533250
Alright, weird.

>>384531781
shill plz

>>384526182
White Palace was actually my favorite area

>>384533584
That word you keep on using.
I don't think you know what it means.

>>384533178
lol, what a pleb.

>>384525232
It's just a solid metroidvania, but also a lot longer than pretty much any other metroidvania I can think of. final boss was way too easy

>>384522898
>ITS LIKE DARK SOULS MEETS CAVE STORY LELE XXDXDX
kill your self

The ghost bosses are really inconsistent in difficulty, imo.

>>384534097
Hollow Knight is easy as fuck.
Radiance isn't.

Wish psn wasnt horseshit so i could pick this on on vita its on sale for ps4 but not vita.

>>384532146
You can destroy the balcony piece below it to get past it.

>>384534284
spam abyss shriek and they are.

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>>384528216
>finding nost for the first time

>>384522898
What's the word for this game's aesthetic?
Bug-Core?

all indie games are shit and this has never been wrong.

>>384526182
Definitely City of Tears for me. Finally making it to the heart of Hollownest, hearing the rain outside, meeting Quirrel on the bench, and then encountering Hornet at the Hollow Knight statue just really struck a chord with me.

Also Greenpath and the Ancient Basin/the Abyss. The former because I had already gotten lost in the Forgotten Crossroads for hours and the change in scenery made me realize just how vast the game would be. The latter because I find the protagonist and Vessels in general to be very interesting.

>>384538562
What part of the aesthetic are you trying to classify?

>>384538562
If anything Gothic since it uses nothing but dark colors save for the one or two bright areas/things and everything is sullen and quiet.

No cost too great.
No mind to think.
No will to break.
No voice to cry suffering.

>>384538665
The amount of insects

>>384526182
>dug too deep vibe
>you can almost feel the weight of the kingdom over you
YES. I absolutely fucking loved this. Getting all the way down into the abyss was quite a journey, was completely enthralled

>>384528216
>fall into room that had nearly a dozen of those fucking reanimated corpse bugs
>Panic like fuck while I hear all of the them frantically scuttling after me
>manage to get up to a ledge just out of their reach
>sit there for a long time working up courage before I jumped down and got consumed
I got literal chills from that shit. 10/10 spoopy atmosphere, its really the sound effects that sell it

>>384528216
>saw the lantern in the store
>decided to save all my geo to buy it
>kept dying in Deepnest because of the lack of vision, but saved up enough
>couldn't find a way out to actually buy the lantern
>ended up dying and losing 2000 geo
>kept dying to devouts and couldn't navigate through the map

I just said fuck it and restarted seven hours of progress. Shit was a lot easier with the lantern at least on my second try.

>>384538889
>No mind to think
but it's willing to solve puzzles and help others

>>384529310
I meant it makes sense that light is bad and darkness and depths are good. They're bugs.

>>384528216
Deepnest was my worst experience.

>Worms constantly spawning ontop of you
>Dark as shit and straining to look at
>Takes forever to backtrack through
>The most obnoxious enemies in the game

Nosk was the only part of the deepnest where I actually had fun.