Hollow Knight

One of the best games I've ever played. The storytelling, the graphic, the music, the gameplay, all perfect.
I've only one question left...: WHERE IS SILKSONG??????

i played hollow knight for the first time with my sister during covid. we were both absolutely atrocious at video games and our first playthrough of the most basic ending took almost 100 hours, passing the controller off whenever one of us got stuck.

Still, despite being god-awful at it, that did not dissuade my love for the game. Those memories with my sister are some of the fondest I have for a game, and hollow knight ignited my passion for platformers as a whole.

recently, I've been playing through it again, streaming it to my friend and flexing how "gamer" I am. I'm a lot better now, which is good since with my sister in college I'd have nobody to pass the controller to when I'm stuck, but every time I pull off a tense platforming moment or beat a boss I was struggling with I can't help but feel like I'm doing it to impress her.

Hollow Knight took me on a journey and I loved every minute of it, even dying repeatedly to watcher knights for like three hours. :]

Hollow Knight and I have an interesting history. I started off feeling very "meh" about it. The boss fights were incredibly long without a health bar to know how close I was getting, several bosses were difficult because of ads or environmental hazards rather than the actual boss being hard, and so many bosses were were optional that I missed a vast amount of content in my first playthrough.
I "beat" the game on my first playthrough and thought that was pretty much it, put the game down and moved on to the next thing. It wasn't until at least a year later that I watched a random youtube playthrough of Hollow Knight that I realized I didn't just miss one or two bosses, but I missed entire regions, abilities, and amazing charms. I am also someone who is normally quite thorough in exploration. I decided to get back into the game and I played Hollow Knight the way it was actually intended.
Having the basics down, I experimented with spells, charms combinations, and different strategies. The experience was night and day. Boss fights became much faster, and were no longer tedious now that I was doing consistent damage at close and long range.
I explored every inch of the map (looking for Silk Song), found every boss, and took on the Pantheon. Even as a souls veteran who is used to challenge, the Pantheon was the hardest challenge I've faced yet taking me over 8 hours to finish P5 alone. If you stick to it, it is also extremely rewarding once you've climbed that mountain.
Hollow Knight is one of those rare gems that depends on what you put into it. If you only explore the surface level, you'll have a nice experience that likely won't be anything special. The caves are vast and you'll enjoy the sense of exploration and being lost. However, if you invest time to explore, master mechanics, and take on all of its challenges, you will quickly find Hollow Knight rising to the top of your list of favorite games.
it will also make you sad that Silk Song isn't out yet.

This is definitely my favorite game of all time. It's absolutely beautiful visually, the story is amazing, the music is incredibly immersive, and it's replayable as fuck. I come back to it all the time and I still never get tired of it. I've been playing this game for 6 years at this point. An absolute masterpiece.

No cost too great.
No mind to think.
No will to break.
No voice to cry suffering.
Born of God and Void.
You shall seal the blinding light that plagues their dreams.
You are the Vessel.
You are the Hollow Knight.

Hollow Knight is an amazing platformer metroidvania, with incredible art and music. The combat isn't super complex, but is a definite challenge, and very satisfying to master. The game isn't easy, but it's certainly worth it in my opinion.
---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☑ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☑ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs (it's a game about insects, I have to put this, there aren't actually any major bugs)
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---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☑ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☑ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
---{ ? / 10 }---
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☐ 9
☑ 10
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