#hollow knight dlc

[mantis-on-a-table]

Here fellow bug lovers, come and grab some food🤲

(Redraw of this post)

Lineart only under the cut !!

[brainfullofashes]

I literally just broke my control playing Hollow Knight—

[lunathrix]

hollow knight but what if holly plush real???

[lu-is-not-ok]

is this anything

[staticevent]

home of the Gods

[vellichorom]

i walk the pantheon of hell.

[rondoel]

Just a short appreciation post about Hollow Knight and Outer Wilds, and how grateful I am to have stumbled into these two games, at this particular point of my life, as a young adult who can finally comprehend this message

Because these two games talk about the same topic, one I know scared and intimidated me too much when I was younger

But now that I’m at a point when I can actually grasp it and properly appreciate it, I’m glad to have experienced these two games with how well they tackle and present topic of entropy, and how I got through them in this order

Hollow Knight talks about letting go and leaving the past behind, there’s no bringing old order back, you have to let the old kingdom truly rot away, let the old dreams and regrets fade away. Not even gods are eternal. It’s more subtle here, makes me think about rot and that smallest scale of decay. First time I was confronted with this topic in a way that made me feel calm and humble.

And then Outer Wilds talks about similar thing but on much bigger scale. There’s these omnipresent feelings of inevitability at the core of universe and the game just did perfect job with slowly easing me into this uncomfortable powerlessness until there was nothing but calm acceptance, gratitude and humility in the face of it all. And how when looking at that biggest scale, it’s the smallest things that matter.

So, full circle. These two games just took my confused baby human hand and lead me through this in the gentlest way possible. I’m glad they exist.

Now I’m just going to lay on the grass and watch the sky for a moment. Ok? ok.

[s-------i-------g]

Rumor Report:

•Team Cherry is finalizing a deal to be bought out by Gearbox

•SilkSong will now be fully-voiced in English with Ashley Burch set to star as Hornet

•Due to time restraints, the team have switched to an 8-bit style for the game

[angrybatart]

Always thought of it as a tail, but now that you mention accurate bug anatomy...

[simcardiac-arrested]

honestly don't even remember what happened in 2017 at all, it was a year. that year is no longer.

what the fuck DIDN’T happen in 2017

[crystal-wingeddragon-spikes]

Kindly Isma, is one of The Great Five Knight bosses which can be fought in Pale Court fan DLC.

Krita. 8th August 2023

Isma is a curious fighter. Her attacks are not aggressive. They cover great range, but are very slow. However, she makes her battle more complicate by spawning Fool Eaters and Gulkas, two very common Green path/Queen's Garden enemies, and restricting my movement with thorny plants.

Normally, I consider bosses with minion fight (Grey Prince Zote) to be cheap and infuriating, but these minions do not move, making them more of an extra attacks and traps rather than the extra enemies.

Her move set works wonderfully with her minions. She progressively raises the difficulty, without using any new attacks. First, she uses Fool Eaters to create danger on the ground, while the Gulka make sure staying in the air or walls is not safe either. Then, she slowly closes her arena in while spawning 2 invincible Gulkas to keep the pressure on me even if she is not attacking, also making sure healing is nigh impossible. In her final phase, the wall surrounding me are covered in spikes, eliminating my option to wall jump and be a source of damage to me.

Isma's fight feel mostly fair, except for a few moments that Gulka's shots do not despawn when she is changing phase.

I had a displeasure, of suffering her fight for over a week, then achieve my first win defeating on my last health, only to be hit by Gulka's bullet, turning my victory into a bitter draw.

I finally defeat her by entering her second phase with full health, as I give up any hope of healing with 2 bullet chasing me down. Freeing up 3 notches from Quick Focus, I put on Dream Shield, and with the intention to end the hard part of the fight as soon as possible, Unbreakable Strength, Shaman Stone, Thorn of Agony and Grub Song (I can't use Nail art well). I won the fight with 4 mask left, took me almost 4 minutes.

Mighty Hegemol fight that I was worried about turns out a lot easier than I anticipated. I just need to nail bounce on his head once and hop to the side.

Now I head that Mystic Z'mere is even harder. I do not know if I am string enough.

[nysus-temple]

Wow you really came back right after I came back.

We really ARE mootsies.

You know what I mean.

(Even though I've yet to get back into the classics swing of things and the best experience I've had so far of the fandom I'm currently in has been a post with 4 notes, which is by all means the social media equivalent of screaming in the void.

Still, I just wanted to say hi :> )

that's neat, we ARE indeed connected !! kinda. i wasn't able to reply to this ask yesterday, in the end nskjsf ;v;

i've gotta get back around classics too. it's hard to do when your whole degree is about them yk. i spend way too much time not only reading those works, but translating them myself, so it gets a bit tiring in the end 😢 i use the internet more for fandom stuff now, as well, so i get you.

saying hi to you in return !! glad to see you around :D

[the-game-spirit]

we finally got nightcat...

.......still no silksong.

[pyrotechnicdarts]

im normal btw

[thegreatyin]

congratulations to all rainworld enjoyers im very happy for you guys

[vulturereyy]

as a huge Dark Souls fan who honestly loves the games more for their lore and themes than ooo big boss fights, i wish i was coherent enough to make a big long beautiful dissecting post about the themes of DS and HK, but honestly. I just like that there is a possibility of 'saving' Hallownest. Not the kingdom itself perhaps but. All isn't so totally lost like in Dark Souls. There's still room to rebuild, there's still folks who haven't given up, there's still most of the infrastructure and even groups of bugs like the Mantises or the denizens of Deepnest (the creepy noble ones I'm talking about with the bench) that thrive (?). In Dark Souls, there is... Nothing to really 'save.' The best ending options, in my opinion, are to just let everything *rest* at last. Let the fire fade, let the cycle begin anew. You won't survive, nor will anyone you've met, but existence itself will, because you let everything be burned away at last.

But I don't feel that way about Hallownest. Society still hasn't fallen... *That* far, compared to like, Lothric and Lordran, and hell even Drangleic. I can't quite think of one character in HK who even mentions just waiting for death at this point because that's the only good way anyone is getting out of this (not in a self-death way but like, the world of dark souls is very much converging in on itself because it's been kept in stasis for *so* long to try and preserve Gwyn's Age of Fire. It's not sustainable.) I think Cornifer is a great example for this. He hasn't lost hope, he's got a clear purpose, and yes, he takes your geo (as does Iselda), but both of them take it with the future in mind. They both look forward to the day Cornifer can come home and they can just settle down together. In Dark Souls, there are merchants, but many of them are just kind of... Taking money for money's sake, really. There's not much to *do* with it, there's nothing to look forward to with it. They're getting it for the feeling of power that comes from wealth. There are a few exceptions (Shoutout to my man Domhnall of Zena the best character in DS1) but on the whole, it's a very different vibe. Even Sly, who says himself he just likes to be rich, doesn't seem to be taking it to die rich. No one is waiting for Hallownest to fall.

I don't know. Dark Souls will always be my favorite series, but there's something to be said about how Hollow Knight took a similar path and I prefer the feeling of the endings much more. Sure, in the case of the endings like Dream No More, you shed your shell and *you* return to the void, but Hallownest lives on. Not only does it live on, but it lives on WITH NO (or very, VERY little) CHANCE OF THE CURSE/INFECTION COMING BACK! And hell even your self-sacrifice is viewed as a good thing for you, the Ghost, and the Hollow Knight, because you get to finally *rest*. It's not even painted in a horrible light for the ghost personally.

Hollow Knight lets you kill the Undead Curse and Hollowing itself (i.e. the Infection). It lets you undo the mistakes and wrath of a vengeful god who wants to keep grasping at what little power they have over the lands. A lot has been lost, but not *so* much that everything is for naught.

Hollow Knight makes the best endings the one where the world survives, and I think that's beautiful.