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I'm going to admit that it was kinda 4am when i watched the last one, so i didn't actually remember what you asked for. But here's this. 
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That's perfect. As much as I enjoy the art style that Hollow Knight eventually stuck with for the main game, part of me kinda wishes it stuck with that semi-surrealist style that the concept art had. Then again, if it did then I doubt it'd have the charm it has now, nor would people generally approach the game.
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Jul 11, 2017 18:59
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I meant to get the game while it was on steam sale and I totally forgot. I'm kinda bummed I missed it, but at the same time I'm not sure I could get very far into the game. It looks like it has some really hard platforming segments and I am not a great platformer.
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Jul 11, 2017 20:32
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ousire posted:I meant to get the game while it was on steam sale and I totally forgot. I'm kinda bummed I missed it, but at the same time I'm not sure I could get very far into the game. It looks like it has some really hard platforming segments and I am not a great platformer. The game is built very well for easing you in and gradually building challenge. The hardest sections are optional content. There is some challenge in both bosses and platforming but I wouldn't say it's impossible - I mean, I felt that I'm not a great player either and I managed it. It's also a lot of very good content - and a lot of it - for its price, I highly recommend it.
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Jul 11, 2017 20:41
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So i learned a little something interesting thanks to my buddy TorpidTypist http://i.imgur.com/tmXf3pF.gifv Bretta apparently has no thoughts at all if you hit her with the Dream Nail on rescue. I don't think the devs expected you to have it when finding her.
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Jul 12, 2017 00:37
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Highwang posted:So i learned a little something interesting thanks to my buddy TorpidTypist You could also interpret it as the orange plague having hollowed her mind out completely, which is also a decent excuse why she becomes so obsessed with you when you rescue her. Literally nothing except the guy who rescued her is in there now. Focacciasaurus_Rex fucked around with this message at 06:33 on Jul 12, 2017 |
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Jul 12, 2017 06:29
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Focacciasaurus_Rex posted:You could also interpret it as the orange plague having hollowed her mind out completely, which is also a decent excuse why she becomes so obsessed with you when you rescue her. Literally nothing except the guy who rescued her is in there now. But you can dreamnail other hollowed out people.
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Jul 12, 2017 07:24
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It could just be a mistake, yeah. Don't take the Dark Souls comparison too far, where every detail has to be plot significant and nothing is a glitch.
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:It could just be a mistake, yeah. Don't take the Dark Souls comparison too far, where every detail has to be plot significant and nothing is a glitch. I'm not saying it's not a glitch, I'm just saying it's a possible interpretation. 
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Jul 12, 2017 15:47
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Wang, you need to either re-equip the cash vacuum badge, or stop leaving it laying all over the ground. You're killing me, Smalls! Also, I have been trying to figure out what the Dream Nail reminds me of.
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KieranWalker posted:Wang, you need to either re-equip the cash vacuum badge, or stop leaving it laying all over the ground. You're killing me, Smalls! It doesn't actually take that long for collecting geo to be pointless. You only need about 30,000 geo to buy everything, and that sounds like a lot, but as we get further into the game the more options for getting big hunks of money become available, and the more money we've already collected. Relic Seeker Lemm can cover a huge amount of geo alone (over 20,000). Once you get around this point, the cash vacuum becomes something taking up a spot a more valuable charm could be using. dancingbears fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Jul 13, 2017 |
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Jul 13, 2017 14:54
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dancingbears posted:It doesn't actually take that long for collecting geo to be pointless. You only need about 30,000 geo to buy everything, and that sounds like a lot, but as we get further into the game the more options for getting big hunks of money become available, and the more money we've already collected. Relic Seeker Lemm can cover a huge amount of geo alone (over 20,000). Once you get around this point, the cash vacuum becomes something taking up a spot a more valuable charm could be using. While you are completely correct, the OCD completionist in me can't stand to just leave it lying on the ground regardless of how useless it is.
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KieranWalker posted:Wang, you need to either re-equip the cash vacuum badge, or stop leaving it laying all over the ground. You're killing me, Smalls! This is a weird double edged sword of doing an LP, cause meticulously collecting all Geo picked up can be boring as poo poo to watch as well.
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Don't worry about picking up Geo, let the completionists suffer. The only point in the game to ever be worried about geo is when you've been dying a lot and not just that but also losing your shade that had all your geo on it.
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dancingbears posted:It doesn't actually take that long for collecting geo to be pointless. You only need about 30,000 geo to buy everything, and that sounds like a lot, but as we get further into the game the more options for getting big hunks of money become available, and the more money we've already collected. Relic Seeker Lemm can cover a huge amount of geo alone (over 20,000). Once you get around this point, the cash vacuum becomes something taking up a spot a more valuable charm could be using. Highwang posted:This is a weird double edged sword of doing an LP, cause meticulously collecting all Geo picked up can be boring as poo poo to watch as well. Yeah, that's fair.
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New Update: Episode 12- Isma's Tear Today's episode is a weird mish-mash of stuff I just recorded in a hazy fatigue late at night. Basically I clean up most of Crystal Caverns, meet our good buddy the Dung Knight again, and also die but totally space out and forget to show off the unique "bloodstain" retrieval mechanic. We also meet a few interesting NPCs outside of our good friend the Dung Defender, namely Emilia. I find Emilia interesting because she's somehow the only remaining survivor out of the entirety of the old population of Hollownest, which says a lot about the old kingdom. That being said, I do have some news about the state of the LP. I recently got a job and I start in about 2 weeks, which means this shut-in doesn't have infinite hours to run LPs anymore. This doesn't change the condition of the LP in general, but I did have to take the poll results a bit early to prepare a backlog of content for when I actually start working. So this basically means the poll results are going to be thus: Get the double-jump, explore the outskirts, explore deepnest, explore the garden, with maybe 1-2 bonus areas weaved inbetween. I also recorded like 5 loving hours of footage, so that's gonna be roughly a good month and a half of content as I get acclimated to my new job.
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When you were at the King's Station, the stag beetle mentioned that he almost remembered where his home is. I assume that's an area we'll find later? Because now I'm worried that we'll have to fight an evil version of our friend.  He also said the king was bright and glowy? So I'll just make a guess that the king is/was a firefly.
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Congrats on the new job! Also, how dare you get a new job and maybe make updates on our free entertainment take longer?  So is that like a shield hiding up the hollow knight when in the acid, or is the white line supposed to be him paddling around?
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ousire posted:He also said the king was bright and glowy? So I'll just make a guess that the king is/was a firefly. This is a good bet but has an altogether more unusual explanation. You do see the king's symbol from time to time in the game, though - it looks like a four-pronged fork, or elongated crown. It's actually gonna be a long-rear end time before we get concrete backstory about some things. Some of it will be in those 'kingdom outskirts' mentioned, some of it is from the moth after collecting a bunch of essence, some of it is from right near the end of the game. "So like, where did the King come from" is a conversation that's 100% missable from a totally missable NPC.
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I, also, Dream Nail'd the singer without knowing what it did and had a fairly similar reaction. That's honestly one of the few things in this game I'd call a dick move, since there's no indication it's going to do that.
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I beat the game last night and really enjoyed it, barring one or two things; thanks for showing it off. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the game as done by someone who knows what they're doing.
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Jul 18, 2017 03:48
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Oh hey, you got Isma's tear. Now I can post this. http://imgur.com/25R4pjh 
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Jul 18, 2017 11:41
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Oh Leg Eater, you're such a card. I just can't stay mad at you!
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Oh, you keep your shinespark going over screen transitions? That's a puzzle ingredient and no mistake.
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Mmm, one thing I'm wondering if you're aware of, Highwang, since you didn't mention it in video. After you deal with the whole mess of spirits for a wheel tree and it grows, you can use the dream nail on it to get some random bits of lore. It's fragmented and vague but does tend to give a bit of context on the local area. Mind you, you seem to dislike lore as a concept so it may not be as much of a reward for you as it is for me.
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Glalev posted:Mmm, one thing I'm wondering if you're aware of, Highwang, since you didn't mention it in video. After you deal with the whole mess of spirits for a wheel tree and it grows, you can use the dream nail on it to get some random bits of lore. It's fragmented and vague but does tend to give a bit of context on the local area. Yeah someone at YT yelled at me for that. I did the one in this new recording, and the rest will be done in the "road to 100%" vids later in the LP
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I can understand the dislike of "lore", since it could either enhance the story of the game by providing plenty of leading questions to the player, but it can also be lazily done and just be there as ornamentation.
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You mention in the video that you thought the crystals where you need to shinespark are a weird thing to use as a telegraph. It never struck me as odd when I saw it since I always assumed that since when you shinespark crystals grow around you that they were left over from bugs who had used the path before. Also really enjoying the lp and congrats on the job!
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The way I interpret dung knights dream nail quote is that he didn't think there were other people left.
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He seemed surprised by you coming into his place, and delighted by your fighting prowess. He also didn't bleed orange, as I recall.
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New Update: Episode 13- Ancient Basin Its double jump baby! Today we explore the Ancient Basin, which is a rather unremarkable area in general. We get a lot of nice things here, such as Pale Ore and another item for 3000g, but in terms of enemy and environment design I find this place somewhat unremarkable. I can see why this area had such little attention though since its meant to be basically a footnote to other areas that you are travelling from and toward. The double jump though is incredibly satisfying to use and gives you a great amount of height, but you also have to account for the slight dip on start-up if you want to do some cutesy poo poo with it. I really don't have much else to say about this place though, namely because there are two other end-game areas that link up to this place and we have no means to open them right now. I also hope you enjoy Travis' merciless campaign to discredit me via lore.
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the question of 'wait, are we near the end of the game?' made me laugh this game gives you your 15 bucks worth, and then some
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Double jump is always the best upgrade in any metroidvania. But this one in particular feels really good. All lore is canon. Why do you hate pizza, Highwang? What has pizza ever done to you? cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Jul 24, 2017 |
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Only two of the five knights? No, it's most, probably all of them. I'm guessing you meant Dung Defender, and False Knight's armor? But Isma is also one of the knights, and we saw her corpse. There's another corpse in the Queen's Garden. And then there's that debatable one. Honestly, I don't see why it wouldn't be her. Also, I've repeatedly climbed out of Ancient Basin without doublejump. It's not THAT bad.  EDIT: Oh, and I was yelling at the screen to use the Dream Nail on those crawlers when you were at low heath and soul. They're so slow! They're perfect for beating forever with the Dream Nail for infinite health! Jeez. dancingbears fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Jul 24, 2017 |
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dancingbears posted:EDIT: Oh, and I was yelling at the screen to use the Dream Nail on those crawlers when you were at low heath and soul. They're so slow! They're perfect for beating forever with the Dream Nail for infinite health! Jeez. People keep forgetting that the dreamnail is a thing. It allows you to siphon magic while giving you lore!
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Lost Kin is actually pretty easy to cheese - using any kind of poison aura pops his summons in one shot and without them he's pretty easy to damage-race. Hell, he's the only one of the refights I beat.
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Jesus man, why do you hate pizza? Do you hate puppies and rainbows and shark week too? You poor bastard I love the double jump animation. Those wings are pretty
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Hey Highwang. That isn't the end of the Dung Defender and that little hidden room. There's ANOTHER later thing there you missed. I'm not sure what the trigger is, but if you come back later you can find him sleeping with the poop statues. And murmuring about Isma.
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