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Got this game on sale, and over the course of like 3 play sessions I've logged 10 hours. Just came back to Forgotten Crossroads to find it had become Infected Crossroads, which blew my mind.
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Y'all had me scared about the White Palace but yeah... comparisons to I Wanna Be the Guy and Super Meat Boy and stuff are not very accurate. I actually was particularly confused by the place because it often seemed like the paths that let you skip a ton of the platforming were waaay more obvious to me than the actual intended paths. So I ended up looping back around and making sure I wasn't missing anything and just ended up minorly annoyed.
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Jul 30, 2017 04:00
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DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:so in other words he dreams a shitload
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Jul 30, 2017 11:45
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Whew, just finished getting the Steel Heart achievement (100% completion in Steel Soul), and also picked up Speed Completion. There were a couple of times super far into the run where I got WAAAY too close to dying... pretty sure I would have just uninstalled at that point.
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Dec 7, 2017 22:10
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I Said No posted:Which, out of curiosity? For me i'd say Trial of the Fool, Elder Hu, Marmu, and the Watcher Knights. And the other was in that long open passage around the entrance of the Ancient Basin. There are a bunch of those flying soldier guys, and I messed up like 3 times in a row, getting hit and also falling onto spikes, so I only had 1 health. So I backed off to safety, breathed a sigh of relief...... and then a lance flew at me from off screen. I may have screamed. I ended up having no trouble with bosses; I think I just farmed up stuff really well so I was always overpowered for what I was getting into. Also, Path of Pain and Speed Run 2 completed!
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Dec 8, 2017 03:46
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Woop woop, 100% achievement completion. Nightmare King was a super fun way to finish all the game's content.
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Dec 10, 2017 02:30
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I decided to do all the Radiant (i.e. no-hit) boss challenges in the Hall of Champions because I have brainworms, and it's crazy how fun the Grimm and NK Grimm fights are. I never once felt cheated even though I got wrecked a ton, and I learned that Grubberfly's Elegy is just insanely good for doing damage while playing defensively. Markoth can gently caress off though. Brothers Oro and Mato took me way too long and I raged a lot, but Markoth has by far the stupidest Radiant fight... it's just awful. He moves like a complete dickhead, loving swords spawn off screen, he has almost no safe openings once he's got two shields out... man that was awful. I still need to encounter Pantheon five stuff though so maybe it'll be worse.
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May 23, 2019 22:42
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Welp I got it done. All Bosses cleared on Radiant, pantheon five cleared... at first I thought the bindings were needed to unlock the last pantheon, so I did 8 of them, but I guess it was nice to get some extra health. What an insanely great game. When Godmaster came out I thought it seemed like one step too far in terms of difficulty, and took a long break before trying it. Now that I've finally done it though, aside from a couple of bullshit radiant fights I'm just blown away at how well the game holds up when it's just pure combat.
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May 29, 2019 09:30
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BBJoey posted:But have you done pantheon 5 with all bindings for the very last item in the game?
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May 31, 2019 23:19
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I'm one binding away from the Weathered Mask, and only just found out the last Pantheon has a stupid little glowy jewel thing that lights up if you're a crazy person and manage to do all four bindings at once. I think..... I think I'm gonna have to be satisfied not lighting up the stupid jewel.
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Aug 13, 2019 00:17
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I Said No posted:Honestly the bindings don't add challenge so much as they just make the fights take loving forever, with the exception of health bind. Also update: fighting Zote right after Markoth is insanely terrible.
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Aug 13, 2019 09:00
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I definitely find PV waaay easier with jumping. Doesn't he pause before unleashing his three-slash attack sometimes? I dunno it fucks with me, whereas there's not really anything that punishes you for jumping. Anyway...   I might try some of the other pantheons with all bindings, but doing all of #5 with them seems like it would be kinda anti-fun. Especially with how most people who ever cleared it did so back when Nail Art damage was bugged to ignore the Nail Binding. In other words I'm pretty done with this amazing game.
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Aug 13, 2019 22:03
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Logan 5 posted:Uh, pantheon deaths definitely leave a spirit, it is always in the small room to the left of the bench instead of in the arena. Presumably to make it easier to get after you die, but it seems to me like a lot of people miss this. So yeah, those deaths would count.
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Oct 7, 2019 23:11
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Bust Rodd posted:Hollow Knight is one of the only games that I’ve ever beaten and still feel bad at.
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Dec 9, 2019 21:54
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Actually the tired meme is the "white palace is just stupid I Wanna Be the Guy level sadistic difficulty" stuff. For lots of difficult platformer players it's just another fun part of the game that takes like 20 minutes.
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Dec 13, 2019 23:18
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I felt the same way about Godmaster for several months, but once I actually started it I got hooked pretty quickly. When it really clicks that almost every boss is very well-designed for fighting them without ever getting hit, it doesn't feel quite as daunting to go through a ton of them at once.
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Dec 27, 2019 11:05
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More like the Path of Complain
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Jan 19, 2020 08:01
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Also the flame column attack is the easiest place to get a bunch of hits in so it's good not to rely on it for healing.
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Jan 26, 2020 21:35
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lets hang out posted:hey what the gently caress was wrong with the people who made this game when they made markoth
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Feb 17, 2020 18:07
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C-Euro posted:Finally beat The Eternal Ordeal
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Holy crap, Ori and the Will of the Wisps (the sequel to Ori and the Blind Forest) came out a couple days ago and it's like a lovechild of the original and Hollow Knight. I'd be offended at the amount that's borrowed if I didn't love it. For those who haven't played the original Ori, it's a platformer Metroidvania game with a heavy emphasis on the platforming, less emphasis on combat; you just press a button to shoot projectiles that automatically target the nearest enemy. You get experience points that upgrade skills along one of three paths, and getting every upgrade is pretty expected. You do a ton of exploring for health/energy upgrades and do a lot of avoiding deadly obstacles while platforming. Now the sequel has come along and the combat is much more fleshed out with a sword being your first weapon (even including downward attacks that let you pogo on enemies), the healing system from Hollow Knight is given almost immediately, there are more NPCs with extremely HK-like dialogue sounds, the points you get are much more of a Geo-like currency rather than XP for levels, there's a mapmaker wandering around who you have to buy maps from, and... basically a replica of HK's charm system. Admittedly so far I haven't encountered any charms that take up multiple slots, but otherwise it is extremely similar with the addition of some charms being upgradeable. The original Ori was truly a great game in many ways but for fans of Hollow Knight I think the sequel is just gonna be nearly perfect. I'm only an hour in but it seems fantastic. Martman fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Mar 13, 2020 |
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Bleck posted:stop, stop it, my body can only become so aroused 
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Rand Brittain posted:Would I want to play the original first? One of the main things that I could see being an issue is that as it ramps up the difficulty there are a ton of instant death mechanics, which can definitely annoy fans of Hollow Knight. It lets you create checkpoints pretty much at will though, and overall I'd say HK is a lot harder.
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Two years is a pretty long time, but hey you never know when something will click. The game does sometimes require you to really commit to certain playstyles, and for most bosses that means accepting that your opportunities to heal are extremely limited. I think a lot of players get tricked by the healing system into thinking that being offensive will also result in being able to heal more, and then constantly find themselves in a panicked state of trying to be more and more recklessly offensive hoping it will get them further. Sometimes you'll even get pretty far in the fight that way, but it may not really be building up the kind of habits that will actually carry you all the way. Honestly if there's any one thing to do to practice, I'd suggest that you try going into the boss fight and just dodging her attacks. Don't throw a single attack of your own; just see how good you can get at not taking damage, for as long as you feel comfortable. Only once you're getting in the groove of dodging everything should you see how you can fit in attacks safely. My girlfriend has a ton of trouble with platformers and precision combat stuff and I really thought she was getting brick-walled by the Hornet fight, but that defense-first strategy really seemed to help her mentally develop her offense over time instead of just panicking every single fight.
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One more thing, it's definitely possible to get 4 mask shards for a health upgrade before you encounter Hornet, but I can see why you wouldn't expect that. There are two that you've probably gotten from the shop, and I'll spoiler some other available ones: Defeat the Brooding Mawlek in Forgotten Crossroads. The door to his area is right below the entrance to Greenpath. The path is very spiky and may look unpassable for now, but you can bounce along the spikes by attacking downward on them. If you're into platforming as you say, this isn't actually that hard! Brooding Mawlek isn't exactly a pushover at that point in the game, but it's a drastically slower fight than Hornet. Once you learn what to do it is a much less in-your-face panicky fight. You get one shard for collecting 5 grubs and checking with grubdad; I think by the time you're at Hornet there should be 6 or 7 of these reasonably available. One or two might require messing with bouncing on spikes and stuff, but I think you can get 5 without any crazy tricks. There's a mask shard in a darkened area in Greenpath; if you get the Lumafly Lantern for 1800 Geo you can see better in dark areas. Farming up 1800 geo seems like it would be pretty lame at this point though. There's actually another one in Forgotten Crossroads, but getting it is pretty tricky at this point in the game. It's in the hallway below the False Knight area, and normally you need later movement skills to get in the secret passage leading to it. Getting to it now requires kiting a fly near the passage and bouncing off it for extra height; I feel like the first two methods are a lot more reasonable and this one feels a bit silly to go out of your way for at this point, so maybe look up a map on your own if you wanna do this one. Getting an extra health could actually make a big difference. Good luck bug bro.
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Oof I didn't remember the flies getting killed by the centipede things. Your post inspired me to reinstall the game real quick to make sure I'm not giving terrible advice, and yeah it is possible... but you pretty much have to kite the fly up and over the centipedes by pogoing on them. It's very much doable but it's also annoying and fiddly and then afterwards you have to go through a section where you'll probably take at least two or three more hits. At that point if you're gonna do one of these methods I'd recommend the first, because that u-bend you're referring to is actually the only part that requires the spike bounce. Now, to be honest, the Brooding Mawlek is fairly hard at that point in the game. On replaying it just now I'm not sure it's worth recommending as an alternative to Hornet. It's slow in some ways, but still requires very quick responses to a couple of its moves and takes a bunch of hits. Sorry to lead you on a wild goose chase, but I wouldn't want you to go crazy doing any of these methods when Hornet's still gonna Hornet. Maybe try getting past the spike bounce section once and see what you think of the boss there.
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I feel like randomizers particularly make sense as a branch or offshoot of the speed run community. They seem particularly geared towards players who are already spending time thinking about planning routes through games for efficiency, breaking down games into discrete segments, doing things out of order if it's useful, etc. I dunno, it helped me understand why someone would be interested in that in games where it could seem weird otherwise.
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Fargin Icehole posted:I decided to pick this back after almost two years. I know I have completed the Trial of the fool last time, As far as I know, I have every mobile upgrade, I picked up the swim in acid upgrade well after finishing all the map and boss areas where it really would've been easier. I'm at 1205 essence, at 89% completion, and the old lady wants me to reach 1500 essence. I have absolutely no idea what to do next. Check out Broken Vessel (boss before acquiring double jump) and Soul Master's (dude at the top of the Soul Sanctum in the City) arenas
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Cartoon Man posted:Anybody on our forums actually done this? As I understand it, the game was patched around... a year ago? to fix an issue where Nail Art damage wasn't affected by the Nail Binding. I think a lot of people who did the "all-bindings" run were using that to make it way more feasible, and it being patched out really discourages me from trying.
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MJeff posted:Is Sharp Shadow affected by the Nail binding?
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I had the same experience with Steel Soul 100% being way easier and more pleasant than expected, then when Godhome came along I noped out and figured they had hosed up and made something too obnoxiously hard. When I finally came back and went for it, I fell in love with the game all over again. If you're really into the combat, Godhome can blow you away with how well-designed almost every fight is. (there are like 2 bullshit ones so yeah)
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Seriously, Markoth is annoying but no fight gave me more of a panicky fear of utterly choking than Zote in Pantheon of Hallownest. I think I lost at least a couple runs to him.
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Zote uses the most powerful move in almost any 2D platformer enemy's moveset, which is "occasionally run straight at your face while holding a sword out" Really though he felt the hardest to predict to me, and on top of that he specifically fucks with you with his dive-through-the-floor move in a way that just gets in my head and freaks me out
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I'd like to invest all my Geo with the burglar bug, please
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Zaphod42 posted:This month, chief. Its almost over.
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Organza Quiz posted:Without wanting to set off ten pages of Difficulty In Games Discourse, are there any decent mods for HK that make it easier? Like healing or damage reduction or not having to walk-of-shame back to bosses before you get dreamgate. I have a friend who loves the aesthetic of the game, it's exactly their thing, but they're just getting frustrated with the difficulty of it and it doesn't have a convenient godmode option like Hades does. Any chance the fan community has stepped in to fill the gap? quote:The EasyMode Mod does the following: (info taken from ReadMe) Again, a part of me feels weird directing people to some random discord that I can't vouch for to download stuff, but this one has like 75,000 members and I get the impression from Youtubers mentioning it etc. that it might just be the place to go for this stuff.
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Organza Quiz posted:Ha I was just coming back to edit my post to say I found that! It looks like the mod installer is still available from Nexusmods to me? It also appears to have the mods that people use for running randomiser bingo races, so seems popular and therefore probably safe to me.
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Nov 28, 2020 11:12
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Mover posted:this rules
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Absolute Radiance is hard as gently caress, not gonna sugarcoat it, but imo it's surprisingly fair after how busted it feels when first learning it. By far the hardest part is being consistent about manipulating the orbs he shoots, and indeed sometimes they will behave in some really bullshit-feeling ways, but it is overall not too awful in terms of letting you get damage in and even healing a bit.
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Is Gordon Freeman made of void?
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