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Yeah but have you considered this route: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lRTF_5lrW-U
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chestnut santabag posted:Yeah but have you considered this route: Lol what the gently caress
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chestnut santabag posted:Yeah but have you considered this route: see, this is why i can't really get mad at a game that exceeds my abilities. i'm okay at this game but i'll never be able to do that -- but i love that that guy did, and shared it with us. i would have loved it even more if he hosed it up post-Path of Pain out of sheer hubris, but that's part of the fun
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Dec 8, 2020 04:41
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:see, this is why i can't really get mad at a game that exceeds my abilities. i'm okay at this game but i'll never be able to do that -- but i love that that guy did, and shared it with us. if they had touched the spikes in the last room and immediately force quit the game to desktop i think it'd have been the greatest work of comedy in the modern era
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Dec 8, 2020 04:52
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f#a# posted:Just did it, here are my tips (it sounds like you did it too but hey, whatever): Much better idea: Pop the dream nail outside the Grey mourner's route, don't bother to pick up the flower. Do the route normally with whatever the hell you like, clearing EVERYTHING. Explosive jellyfish, the works. Don't touch any benches, but do use the hot pools. Practice the last jump over the thorns like 6 times. Dream nail back, pick up flower, walk through the route uncontested. This is way, way easier than actually trying to clear things untouched. I also used summons because they're fun and can pop the jellyfish well offscreen safely.
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Dec 8, 2020 05:09
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iirc you can also cheese it like so: sit on the queen's gardens stag bench. make your way to the flower giver, using stags if you want. get the flower then exit your game and reload it. you should be back on the queen's gardens bench. not 100% sure this works but it shouldn't take long to attempt
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Dec 8, 2020 05:14
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b_d posted:iirc you can also cheese it like so: nope! Picking up the flower instantly sets your respawn point to the bench outside the mourner's hut.
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Dec 8, 2020 05:50
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ah well.
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Dec 8, 2020 05:56
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The only hard part of the route is the final jump, that’s why it sucks.
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Dec 8, 2020 07:27
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Ya I failed that quest at the end a few times. So very frustrating.
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chestnut santabag posted:Yeah but have you considered this route: i didn't even know that path through the white palace was there, what the gently caress
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Dec 8, 2020 16:25
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grieving for Gandalf posted:i didn't even know that path through the white palace was there, what the gently caress The Path of Pain was added in for the platforming masochists. You get a brief cinematic that expands on the lore but it’s completely optional to complete.
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Dec 8, 2020 16:50
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Do it, it’s fun!
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The best thing about that isn't that he's clearly so very practiced on the Path of Pain, no hesitations anywhere, but that he took absolutely no loving chances on any of the combat encounters before and after. The astristocrat mooks in the City and the spitting spiders in deepnest where approached with such utmost caution that I find it hilarious.
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Dec 8, 2020 17:47
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To be fair, spitting enemies are awful and I hate them all with the fiery wrath of a thousand burning suns   Look at this motherfucker. Doesn't he make you want to smash his stupid face right in? Go on, you can say it here, this is a safe space.
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bravaa
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Rappaport posted:To be fair, spitting enemies are awful and I hate them all with the fiery wrath of a thousand burning suns
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Okay, so this is my third playthrough of Hollow Knight. In all of them I have gotten the Void Heart and then just...given up after like three Radiance attempts. In this one, I got further with 2400 essence and all charms—I'm at 105%—but I still need to do NKG, Fool, and Radiance, and just don't have much desire to complete the game. what do i doooo
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f#a# posted:Okay, so this is my third playthrough of Hollow Knight. In all of them I have gotten the Void Heart and then just...given up after like three Radiance attempts. In this one, I got further with 2400 essence and all charms—I'm at 105%—but I still need to do NKG, Fool, and Radiance, and just don't have much desire to complete the game. Go play a different game. Don't play games you don't want to play.
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Dec 10, 2020 05:44
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Radiance is probably the easiest of those 3, as I beat it her on my first playthrough but couldn't do fool. It's not an unfair fight, with a bunch of bullshit in it (cough cough Zote, Fool), but is just something that takes a lot of practice. That being said, don't do it if you don't like it. The GodHome pantheons are worth a crack, as the first few are filled with easy bosses. But if you're done with the game, just move on.
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Dec 10, 2020 07:15
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Serephina posted:Radiance is probably the easiest of those 3, as I beat it her on my first playthrough but couldn't do fool. It's not an unfair fight, with a bunch of bullshit in it (cough cough Zote, Fool), but is just something that takes a lot of practice. I somehow had a harder time with Radiance than NKG, though NKG also clicked for me and is still probably my favorite boss fight ever. Wait, no, Mantises.
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I think i found Fool the easiest, then NKG, then Radiance. I'm a very defensive player though, so Radiance forcing me to be defensive for so goddamn long just made me suffer.
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Fool is more draining to me because of how long you can be at it and then fail at the end; NKG and Radiance are more merciful IMO by virtue of being boss fights you can just bang your head against.
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Dec 10, 2020 16:11
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For me it's definitely Radiance, then Trial of the Fool, then NKG. Radiance only took me, like, three good tries to beat, once I knew what I was doing it wasn't too bad. NKG took me multiple days of work.
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Dec 10, 2020 18:30
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I beat radiance and NKG without much trouble but I haven't bothered with fool, because fool isn't actually fun at all so I just decided not to bother after like 5 attempts.
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Dec 10, 2020 18:45
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I did fool by putting on the fast healing charm, the quick strike, the steady body, and long nail or Mark of pride. For me it was all about fast strikes and fast healing in between rounds. But yeah it’s still a hard challenge.
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Dec 10, 2020 18:48
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I beat NKG after A LOT of tries. I beat Radiance pretty quickly, probably less than 10 attempts. I never even bothered finishing the Trial of the Fool, because it was too long and frustrating. 
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Dec 10, 2020 18:49
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I think i spent a good 3.5 hours one night working on NKG, then turned around the next morning and got it like second try.
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Dec 10, 2020 18:52
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I was ready go give up while fighting radiance. Then I decided to look up some strategy and found out that I was already at the last phase and won a few tries later.
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Mantis lords is just so cool
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Oh the rest of the city is mind controlled by some kind of idiot blight? Not us, we're just badass battle sisters we don't give a gently caress about no lame as gently caress moth god
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Dec 10, 2020 21:09
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QuarkJets posted:Oh the rest of the city is mind controlled by some kind of idiot blight? Not us, we're just badass battle sisters we don't give a gently caress about no lame as gently caress moth god 
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shaman stone is very helpful for trial of the fool because if you have the upgraded fireball it one-shots primal aspids and those squit(?) things.
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Likewise nail arts, things I normally never use, come into their own during Fool for one-shotting them. And the optional charm is only one notch.
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Just popping in to say I beat The Radiance  . Took about ten attempts last night and beat him on the third time that I had gotten to the platform phase. I was worried that I was only half done with the fight at that point but nope, three abyssal shrieks later and I'm good!It's not that I didn't like this game...quite the opposite, actually! It's just that with some of my favorites, I get to the final boss and either don't want the experience to end, or have reached the end of the power curve and lose interest. But I still like closure! Happy to have that here, finally 
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I barely even glanced at Godhome since I had hit 106% on the Switch when it came out, but in my second play through thanks to PS+ I’m hittin’ the Pantheons. And I hit Pure Vessel for the first time last night.  Checking on what I have to do *after* that, I’m not sure I’m gonna be hitting that Platinum after all.
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I got to nailsage Sly last night, then tried him again in the chamber to practice. Yup, he's exactly as buzzsaw murder as he looked in videos. Gonna take a bit of practice, for sure.
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f#a# posted:Just popping in to say I beat The Radiance Nice job!
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Serephina posted:I got to nailsage Sly last night, then tried him again in the chamber to practice. Yup, he's exactly as buzzsaw murder as he looked in videos. Gonna take a bit of practice, for sure. Just skip this post if you don't want unsolicited tips for that fight Tip: Sly is all about counterattacking. He has this tendency to take a swing towards you if you're standing near him after he does a combo, and that swing leaves him very vulnerable. But you can stand right outside of the range of that swing and he'll still do it, whereas if you stand too far away then he'll just go to his next big move. So if you figure out the positioning to make him perform those swings without hitting you (e.g. not too close, not too far) then you can get a lot of free damage against him. Likewise his three swing combo ends with him launching into the air while spinning his nail around. There's a spot you can stand in after the second swing that will keep you safe from his spin while also leaving you right next to where he lands. That's another easy way to get 2-3 hits each time
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