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drat y'all are making me want to replay it yet again. The (first) mantis lords fight and the first entrance into deepnest stand out for me as highlights. The lords kicked my rear end the first few times, and getting that respectful bow afterwards is such a good reward. Then deepnest just creeps you the hell out, civilization is just totally gone and it's spiders and centipedes crawling everywhere and you're trapped in it until you climb your way back out. So memorable.
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I like the beehive. So vastly different from the rest of the game and good lore in there too.
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Super dashing through the mines and over the lake did it for me. The top of Crystal Peak made me stop and sit, but sitting next to Quirrel on the bench and listening to the rain was probably my favorite moment.
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The clarinet in Greenpath is so calming...definitely my favorite area! Especially once you get tears and can get in the acid water: the whole place is chill. Fungal Wastes has a similar vibe and I also enjoy it a lot! Queen's Garden also plays off that, so yeah. TheMadMilkman posted:Super dashing through the mines and over the lake did it for me. Yeah, I did this for a long time and really enjoyed that moment of pause.
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TheMadMilkman posted:Sitting next to Quirrel on the bench and listening to the rain was probably my favorite moment. Yesssss
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It does have some of the most annoying enemies of the game and I don't think I would call it my favorite area, but one that no one has mentioned yet is Kingdom's Edge. I really like the snowy atmosphere. And then you realize that the snow is actually ash, and then that the ash is actually the decaying corpse of the wyrm.
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Hard to answer, but I wanna give a shout out to the Coliseum of Fools. After feeling isolated and lost for so long it feels like the only place in Hallownest that's still really functioning, and has crowds and a social atmosphere and stuff. Gets you fired up about the fact that there are still people here who could maybe be helped.
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fractalairduct posted:It does have some of the most annoying enemies of the game and I don't think I would call it my favorite area, but one that no one has mentioned yet is Kingdom's Edge. I really like the snowy atmosphere. And then you realize that the snow is actually ash, and then that the ash is actually the decaying corpse of the wyrm. It was literally the first one mentioned
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Cartoon Man posted:I like the beehive. So vastly different from the rest of the game and good lore in there too. sorry beehive pissed me the gently caress off having to walk back every time for the boss fight. even with the backcut it was tedious.
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I really liked the Resting Grounds. It felt more peaceful than anywhere else, and had great music.
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Mantis City, the fact that after all the infected bugs and everything hostile, here's a city that's full of uninfected bugs who are friendly after you beat their leaders is a huge change of pace.
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City of Tears and Stag Nest. The name change from The Last Stag to Old Stag was the most  in a game mostly characterised by 
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Martman posted:Hard to answer, but I wanna give a shout out to the Coliseum of Fools. After feeling isolated and lost for so long it feels like the only place in Hallownest that's still really functioning, and has crowds and a social atmosphere and stuff. Gets you fired up about the fact that there are still people here who could maybe be helped. Man you read that area way differently than I did. I saw it as the very last remnants of a dead society, so far gone that there’s nothing left but gambling and death matches. I mean, Lord Fool is a dead husk in the middle of the stands, and they just nonchalantly toss the corpses of defeated bugs into Kingdom’s Edge. A LOT of corpses, too.
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TheMadMilkman posted:Man you read that area way differently than I did. I saw it as the very last remnants of a dead society, so far gone that there’s nothing left but gambling and death matches. Yeah, that's the way I think it's supposed to look: whatever's left alive and clear of infection in the Kingdom has descended into total nihilism. They've all run away to the Literal Edge of the World and there's nothing left to do except kill each other. I like to think it goes very well with the subtle theme throughout the "civilized" Kingdom areas of the Kingdom itself looking like it was a very economically-stratified capitalist dystopia, the kind of place where you can't even sit down at a public park bench without paying for it, and, you know, that is powered by the souls of the tortured underclass. It's logical that that society would collapse into nihilistic violence.
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I can see it being dark and hosed up, but it's still hosed up in a fun way. I guess I had figured there was already a fair amount of violence in Hallownest as a baseline but I might have been imagining that.
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OzFactor posted:Yeah, that's the way I think it's supposed to look: whatever's left alive and clear of infection in the Kingdom has descended into total nihilism. They've all run away to the Literal Edge of the World and there's nothing left to do except kill each other. I like to think it goes very well with the subtle theme throughout the "civilized" Kingdom areas of the Kingdom itself looking like it was a very economically-stratified capitalist dystopia, the kind of place where you can't even sit down at a public park bench without paying for it, and, you know, that is powered by the souls of the tortured underclass. It's logical that that society would collapse into nihilistic violence. HUH i have literally never thought about the benches like that. i love this take.
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iirc it was stated somewhere that the Fools have also been infected but are unwittingly holding it at bay with their devotion to bloodsport, so it’s a little of column a and a little of column b also I have no idea where the idea that the city of tears was “powered by the souls of the underclass” came from, the city clearly did suffer from economic stratification and the PK is definitely imperialist-coded but making Hallownest out to be some hyper-capitalist hell undermines the entire backstory Oxxidation fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Nov 9, 2022 |
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Oxxidation posted:iirc it was stated somewhere that the Fools have also been infected but are unwittingly holding it at bay with their devotion to bloodsport, so it’s a little of column a and a little of column b
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Crystal Peak because I'm a sucker for gems. If a level in any game is full of gems and jewels it's my favorite level. I even like Jewel Man's stage in Mega Man 9 and that's so statistically unlikely I mathematically don't exist.
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SkeletonHero posted:Crystal Peak because I'm a sucker for gems. If a level in any game is full of gems and jewels it's my favorite level. I even like Jewel Man's stage in Mega Man 9 and that's so statistically unlikely I mathematically don't exist. I respect this. I’m a sucker for big polished obelisks and pyramids and stuff, which feels somewhat adjacent to Gem Enjoying.
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SkeletonHero posted:Crystal Peak because I'm a sucker for gems. If a level in any game is full of gems and jewels it's my favorite level. I even like Jewel Man's stage in Mega Man 9 and that's so statistically unlikely I mathematically don't exist. Eh I don't recall Jewel Man's stage being particularly bad, so I don't think you're that far gone.
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SkeletonHero posted:Crystal Peak because I'm a sucker for gems. If a level in any game is full of gems and jewels it's my favorite level. I even like Jewel Man's stage in Mega Man 9 and that's so statistically unlikely I mathematically don't exist. i love the music and general vibe of crystal peak but crystal guardian. ugh. i think i cheesed the first part of the fight so i could get to the bench but haven't bothered for the second battle. gonna do it someday for Completion Points tho,
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Every time Silksong is not featured in a Nintendo Direct i go ahead and replay Hollow Knight.
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TheMadMilkman posted:Every time Silksong is not featured in a Nintendo Direct i go ahead and replay Hollow Knight. turn this into a drinking game
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crystal guardian 2 is the closest the game gets to a pure reaction time test and it can be incredibly easy or hard based on that, which is why i hate that boss or maybe i'm just bad at the game
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Nah you're right.
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I still maintain that Crystal Guardian is a chump and all it takes is not panicking because he does 2 masks of damage. You just stand next to him and swing. He can only ever do three things; the ceiling beams is super telegraphed with the scream so you can stop and assess where the beams will go, the jump is totally harmless if you're next to him, and if he makes any other movement at all you know it's the hand beam and can react accordingly by shadowdashing through him or jumping straight up to avoid it. NKG or PV's floor spike attacks are nasty reaction tests for me, compared to them the crystal guardian is moving in slow motion.
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CG2 gave me a little trouble the first time but on the pantheons I just kinda figured him out and he became a trivial radiant victory.
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well yeah after beating the hardest bosses in the game anyone will feel like a chump
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I beat CG2 multiple times in the pantheon. The first time i tried to steel soul 100% the game I panicked at CG2 and lost my run there.
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The Brothers and Watcher Knights are my personal least favorites. I’m terrible at keeping track of multiple bosses.
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TheMadMilkman posted:The Brothers and Watcher Knights are my personal least favorites. I’m terrible at keeping track of multiple bosses. watcher knights i got very good at lining them up on the same side of the arena and then either shadowdashing through both of em or, if i was feeling panicked, a quick descending dark, because it does a fair bit of damage. also quick slash so i could kill em fast.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:i'll be honest i mostly facetank watcher knights i mean if it works it works
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Feels Villeneuve posted:crystal guardian 2 is the closest the game gets to a pure reaction time test and it can be incredibly easy or hard based on that, which is why i hate that boss But marmu tho
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Darox posted:I still maintain that Crystal Guardian is a chump and all it takes is not panicking because he does 2 masks of damage. You just stand next to him and swing. He can only ever do three things; the ceiling beams is super telegraphed with the scream so you can stop and assess where the beams will go, the jump is totally harmless if you're next to him, and if he makes any other movement at all you know it's the hand beam and can react accordingly by shadowdashing through him or jumping straight up to avoid it. You only know this with experience though. The first time you play the game you don't know his moves or his to respond and often only have like 5 masks so it's hard to learn his moveset too.
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I mean, you don't know the moveset of any boss the first time you fight it. This is a game with a lot of hard bosses, but crystal guardian isn't one of them.
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I'm not sure how many people would still only have five masks by the time they get to crystal peak, much less get wings to fight the harder version. And yeah no one knows how to fight any boss at first, the point with this guy is he has a very limited moveset that's not too hard to learn compared to some other guys.
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To be clear I'm talking about enraged guardian and maybe it was just learning his cues but that's one of the only bosses in the game where it felt like I was just running into reaction time issues, specifically because he's not that hard to "learn".
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