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This game is a far better 2D Dark Souls than Salt & Sanctuary. Everyone should play it. Edit: I'm glad that Quirrel gets to be on the promo image. He's really likeable and I don't know why.
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Given that a later enemy has a weapon referred to as a needle and thread, it's the small metal pointy things.
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Apr 28, 2017 00:54
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Actually you can overcharm by any number of notches, you just need to have at least one spare notch to cram the charm into. So if you want, you could cram a four notch charm into one notch. 
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anilEhilated posted:And here's where the game starts putting on the Dark Souls in earnest. Dialogue consisting entirely of cryptic mutterings that give you absolutely nothing to go on and only make sense on a second playthrough because you're guaranteed to have forgotten them by the time you get an explanation. "You're here to do a bad thing, I can't let you do bad thing. Fight me." and an argument over whether seals can/should be broken is hardly incomprehensible though.
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May 9, 2017 02:14
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The hunter's opinions on various random monsters are one of the best things about this game.
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May 9, 2017 22:04
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Johnny Joestar posted:it won't be super obvious until it's fully gone through, but, deepnest is pretty much intended to be a hostile gauntlet of a bunch of weird crap compared to other areas that are in a similar difficulty range. i'm glad that it looks like people aren't voting to go there anyways because it genuinely wouldn't make for a fun video at this point in the game and i can't even think of any particular reasons to go in there over anywhere else, especially when one of the best areas in the game is right around the corner. I voted for it because I wanted to see Highwang suffer by going there with a basic nail.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:23
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This game blends an absolutely adorable dark style with fairly dark subject matter in a way that works really well.
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My favourite thing about Relic Seeker Lemm is that he comes off like a antisocial grouch but when you give him a chance to talk about history he eagerly goes on and on.
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Highwang posted:I should preface this by saying its a very rare thing that will happen. I do know a couple VAs (Travis being one, but he's already doing work for this), but this would technically be in the line of paid work since there are 144 beastiary entries and 32(?) charms. And when you're a poor boy like me, cash for this kinda service is hard to come by. If voice acting them would be expensive/time consuming, you can just post screenshots.
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Jun 19, 2017 23:28
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We know that the husks are "remains of bugs, animated by a strange force" according to bestiary entries.
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Morroque posted:The one part of the story I don't like are the Dreamers. The way they're characterized, there are three distinct characters, but in cutscene they only really share one textbox. This would be fine if the three characters were all in agreement, but they're not; they're constantly bickering. Given the textbox, it's hard to tell who has started speaking and who else has stopped, especially if you're playing for the first time. Were I a playtester on this game, I probably would've flagged that. The Dreamers only hinder you one time, though? The first time they appear they didn't even do anything, they just told you to leave them alone. I mean the one who wants the seals to break (later game spoilers) actively helps you to destroy her seal by calling Quirrel to her archives. Edit: I met Cornifer in the Resting Grounds and I have no idea what I did differently. I even arrived at the Resting Grounds late, after I got the double jump so it should have been more likely for him to be gone. 
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The flower is a neat optional challenge, to be honest.
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Fat Samurai posted:Difference being, the rest are fun instead of time consuming. A test of how well you can traverse the world is fun though.
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I'm pretty sure the final story flag for Myla is obtaining the shinespark. The laser crawlers can be killed with soul magic. The Crystal Guardian's beams only do one damage. They do two damage on the refight You can dreamnail the bug robot you take the Heart from. "I love platforming challenges!" 
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Glazius posted:It's kind of quietly hilarious that the Shinespark is a net loss to a speedrun. The SGDQ run actually did get the shinespark though
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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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One neat thing in this game is in the options you can turn on the ability to see all Kickstarter backers beneath their characters' names. It's just a subtle "by X" beneath their name in the corner of the screen. Edit: You HAVE to kill at least one refight to awaken the Dreamnail. Also the refights are all awesome, I love them. Especially the Failed Champion, which is probably my third favourite boss fight in the game (behind Mantis Lords and Radiance) SirSamVimes fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Jul 26, 2017 |
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I love how Primal Asphids make everyone suffer. Those triple shots have pinpoint accuracy spoilers about the shroom room above the motherlode: You do indeed need the spore shroom there, and once it's equipped you can read the stone which tells you a riddle. The riddle holds all the locations in which Mister Mushroom can be found edit: The dash slash/great slash deal 2.5x damage, not 2x damage
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Aug 1, 2017 04:47
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the only good backer bug is MAGNUS STRONG
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anilEhilated posted:First of the three planned content updates apparently just got released. It's Real Real Good.
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Karate Bastard posted:Y'all like bugs any? I WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN
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Lazy Bear posted:I don;t think the Up+B upgrade 'puzzle' is all that esoteric... As long as you remember the way the move looks. All the screaming faces are a pretty good indicator. Also the dreamnail dialogue is "Our voices will cry out again", and the only ability you have that that fits is the howling wraiths.
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Highwang posted:Next episode: The best level in the game.
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fractalairduct posted:If you're talking about Grey Prince Zote, Highwang has mentioned that boss in the lp before. I'm not sure if he knows about White Defender, though, seeing as how he didn't know about that room until someone brought it up in the thread. I was actually wondering when he was gonna do those because I'm pretty the conditions for both of them are fulfilled.
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There's no reason to NOT show it, the game doesn't require you to restart or anything. The stuff just gets added into the world.
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Oct 28, 2017 23:32
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The White Palace is... good
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Catching up on the LP and I am deeply offended that y'all are disrespecting Gorb.
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LashLightning posted:The Original Vessel failed because the King gave him self-esteem. "Man, you're gonna kick so much rear end and save the day, it's gonna be great! I mean that's just one theory of what the idea was. Also, it was an "idea instilled", not an ideal. Another theory I've seen is that the Hollow Knight looked back and saw our vessel reject clinging to the platform and felt a moment of pity, and that was the idea that fractured its emptiness. I also dispute the idea that our boy is any more empty. A truly empty vessel is essentially an automaton who does everything for one specific purpose: Stopping the infection. A lot of the things that you do in this game (optional, admittedly) kind of work against that. Rescuing Bretta, bloodsport fighting in an arena, delivering flowers are all kind of whimsical acts and kind of imply that you aren't truly hollow. paragon1 posted:So how'd the Hollow Knight end up out of the Abyss and wondering around outside Hollownest proper I wonder? The opening of the game would have you think you're just some guy who came upon these ruins that plenty of other people are interested in seeing for various reasons. There must have been other ways out of the Abyss because you're not the only one who got out. There's the Broken Vessel and also Nosk had a few vessel corpses strung up.
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bingsu posted:Actually doing at least two of the dream refights, along with a lot of the dream warriors, are mandatory to get the "true" ending. You need the Awakened Dream Nail. Only one refight is necessary, actually. They're optional in the sense that you can pick one to do and don't have to worry about the others.
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Rangpur posted:Good thing too, because I already destroyed the one in Deepnest and I would be super pissed if it turned out that locked me out of the True Ending after all this time. Also Deepnest sucks and I hate it. Nothing will ever lock you out of the true ending. You could go complete the game and you'd still be able to reload your save and go for the true ending.
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The White Palace is good and so is the Path of Pain.
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Rangpur posted:Notice you're not disagreeing with me about Deepnest tho'. Deepnest has a cool atmosphere but is not fun to play through. edit: also, as evidence for the "the palace wasn't actually a buzzsaw filled hellhole, this is just a mental representation" theory I present the fact that all of the other dream boss minds have a series of floating platforms that are not at all accurate to how the surroundings to their boss rooms are
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The Pale King Did Nothing Wrong
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fractalairduct posted:Myla, the miner bug, is actually below the Black Egg Temple. The Temple is directly below Dirtmouth. I thought that the implication was more that they found the statue of the Radiance which caused them to start remembering her
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okay but when are you doing the Path of Pain edit: A couple of things. 1) The Great Knights in the background of the White Defender are, in order, Mysterious Ze'mer (also known as the Grey Mourner), Fierce Dryya (the corpse outside the Pale Lady's den), Kindly Isma (whose corpse you plucked the anti-acid powerup from) and Mighty Hegemol (whose armour the False Knight wears). Dung Defender's own name is Loyal Ogrim. 2) Bretta actually does give up on Zote. If you defeat him enough that the shrine turns golden, she leaves and there's a new entry to the fanfiction journal. The Maiden's Quest posted:Her Grey Prince diminished and her White Saviour revealed a beast, the Maiden at last understood the truth. 3) You don't need Grimmchild to activate Nightmare King Grimm but I kept it anyway because it felt thematically appropriate. SirSamVimes fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Jan 6, 2018 |
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