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i absolutely loved hollow knight and took about 45 hours to fully 100% it. the funny thing is, though, that i forgot to go back to where salubra is after getting the dash and didn't have access to the charm shop for...a solid chunk of the game
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yeah, there's absolutely no upwards dodge. i'm pretty sure that would also break more than a few ability-gated jumps and the like
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May 31, 2017 17:25
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for some reason i'd been under the impression that the mantis lords were a required boss to get into deepnest, but looking back they really obviously weren't. that said, i got tunnelvision when i got to that part and beat them without any nail or damage upgrades at all for some dumb reason. it got to the point where i could dodge everything easily but it took forever to beat any of them. deepnest is definitely a pain in the rear end but it's definitely by design
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Jun 6, 2017 06:57
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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.
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Jun 6, 2017 17:40
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SirSamVimes posted:I voted for it because I wanted to see Highwang suffer by going there with a basic nail. that's evil  in any case the library option is pulling ahead fairly handily
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Jun 6, 2017 23:19
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wouldn't want to crack the ol' noggin, after all
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Jun 8, 2017 07:01
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Highwang posted:Someone let me know if we can get the acid immunity here without a certain upgrade, cause I honestly forget. a quick check of the wiki says that you apparently need the crystal heart from the mines. i don't remember offhand and i'm not in a position to check in my own game
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Jun 12, 2017 20:46
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spells can really start cleaning up if you use certain charm load outs, at least. their versatility let's them keep pace with your nail throughout the game.
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Jun 12, 2017 23:40
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Genocyber posted:Voted for the sewers: might as well go and do the shittiest boss immediately. yeah, actually. if anything it plays like an old castlevania game, just with semi-randomized layouts. otherwise it's just general videogamey stuff that i'd have a hard time attributing to dark souls in particular if anything. fun as hell, at least.
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Jun 13, 2017 18:13
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i think soul sanctum doesn't get a 'full' intro because it's more like a sub-area in a bigger one and it's technically not necessary to beat the game. there's optional places with full title cards, but i think they're more substantial as a zone.
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Jun 19, 2017 20:00
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also a neat, if slight, detail that's easy to miss is that those 'ghost' enemies called mistakes and follies have the same crystal-looking nodes on their heads that the teleporting wizard enemies and the soul master had there was some shady poo poo going down at the soul sanctum
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Jun 19, 2017 20:58
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Samovar posted:Oh, character and level design that communicates story, how I love you. hollow knight does it REALLY well, so get hype for even more stuff spread throughout the game. i guess people associate that sort of thing with the souls games a lot, but i dunno if they can really lay claim to what's just an alternate way of giving information. it's nice when a game actually pulls it off in a satisfying way.
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Jun 20, 2017 06:42
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the bugs sitting there with all the orange gas around their head while they dream is kinda like the first stages of the infection. if they'd progressed further i'm sure they wouldn't have been coherent enough to be woken up. not that there's timed npcs in the game. you could leave those two sitting there until the end of the game if you really wanted to for whatever reason.
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Jun 20, 2017 12:19
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you can also dream nail the glowy little trees that spit out the orbs after you've completed them there is always more to dream nail
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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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Jul 24, 2017 20:02
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also, i had a super easy time with the broken vessel, etc., because if you just equip a bunch of charms that boost your swing speed/range/whatever then you can just go ham and beat the hell out of it while it can't do much to react. one of the few bosses in the game that you can actively just stunlock due to the times when it slumps over every now and then giving you even more time to crank out more damage one of the good examples of how much the game lets you vary your playstyles
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Jul 24, 2017 20:09
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Iretep posted:Its me, im the person who swears by quick slash and thinks the range extenders are dumb and useless. yeah, sometimes i would get use out of a range extender but your damage output is so goddamn high with quick slash to the point where i could just straight up stunlock certain bosses. not all that useful against certain things for sure, but it's amazing otherwise.
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Aug 1, 2017 03:49
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anilEhilated posted:First of the three planned content updates apparently just got released. it has some cool as hell stuff going on, too. kind of excited to maybe see highwang encounter it for the first time.
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Aug 3, 2017 22:13
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demons souls and bloodborne are DEFINITELY some of the tightest experiences when it comes to that stuff out of the whole fromsoft catalog. there being 3 dark souls games meant that things started drifting away at breakneck speed as they went along and layers upon layers were put in place. i like the way all the games present that sort of background info but it's nice when there's games like hollow knight that are relatively self-contained with how they portray stuff.
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Aug 8, 2017 07:50
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i think the 'champion' bit refers to the idea that the particular grub in that armor was picked out of the group to try and be their champion by using it, since they're otherwise pretty weak compared to other bugs
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Aug 10, 2017 16:54
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as a heads up you can keep going back to talk to the midwife in deepnest. she has more things to say, with some little scraps of background info as well, but it all inevitably ends up with her trying to eat you. you can also pop her in the face and it causes her mask to shut again, at which point she disappears into the wall.
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Aug 15, 2017 05:35
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i feel like the game does a decent job of hinting that the hive is there, even looking past the secret little bit that inadvertently gives a glimpse of it. there's a couple areas where you either get in/out of the hive that have little bees floating around and if you're checking the map there's a pretty sizable chunk missing until you get into it. it's probably one of my favorite depictions of a hive i've ever seen in a game, honestly
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Aug 22, 2017 08:19
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unsurprisingly it also has a hilarious interaction with the dung defender badge. it's definitely a good alternate to the normal soul blast, but with everything else in the game you just have to weigh if it's worth the slots to equip it.
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Oct 3, 2017 16:34
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there's some cute npc plot stuff later in the game involving one of the nailmasters and another npc, so hopefully highwang shows that off
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on the subject of the white lady, i've seen people theorize that she's a sort of fungus given that there's some varieties that look like a bunch of webby, white root-like stuff that can spread through dirt and the like which wouldn't be hard to believe given that there's sapient fungus hanging out also something to be noted is that the collapsed + dead individual outside the door to the white lady's little abode was one of the 5 knights of the king Johnny Joestar fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Oct 17, 2017 |
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Oct 17, 2017 05:41
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'you don't need to do the white palace it's optional' *white palace literally required for the true ending, a thing many people usually aim to get if it's an option even if they don't want to 100%* 
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Oct 31, 2017 06:08
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like, not to actually get into details, but that ending is arguably the 'good' one and also has more going on, so of course people are gonna want to get it. i would have less issue with the zone if it felt better-integrated with the rest of the game instead of being 'hey let's copy a bunch of whirring buzzsaws everywhere ' and actually had more meaning to the challenges in there. i feel like people go out of their way to ignore how hamhanded the implementation is to yell about how people are just whining.
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anilEhilated posted:Speaking of the first leak - I always figured the King just grabbed a flawed vessel. You can't see any cracks in his head but chances are there was a really tiny one that grew. from what i understand the path of pain actually gives a reason for why the first attempt at containment didn't work
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i'm probably not the best person to even comment on the escort thing since i did it on my...second attempt? and i think i didn't even clear the enemies out beforehand. mostly just saved my soul to blast enemies in my way from afar so i'd never have to deal with them.
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um, excuse me, you can bring a flower to the elderbug and he will take it and hold it dearly like you just made his day
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