Hollow Knight - the first one, Tempy is forgiven - The Bear and Badger

Vela

If i just started this game, where should i go so as not to get killed in three minutes? any bug that is tall seems to teleport around and finish me off in two seconds.

SpaceGazelle

It's hard at first. You'll spend ages trying to defeat one bug and then another. And another. Eventually you'll develop crazy wax on wax off skills and start kicking the shit out of everything at lightning speed. If you liked Dark Souls you'll like this.

Vela

So i am not necessarily missing a vital early skill or item? just my own reactions for now?

Dinostar77

Nah, just expect to be abit difficult at first, as you gain abilities ala metroid and buy various items from the shops it gets easier (that doesn't apply to boss battles).

The less we tell you the more you'll enjoy discovering things yourself.

AndCallMeCharlie

Yeah the only spoiler that should be provided is it is fucking ace

Moot_Geeza

If you can't get into it without a bunk up there's a video at the top of page 25 that might be helpful. Some people don't like being chucked in at the deep end in their pjyamas, there's no shame in getting some pointers.

Vela

Cheers people. I'm not after spoilers, just the indication whether I have missed something blindingly obvious, or whether I just have to get good at it.

I am usually rubbish at these games but it gets a good rap so it must be worth it.

SpaceGazelle

It is.

Dinostar77

Vela, I hate boss battles with a passion and I struggled with more than a few of them. As someone else further up this page said, think dark souls when approaching enemies and bosses and you'll be fine.

Vela

Well I tried it again tonight and had a few good events.

* I found out where the first area loops back
* I beat the first 'boss' which really is just that one at the far right of the start area.
* I got a map and found some larvae
* I got singed
* I found out you can regenerate health a bit
* I found out a loop back through a locked cage
* I got lost
* I played pinball with another early boss and lost

I think this game seems to have a similar character weight to the DS Castlevania games. I think I'll be able to get along with this one.

Blue Swirl

Had my first soft lock on this last night. I beat a boss, and ended up trapped in the arena as the boss wouldn't leave their dying animation, so the gate wouldn't unlock. Boss name behind spoiler tags.

Spoiler:

Dinostar77

Blue Swirl wrote:

Had my first soft lock on this last night. I beat a boss, and ended up trapped in the arena as the boss wouldn't leave their dying animation, so the gate wouldn't unlock. Boss name behind spoiler tags.

Spoiler:

Soul Master, Lord of Funk. (Okay, I may have made that second bit up.)

That's a two stage boss fight, did you get stuck after you killed him in his 2nd phase?

Spoiler:

Blue Swirl

Yeah, that's the bit. I went back and beat him again, all is well now.

Took me another three tries, the git...

cosmicjellybean

Three is pretty impressive to be honest, I had a horrible time with it the first five or so times.

Blue Swirl

If it makes you feel better, it was three tries after beating him. Couldn't tell you how many goes the original beating took. Probably at least double digits.

AndCallMeCharlie

Something happening with HK 12 th of March!!!

Nina

Physical version and collector's edition available for pre order .

(not sure if it's also available in the EU, I've seen a regular version of the game up at Best Buy, but that's not very useful for most of you.)

Moot_Geeza

Nice. I probably would've bought that a few years ago.

It's astonishing to think that this game only cost eleven pounds.

acemuzzy

Map spoilers!

acemuzzy

I thought this was gonna be the second game

AndCallMeCharlie

acemuzzy wrote:

I thought this was gonna be the second game

Yeah me too

mrsmr2

Finally down:

Spoiler:

hylian_elf

I need to get back to this and unlock rest of stuff. Including the above spoiler.

Frosty

The radiance hits hard. Been banging my head at it for a couple of days now and I'm slowly getting better at remaining calm and dodging it's attacks.

I made it the final phase for the first time yesterday and immediately got blasted on my way up to the final hit even though I knew what was coming :'(

mrsmr2

Yup, the bit you expect to be easier than the others...

hylian_elf

No idea what you’re talking about.

I should get back to it at some point and find the secret bits.

Frosty

mrsmr2 wrote:

Yup, the bit you expect to be easier than the others...

Yep. I knew what to expect but still fucked it up.

hylian_elf wrote:

No idea what you’re talking about.

I should get back to it at some point and find the secret bits.

Haha yeah, I thought about putting it in spoilers but it's kinda of meaningless unless you've got there.

Frosty

And done.

42hrs and 96% complete. Didn't do everything but I'm satisfied with what I did do.

Really good game but it get gets a lot more fun once you get past the first few areas and start unlocking the movement abilities.

hylian_elf

I got 97% without doing secret bits. Hhmmmmm

Frosty

There's so much in there who knows what we did differently.

Off the top of my head I didn't do the second or third stages of the coliseum, get the final soul well, the final nail upgrade, or the spooky circus dlc (boss was too hard).

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