HOLLOW KNIGHT - Blessings
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1234abcdcba4321 wrote: ↑5 years agoBobisOnlyBob wrote: ↑5 years ago I kinda love that we get to see the base ending on 50 and the true ending on 64.Maybe the DLC ending will also fall on a nice number.
I'm guessing either 69 or 70 if rao actually manages to do it. So probably not.
but 69 is the single most nice number
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There's actually one more somewhat notable thing you missed that's in the
Spirit's Glade in the Resting Grounds
, and you actually almost found it before. It doesn't count towards completion percentage or anything but it's a fun little extra thing that'd be easy to get to.More specifically it involves
dream nailing the head of a particular statue
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Other than that one guy mentioning
Hollow Knight is Herra's Child
, and the other one confirmingHornet and player character have the same father
, I'm not really seeing anything that's super spoilery. Just everyone rightly telling the cue raocow missed.And that
Herra
spoiler is really only a spoiler if you connect that is the real name of another character. Which I don't think was ever displayed in the LP. Otherwise people will wonder "Who the heck is she"?And that achievement rao got pretty much implied that 2nd spoiler. And I didn't even know about that 2nd spoiler until now. And my reaction?
'Huh. Neat''
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you can
it makes you look more than a bit overzealous, though
I am perfectly tasty...
AND I'LL STEAL YOUR SOUL!
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Sebby19 wrote: ↑5 years agoOther than that one guy mentioningHollow Knight is Herra's Child
, and the other one confirmingHornet and player character have the same father
, I'm not really seeing anything that's super spoilery. Just everyone rightly telling the cue raocow missed.
And thatHerra
spoiler is really only a spoiler if you connect that is the real name of another character. Which I don't think was ever displayed in the LP. Otherwise people will wonder "Who the heck is she"?
And that achievement rao got pretty much implied that 2nd spoiler. And I didn't even know about that 2nd spoiler until now. And my reaction?
'Huh. Neat''
Do you mean Hornet is Herrah the Beast's child? Because the Hollow Knight, The [Player] Knight, Lost Kin and all the other Vessels are hybrid "children" of the White Lady, Pale King and the Abyss. Hornet is not one of the Vessels, and is a half-sister to all the Vessels via her father, the Pale King.
mossbag's lore videos are excellent, btw.
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(Grimm Troupe isn't the first DLC, but it is the first DLC story)
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I've seen at least a few outright explicitly tell him what he was supposed to do.Sebby19 wrote: ↑5 years agoOther than that one guy mentioningHollow Knight is Herra's Child
, and the other one confirmingHornet and player character have the same father
, I'm not really seeing anything that's super spoilery. Just everyone rightly telling the cue raocow missed.
And thatHerra
spoiler is really only a spoiler if you connect that is the real name of another character. Which I don't think was ever displayed in the LP. Otherwise people will wonder "Who the heck is she"?
And that achievement rao got pretty much implied that 2nd spoiler. And I didn't even know about that 2nd spoiler until now. And my reaction?
'Huh. Neat''
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- Hidden Dreams added the Dreamgate, Grey Prince Zote,
White Defender
, and the Hidden Station in the Ancient Basin (useful!) - The Grimm Troupe we have seen the "whole" of, besides the final part of the ritual, we've seen all the charms that were added with it (Troupe-related and otherwise), and of course the Path of Pain.
- Lifeblood added the Hive Knight, map markers, modified multiple bosses including most notably the Traitor Lord, and an absolutely huge number of quality-of-life/audio/visual/balance changes
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Yes we have, the mini-boss in the area to the right of the Colosseum is from the fourth DLC.
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the dream symbols
even as a viewer. The stuff happening was compelling enough on its own,and the moment felt like just the first part of an event that would quickly progress regardless,
so I didn't think to carefully parse what was going on. I was just watching to see what story moment the game was dropping on us.Not a lot of games have branching moments in the middle of a boss fight.
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*wonders how hornet got hurt*
*was the one who hurt hornet*
you doof
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I legitimately don't understand why someone would even do this. Livestreams are a video so if you just leave it on in the background you're only getting half of what it is. At that point it'd really be better to just listen to a podcast or music or something.
Yeah, these are all reasons I dislike Twitch too. I could not physically care less about the subscriber and donation read out crap and it actively detracts from my enjoyment of the videos. And I subscribe to one lper who never edits. She uploads several 25-45 minute videos per day so I almost never end up actually bothering to watch her videos because it just takes too much of my time. Not everyone can spare the time to watch a three hour stream on someone else's schedule.BobisOnlyBob wrote: ↑5 years agoI much prefer raocow's well-edited LPs to stream-recorded LPs where length tends to balloon, editing is discouraged, the player is distracted/interrupted by reading chat and reacting to subscribers and donations (especially with overlay effects)
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(Also some streams are just podcasts or music or just chatting and chilling together, it's called IRL or Just Chatting category it's odd how they shut down Justin.tv only to bring back its functions into Twitch later)
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I thought the old hollow knight was leaking because he was raised as the king's son so wasn't a pure hollow vessel anymore. This new one hasn't really formed any serious relationships or feelings, so he should be good, right?
By the way (looking for someone to answer in spoiler tags): Do we ever get an explanation for why the player-vessel starts way up in King's Pass? And didn't someone in the early game mention something about him experiencing two different worlds, or something like that?
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If the original Hollow Knight, chosen as a "perfect vessel" and trained for this particular task, couldn't contain the light forever, I can't imagine how our ragtag wandering hero (who again, was rejected as imperfect in the first place and left to find for himself in the abyss) ever would be. He's explored the world, made friends (a truly empty shell would be unlikely to decide to sit with Quirrel, for instance, among other little friendship elements you can pursue with other NPCs), heard stories, seen wonders. The entire theme behind the Colloseum of Fools is that it's pointless fighting for vanity and glory. The game deliberately gives you the option to make choices (sometimes significant, sometimes just for flavor), NPCs regularly tell you you can decide to do this, or you can decide to do that, the decision is explicitly framed the protagonist's to make. In fact, the game doesn't really tell you what you're *supposed* to do at the start at all; you just have to wander around and find your own meaning before any sort of actual *purpose* even becomes available, and it's a thing that develops slowly by taking in information about the world around you and having to decide how to interact with it to what goal. In short, circumstances force the protagonist to take charge of his destiny and become an agent. Even if he arrived at Hallownest empty (which is doubtful in itself), he certainly couldn't be now. His path would not permit that.
Which, I imagine, is kind of the point. The plan was doomed to failure from the start. As soon as a vessel starts experiencing the world, they begin to become filled. And by the time they're strong enough to absorb the light, they're already for too filled with other things to contain it forever. A pure and perfect vessel simply can't exist. Denying the vessels a voice (a thing which fellow void-based creature the Collector--an individual who certainly has strong emotions and attachments to other beings--is definitely shown to possess) seems to have been largely an act of desperation on the part of the Pale King to convince himself they were more empty than they actually were/to avoid hearing the cries of anguish of the rejects (and his subsequent raising of the Hollow Knight as his son presumably a way to try to ease his conscience after condemning hundreds or thousands of sapient, sapient beings to death). Which is why the plan only succeeds in preserving the ruins of the kingdom in a pitiful shadow existence, and even that only for a time. Dragging out the inevitable for a bit is all this plan could ever achieve.
By the way (looking for someone to answer in spoiler tags): Do we ever get an explanation for why the player-vessel starts way up in King's Pass? And didn't someone in the early game mention something about him experiencing two different worlds, or something like that?
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Also, you still haven't shown off what the blessing you got last video does. it's one of the best things.
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And also beating Demiurge the Moth, I guess.
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the final ending requirements are why a lot of people hate the godmaster dlc, and... i honestly can't see you getting it, rao
I am perfectly tasty...
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How'd the original Hallow Knight get to become so tall?
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What raocow mentioned about the ending message feeling sincere is how I feel about the end messages of shoot em ups.