That was a 10/10 retelling of your adventures. Luckily every Hollow Knight fan knows exactly where you went and how it went down so no worries about OBS messing up 😂
I like that after you go to the resting grounds, the first dream boss is zero, and the first ghost you find is her. It's like she's literally placed there so you do this!
It's like the good old noobs they will understand the importance of spells in the late game. Can't wait for the salt when he upgrades his nail even more and some enemies in the game become a pain the ass to deal with.
I dreamnailed a different ghost (gravedigger I think?) first so by the time I got to marissa I knew what it would do and didn’t do it Instead my regret was accidentally breaking the gramophone in queens gardens
Probs noticed by now but dreamnailing anything lets you read their thoughts. Except ghosts. Dreamnailing ghosts just kills them permanently. So don't do it unless you really just wanna kill someone you don't like haha
Just wanted to let you know exactly what the purpose of the dream nail is, it has many more but you are not there yet in the game. Gathering Essence: Hit NPC's that HAVE dreamcatcher symbols (like Marissa & you only get 1 essence) or Dream trees to Collect Essence (Max of 51) Exploring Dream Worlds: Challenge dream boss variants of bosses you beat, like the Lost Kin. These give out tons of essence (some give up to 300) and are slightly harder variants of the boss. Learning Lore: If you hit NPC's that DO NOT have the little dreamcatcher symbols then you can see into the thoughts of NPCs like Elderbug or Bosses to see hidden backstory and get some new dialogue. Gaining Soul: When you hit any creature, boss, living thing, you gain 2/3 of you soul bar (can get up to 2/3rds with dreamwielder charm) Really useful if you stagger a boss and want to get a bunch more soul to cast spells or get a heal in.
Just a small tip: If you aren't in need in much of soul, you should be using vengful spirit and desolate dive (your ranged spell attacks) because they do a lot of damage
glad to see i'm not the only one who had a similar experience with the crystal guardian XD the first fight was so laughably easy but the second one just made me rip my hair out even though it wasn't that much harder
a simple tip as a hollow knight player... change your amulets if you go against a boss or to walk around the map... it's simple but many forget... and they get angry because of it
Dream nail: allows the user to access the mind. most npcs will give you extra dialog meanwhile mobs will give you soul and lore bosses that are dead already often lead to a boss fight and bosses you have already killed are often much more difficult and deal extra damage goodluck!
the recap was great! sorry u lost the footage but ur reenactment was just as entertaining. loving these videos! PS skill issue on enraged guardian lmao
This is your best video. The quality of visuals and retelling are on a whole new level. Btw there is a smelly charm under the city of tears that can help with the ghosts when you fight the Lost Kin.
right he was always getting hit by the lasers because of jumping late or tapping jump instead of holding and falling into them too fast, it was so funny
I always love seeing players discover new things and piece together lore. Every bit of dialogue holds a story in this game, and even some hints to certain places or enemies. Most require you to talk to them a few times over to hear everything they have to say, so I’d be sure to revisit NPCs from time to time!
Ginken. Honey. Pleeease use your spells more. You would be surprised how faster a boss goes down with some burning balls of pure light in their faces. Love you ❤
I like to clown on the enraged guardian for not even staggering the player when he roars, but I always forget I died a bunch too when I first fought him lol. Spells will definitely be your friends going forward (also a little detail I find interesting is that the boss names change based on Ghosts perspective of them! the broken vessel turns to the lost kin when ghost realizes they're siblings, which I think is neat)
I was impressed by your ability to retell the gameplay in such a detailed and immersive manner, making me feel like I was actually playing the game myself.
I recommend revisiting all the previous areas and upgrading your nail before going to deepnest. Also you might want to revisit some boses which had a corpse when they died...
I'd actually recommend against thoroughly exploring everything and getting as many upgrades as possible, because that makes it very underwhelming when you actually proceed. I guess getting one more nail upgrade can't hurt, because that's not at the point yet where bosses get underwhelming, but staying with the one nail upgrade he already has is also mostly fine
It is? I thought it was sunshine and rainbows, my favorite place to explore :) (The only part of the map except white palace that I haven’t explored all of yet)
The level of salt on enraged guardian has me so hyped for certain bosses, and the colos, this will be top tier content Some hollow knight bosses give you more stagger phases than they have, you just gotta go take like a 10 minute break before you hate the game and come back ready to throw hands
One tip for the two-damage bosses, keep an odd number of hp if you can. If you're at an odd amount of hp then going for one heal won't do anything for you as they'll still kill you in the same amount of hits, but if you're at 2 hp and heal to 3 then that gives you one more hit from death. While it wouldn't have helped with Enraged Guardian as it attacks so relentlessly you don't get a chance, its a thing to note as many late-game bosses do 2 damage per hit.
me and my best friend have a yt channal too and we lose recordings really often and we didnt knwe what to do but now i exectly know what to do that shit was so funny XDDDD
Great video as usual😊. Pro tip: use the dream nail with every npc (also enemies) to get additional lines of dialog and lore. Also, always upgrade your nail asap. Now you have to master the double jump with the air suspension that can give you, especially in fights and boss fights, that's why you had a hard time with the lasers ❤
Bro the beginning already has me dying laughing lmao. I'm sorry you lost your recording, but at least the recap was great. Peak storytelling tbh Ps. I did the same shit to Marissa the first time 😭And I hated Crystal Peak with a passion too
You getting angry at a boss when you just ignore incoming attacks or run into them reminds me a lot of my friend that I'm teaching to play Monster Hunter World right now 😂
Kinda want to add to what you were told about healing in bosses: most times healing isn't safe, although staggering the boss can give you an opening to heal as well as some attacks have enough time to heal. Regardless, you will basically never have a time to heal twice in one moment.
Loving your adventure so far, really want to see you beating all the crazy challenges this game has to offer. The only tip I would give is to be a little more aggressive with your spells
broken vessel was the fight that bullied me into spellcasting i REFUSED to use up any soul unless i was healing and i lost time. after time. after time. before i started using spells and eventually won the fight but holy hell, remind me never to neglect spells again
when you get to the really hard bosses is in the dlc's like in the godhome there is absoulute radiance and in the grimm festival (i don't remember the name) there is nkg
Thats too bad about the recording. I also got reminded how much I struggled in crystal peaks on my first playthrough. You should definitely upgrade your nail though...
That was ... An interesting retelling of what you didn't manage to record ... (Do recaps in your episodes from now, that sounds fun HAHA) Jokes aside! Congrats on progressing much! Enraged Guardian is annoying to me too, you're not alone. And yes you can Dream Nail lotsa things and even enemies and NPCs! (And if you Dream Nail enemies, not only you get to read their minds, but you also gain soul from it too.) Good luck in exploring Deepnest! Just some tips before exploring deeper there: go upgrade your nail first, and know Deepnest is either scary or annoying to players. (And a tip about Desolate Dive is that when you do a dive, you can't be hit by enemies when you do it. Have fun with that fun fact!) Have fun, stay safe! Love your videos and always looking forward to it ♥️
I recommend you to equip Shaman stone et Spell twister and spam descending dark on every boss fight, it deals the equivalent of 6/7 nail hits (if you didn't max it yet) and has an i-frame thanks for the content !
You can upgrade your nail with pale ore and some geo! It will increase your damage, and then you can fight Lost Kin to get a lot of essense (400 I think). It's a tough boss but so fun, you can make it, good luck!
as far as I understand it is the morally correct thing to "kill" the ghosts with the dream nail since they can't rest in peace if you don't do it I assume? still feels bad to do it though :D
Whoever gave you a blanket statement to not worry about healing mid boss fight did you a disservice. There are 0 bosses you can't find some time to heal in the middle of the fight vs. Some of them make it very hard, and there are some late game bosses that it's arguably not worth trying to heal against except during a stagger, even bosses that might initially seem to have no openings often have a few really good openings if you pay attention and get creative. Now, for you personally, it's possible that you will do better if you don't bother trying to find places to heal. Everyone has things they are good at, and sometimes all you need is to focus on purely dodging and attacking, but that's something you gotta figure out for yourself, and chances are if you discount finding healing opportunities completely you'll just make it harder for yourself. What is probably better advice is: "don't try to force heals or start healing randomly because you are low, look for opportunities where you can safely heal, and focus on learning the bosses attacks." They'll have to rename crystal peaks to salt peaks after all those tears you spilled fighting enraged guardian (it is a shit fight though, to be fair), but it seems you learned something valuable: Descending Dark is broken. There are a lot of fights where proper use of its generous s can let you completely avoid dangerous attacks while also doing a lot of damage. If you keep improving your spell usage like that it will serve you well. Oh and you might want to look around the city of tears a bit more. There may or may not be, among other things, a path you have yet to go down that'll lead you to an entire new area.
Yeahhhhh... as much as I love hollow knight bosses like enraged guardian were so annoying. Which worries me because apparently (mind you, I have no source for this- i just heard this somewhere) we're getting even more bosses in silksong. I really hope team cherry don't stretch themselves too thin Edit: I'd prefer less bosses if that means that they're a consistent level of quality
If you love hollow knight you should try the ori games they focus a bit more about the metroidvenia aspect and a bit less on good/hard bosses but i sure you will also love these games
That was a 10/10 retelling of your adventures. Luckily every Hollow Knight fan knows exactly where you went and how it went down so no worries about OBS messing up 😂
Tbh not even mossbag could have summarised that part of the game better
I daresay the recap was more entertaining than the actual footage could have been
From start to finish I was just like « uh-uh » « yeah » « yeah of course » « I see » « Yikes, oh good on you man »
agreed with all of the above comments
Not recording the major plot points of your hollow knight play through is peak comedy. Enjoyed the retelling 10/10.
at least you didnt FALL in deepnest without the lantern, you can call yourself lucky
6:50
yup I thought it was gonna end like this
I was screaming NO the whole time. I saw the inevitable approaching yet I was powerless to delay it.
I like that after you go to the resting grounds, the first dream boss is zero, and the first ghost you find is her. It's like she's literally placed there so you do this!
@@dragonhunter2343SAME NOOOOOOO
on my first playthrough i did this shit with the little lifeblood boy (forgot his name) 😭
The salt on Enraged Guardian was incredible, love to see it.
(Use your spells more!)
Nah he is one of us... the nail only users
@@kuzan_aokiji That's a needlessly difficult way to play the game for the first time
that's how I played my first playthrough and once I got to p4 I realized how difficult nail only can be.
It's like the good old noobs they will understand the importance of spells in the late game. Can't wait for the salt when he upgrades his nail even more and some enemies in the game become a pain the ass to deal with.
i got bullied into spellcasting by bv and hornet 2
im kinda glad i did
The Marissa regret is a universal Hollow Knight experience
Also awesome recap, that sucks about the recording but I loved your retelling of it!!
Myla regret as well :{
I dreamnailed a different ghost (gravedigger I think?) first so by the time I got to marissa I knew what it would do and didn’t do it
Instead my regret was accidentally breaking the gramophone in queens gardens
I killed grave digger first by mistake so I knew not to dreamnail her.
@@Moonstruck_ArrowSame!
Unless you’re Skurry apparently
I wouldnt even imagine that one day id watch someone rage at the Enraged Guardian... how fitting
Probs noticed by now but dreamnailing anything lets you read their thoughts.
Except ghosts. Dreamnailing ghosts just kills them permanently. So don't do it unless you really just wanna kill someone you don't like haha
Pro tip: spam descending dark with shaman stone to win any bossfight
They nerfed that thankfully! It's still strong though
@@AveTarnkappe Hollow Knight hasn't been updated in 5 years lmao
It doesn't go well with late game bosses and pantheons
But it used to be stronger
@@STNDD did you forget about the DLC's?
You killed Marissa😭
She was just chilling and singing
He absorbed a fraction of her memory. She was dead for a long time.
@@NikozBGhe absorbed all that was left of her. He essentially killed her a second time.
I tried that as well as I wanted to know what she thinks 😅
You retold your adventures at the beginning with a triple A movie level editing. I really like this series! Keep up the good work
It ate up all my time and budget, that's why the video was so late
It ate up all my time and budget, that's why the video was so late
double comment@@GinKendou
I love youtube
Just wanted to let you know exactly what the purpose of the dream nail is, it has many more but you are not there yet in the game.
Gathering Essence: Hit NPC's that HAVE dreamcatcher symbols (like Marissa & you only get 1 essence) or Dream trees to Collect Essence (Max of 51)
Exploring Dream Worlds: Challenge dream boss variants of bosses you beat, like the Lost Kin. These give out tons of essence (some give up to 300) and are slightly harder variants of the boss.
Learning Lore: If you hit NPC's that DO NOT have the little dreamcatcher symbols then you can see into the thoughts of NPCs like Elderbug or Bosses to see hidden backstory and get some new dialogue.
Gaining Soul: When you hit any creature, boss, living thing, you gain 2/3 of you soul bar (can get up to 2/3rds with dreamwielder charm) Really useful if you stagger a boss and want to get a bunch more soul to cast spells or get a heal in.
6:50 HOW COULD YOUUU
Hollow Knight LP as PowerPoint. We've reached a new horizon of content while we wait for Silksong.
I love this
Just a small tip: If you aren't in need in much of soul, you should be using vengful spirit and desolate dive (your ranged spell attacks) because they do a lot of damage
to me lost kin is one of my favorite boss fights, idk why it just feels so fun to do
That recap at the beginning is GOLD
When you hit a boss while he's staggered, you will do 0 damage, so I recommend you hitting him with your nail and THEN casting your spell!
Greatest recap ever. Like actually a super entertaining way to catch us up.
glad to see i'm not the only one who had a similar experience with the crystal guardian XD the first fight was so laughably easy but the second one just made me rip my hair out even though it wasn't that much harder
a simple tip as a hollow knight player... change your amulets if you go against a boss or to walk around the map... it's simple but many forget... and they get angry because of it
Hahahaha, I laughed so hard on Enraged Guardian
Small tip: If a boss is hard sometimes it's good to spent few attempts just dodging and looking for times to hit and not rushing.
Dream nail: allows the user to access the mind. most npcs will give you extra dialog meanwhile mobs will give you soul and lore bosses that are dead already often lead to a boss fight and bosses you have already killed are often much more difficult and deal extra damage goodluck!
the recap was great! sorry u lost the footage but ur reenactment was just as entertaining. loving these videos!
PS skill issue on enraged guardian lmao
This is your best video. The quality of visuals and retelling are on a whole new level. Btw there is a smelly charm under the city of tears that can help with the ghosts when you fight the Lost Kin.
16:16 I know this is my second comment and that he's new, but this boss is literally just jump and you won't get hit I'm actually tweaking 😭
true,how did he die so many times🤣🤣
right he was always getting hit by the lasers because of jumping late or tapping jump instead of holding and falling into them too fast, it was so funny
Bro's gonna cry when he finds out about watcher knights
psst let him has his fun while he still can lol.
Bruh, why does everyone say watcher knights are impossible. They were literally the easiest boss for me. Idk why, but lost kin was cancer for me.
YOU DREAM NAILED MARRISSA YOU MONSTER
I always love seeing players discover new things and piece together lore. Every bit of dialogue holds a story in this game, and even some hints to certain places or enemies. Most require you to talk to them a few times over to hear everything they have to say, so I’d be sure to revisit NPCs from time to time!
This guy doesnt like the same boss as I do
Unsubscribed, disliked, reported, currently vomiting and crying
Ginken. Honey. Pleeease use your spells more. You would be surprised how faster a boss goes down with some burning balls of pure light in their faces. Love you ❤
I like to clown on the enraged guardian for not even staggering the player when he roars, but I always forget I died a bunch too when I first fought him lol. Spells will definitely be your friends going forward
(also a little detail I find interesting is that the boss names change based on Ghosts perspective of them! the broken vessel turns to the lost kin when ghost realizes they're siblings, which I think is neat)
Your combat style favors the nail quite heavily, I recommend going to use that pale ore and some geo for an upgrade.
I was impressed by your ability to retell the gameplay in such a detailed and immersive manner, making me feel like I was actually playing the game myself.
I recommend revisiting all the previous areas and upgrading your nail before going to deepnest. Also you might want to revisit some boses which had a corpse when they died...
I'd actually recommend against thoroughly exploring everything and getting as many upgrades as possible, because that makes it very underwhelming when you actually proceed. I guess getting one more nail upgrade can't hurt, because that's not at the point yet where bosses get underwhelming, but staying with the one nail upgrade he already has is also mostly fine
Deepnest is actually the scariest place in hollow knight, so make sure you are well prepared
It is? I thought it was sunshine and rainbows, my favorite place to explore :)
(The only part of the map except white palace that I haven’t explored all of yet)
Those were incredible amounts of salt in the Enraged Guardian xD
The level of salt on enraged guardian has me so hyped for certain bosses, and the colos, this will be top tier content
Some hollow knight bosses give you more stagger phases than they have, you just gotta go take like a 10 minute break before you hate the game and come back ready to throw hands
One tip for the two-damage bosses, keep an odd number of hp if you can. If you're at an odd amount of hp then going for one heal won't do anything for you as they'll still kill you in the same amount of hits, but if you're at 2 hp and heal to 3 then that gives you one more hit from death. While it wouldn't have helped with Enraged Guardian as it attacks so relentlessly you don't get a chance, its a thing to note as many late-game bosses do 2 damage per hit.
me and my best friend have a yt channal too and we lose recordings really often and we didnt knwe what to do but now i exectly know what to do that shit was so funny XDDDD
Good Luck for the flower quest now
Great video as usual😊.
Pro tip: use the dream nail with every npc (also enemies) to get additional lines of dialog and lore.
Also, always upgrade your nail asap.
Now you have to master the double jump with the air suspension that can give you, especially in fights and boss fights, that's why you had a hard time with the lasers ❤
I have never seen anyone die so many times to enraged crystal guardian. Good vid! 😄
Bro the beginning already has me dying laughing lmao. I'm sorry you lost your recording, but at least the recap was great. Peak storytelling tbh
Ps. I did the same shit to Marissa the first time 😭And I hated Crystal Peak with a passion too
That's funny, Crystal Peaks is most people's second or third favorite place lol
You getting angry at a boss when you just ignore incoming attacks or run into them reminds me a lot of my friend that I'm teaching to play Monster Hunter World right now 😂
Kinda want to add to what you were told about healing in bosses: most times healing isn't safe, although staggering the boss can give you an opening to heal as well as some attacks have enough time to heal. Regardless, you will basically never have a time to heal twice in one moment.
Amazing recap, would watch the whole playthrough that way
Loving your adventure so far, really want to see you beating all the crazy challenges this game has to offer. The only tip I would give is to be a little more aggressive with your spells
I need more! I completely binged all of your Hollow Knight videos 😂
broken vessel was the fight that bullied me into spellcasting
i REFUSED to use up any soul unless i was healing and i lost time. after time. after time. before i started using spells and eventually won the fight but holy hell, remind me never to neglect spells again
when you get to the really hard bosses is in the dlc's like in the godhome there is absoulute radiance and in the grimm festival (i don't remember the name) there is nkg
The dive gives your immunity while useing it btw
Honestly photophop part was incredible hahaha
Yes hitting NPCs with th dreamnail shows you their thoughts. Same for the enemies, but with enemies you'll also get some soul
Bro getting tilted on Enraged Guardian is fucking gold lmaooooo
12:36 He’s dead… or is he ??? 🤨🤨🤨🤨
(Cool vsauce ref btw)
love your content,not just hollow knight. Your humor is very nice hahah
You should watch 2 hour hollow knight lore video and make a reaction to it
Truly crystal peak is the bane of our existence... I cant wait to see your next foray into Hallownest!
Thats too bad about the recording. I also got reminded how much I struggled in crystal peaks on my first playthrough. You should definitely upgrade your nail though...
That was ... An interesting retelling of what you didn't manage to record ... (Do recaps in your episodes from now, that sounds fun HAHA)
Jokes aside! Congrats on progressing much! Enraged Guardian is annoying to me too, you're not alone. And yes you can Dream Nail lotsa things and even enemies and NPCs! (And if you Dream Nail enemies, not only you get to read their minds, but you also gain soul from it too.)
Good luck in exploring Deepnest! Just some tips before exploring deeper there: go upgrade your nail first, and know Deepnest is either scary or annoying to players. (And a tip about Desolate Dive is that when you do a dive, you can't be hit by enemies when you do it. Have fun with that fun fact!) Have fun, stay safe! Love your videos and always looking forward to it ♥️
Great videos!
Oh also, the Dreamer that is right above the City of Tears, you needed the Monarch Wings to get to him. That's why you couldn't find the way before!
I recommend you to equip Shaman stone et Spell twister and spam descending dark on every boss fight, it deals the equivalent of 6/7 nail hits (if you didn't max it yet) and has an i-frame
thanks for the content !
Actually loving this series ngl!
You can upgrade your nail with pale ore and some geo! It will increase your damage, and then you can fight Lost Kin to get a lot of essense (400 I think). It's a tough boss but so fun, you can make it, good luck!
Dream nail gives you soul (don’t look at the first version or you will be mad
17:20
Can't wait for him to reach Ascended Warrior Dreams in the Pantheon x)
I always save enraged guardian for when I'm maxed out and I win by spamming spells
best summary of the century absolutely loved it
2:20 top 10 best anime fights
Best recap 💯
use the Spore Shroom charm, while you heal, the cloud kills the ghosts
Consider checking monuments and rooms that had descriptions but no apparent use ;)
Bro, I have done four 112% runs on hollow but only now I feel bad for killing the gorgeus husk because of those dreamnail lines😢😅
getting all the essence possible is pretty helpful but not necessary.(your dream nail gets stronger the more essence it holds)
LMAO I love the recap. I need more of that stuff 🤣🤣🤣
as far as I understand it is the morally correct thing to "kill" the ghosts with the dream nail since they can't rest in peace if you don't do it I assume? still feels bad to do it though :D
Since you can see ghosts now, you should probably turn on the “show backers” setting, it’s nice to know who came up with the character in front of you
Nice, a new player in HK. Hehe who wants to see this guy fight markoth?
him failing repeatedly at some of the easiest bosses in the game will never not be funny
Him fighting is so funny 😭😭😭😭😭 your videos are awesome keep it upp
Whoever gave you a blanket statement to not worry about healing mid boss fight did you a disservice. There are 0 bosses you can't find some time to heal in the middle of the fight vs. Some of them make it very hard, and there are some late game bosses that it's arguably not worth trying to heal against except during a stagger, even bosses that might initially seem to have no openings often have a few really good openings if you pay attention and get creative.
Now, for you personally, it's possible that you will do better if you don't bother trying to find places to heal. Everyone has things they are good at, and sometimes all you need is to focus on purely dodging and attacking, but that's something you gotta figure out for yourself, and chances are if you discount finding healing opportunities completely you'll just make it harder for yourself. What is probably better advice is: "don't try to force heals or start healing randomly because you are low, look for opportunities where you can safely heal, and focus on learning the bosses attacks."
They'll have to rename crystal peaks to salt peaks after all those tears you spilled fighting enraged guardian (it is a shit fight though, to be fair), but it seems you learned something valuable: Descending Dark is broken. There are a lot of fights where proper use of its generous s can let you completely avoid dangerous attacks while also doing a lot of damage. If you keep improving your spell usage like that it will serve you well.
Oh and you might want to look around the city of tears a bit more. There may or may not be, among other things, a path you have yet to go down that'll lead you to an entire new area.
11:48 worst decision he ever did
MARISSA NOOOOOOOO
U made radiant markoth jealous with that title
18:17 i was gonna tell you to use desolate dive 😂
I’ve had the same experience with obs 💀
enraged guardian is treated like FREE SOUL in the community lol
with the descending dark you can for a short time avoid damge being taken but only after landing on the ground after
Yeahhhhh... as much as I love hollow knight bosses like enraged guardian were so annoying. Which worries me because apparently (mind you, I have no source for this- i just heard this somewhere) we're getting even more bosses in silksong. I really hope team cherry don't stretch themselves too thin
Edit: I'd prefer less bosses if that means that they're a consistent level of quality
6:46 NOOOOOOOO
Just wait for Lost kin
2:42 this part 😂😂😂
So funny 😂😂 Love this playthrough
yep,saw your tweet about the obs💔
Maybe try some charm combinations in hard fights or buy some more to have a few more benefits ❤️🤭
If you love hollow knight you should try the ori games they focus a bit more about the metroidvenia aspect and a bit less on good/hard bosses but i sure you will also love these games