Since I still get this question a lot, I have dash before Hornet since I put the clips out of order. The acid shenanigans happened after the boss fight but it worked better narrative-wise if I placed it before. I have the entire playthrough available on my second channel so I promise I’m not up to no good lol
out of joke, steel heart is a lot easier than embrace the void, ive completed the game in 100% while steel soul in september 2022, ive played the game since 2020 and i still cant obtain embrace the void, i died in absolute radiance lol, just a fact
btw more people obtained embrace the void than steel heart, i feel good by having the rarest archievement but at the same time a bullshit because i don have embrace the void ;w;
Gruz mother is a real bug, those small Gruzzers are it’s baby’s. It’s journal entry states that it dose not lay eggs and it’s children lay in its stomach.
Dung Defender's dung balls can be really annoying to avoid sometimes as you have to avoid the dung balls while trying to avoid him if hes rolling, or trying to hit him while avoiding the dung balls.
I think the most impressive part about hollow knight achievements is that Team Cherry could have very easily made them more difficult than this, but they didn't, because achievements aren't meant to be a long grind that you end up hating yourself over. They are meant to be goals you set for yourself as a player, and when you achieve those goals, you feel all the more satisfied. There's actually an easter egg in the game for beating the pantheon of hallownest without taking damage, where the notch at the top center glows upon completion. I have not done this myself yet, but my 200 hours tell me I'm getting fairly close. It isn't displayed as an achievement because most people are actually sane and don't want to do that to themselves, but it's there for the people who do.
There’s a secret for completing pantheon of hollow nest with either all bindings at once or all of them individually which lets you go to a secret area with some more lore
Yeah I love achievement lists like Hollow Knight's which are hard but fair. Def could've made all bindings or all radiant bosses an achievement too if they were sadistic lol
Me seeing Hollow Knight: "Oh hey I love that game" Me after seeing which channel this is and having gotten all the achievements for Hollow Knight: "Oh I know where this is going"
Tip for anyone going for steel soul completion: You can skip 12% of completion, since it goes up to 112%. This means you can cherry pick completion tasks. I recommend strategically going for more difficult tasks with the lowest level of upgrade you feel comfortable with, so you do not lose a lot of time on reset.
oh these two achievements. Embrace the void took me nearly two years. steel soul/ heart wasn't that bad as I just did the dlc stuff and then the normal ending. regardless, a fun strategy for steel soul/ heart is to abuse the save and quit feature. for anything that could kill you or that is about to kill you, just save and quit. good luck anyone who actually reads this, and good luck on your future endeavors Snam!
I only had to do that for Nosk because I was so used to fighting flying Nosk. Flying Nosk was easier than ground Nosk, and when he knocked me down to 2 life I wasn't risking it. I felt bad but don't plan on doing it again.
Oh yeah this channel is going to blow up I guarantee it. The editing is crisp the commentary is funny, and it's a consistent string of bangers. Granted it's not a given but I'd almost put money on it.
Yo! I've been getting an influx of comments on the video mentioning how Embrace the Void was the harder of the two achievements (which is a 100% valid opinion to have and I'm sure they don't mean anything bad by it) so I wanted to make a pinned comment expressing why I focused on Steel Heart in case the end of the video didn't do a good enough job of explaining it: 1. I personally found Steel Heart to be the harder of the two. Embrace the Void took me 1/2 as many attempts and 1/10th of the time. (although all the bosses on radiant difficulty took me 2 months, thank goodness that wasn't an achievement lmao) 2. This achievement had a more engaging storyline. Me dying once in Pantheon 5 then immediately beating it after seemed a little anticlimactic, which is why I only really touch on my Embrace the Void attempts at the end of the video. 3. There are a lot of content creators (Nick AR, Atrioc, etc.) that have made fantastic videos on Pantheon 5 already, and I wanted to focus on the hard Hollow Knight achievement that has a bit less love content-wise. Hopefully these points sound reasonable! Catch you all in the next vid!
It’s weird how people can have completely different experiences with this game. I did Steel Heart first try in under 15 hours without quitting out, getting the Steel Soul, Steel Heart and Speed Completion achievements at the same time, but it took me ages to do all of Godhome and get Embrace the Void.
I think it comes down to what each achievement requires. When I did Steel Heart I got it first try due to being so paranoid that I put off all the bosses as long as possible, and avoided some I did not like by doing safer % points like expansion charms. getting as OP as possible before every threat, and then since the run only requires a win I just did the base ending. Meanwhile I have been trying to beat P5 for over a year... and still have not gotten past Pure Vessel making me wonder how I ever beat P4, more than once no less.
While i can appreciate this opinion, i also beat steel soul 100% in under ten hours on my first try for three achievements at once so I don’t know where my room to say is, i personally think p5 is harder mechanically speaking because there are many routes to 100% that can avoid harder content to keep safer, after fighting all the bosses enough times steel soul just doesn’t feel all that threatening (not to mention you can kinda cheat by quitting the game to get out of a bad situation if you’re about to die), all in all beating steel soul 100% just requires a bit of patience and enough skill to beat the mandatory bosses and other safe options while for p5 you need to be able to beat every single boss in a row without dying, which I find to be much harder, in the end it comes down to skill set and the amount of patience you have to put up with holding off on bosses
The flower one is easy if you decide on a path first, clear the whole path, then go get the flower without resting on a bench. The only enemies you'll fight are the super weak ones that spawn on area load. Also, for Flukemarm, I didn't even find her until I had the upgraded Howling Wraiths / Abyss Shriek ability. If you have shaman stone on during that fight, you can kill her before she even spawns anything.
SIDE NOTE: If you're going for Steel Soul 100%, it's worth doing enough Pantheons on your main file to unlock Godseeker mode. Whenever you come to a tough boss you're not 100% sure you can first try in Steel Soul, you can use your Godseeker file to practice them before you fight them for real. I'm actually shocked to see that more people have done Pantheon of Hallownest than Steel Soul 100%. I really enjoyed doing Steel Soul runs, whereas every time I get to Pantheon 5, I tap out, mostly because I find it kind of... boring? Like any time I would die in Pantheon 5, I would sigh and pull out my phone and start messing around because I just didn't feel like trying again. Whereas when I died during Steel Soul, I would be furious, and immediately start a new run, thinking of how I could overcome whatever killed me. Even though a Steel Soul death represents MUCH more lost time than a Pantheon 5 death, I found a Pantheon 5 death much more demoralizing, because I really just didn't want to be doing it all that much to begin with. I guess I enjoy exploration, routing, and gaining abilities more than just fighting bosses.
I think the more time you lose the more demoralizing it is, but I really don’t understand why more people did p5, it’s much harder, the thing with steel soul is that it’s too easy, if you practice the bosses on godseeker mode and go for the nail upgrades, steel soul is extremely easy
Same, for years I've had 112% on my steel soul save with the only achievement I'm missing being to beat pantheon 5, occasionally I'll pick up the game again give it an attempt or two and then put the game back down for months.
also p5 is constant aggression without a break which can be more "tiring" then starting over in steel soul since u get a lot of recovery time as you head to the next boss.
Yea same i did this achivement 1 or 2 weeks ago and although you get very angry and sad after dying you still want to play and you gwt a feeling of determination that no pantheon gives
I think p5 just sucks because 44 of the bosses are absolute pushovers and radiance is…. Quite annoying…. There’s quite a few ways for radiance to frame trap you into taking damage no matter what when you fight it on the small platforms in the 2nd phase.
Amazing work, personally I found embrace the void to be too difficult for myself and thought that surely, this was the achievement which I could 'just' try to go for. After about 20 attempts and grueling death after grueling death I managed to do it, but if I'd known what one has to put themselves through to get it before I started trying I wouldn't have even bothered. Incredible to see someone full on know what its gonna take and still do it! Keep up the good work
Love the vibe of your channel, man. I found your channel with your Dead Space 2 video and you're hilarious tbh. Plus the narration, great editing and gameplay all seamlessly mixed in is so dope. Hyped for this one as well 🔥
I remember thinking when I first started playing that there was no way I'd ever go for the hardest achievements. I'm no speedrunner by any stretch, I'm not madly proficient in micro movements, and permadeath on a potentially 10+ hour run sounded way too much for me. But over the many years I've beaten and rebeaten this game, I ended up eventually conquering them all. Even embrace the void, the one peak I never thought I'd be able to climb was such a rush when I finally overcame the final boss of the gauntlet. It goes to show how fantastic this game really is, that I'd even consider stepping so far out of my comfort zone to go for these. I love Hollow Knight so damn much.
I love that he's picking up more subs, he totally deserves it, but I have the sneaking suspicion that basing his channel around getting extremely frustrating and rare achievements is going to cause long term blood pressure issues lol.
The pro tip for this achievement is to always practice boss fights on godhome (without any charms so it's closer to fighting them without the nail upgrades and masks). All my deaths were to regular enemies, the first one in city of tears after grinding to get enough geo to upgrade the nail for the first time and hurrying back to the smith, and the last one was to one of the creepy things that you have to hunt down for the phantom troupe, the third phase one very near the end of the game.
@@nina9565 true, but it ends up not being that helpful, and besides, beating p5 is usually enough to never die to a boss ever again as long as you have good enough equipment.
@@Milkshak33 Sure... But then you practiced at fighting bosses in godhome. This is a tip for people who are struggling at getting the steel soul achievement, people who beat the final pantheon aren't struggling with steel soul.
Been hooked on this channel for a minute now. Don't and never will understand achievement hunting but doing incredibly stressful stuff like this for not very much gain I can understand and it makes for great content.
Got the Steel Soul, Steal Heart, and Speed Completion in a single run, it was my first legitimate Steel Soul run as well. I'm happy to watch this. (previous times I just committed 6 feet under just for the unique death animation)
Not having to do the trial of the fool and that stupid moth at the end definitely makes this more doable than I thought at the beginning of the video, but still, I think I died to that first miniboss in my first playthrough. The idea that anyone could get this achievement is beyond unreal to me, let alone in only 4 tries.
Snamwich is so good at games, I can't imagine him dying to a simple boss... Like maybe, the Dune Defender? Yeah, that guy is a complete joke so long as you move left or right. Now, time to watch his skills to get this hard achievement! *walks away at the 11 minute mark* You were the Chosen One! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them. bring balance to the force, not leave it in darkness.
Hollow knight is one of my favourite games of all time (I suck at it but that doesn't matter). My dad and I enjoy playing it together and watching him die in his steel soul playthrough on the hollow knight boss was so painful hegegeghh. I love this channel very much, I'm so glad I found it like 3 days ago hahaa
I would just like to say I found this channel randomly two days ago and since then I’ve seen every video you posted and I’m well anticipating the next. I can’t wait to see this channel blow up👍
I just finished this achievement the other day, and let me tell you, dying to traitor lord when at 94% completion truly is soul crushing. On my next (successful) run, I smartly decided to just get a few more charms and fight nkg instead.
Hollow Knight isn't "games like these", it is THE definitive Metroidvania, more definitive than the genre's namesakes. You do yourself a disservice by not playing it. It also takes quite a bit of inspiration from Soulsborne and Zelda, if you like either of those
going for 112% steel soul completion right now. It really helps to have your direct route written out and a save in classic mode on the side you can revisit to practice bosses and plan your route in places like Deepnest where there are plenty of dead end and false floors to watch out for! You've taught me a fine lesson in waiting until you're better prepared for a boss before confronting them, and I know for a fact I can't defeat PLENTY of them without my precious Sharp Shadow LMAO
Love your content, I have rewatched every video you've made at least twice!! Your commentary, editing, and the actual audio of you post-crunchwrap is top tier. I am surprised you haven't hit 100k subs yet! I hope you are able to continue pushing out videos every 2-3 weeks, it might be doable by Christmas time! I hope you have an amazing day brother, and keep up the good work!
Bruh how did you beat PoH without dying at least four times to Absolute Radiance's 3rd phase while having 60% of a heart attack?? You have my respect (and envy) :D
It's surprising you don't have more subscribers, you act and edit like a top youtuber and when I first watch I thought I was watching someone with hundreds of thousands of subs. Keep up the good work, love your videos and hope to see you get bigger and bigger.
EMBRACE THE VOID. I hate that thing Ok so uh I did steel heart really easily because 1: god gamer and 2: if you’re 1 or 2 hits away from Dying, just save and quit, reload, try again. Route the game and bosses you want to kill, what order to do them in, which pale ores to get first, all the shell fragments to get, it can be a lot. Godhome helps out a lot since it gives you literally every boss ever so you can completely destroy them. Also don’t be stupid! Don’t go in an area unprepared, don’t stop moving when in danger, use desolate dive or descending dark for immunity frames! Do ANYTHING to save yourself! You get one shot, so make it count. Another reason I always thought it was easy is because of charms and how little you actually die when prepared. What you should do, is to find an early-game charm setup (pre-city of tears) or have a couple of charms for safety (fragile strength, fragile heart, mark of pride, soul eater, shaman stone) these charms help with taking less risks, especially fragile strength and heart, since they’re cheap and both provide LIFE SAVING EFFECTS. Ok, onto why embrace the void is harder. First step: unlock pantheon 5. Seems simple right? WRONG. Beat the first 3, third was hard? Stop crying because you need to save those tears for pantheon 4! I thought this would be an easy pantheon until I reached the last boss, and found my inner celeste and geometry dash player! So I died to the boss for 3 hours straight until I did it 3 times in a row. I died to the boss on purpose so I would have better luck of not dying on the pantheon, and first tried it after. FINALLY, YOU UNLOCKED PANTHEON 5. Pantheon 5 isn’t hard, it’s just the ending that really gets me. You spend 40 minutes killing a bunch of bosses, (IN THEIR ASCENDED ARENAS, MAKING MARKOTH IMPOSSIBLE, AND MARKOTH IS LIKE THE 5TH LAST BOSS!!!) and FINALLY after like a billion hours, you make it to the final boss (nkg and pure vessel are consistent so that’s not a trouble) but you really get annoyed when you reach absolute radiance. Yes, it’s consistent, yes, you can predict attacks, and yes, it’s easy to telegraph the attacks, but GOD DAYUM IS THE FIGHT LONG. I remember doing pantheon 5 after a couple months of break, make it to absolute radiance’s LAST PHASE, AND DIE RIGHT AT THE END. It’s one of the only deaths I had in that savefile, and it was right at the end. After that I quit hollow knight and started playing Celeste just to have a similar experience (3 symbols, 7AG!!!!) and now I still play celeste but uh I still haven’t regained any motivation to play hollow knight. I do want to do pantheon 5, but every time I open it up, I’m always so new to the controls that I feel like I need a new savefile just to relearn the bosses lmao Ok forgot to say but uh get most (if not all) charms in hollow knight, each one gives you one percentage, and Grimm troupe is also pretty free when it comes to percentages. (DO THEM!) also, do the buffed dream versions of bosses since they don’t count as deaths and you can do them how many times you want.
After dying near the end of my last Steel Heart run 3 years ago and losing motivation to continue, this video inspired me to pick the game back up and finally get Steel Heart and Embrace the Void, which I finally finished today. It’s now my proudest 100% completion. Thanks! :)
I'm in the camp of thinking embrace the void is much harder, but I also did that one first so by the time i went for steel heart I was much better at the game. On top of that, steel heart just plays into my strengths better. I had a pretty good memory of hallownest and knew which bosses I was most likely to struggle with and how to avoid them until I was well upgraded and ready, so the run ended up being a breeze. Meanwhile completing the pantheon of hallownest took hours and hours of practice against some bosses to achieve the level of consistency needed to be able to take them out while under pressure during the actual run. And even then I still managed to die to pure vessel on the first attempt where I actually thought I was ready. I do sympathize greatly with dying to dung defender though. Recently came back to the game to do the under 5 hour run, the only achievement I had left, and was worried about struggling with watcher knights or the hollow knight. Instead my one and only death of the run was to dung defender.
yeah, as someone who also has all achievements + all Radiants (boss complete with no damage taken), Steel Soul is much easier than PoH. The Save and Quit option lets you return to your last bench no matter where you’re at, so the only time you should ever really die is when you 1. get too cocky (most of mine lol), 2. get surprise combo’d into spikes, or 3. you didn’t think an attack would hit for 2 damage instead of just 1. It’s obviously much harder with no save scumming, but still nowhere near as hard as PoH considering Absolute Radiance isn’t in it, and most of the hardest bosses in the game (all of the dream bosses but one iirc) DON’T LET YOU PERMA-DIE AGAINST THEM EVEN IN STEEL SOUL.
@@CabinetGremlin dude you’re not supposed to save quit every time you get to 1 life, that way it’s easy because your cheesing, stop being a noob and do steel soul fr, it’s like using invencibility to beat p5 and saying it’s easy
I remember getting Speed Completion and Steel Heart for the first time on the same save file. I have not gotten past Absolute Radiance though, and I don't see myself getting through that any time soon. Kudos sir.
See the wonderful thing about Hollow Knight is, you get so good you cannot even tell how much you're really improving and actually nailing (this is not a pun) difficult achievements and feats. I saw a newbie who wanted to beat Path of Pain with a keyboard, just because they wanted or felt like they need to. I dunno how what it is about this game but that challenge feels good to take on.
I was 100% expecting to go down to the comments and subtly flex all my godhome achievements, but then u had to crush my dreams and add on the end of the video that u did radiant every boss as well. Ig I have nothing more to say but respect from one hk fan to another.
I discoverd your channel through this video and I realy like the tone of your voice and the mannor in which you are designing your vieos. Your infectious smile got you a new subscriber :)
Wait, you say that you beat P5 in two tries, and died to Zote on one of them. Yet you also say you practiced all the bosses and your Twitch has a highlight of you practicing Absolute Radiance in the Hall of Gods. Absolute Radiance isn't unlocked in the Hall of Gods until you've fought her once, so you had to have made AT LEAST 3 attempts.
GG dude. I tried it so many times and I was so trash I just gave up. But with your video, maybe I'll try it again. Great Content, le Québec t'apprécie beaucoup!
Steel Heart is one of those achievements where someone either does it on their first try no biggie, or they spend hours on end fruitlessly attempting to 100% the game. I've spent so much time on this game If you got the achievement for every time you 100%'d steel soul I'd have an ungodly amount of clout 😅
Funniest and most interesting playthrough I've seen in a long while! 🤣 This popped up in my recommended and I had a blast watching 🤣🤣🤣 Subscribed and am now going to watch all the other videos on this channel 👌
"instead of you having to suffer through it, you get to watch me do that instead" unfortunately i've already suffered through it before finding your video
Although I personaly did not find the steel soul one that hard, Embrace the void took so much practice for me to be able to do it, but man was it satisfying!
new to the channel here, and I love your sense of humour! This really looked soul crushing, but you were able to keep the video light hearted! Great job man
17:21 "Watcher" please stop they're the three dreamers, Monomon the Teacher, Herrah the Beast, and Lurien the Watcher. Each time I heard "watcher" I was like "NO PLEASE MY BUDDIES" /j
For me, a first time watcher of your channel, the best part was you probably played the game, some years ago, bested it, unlock Steel Soul, then never played again Just to look at your library a few years later and got: "Welp, I'll get the hardest achievement on the game, even though I don't remember even the map"
Ahhh, I remember these days, when I was too lazy to do multiple runs for multiple achivements, so I did steel soul, steel heart, and speed completion all on one save. ah those were the good days.
OMG I knew you were going to say Fluke Marm LMAO! I am doing a playthrough on Twitch right now where every time I die I stack another hat on my head, and I got a couple hats from this for sure lol. I didn't realize the fluke was even optional, I am avoiding it as long as possible! Love the vid, and have had had these same feelings throughout my playthrough!
just found this video and Laughed out loud when he said we didn't have to suffer through the achievements, I wish I had seen this before I decided to get all of the achivements
Since I still get this question a lot, I have dash before Hornet since I put the clips out of order. The acid shenanigans happened after the boss fight but it worked better narrative-wise if I placed it before. I have the entire playthrough available on my second channel so I promise I’m not up to no good lol
out of joke, steel heart is a lot easier than embrace the void, ive completed the game in 100% while steel soul in september 2022, ive played the game since 2020 and i still cant obtain embrace the void, i died in absolute radiance
lol, just a fact
btw more people obtained embrace the void than steel heart, i feel good by having the rarest archievement but at the same time a bullshit because i don have embrace the void ;w;
That second achievement is easy.
Gruz mother is a real bug, those small Gruzzers are it’s baby’s. It’s journal entry states that it dose not lay eggs and it’s children lay in its stomach.
@@1D1074 ur br right?
I remember dying at, like, 92% completion to Hive Knight's bee minions when we was already in his dying animation... Never underestimate this game
DLCs don't count to 100%, DLCs count to 112%
DLC counts towards the extra 12% but if you want, you can do the DLC content rather than basegame to replace some percent of the game
Definiely! Never in a million years did I think I'd die to Dung Defender haha
Dung Defender's dung balls can be really annoying to avoid sometimes as you have to avoid the dung balls while trying to avoid him if hes rolling, or trying to hit him while avoiding the dung balls.
I remember losing my Steel Hearth run with 111% to Radiance. I forgot that you can die on her, and that she isnt a dream type boss.
“I was big, strong, and not dead”
*looks at Zote’s skull*
“Unlike Zote”
Thanks, i'm deaf and couldn't hear what he was saying.
I think the most impressive part about hollow knight achievements is that Team Cherry could have very easily made them more difficult than this, but they didn't, because achievements aren't meant to be a long grind that you end up hating yourself over. They are meant to be goals you set for yourself as a player, and when you achieve those goals, you feel all the more satisfied. There's actually an easter egg in the game for beating the pantheon of hallownest without taking damage, where the notch at the top center glows upon completion. I have not done this myself yet, but my 200 hours tell me I'm getting fairly close. It isn't displayed as an achievement because most people are actually sane and don't want to do that to themselves, but it's there for the people who do.
There’s a secret for completing pantheon of hollow nest with either all bindings at once or all of them individually which lets you go to a secret area with some more lore
Yeah I love achievement lists like Hollow Knight's which are hard but fair. Def could've made all bindings or all radiant bosses an achievement too if they were sadistic lol
How ironic.
*The final pantheon has entered the chat*
Thanks now I will forever feel sad because I will never get this
Me seeing Hollow Knight: "Oh hey I love that game"
Me after seeing which channel this is and having gotten all the achievements for Hollow Knight: "Oh I know where this is going"
I saw what he Posted and I thought oh this poor soul there’s not gonna be a singular ounce of sanity left
HOW DO YOU BEAT PATH OF PAIN?
I love this game as well but i sure doesn't have the patience for trying this.
@@Megaderpus_Maximus equipping hive heart or kings soul will help you out a lot
@@Megaderpus_Maximus equip gathering swarm and wayward compass
18:11 "this is just the best day of my life" *EXPLODES*
As an achievement hunter myself I love watching these videos because I can watch someone else suffer the same way I have for so long
Haha, we're in this together brother
Agreed. Its very satisfying to see somone else go though the same hell.
You know, I'm something of an achievement hunter myself.
Other achievement hunter here! :)
@@imreszabo4256 same as well!
Tip for anyone going for steel soul completion:
You can skip 12% of completion, since it goes up to 112%. This means you can cherry pick completion tasks.
I recommend strategically going for more difficult tasks with the lowest level of upgrade you feel comfortable with, so you do not lose a lot of time on reset.
oh these two achievements. Embrace the void took me nearly two years. steel soul/ heart wasn't that bad as I just did the dlc stuff and then the normal ending. regardless, a fun strategy for steel soul/ heart is to abuse the save and quit feature. for anything that could kill you or that is about to kill you, just save and quit.
good luck anyone who actually reads this, and good luck on your future endeavors Snam!
I only had to do that for Nosk because I was so used to fighting flying Nosk. Flying Nosk was easier than ground Nosk, and when he knocked me down to 2 life I wasn't risking it.
I felt bad but don't plan on doing it again.
i can't do embrace the void cause i have broker. Joy coks and can't completd White palace
So basically to do steel soul save 99.9% of the time so many people cheap out like me
That's cheap
@@billybobbobson3797 well you aint getting an extra reward for not doing that so its the perfect strat for people that just want to get 100% done.
Oh yeah this channel is going to blow up I guarantee it. The editing is crisp the commentary is funny, and it's a consistent string of bangers. Granted it's not a given but I'd almost put money on it.
how many subs did he have 3 months ago?!
@@CantHandlePureCrack if I remember correctly like 10-15k.
@@Rockgod17 ngl homie, you might haev been a tad bit correct
no
guess u were right
That final boss "death"...NGL had me in the first half! Awesome video Snamwiches, looking forward to more!
I wanted to make the cut similar enough to trick, but different enough for people to realize after haha. Glad it worked that way
Snamwhiches:I won't make the same mistake 10 times
Proceeds to make the same mistake 5 times
A man of his word I see
Yo! I've been getting an influx of comments on the video mentioning how Embrace the Void was the harder of the two achievements (which is a 100% valid opinion to have and I'm sure they don't mean anything bad by it) so I wanted to make a pinned comment expressing why I focused on Steel Heart in case the end of the video didn't do a good enough job of explaining it:
1. I personally found Steel Heart to be the harder of the two. Embrace the Void took me 1/2 as many attempts and 1/10th of the time. (although all the bosses on radiant difficulty took me 2 months, thank goodness that wasn't an achievement lmao)
2. This achievement had a more engaging storyline. Me dying once in Pantheon 5 then immediately beating it after seemed a little anticlimactic, which is why I only really touch on my Embrace the Void attempts at the end of the video.
3. There are a lot of content creators (Nick AR, Atrioc, etc.) that have made fantastic videos on Pantheon 5 already, and I wanted to focus on the hard Hollow Knight achievement that has a bit less love content-wise.
Hopefully these points sound reasonable! Catch you all in the next vid!
I personally found it harder to do embrace the void but that doesn’t mean you don’t deserve an opinion
It’s weird how people can have completely different experiences with this game. I did Steel Heart first try in under 15 hours without quitting out, getting the Steel Soul, Steel Heart and Speed Completion achievements at the same time, but it took me ages to do all of Godhome and get Embrace the Void.
I think it comes down to what each achievement requires. When I did Steel Heart I got it first try due to being so paranoid that I put off all the bosses as long as possible, and avoided some I did not like by doing safer % points like expansion charms. getting as OP as possible before every threat, and then since the run only requires a win I just did the base ending. Meanwhile I have been trying to beat P5 for over a year... and still have not gotten past Pure Vessel making me wonder how I ever beat P4, more than once no less.
While i can appreciate this opinion, i also beat steel soul 100% in under ten hours on my first try for three achievements at once so I don’t know where my room to say is, i personally think p5 is harder mechanically speaking because there are many routes to 100% that can avoid harder content to keep safer, after fighting all the bosses enough times steel soul just doesn’t feel all that threatening (not to mention you can kinda cheat by quitting the game to get out of a bad situation if you’re about to die), all in all beating steel soul 100% just requires a bit of patience and enough skill to beat the mandatory bosses and other safe options while for p5 you need to be able to beat every single boss in a row without dying, which I find to be much harder, in the end it comes down to skill set and the amount of patience you have to put up with holding off on bosses
The achievment isn't hard I die it First try
The flower one is easy if you decide on a path first, clear the whole path, then go get the flower without resting on a bench. The only enemies you'll fight are the super weak ones that spawn on area load. Also, for Flukemarm, I didn't even find her until I had the upgraded Howling Wraiths / Abyss Shriek ability. If you have shaman stone on during that fight, you can kill her before she even spawns anything.
I had done the exact same strategy after dying alot
But then the fight will be over too soon and you won't get to watch her sexyness /j
@@guardianfish7718📸📸
SIDE NOTE: If you're going for Steel Soul 100%, it's worth doing enough Pantheons on your main file to unlock Godseeker mode. Whenever you come to a tough boss you're not 100% sure you can first try in Steel Soul, you can use your Godseeker file to practice them before you fight them for real.
I'm actually shocked to see that more people have done Pantheon of Hallownest than Steel Soul 100%. I really enjoyed doing Steel Soul runs, whereas every time I get to Pantheon 5, I tap out, mostly because I find it kind of... boring? Like any time I would die in Pantheon 5, I would sigh and pull out my phone and start messing around because I just didn't feel like trying again. Whereas when I died during Steel Soul, I would be furious, and immediately start a new run, thinking of how I could overcome whatever killed me. Even though a Steel Soul death represents MUCH more lost time than a Pantheon 5 death, I found a Pantheon 5 death much more demoralizing, because I really just didn't want to be doing it all that much to begin with. I guess I enjoy exploration, routing, and gaining abilities more than just fighting bosses.
I think the more time you lose the more demoralizing it is, but I really don’t understand why more people did p5, it’s much harder, the thing with steel soul is that it’s too easy, if you practice the bosses on godseeker mode and go for the nail upgrades, steel soul is extremely easy
Same, for years I've had 112% on my steel soul save with the only achievement I'm missing being to beat pantheon 5, occasionally I'll pick up the game again give it an attempt or two and then put the game back down for months.
also p5 is constant aggression without a break which can be more "tiring" then starting over in steel soul since u get a lot of recovery time as you head to the next boss.
Yea same i did this achivement 1 or 2 weeks ago and although you get very angry and sad after dying you still want to play and you gwt a feeling of determination that no pantheon gives
I think p5 just sucks because 44 of the bosses are absolute pushovers and radiance is…. Quite annoying…. There’s quite a few ways for radiance to frame trap you into taking damage no matter what when you fight it on the small platforms in the 2nd phase.
Amazing work, personally I found embrace the void to be too difficult for myself and thought that surely, this was the achievement which I could 'just' try to go for. After about 20 attempts and grueling death after grueling death I managed to do it, but if I'd known what one has to put themselves through to get it before I started trying I wouldn't have even bothered. Incredible to see someone full on know what its gonna take and still do it! Keep up the good work
Love the vibe of your channel, man. I found your channel with your Dead Space 2 video and you're hilarious tbh. Plus the narration, great editing and gameplay all seamlessly mixed in is so dope. Hyped for this one as well 🔥
Me too
He's even better on Twitch, worth checking out!
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Will do, thanks for the suggestion! 😁👍
I found him with RE2
Thank you man, the support for the channel has been crazy and I wanna keep making the quality better!
I feel "all the strength in the world could not help my platforming" in my soul
I found your channel today and binged them all just to fall into despair only to be lifted out with a new video as soon as I finished the last video.
I remember thinking when I first started playing that there was no way I'd ever go for the hardest achievements. I'm no speedrunner by any stretch, I'm not madly proficient in micro movements, and permadeath on a potentially 10+ hour run sounded way too much for me. But over the many years I've beaten and rebeaten this game, I ended up eventually conquering them all. Even embrace the void, the one peak I never thought I'd be able to climb was such a rush when I finally overcame the final boss of the gauntlet. It goes to show how fantastic this game really is, that I'd even consider stepping so far out of my comfort zone to go for these. I love Hollow Knight so damn much.
I was the exact same way! I'm so glad I decided to do these in the end. I'm glad you were too!
same for me, I didn’t think I would even get past the third pantheon and here I am trying p5 all bindings
I love that he's picking up more subs, he totally deserves it, but I have the sneaking suspicion that basing his channel around getting extremely frustrating and rare achievements is going to cause long term blood pressure issues lol.
I hit all the achievements last winter, it was a great feeling! My final achievement was the speedrun.
Mine was too actually, congrats!
Same
Same it was my last achievement cos I knew it was gunna be hard
Now try doing speedrun and steelsoul together
My last one was leaving Zote to die. It was twice as sweet.
These videos are so addicting. I also respect the grind
The pro tip for this achievement is to always practice boss fights on godhome (without any charms so it's closer to fighting them without the nail upgrades and masks).
All my deaths were to regular enemies, the first one in city of tears after grinding to get enough geo to upgrade the nail for the first time and hurrying back to the smith, and the last one was to one of the creepy things that you have to hunt down for the phantom troupe, the third phase one very near the end of the game.
Practicing in godhome is a waste of time, at least for me
@@Milkshak33 It's a worse waste of time to die in steel soul and have to start over.
@@nina9565 true, but it ends up not being that helpful, and besides, beating p5 is usually enough to never die to a boss ever again as long as you have good enough equipment.
@@Milkshak33 Sure... But then you practiced at fighting bosses in godhome. This is a tip for people who are struggling at getting the steel soul achievement, people who beat the final pantheon aren't struggling with steel soul.
This channel is going places content is always amazing. Another great vid keep up the good work !
22:18 the way my heart SANK as if I was the one playing the game AND THEN I WAS SO SO HAPPY WHEN YOU SAID “just kidding!!”
Been hooked on this channel for a minute now. Don't and never will understand achievement hunting but doing incredibly stressful stuff like this for not very much gain I can understand and it makes for great content.
The main reason for achievement hunting: Because they are there, and a goal to complete.
Got the Steel Soul, Steal Heart, and Speed Completion in a single run, it was my first legitimate Steel Soul run as well. I'm happy to watch this. (previous times I just committed 6 feet under just for the unique death animation)
Omg that is what I did too I did it in 15 hours
Not having to do the trial of the fool and that stupid moth at the end definitely makes this more doable than I thought at the beginning of the video, but still, I think I died to that first miniboss in my first playthrough. The idea that anyone could get this achievement is beyond unreal to me, let alone in only 4 tries.
I struggled so hard with coliseum 3 when I first played this game, so I was so happy when I found out I could completely avoid it lol
I remembered crying when I finally got all the achievements, it was an amazing game
Snamwich is so good at games, I can't imagine him dying to a simple boss... Like maybe, the Dune Defender? Yeah, that guy is a complete joke so long as you move left or right. Now, time to watch his skills to get this hard achievement!
*walks away at the 11 minute mark* You were the Chosen One! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them. bring balance to the force, not leave it in darkness.
Yeah what kind of idiot would die to the Dung Defender?? Definitely not me lol
dung defender i get but no idiot could lose to FLUKEMARM
Love watching these seeing how surprisingly wholesome Snam is during these stressful challenges, honestly inspiring
I’m so glad I didn’t have to go through what you Xbox players had to go through for the ps version of hollow knight 😅
Haha I saw what you had to go through in Pantheon 5, the Plat’s difficulty is still no joke
Love your vids Nick.
if you’re good enough to do p5, you can definitely do steel soul 100%
Ngl you got me with that footage swap lmao. I actually had to pause the vid to fully process the horrific thing I just saw 😂. Congrats man!
LMAO I’m so glad it worked that way haha
You have quickly become one of my favorite channels ever! Keep up the awesome work!
That trick ending earned you a sub bud. I look forward to seeing more of your content.
Hollow knight is one of my favourite games of all time (I suck at it but that doesn't matter). My dad and I enjoy playing it together and watching him die in his steel soul playthrough on the hollow knight boss was so painful hegegeghh.
I love this channel very much, I'm so glad I found it like 3 days ago hahaa
8:40 oh, the misery! not of losing, that is expected, but of losing to that specific boss!. very epic video my friend
that is definitely the worst strategy to beat a boss in the entire game
I would just like to say I found this channel randomly two days ago and since then I’ve seen every video you posted and I’m well anticipating the next. I can’t wait to see this channel blow up👍
Thank you man! Hope the next video comes out even better!
I just got this game, because I saw you do it on you channel. It looked fun Great content man keep it up
This channel is amazing, NEED MORE CONTENT BADLY
This dudes channel is amazing. I wish you thr most success man.
I remember I died in the ancient basin and it's because I didn't know the void enemies did 2 mask of damage. I learned the hard way.
Pain
Plus they don't give soul
I just finished this achievement the other day, and let me tell you, dying to traitor lord when at 94% completion truly is soul crushing. On my next (successful) run, I smartly decided to just get a few more charms and fight nkg instead.
I listened to my buddy complete the pantheon for like 2 months that achievement is no joke
Definitely no joke, I still have no idea how it only took me 2 attempts
Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer
I don’t normally like games like these but if it’s a achievement video on it I’ll watch regardless 😂
Hollow Knight isn't "games like these", it is THE definitive Metroidvania, more definitive than the genre's namesakes. You do yourself a disservice by not playing it. It also takes quite a bit of inspiration from Soulsborne and Zelda, if you like either of those
@@collinbeal I don’t like these types of games
@@collinbeal you can't force someone to like something.
going for 112% steel soul completion right now. It really helps to have your direct route written out and a save in classic mode on the side you can revisit to practice bosses and plan your route in places like Deepnest where there are plenty of dead end and false floors to watch out for! You've taught me a fine lesson in waiting until you're better prepared for a boss before confronting them, and I know for a fact I can't defeat PLENTY of them without my precious Sharp Shadow LMAO
Love your content, I have rewatched every video you've made at least twice!! Your commentary, editing, and the actual audio of you post-crunchwrap is top tier. I am surprised you haven't hit 100k subs yet! I hope you are able to continue pushing out videos every 2-3 weeks, it might be doable by Christmas time! I hope you have an amazing day brother, and keep up the good work!
Ngl I think the post-crunchwrap thing was my magnus opus of comedy thus far lmao
18:11 «The best day of my life», fucking explodes second later
Bruh how did you beat PoH without dying at least four times to Absolute Radiance's 3rd phase while having 60% of a heart attack?? You have my respect (and envy) :D
easy answer
he practiced in the hall of gods
@@vish5942 In order to practice Absolute Radiance, he would have had to get there and died, which means he beat her on the first try.
@@TronicX you don't have to beat absolute radiance to unlock her in hall of gods
@@vish5942 I just said that.
@@TronicXisn't it possible that he met and/or defeated Absolute Radiance on a different save, a different account or even a different console?
"Where everything is gassier than me after a trip to taco bell"The most true sentence I ever herd
It's surprising you don't have more subscribers, you act and edit like a top youtuber and when I first watch I thought I was watching someone with hundreds of thousands of subs. Keep up the good work, love your videos and hope to see you get bigger and bigger.
Thank you! Hopefully I reach that tier one day!
To be fair he's at 36k subscribers four months after starting. That's a pretty amazing trajectory!
@@reggieisnotadog4841 I didn't know hes been doing this for 4 months that's crazy good, I enjoy his videos and hope he gets the praise he deserves
Tbf, usually with this kind of quality sub growth is literally guranteed
Blowing up on UA-cam is less luck than you think
bro, your patience is commendable. I would have broken 7 controllers trying to get that achievement!
22:11 I feel you man. Dying to that same move on the last boss feels pain
OH I GOT TROLLED
EMBRACE THE VOID.
I hate that thing
Ok so uh I did steel heart really easily because 1: god gamer and 2: if you’re 1 or 2 hits away from
Dying, just save and quit, reload, try again. Route the game and bosses you want to kill, what order to do them in, which pale ores to get first, all the shell fragments to get, it can be a lot. Godhome helps out a lot since it gives you literally every boss ever so you can completely destroy them. Also don’t be stupid! Don’t go in an area unprepared, don’t stop moving when in danger, use desolate dive or descending dark for immunity frames! Do ANYTHING to save yourself! You get one shot, so make it count.
Another reason I always thought it was easy is because of charms and how little you actually die when prepared. What you should do, is to find an early-game charm setup (pre-city of tears) or have a couple of charms for safety (fragile strength, fragile heart, mark of pride, soul eater, shaman stone) these charms help with taking less risks, especially fragile strength and heart, since they’re cheap and both provide LIFE SAVING EFFECTS.
Ok, onto why embrace the void is harder.
First step: unlock pantheon 5. Seems simple right? WRONG. Beat the first 3, third was hard? Stop crying because you need to save those tears for pantheon 4! I thought this would be an easy pantheon until I reached the last boss, and found my inner celeste and geometry dash player! So I died to the boss for 3 hours straight until I did it 3 times in a row. I died to the boss on purpose so I would have better luck of not dying on the pantheon, and first tried it after. FINALLY, YOU UNLOCKED PANTHEON 5.
Pantheon 5 isn’t hard, it’s just the ending that really gets me. You spend 40 minutes killing a bunch of bosses, (IN THEIR ASCENDED ARENAS, MAKING MARKOTH IMPOSSIBLE, AND MARKOTH IS LIKE THE 5TH LAST BOSS!!!) and FINALLY after like a billion hours, you make it to the final boss (nkg and pure vessel are consistent so that’s not a trouble) but you really get annoyed when you reach absolute radiance. Yes, it’s consistent, yes, you can predict attacks, and yes, it’s easy to telegraph the attacks, but GOD DAYUM IS THE FIGHT LONG. I remember doing pantheon 5 after a couple months of break, make it to absolute radiance’s LAST PHASE, AND DIE RIGHT AT THE END. It’s one of the only deaths I had in that savefile, and it was right at the end. After that I quit hollow knight and started playing Celeste just to have a similar experience (3 symbols, 7AG!!!!) and now I still play celeste but uh I still haven’t regained any motivation to play hollow knight. I do want to do pantheon 5, but every time I open it up, I’m always so new to the controls that I feel like I need a new savefile just to relearn the bosses lmao
Ok forgot to say but uh get most (if not all) charms in hollow knight, each one gives you one percentage, and Grimm troupe is also pretty free when it comes to percentages. (DO THEM!) also, do the buffed dream versions of bosses since they don’t count as deaths and you can do them how many times you want.
After dying near the end of my last Steel Heart run 3 years ago and losing motivation to continue, this video inspired me to pick the game back up and finally get Steel Heart and Embrace the Void, which I finally finished today. It’s now my proudest 100% completion. Thanks! :)
Steel Heart was a walk in the park for me compared to Embrace the Void.
+1. Just cannot.
Join the "normal person" club.
@@panthekirb7561 yeah lol
I'm in the camp of thinking embrace the void is much harder, but I also did that one first so by the time i went for steel heart I was much better at the game. On top of that, steel heart just plays into my strengths better. I had a pretty good memory of hallownest and knew which bosses I was most likely to struggle with and how to avoid them until I was well upgraded and ready, so the run ended up being a breeze. Meanwhile completing the pantheon of hallownest took hours and hours of practice against some bosses to achieve the level of consistency needed to be able to take them out while under pressure during the actual run. And even then I still managed to die to pure vessel on the first attempt where I actually thought I was ready.
I do sympathize greatly with dying to dung defender though. Recently came back to the game to do the under 5 hour run, the only achievement I had left, and was worried about struggling with watcher knights or the hollow knight. Instead my one and only death of the run was to dung defender.
yeah p5 is much harder
yeah, as someone who also has all achievements + all Radiants (boss complete with no damage taken), Steel Soul is much easier than PoH. The Save and Quit option lets you return to your last bench no matter where you’re at, so the only time you should ever really die is when you 1. get too cocky (most of mine lol), 2. get surprise combo’d into spikes, or 3. you didn’t think an attack would hit for 2 damage instead of just 1. It’s obviously much harder with no save scumming, but still nowhere near as hard as PoH considering Absolute Radiance isn’t in it, and most of the hardest bosses in the game (all of the dream bosses but one iirc) DON’T LET YOU PERMA-DIE AGAINST THEM EVEN IN STEEL SOUL.
@@CabinetGremlin dude you’re not supposed to save quit every time you get to 1 life, that way it’s easy because your cheesing, stop being a noob and do steel soul fr, it’s like using invencibility to beat p5 and saying it’s easy
That fake out death had me shook! Awesome run!! Engaging all the way through!
You deserve more subs 🔥 the quality of your videos is just insane! Keep up the good work
I remember getting Speed Completion and Steel Heart for the first time on the same save file. I have not gotten past Absolute Radiance though, and I don't see myself getting through that any time soon. Kudos sir.
Best tip ever: If your about to die on steel soul, you can just exit to main menu and you’ll live!
See the wonderful thing about Hollow Knight is, you get so good you cannot even tell how much you're really improving and actually nailing (this is not a pun) difficult achievements and feats.
I saw a newbie who wanted to beat Path of Pain with a keyboard, just because they wanted or felt like they need to. I dunno how what it is about this game but that challenge feels good to take on.
Anyone notice he was dashing before he beat hornet?
I was 100% expecting to go down to the comments and subtly flex all my godhome achievements, but then u had to crush my dreams and add on the end of the video that u did radiant every boss as well. Ig I have nothing more to say but respect from one hk fan to another.
That ending was brilliant lol
I discoverd your channel through this video and I realy like the tone of your voice and the mannor in which you are designing your vieos. Your infectious smile got you a new subscriber :)
I am currently infectiously smiling reading your comment, so thank you :)
You are the first person I've seen die to Flukemarm, but to be fair, you're also the first person I've seen without Abyss Shriek to shred it.
Lmao I died of laughter and disappointment when he died to probably the easiest boss in the game a meme boss
Ye bruh how did he died to this boss...
Like fr don't even need abyss just go to the side of it and constant attack it.
@@koala3158 The adds can get overwhelming if you ignore them or have a weak nail. Nail binding Flukemarm and Collector are annoying asf
thanks for the compliments on my achievements :D
Wait, you say that you beat P5 in two tries, and died to Zote on one of them. Yet you also say you practiced all the bosses and your Twitch has a highlight of you practicing Absolute Radiance in the Hall of Gods. Absolute Radiance isn't unlocked in the Hall of Gods until you've fought her once, so you had to have made AT LEAST 3 attempts.
GG dude. I tried it so many times and I was so trash I just gave up. But with your video, maybe I'll try it again. Great Content, le Québec t'apprécie beaucoup!
Steel Heart is one of those achievements where someone either does it on their first try no biggie, or they spend hours on end fruitlessly attempting to 100% the game. I've spent so much time on this game If you got the achievement for every time you 100%'d steel soul I'd have an ungodly amount of clout 😅
Instead of me suffering through it jokes on you I lost most of my sanity getting every achievement in hollow knight.
Truly, the hardest part of the steel soul run is bringing yourself to save Zote.
I found your channel and I like it. Hollow knight is one of my favourite games (currently playing it with inverted controls). I love Nosk
I got this because of your video, only got to Hornets boss fight, as I got stuck. Thanks for continuing to upload.
Funniest and most interesting playthrough I've seen in a long while! 🤣 This popped up in my recommended and I had a blast watching 🤣🤣🤣 Subscribed and am now going to watch all the other videos on this channel 👌
8:45 Dying to _Flukemarm?_ Bro, I can FEEL the embarrassment crushing my pump biscuit.
"instead of you having to suffer through it, you get to watch me do that instead"
unfortunately i've already suffered through it before finding your video
Although I personaly did not find the steel soul one that hard, Embrace the void took so much practice for me to be able to do it, but man was it satisfying!
new to the channel here, and I love your sense of humour! This really looked soul crushing, but you were able to keep the video light hearted! Great job man
17:21 "Watcher" please stop they're the three dreamers, Monomon the Teacher, Herrah the Beast, and Lurien the Watcher. Each time I heard "watcher" I was like "NO PLEASE MY BUDDIES" /j
that footage swap really had my stomach in knots. Got me good.
For me, a first time watcher of your channel, the best part was you probably played the game, some years ago, bested it, unlock Steel Soul, then never played again
Just to look at your library a few years later and got:
"Welp, I'll get the hardest achievement on the game, even though I don't remember even the map"
"Today I will suffer so you don't have to" My brother in christ I've had this achievement for years
Fair play to you, dude. I LOVE the game. Adore it.
But I've never gotten either of these two because, frankly, I just haven't got the patience. Kudos.
Ahhh, I remember these days, when I was too lazy to do multiple runs for multiple achivements, so I did steel soul, steel heart, and speed completion all on one save. ah those were the good days.
This was the video that made me follow, thanks for cheering me up from the depths of Covid positiveness🎉
OMG I knew you were going to say Fluke Marm LMAO! I am doing a playthrough on Twitch right now where every time I die I stack another hat on my head, and I got a couple hats from this for sure lol. I didn't realize the fluke was even optional, I am avoiding it as long as possible! Love the vid, and have had had these same feelings throughout my playthrough!
Wait that sound hilarious lmao, hope you end up beating it soon!
Snamwiches: "Don't go for side bosses!"
Steel Heart: (Requires 100% Completion.)
I just want to say how much I loved the bug facts.
That’s it. Thank you, have a nice day.
snamwich: it seems like I'm the roanoa zoro of hollow knight
me: you have awakened the true ragnarok
Mate I am addicted to your videos since your dead space one popped up on my feed!
4:58 MOSSY PETS
also fun fact, DLC content is free on PC too, it's not even a separate download, it's basically just a major update to the game.
Lol
This is the first video I saw from your channel and I love it!
Keep up the good work!
And also
I have both of those on the same save file
Love the video and the 4th wall break at the end got me 😂
My version if I was playing: “So I stepped into the arena and started crying.”
I already finished Steel Soul, but thanks for the efforts, you got it!
just found this video and Laughed out loud when he said we didn't have to suffer through the achievements, I wish I had seen this before I decided to get all of the achivements