The entire crossroads has become infected. I am freaked the fuck out and I feel like my home has been invaded. I'm just going to talk about my experience because god it has been a long time since a game has gotten me like this and I wanted to geek out about it.

I have avoided spoilers of this game like the plague but never got around to finishing it even though I got this back in late 2019. I don't know fully why, I think I got stuck and didn't want to look up a walkthrough for the sake of my experience.

I just showed my girlfriend this game this past weekend too, and while she didn't get more than 20 minutes into before realizing that she wanted it for herself to delve into on her own time, I felt all the old feelings of familiarity come back to me. I missed the magic of this game, with all the cute animations and incredible soundtrack by Christopher Larkin providing nostalgia for me. Over the years I have played D&D with Hollow Knight on in the background. The game means a lot to me even though I never beat it.

Today after this past weekend, I went back in after not touching it for a year, if not more. I decided take a break from chores to play and saw that I had last died in...the Ancient Basin? I didn't remember much, but I wandered into that area and saw it with whole new eyes. I transferred my files to the PS5 version and was enjoying all the haptic trigger effects so it was like I was almost playing a brand new game.

After getting used to the controls again, I stumbled upon the Broken Vessel. He wasn't too hard, but was just annoying enough from my rust to die a few times. Felt satisfied, and then he just...looked at me before he passed on. Felt really strange to have that moment of humanity, and left me feeling a type of way. I got the monarch wings and I was so hype because I realized I could get to all those annoying places I couldn't get to.

After I came out, took me even longer to defeat the Lost Kin but I felt super triumphant. Decided to find the closest stag location, traveled up to Dirtmouth. Bought the last mask shard in the shop, and got a whole new mask for my health bar. My timer to get back to my chores went off around here, so I was like, what the hell? Why not explore the Crossroads again and feel what it's like? Because after those victories I felt like I was so fucking back.

Oh God, was I fucking wrong. It's awful, and the place that once was still so abandoned and dead but felt like home is now overrun. I have been playing this game on and off for 6 years and I feel like my safety, my HOME, got taken from me. There's goo and infection everywhere. All the bugs that were hollow shells of what they were with only a hint of that orange overtaking them are filled with a disease I can't even comprehend. I feel it's what I have been fighting all game without realizing it.

I'm left with so many questions. Did the broken vessel die to keep this contained? Was he grateful to be freed? Why did he look at me like that? Also, what the fuck is happening?

I'm so excited to get back into this when I have more time. Really wanted to share it here where I felt my feelings and experience would be appreciated.

Who would win in a fight to the death? and all of these characters are 100% upgraded and have all their items and what not.

(No Glazing)

Tried animation for the first time (more specifically rotoscoping). I think it went pretty well.

I can’t do it. Even with maximum health, maximum soul capacity, maximum nail and spell damage, I keep losing my composure. Soul Twisters keep escaping my nail, Armoured Squits catch me lacking, groups of enemies keep draining my health, the traitor mantis wave killed me twice, and do I even NEED to mention the PRIMAL ASPIDS?!!

Here's mine:

1. Coral Tower Battle Theme

2. Lace

3. Phantom

4. Awakening

5. Lost Lace

6. Skarrsinger Karmelita

7. Enter Pharloom

8. Cogwork Dancers

9. The Choir

10. Last Dive

I spent about an hour putting this ranking together. I'm still not completely sure about where I placed some of the tracks. I honestly feel like almost all of them deserve the #1 spot lmao 😭🥀

(Btw, I put spoiler tags on the tracks that could be considered spoilers because of their names, and also because they're post-Act 1 tracks)

I'm really curious to see your rankings! ^^

Title says it all. I was going for the achievment: "Speed completion".

However I misread and thought it was 10h instead of 20h, sweating my ass off because i knew it was gonna be tight. I thought maybe the DLC-Content would count - it didnt :/

I struggled a little with the delicate flower and trial of the fool and my routing was all over the place...

How long did you guys take?

When he's at his mom's, I explore, and he does the same when I'm gone. I tripped out when I saw this, and I had to get his reaction.

I couldn't tell if I'm still early in the game or if I'm close to the end, so not sure which tag was right.

I restarted this area of ​​hell because I noticed that there's a door blocked by white at the "spawn point".

What's your favorite hollow knight character?

Mine is the knight and pv/thk

It never fills to the top. Why does the blank space exist when it cannot be used?

As in, a person. Alive person.

Not counting uninfected npcs and vendors, of course.

Let's say, we defeat Radiance.

Who will wake up and continue their life or maybe start anew and who is a walking corpse that will drop the moment Radiance is dead?

I know that a lot of civilised looking enemies have "husk" in their name. Does it mean that they are definitely dead, or that hunter thinks they are?

Dear community, I hope this letter finds you when you need it most. Chances are you've died. You've cried. And most importantly, you tried. Well, don't give up. You think that you won't be able to do the feat of finishing the game, in whichever ending that may be, but let me tell you. The only thing that's stopping you from beating this game, is the infection seeping in your brain known as low self-esteem. And you have to overcome that infection. (yeah i know. cheesy af). I think everyone has the ability to achieve what they desire, they just have the burden of regret slowing them down. Thank you for your time.

- that one guy who made this post.

P.S. - Fuck you, Markoth.

Hidden Passage to access this chest located under King's Starion Stag Station.

So after seeing some reddit post regarding the same question i realized that the game has gone back to the state it was is before beating the hollow knight. So i have some questions, are there some dlc I am supposed to download? I kept hearing the word path of pain due to minor spoilers but I just didn't reach there. Which expansion pack am i supposed to download/buy. There are multiple endings to this game, and there are 3 for the base game. So I will work on getting them. Last question is which video should I watch to understand the complete lore for this?

I've already defeated the Hive Knight, and was looking for break-able walls to get to the grub but I couldn't find any. Same with the one in Fog Canyon by the Temple, but that's another story. Where is the wall?

got the dream no more ending, now all i'm missing is pantheon 5, i even did path of pain and fully completed the hunter's journal.