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I liked the boss before her

One of my least favorite areas probably, but I liked the boss fight

The prison stealth section was easily the worst part of the game imo

oh, S-tier theming and arena for sure

and the platforming dream section before it was pretty good too

He was cool, very glad I messed up and wasn't able to nerf him because the challenge wasn't too bad.

I purposefully didn't

felt lame to ruin his fight after all the buildup

I accidentally sold the item because it was sellable haha

It's the only thing in the game that's sellable that has a use

for Lady Ethereal, unless there was some mechanic I missed, it took upwards of 10 minutes to have a run going into her 3rd phase without getting lucky

The final boss took me like a sixth of my total playtime btw

I don't like to say it, but... skill issue. I was able to get through her phases very quickly once I learned the tricks. Very enjoyable.

water form is my favorite thing ever

I think she's the only boss you can't aggro through, and it's a pure parry fight and you wait for openings

she wasn't my least favorite part of the game for context

really? I thought that about the final boss

just that she took a LONG time, I was still generally pretty postive even including her fight

The final boss was the only time in the entire game I kinda just sat still and spammed parry at points because there's nothing else to do with the way she telelports around

final boss didn't give me too much issue, I got to phase 2 first try, and then beat her in 5-10 tries total

erm

Did you, uh, get the true ending

I chose the wrong one

You can go back and do it

I didn't know which was the true one

I'm just going to watch it on YouTube

There's an entire extra third phase

I assume there's not a unique fight

oh...

well then lol

and it's very difficult...

well not really tbh, it's just one new move

maybe I'll go back

idk, I thought the whole last area was a bit of a slog

Yeah I completely agree there

the flesh-parry mechanic was a lame last one

and while I liked some of the story bits

just makes it take longer because you have to wait to parry to actually kill them

most of it was kind of just a rehash

I really liked the story though

damn though, I really assumed the Solarian ending was the better one

since you sorta already helped the apemen

depends on your perspective

the apemen are still being used in the facility to harvest their brains and keep the solarians in stasis

in the solarian ending

not the only one who matters tbh

I did think Yi was going to martyr himself in the end

and was pleasently surprised he didn't

It's not really bad ending/good ending, it's just different really

Althought Yi is essentially an immortal with no hope of saving his people in the Solarian ending. Kinda a despairing end.

I think my core issue is that most of the advance combat mechanics and character upgrades still result in the game playing slowly which (for a metroidvania) tends to lean the other way here you get a huge health pool and stalling tech, and while I like parrying when you want to run back through areas and clear out the 1-2 chests you missed it's not super satisfying

Were you ever using water form?

no

setting/art were very good, and I'll admit I did get a bit lost at a couple points figuring out exactly how to progress in the aztec cave area not solving the puzzles, but figuring out exactly what random key item I was missing

IMO using water form, I was able to play fairly aggro. I still had to parry obviously, but I was constantly moving. Again, until the final boss where water form is essentially worthless and I was forced to take it slow.

yeah, I was unlocking those stance nodes last (other than the Qi upgrade one)

I read all the upgrades and then hard rushed water immediately

probably should have done that lol

my gut was to rush the 3-strike dmg increase, since that was the only sword upgrade visible at first

which turned out to be a mistake lol

yeah...

I spent most of my time fighting bosses in the air haha, so no 3-strike combos for me

you know

since that's how I played the entrity of Hollowknight it feels like

I'd 1000% have enjoyed that more

I also played Hollow Knight hyper aggressively. The second I unlocked shadow dash, I just spammed that to stay behind the enemies and spam attacks. Makes it very fun.

also, idk if this is a China thing or what

but I really liked the brain fish

I didn't realize it until I met the 3rd or 4th one

I'm not really sure why I bothered saving them all

same

wasn't really that expensive tbf

I kept expecting one to be 4k rather than 400, or for them to increase

kinda like Hollowknight map prices are

true endings lockign boss phases will always

ALWAYS be gay and retarded

^

true endings should always just be an extra boss

not a phase

that's fair