games

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

I 100%'d the game btw, so I did get all the story

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

you shouldnt have a wildly different boss experience

do you consider the Radiance a separate boss or another phase though?

from another player

Max, this is the choice btw

ill play nine cucks at somepoint

You have to 100% the game to unlock the top option btw

yeah, but they don't even indicate that to you

legit

Yeah it's just that I failed to do it because I never went back to the human village, despite them never saying I was supposed to go back again

it shouldnt be one of thsoe things where you need a guide to do it

I'd enjoy it more if they literally lableed it "true ending"

you really don't need a guide for this game at all, it's very linear

aside from the one tiny thing I missed

I did that my accident, because of how lost I was

you 10000% would never figure that out if you didn't use a guide

or were lost for an hour like I was and went to every room

as much as i love it i always think of katana zero locking its very cool secret boss behind doing the most autistic random shit

but i digress

ok Max, I have 3 days to play Grim Dawn now

until what

i dont think three days is enough to really experience it

well just main story probably

is silksong a game that I should finish hollowknight before playing?

wtf Ubi

uh, probably not meaningfully, Silksong is not a direct continuation of Hollowknight

afaik

silksong isn't even on the US switch eshop, but it is on the JP eshop

can't preorder regardless

Yes it is

isn't it a sidestory prequel thing? ik Hollowknight setup for a sequel with some of the mushroom cinematics, but I thought Silksong was literally unrelated to that

Why the fuck would you think that

Mushroom cinematic? You mean the joke Easter egg ending?

You do realize that you’re playing as hornet because the knight dies in every hollow knight ending

Gent, I don't participate in the deep lore Hollowknight sperging that's been on reddit for the last 7 years from what I remember Silksong was Hornets side story shit prior to her coming to Hollownest

and the mushroom thing 100% is a cannon piece of lore

You don’t have to participate in any of that, just don’t make shit up randomly and you’ll be on track with the story