>as many bosses as its predecessor plus all DLC>more enemy types>you can sprint>multiple fighting styles that affect how you approach the game>healing is riskier but stronger>charms replaced with trinkets and crafted ninja-ish items>ShawAlready GOTY.
what is shaw and why should i be excited for it?
No boobies no buy
>>719581056ADINO
Does she still ADIDO and HAGALE and GETGU
>>719580616i get filtered hard by the troon coded artstyle
>>719580616>girlboss protag who dont need no manWoke trash.
>>719580616I dont know . I just started hollow knight, it wasn't as fun as I remember.Im not sure a clone will have high reception in 2025.It will sell well and be big, just not sure we will be talking about it 3 years from now like Astrobot or Hades.
>>719581998>codedFalse-flagging troon.
>>719582068She's technically a demigod by lineage, not some random female who's strong just because she's a girl.
>>719580616SEX WITH MY GIRLFRIEND (male), PHANTOM, WHILST HORNET WATCHES.
>>719581829RUSA KALIMO
>>719582242Huh?
>>719581056GARANAhttps://youtu.be/71gVMmYvuZc?si=fHNa9oZ25gVGIz1y&t=19
>>719582068>you can sprintI am vindicated for being so assmad about how dash spamming is fucking ass in Metroidvanias, especially Hollow Knight. Super Metroid solved this before it was a problem. It's about time one of these indie devs realized that if the fastest way to move in a straight line outside of special abilities is spamming the same input over and over you should just make running forward faster instead. Hopefully they also took the lesson from Super that you should start with enough movement mechanics to be fun in the first hour, not 5-10 hours in before you even get something as basic as a fucking walljump.
>>719582863Nintendo, hire this man!
>>719580616*Sigh*
>>719582508The Pale King wanted Herrah the beast, the leader of the spiders in deepnest to be one of his dreamers. She said, sure, as long as you give me a child first.Hornet is the daughter of The Pale King and Herrah the beast. So she is half-pale being.If you've talked to hornet in the abyss before killing herrah, she even shows up to mourn.
>>719583191Was the pale king the dragon?
>>719583408The pale king was the big worm in the bottom right of the map. He shed his former self and became the little white dude you find in the throne room of White Palace shortly after arriving in hallownest.
>>719583408Basically yes, some kind of god worm.
>>719583685*wyrm
>>719583552>>719583685Cool, Im curios where they could possibly take the lore from here as everything got tidied up.
>>719580616Nah
>>719583408He married the horniest, most fertile bitch in the kingdom, who gladly let him butcher her kids by the thousands in exchange for more cock.I don't entirely see how murdering thousands of his seed ended up creating void to possess a vessel.
>>719583042milquetoast hollyjew bait has a better chance, yes
>>719583810It's another kingdom. much like darksouls does different kingdoms each game.
>>719584009Basically they had to do rituals and raise it without any love or empathy.
>>719580616How big is she relative to an erect penis?
I'm not gonna play a game with a female protagonist
>>719584936Not even a pahjeet's would fit.
>>719585117>never played Super MetroidSad
>>719580616Overpriced
>>719584009>I don't entirely see how murdering thousands of his seed ended up creating void to possess a vessel.It didn't. The void existed before the Pale King established Hallownest. He just experimented with it and tried to use it for his own ends.
>>719580616>Booted up nightmare Grimm/Pure Vessel/Absolute radiance earlier today and beat them with easeThey aren’t that hard. Now Eigong, that’s a hard fight
>>719580616The amount of bosses in the original Hollow Knight + DLC was overkill, and I actually think the DLC massively missed the point of the original game
>>719582459GIT GUD
>>719588602>content is... le BAD
>>719588602>The point What point would that be?
>>719588602Even though all the dlc bosses were great, combat isn’t really hollow knights forte, you don’t have many options
>>719580616Nah.I was sick of HKNIGHT by the end of it, I don't see any reason to play SKONG.
>>719588742repetition is bad, quit while you're ahead
Are they going to make a Zote game after Silksong?
>>719584009He didn't kill the kids to make it, the void already existed as the black ocean underneath his palace, rather he had every single one of his newborn children chug gallons of the stuff until he got lucky and one of them didn't die.
I played through Hollow Knight misreading "Hallownest" as "Hollowness" until almost the end of the game. I got mad at myself for that because Hallownest is actually such a perfectly descriptive name for this setting's history and I've been missing it, and Hallowed is one of my favorite words and concepts.
>>719589273I thought he just threw the eggs into the abyss and let nature take its course. The knight recovers his memory in the "birthplace" after all.
>>719589217It didn't meet that particular funding goal in the kickstarter, so probably not
>>719589484Neither did the Colosseum of Fools, and yet...
>>719589484Neither did the second playable character (Hornet).
>>719589432>misreading "Hallownest" as "Hollowness"That must have been confusing.
>>719580616I wish it were more akin to castlevania than metroid and had real rpg crap like leveling and alternate weapon typescan imagine playing a 50 hour game again where you have 1 attack and just jump
>>719589580It did. That anon somehow grabbed an outdated screenshot from somewhere.https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/11662585/hollow-knight
>>719589448The process is never shown, you just see the corpses falling from above as you climb up, nad the sign at the entrance referes to them as "refuse". Plus the king experimented with void in his palace workshop.I think he most likely filled them up with void in the palace and then dumped the corpses into the abyss.
>>719589562well they didnt do anything past the 3 fights, barely 1 boss and no mystery although im sure that entire idea just became godhome>>719589573it did, screen is outdated
>>719589580Kind of. I have a bad habit of skimming over names in games because I think reading it carefully every time is repetitive.
overrated flash game
>>719589718oops meant for>>719589573
>>719589217Do we know what the dusk knight was supposed to be?
>>719589217I hope not. Maybe Silksong will have a new breakout character to make a game about.
>>719589883the white palace guards are based on the concept
>>719589893>Hollow Knight: A Nuu AdventureI'd fund it.
>>719590009I love this little nigga like you wouldnt believe
>>719589883they didnt deliver on some stuff, kingsmould is pretty much king's golem + dusk knight combinedthere is also a furry buying the 1500$ pack which lets him design an entire village, unless he isnt actually deranged and he came up with mantis village im pretty sure he got scammed
>>719589718>>719589752My bad. But I still wonder if they're going to keep making games that take place in the Hollow Knight universe after their success.
>>719590009So does he try and sexually harass everyone or just hornet?
>>719590242>he
>>719580616My cute daughter
>>719590009>hallownest snails are ancient mysterious soul wizards>pharloom snails are this fucking guy
>>719590414no void in pharloom
>>719590238They would be fools not to. They can just announce that they're doing another one, and boom they're employed for another 10 years.
>>719590797They trademarked the name "Fearless Fox" a couple years ago which doesn't exactly sound Hollow Knight related. I think they might want to try their hands at something else next.
>>719590312Snails are hermaphrodites like Namekians so they're functionally male by default until they lose the swordfight and have to be the female.
>going camping the day after it launches>get to Play silksong while chilling by the fire or comfy in my tent.can't wait.
>>719582242>falling for baitstop being autistic
>>719590319I hope someone makes a mod where Hornet wears this, that's pretty.
>>719590982I would have to be mad to fall for the bait. I was just lore dumping for the sake of balance.
>>719591096>I would have to be mad to fall for the baitnot how it works
>>719591515It is now.
>>719589742I interpreted the falling vessels as failing in an attempt to escape the abyss, not being dumped from above. After all our own knight had just barely reached the top before being sealed in and falling back down. And the lore stone outside says "Our pure Vessel has ascended." It almost seems like PK just took the first vessel to reach the top. I'm not sure how effective a measure of determining hollowness that is, but hey.
fully completed hk before gods & glory, havent played since. replaying now for the first time in nearly 7 years before silksong and this game is still such fucking kino
>>719588815Great atmosphere, characters and story, not a boss rushNever played godhome but I don't mind, it's a cool extra feature
>>719583191I thought Midwife was Hornet's motherWho's Midwife then?
>>719590797>15 mil copies sold for a 3 man teamAnon even without silksong they're probably so filthy rich that "employed" isn't really a meaningful concept here. It's purely a matter of whether they want to or not.
What the fuck was up with godhome? Was the one on the throne literally just god?
>>719590669There literally is, however. The steel assassins appear to be void.
>>719593943No. She's just a giant fucking simp
>>719593832>A midwife is a health professional who cares for mothers and newborns around childbirth, a specialisation known as midwifery.Also here's hornet's diaglogue when you kill Herrah.>So you've slain the Beast... and you head towards that fated goal.>I'd not have obstructed this happening, but it caused me some pain to knowingly stand idle.>...What? You might think me stern but I'm not completely cold.>We do not choose our mothers, or the circumstance into which we are born. Despite all the ills of this world, I'm thankful for the life she granted me.>It's quite a debt I owed. Only in allowing her to pass, and taking the burden of the future in her stead, can I begin to repay it.
>>719593832Midwife is a profession not a name. Midwives assist with the labor and birthing process. She would've been Herrah's servant.
>>719593943Her name is godseeker, she wanted to find the real god by watching extremely powerful beings beating the shit out of each other
>>719593943The gods in HK really like to have attention. The godseekers are like the opposite of that. They really like to give gods attention. They came to Hallownest seeking out the remnant of the Pale King's light, but he was dead so they focused on the player instead. The thing is, their attention actually grants power to beings as well. During the final pantheon, they finally take notice of (you). This is why the Knight becomes the Shade Lord when you beat the Radiance in the hearts and minds of the Godseekers.At least, that's how I understand it.
>can't play Silksong until I beat Hollow Knight>Hollow Knight is too difficult to beatthis is fucking bullshit
>>719594349> so they focused on the player insteadThe pan B was actually the radiance. They couldn't feel the knight's god power cause he's void
>>719580616>healing is riskier but strongerHealing was already stupidly risky outside of stun phases on harder bosses.
>>719594404Silksong looks like it's shaping up to be a lot harder than HK anyway
>>719594991just don't get hit bro
post your favourite HK image
>>719594404Is not that hard unless you do GodhomeWhich boss is giving you trouble?
>>719594991
>>719595096
>>719594495oops, yeah that was a mistake. They focus on radiance up until you beat the first four pantheons then they think,>wow this lil guy got some sauce
As much as i love godhome the fucking ending ruins the game for me somewhat.The original dream no more ending is just so incredibly perfect in every way.And white flower just takes even more massive dump on it.
>>719583810they say in the lore that anyone who leaves hallownest devolves into a knucklescraping dipshit, because being close to the wyrm is what makes bugs smart or something. so im interested in how they handle that, if they decide to just throw another wyrm in there or have some other explanation for why pharloom isnt full of drooling retards
>>719589742we literally see numerous eggs with black vines connected to it. Hell, we dreamnail our own egg, faggot eyes
they'll cop out and make SS a prequel, suck my nuts
>>719595398The complete ending and the god home ending represent the attitude of the knight in his approach to solving the problem. In the complete ending, the knight regains his memories, reconciles the contrary natures of his being and his history, and collaborates with others to destroy the force of evil for good so that he can return to peaceful sleep. In godhome, the knight chooses instead to transcend his spiritual limitations through relentless ritual combat to the point where he can directly and personally confront the radiance on her own turf and kill her. Rather than wanting to help the world and his kind, he is nearly pathologically obsessed with self improvement and victory. Becoming the shade lord isn't something that just happens, it's the culmination of the knight's diligent efforts and desires to become the baddest motherfucker who ever lived, at all costs.
>>719595534Well pharloom is obviously a religious society.>rosaries>bells>pilgrimsSo there's got to be some sort of Higher Being involved in the story of Silksong.Speaking of Rosaries, remember to pray the Rosary every day or you're not on the team.
man, they was looking rough in the old enginehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2amTl5lBYM
>>719595979Yea but i dont want the story of a knight to be of a selfish cunt just killing everyone on his way
>>719596176Well team cherry didn't say godhome is the canon ending
>>719596034>what 2 years of polish can do to you
>>719596034>hopper niggas in the crossroads
>>719595534I mean we had civilisations before the pale king, presumably either bugs that didn't need the wyrm or other higher beings like the Radiance that can do the same thing as the King. I imagine Pharloom will be a similar story.Also I don't remember but were groups like the deepnest village and the mantis village around before the king?
>>719595534Pale King uplifted *some* bugs to worship him, but clearly there's an element of propaganda to his claims. There were plenty of intelligent bugs around before the Wyrm established Hallownest. The mantises, the moths, the snails, not to mention the mushrooms and green children, though the latter were given mind by Unn.
>>719592085the egg that they all hatched out of is in the abyss and the void is growing into it. So I thought the PK injected void into the egg sac and contaminated all of the future vessels killing them at that time in a super abortion.
>>719588437Absolute Radiance is way harder than Eigong
>>719595991I wonder what they want with Hornet.
>>719595534Only SOME bugs would devolve and become driven only be instinct if they left his light. Those that were already uplifted would only forget about their time in Hallownest, it becoming nothing more then something like a fever dream and this only applies to those that are not higher beings as well. Hornet can come and go as she pleases and not forget.
>>719598164They wanna steal her silk and her song
>>719581998>x-codedtrannoid
>>719589217vita bros...
>>719598164I'm guessing her heritage will be very relevant to the story.
You think our boy the Hollow Knight is going to make an appearance? Or be mentioned at all?
>>719596614Yup. The egg(s) was(were) placed in the Abyss. The Void finds it and digs into it, infecting all of the little bug nymphs inside. They all die, but the VOID gains a body to motivate and move. So after they were born, they all try to move towards the light that is coming from above, with most of them failing to reach it and falling back down, breaking the vessel and coming out as the Shade/Sibling enemy. The only ones to make it to the Pale King were the Hollow Knight and the Knight, but the Knight was unable to pull itself up fully and falls back down. Who knows how the Broken Vessel and the Knight were able to escape from the Abyss with the door closed, but perhaps we will find out the answer in Silksong, if Phantom is any indication.
>>719598712If he doesn't appear in the story, he will appear in a Godhome-like contentEither as boss or hidden content like the Zote room
>>719598759There's a number of vessel shells in Nosk's lair. There was probably another exit from the abyss in deepnest somewhere.
>>719596034oh wow never seen the first games trailers kinda crazy how much it changed
>>719598712even if it doesn't appear in silksong base game.. I still have hope for it in any DLC they do ....
>>719580616Do we think Silksong will 1. Have Grubs? 2. Have something like Grubs? 3. Not have something like Grubs at all?
>>719599168it's absolutely going to have a collectible like that
>>719599168Grubflies
>>719599020>shows up instinctively seeking the light he recognises as family >is berserk due to pain, gotta attack him til he kneels like his boss fight in HK>if you don't follow up with any attacks for a set time after he's downed he comes to his senses and hangs around >if he kills you in the fight, he comes to his senses during the death animation, when you return to the arena he's impaled himself on his own nail out of guilt
>>719598712Maybe hornet will mention/remember them at the Phantom fight as it's obviously an escaped vessel that made it's way to pharloom and grew up there.Speaking of which is hornet a silent protag in this game? I don't remember if she has spoken any lines in any of the trailers
>>719599508She talks back to bosses.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTcAE-V4etw&t=580s
>>719599168 Yes, the game will have fleas, you can see them in the latest trailer.
>>719599508she calls lace a bitch and a whore
>>719599168It's going to have a furry fly like creature as the collection bug now. They will be resting at various parts of the map and you have to interact with them.
>>719599508>>719599634>>719599675
>>719595096soon never to be posted again
Since Hornet was initially conceptualized as a playable DLC character for Hollow Knight. It would be ludo if the Knight ended up a playable DLC character for Silksong.
>>719599941i can't believe we are actually two days away
*sigh* bapanada
>>719580616>le random breakdancing character xDcan someone explain this shit meme
>>719582303BASED AS FUCK
>>719599978i'm sure there will be something like this, including explorable hallownest
>>719600310>game ends with hornet returning to hallownest>it's a kingdom at peace now because of something hornet did at pharloom>pic related ensueskino
>>719599753>>719599675Sexo
>>719599672the fleas are so cute. what horrible thing do you suppose will happen to them when you find them all and they get to the citadel?
>>719601578They jump on a cat
>>719599634Will there be dialogue options?
>>719589742Nice retarded headcanon. Pale king experimented with void and tried to make artificial constructs. Those are the white palace enemies, but they didn't work. Then he somehow made the collector as part of this mess. In desperation he got the slut tree involved and did a salmon strat mass fertile egg bombing of the abyss with their spawn. He took the first kid to rng its way out of the abyss.
Will it run like shit on my PS4 slim?
I don't know, I'm not really interested, first one was boring. Have fun though guys.
>>719598947That or deepnest dwellers or even kingdom's edge dwellers unwittingly or purposefully dug into the abyss.
why is this being so catastrophically shilled?
>>719604872Three aussies just solved videogames
>>719604872probably because it's been hyped for years and it's coming out in a couple days
>>719601578Well, it is more like what horrible thing happens to the one asking you to gather them. Because Team Cherry told us the Grub Father ate them so that the could move on to the next stage of life. They will burst out of the Father, who is acting as a cocoon for them. I'm expecting them to suck the juices out of something that we are unable to get passed, which will give us a new equipment item, either an end game level crest or a tool.
>>719604208Well, the King's Mould did work, it's just that he could only give them basic commands that were etched into the shell. He couldn't get the Void to give them "life". He must have come to the conclusion that he needed life first and then fill it up with Void to get the result that would be needed.
>>719594404In most cases, if you can't win then you can look around for more items to help, or just persevere. There are 5 tiers of nail (and the last nail kills bosses about 5x faster than the first nail), and many charms. The fast attack and no attack knockback charms increase your damage output massively. You can also go looking for more masks.
>>719581056It's Hornet's kiai
>>719595534There were bug societies that lived in hallownest long before the pale king arrived, I'm pretty sure this is just a mix of propaganda and the fact that most of the pale king's followers are idiot animal bugs he gave sentience and made into his mindslaves.
>>719599508>Speaking of which is hornet a silent protag in this game?nah, she talks
>>719581056HEGALE
>>719584025>milquetoastSurely you can use and read a dictionary, right?
yeah but is the knight an hidden boss?
>>719581056
>>719589217no, they're making fox game next
Will Hornet talk in the new game?
velmi artrid
>>719617347Part of the main plot is that her voice was stolen by the Pharloom bugs and she has to get it back. She's as silent as The Knignt.
>>719600275>BASED AS FUCK
>>719617817Dangit, you spoiled meMy fault for going in this thread
>>719580616I hope it isntI hope it fails.I dont even have anything against the game, we just need a martyr to wake people up to long dev cycles and announcing shit too early, and this is the most prime subject for that.Yes i know they were "doing it with no fincancial pressure", that does not change it. If the game is truly your "passion" project then you can just shadowdrop it or announce it by release, and people need to see that.
>>719599168what if instead of grubs you collected different types of underwear hornet could wear haha just as a joke
>>719580616Idk if I'll like the "Super Meat Boy" spike hallways. That put me off on Hollow Knight and it looks like it'll do the same for Silksong
>>719599941Gone
>>719618630>NOOOOO YOU CANT JUST TAKE YOUR TIME DEVELOPING A GAME I NEED IT NOW REEEEEEEEEEEElmao why are zoomers like thisget ritalin or something
>>719580616I could be worried over nothing but I have a feeling the devs will not able to replicate the kino world of the first game. I don't know enough about Pharloom yet but Hallownest and the Vessels and that whole setting and its atmosphere are just so compelling, I have doubts whether Pharloom can match it.
>replay hk before silksong is out>somehow manage to get double jump before dream nail due to not remembering much of the world layoutHoly kino the sheer non-linearity is still as amazing as eve
I want to like Hollow Knight, because it does everything I like in a game>Challenge>Exploration>Great lore>Good musicBut for some reason the complete package does fuck all for me. Maybe I'll need to give it another go someday.
>>719582068She need a man (human) to fertilize her eggs
>>719619792From the trailers, it will be more colorful, at least. Hollownest desperately needed some more color variation. White, brown, greyish blue and green can only get you so far.
>>719618630It's going to sell really well. Your hope is misplaced.
>Still just another 2D metroidvaniaOhSorryNot for me
Seems like more of the same. Why are people excited or this? Just checking between the 2 trailers of Hollow Knight and Silksong, the only really noticeable difference is that Silksong looks a little more colorful and just a little more enemy variety and bosses than the previous game.
>>719620862
>>719581056Angry Hornet noise.GIT GUD
>>719620862>Seems like more of the same. Why are people excited or this?Because it's more of the same and they liked the original?
>>719580616HK ended up being a boring slog and so will this
So what is the Abyss? That's the only part I don't really get. It's just something that was always there before the Radiant and King had their squabble, right? How does the Abyss enter the dream? Through player character?
>>719621562Oil.
>>719621601Oh yeah?
>>719621618
>>719621647After Hornet pins down the Hollow Knight, and you use the dream nail on him (to enter the dream world), during the fight the abyss rises up from the bottom and then both you and HK get Abyss forms to defeat it.
>>719621749Yeah I remembered the second I postedDunno, the knight is void, so probably through him. The void just seems to be some kind of primordial force the pale knight was playing with
SHAW
>>719580616So it's basically the same game. Got it. Won't be wasting my time again.>>719621562> So what is the Abyss?The story or "lore" is all copied from Dark Souls so just go play that. I'm not sure if that would help you understand better, but might as well go to the source.
>>719622021
>>719622058Nah
>>719621562the Abyss is much older than Hallownest. the ancient civilization of creatures who lived there long before the PK even worshipped it
>>719620021However beast's den is still as disappointing as ever, massive letdown. Also what is pic related supposed to be
>>719622338I had that question during my replay too. I thought it was one of the dreamers for a few minutes.
>>719622240Then read the wiki if you're too busy to play a real game. https://darksouls.fandom.com/wiki/Abyss
>>719622539You slow or what
I find it interesting that in HK you descend while its apparently going to be the opposite in Silksong, you keep going up.
>>719622783Oh shit.>End of the game, you reach the surface.What sort of creature are you gonna fight on the surface?
>>719622858An unfathomable horror that the bug mind cannot even begin to comprehend from the sheer primordial fear it instills into them, a monstrosity that makes even the pale wyrm seem like meager prey in comparison.
>>719622858>Gods of Thunder & Rain
>>719622968
So is it a prequel or not? TC said all endings were canon, so how the fuck does that work? How could Sealed Siblings proceed to Silksong if Hornet is now the dreamer sealing the Black Egg, while inside the Black Egg?
>>719622858>get to the top>it's the land of the storms>you find Godseeker and have pantheon party volume 2
>>719582863Using well placed tricks and techniques > sprinting > dash spammingIt's fun when for optimal traversal you have to actively engage with your environment to keep you from zoning out
>>719623473nobody will ever know, they'll make it as ambiguous as possible and have no connections to the first gameI'd like to be wrong and I hope there's some twist at the end however
>>719623473R u okay retard?
>>719580616>female protagDropped
>>719623473Yeah, it's impossible for all of the endings to be canon. They're just not gonna address it.
>>719622858I want to fight a human. Just the sheer size and spectacle of a bug going against a human would be insane. A human is probably like an absolutely cosmic horror in the eyes of an insect. Gameplay-wise, it could probably work like God of War 3, when Kratos fought Cronos.
>>719580616this is the only game on this board whose shilling works on me. probably because i dont play many metroidvanias.
51 hours an 34 minutes remaining.
>>719623687Why?
>>719623830Real men don't play as women
>>719623762>NOOOOOO STOP TALKING ABOUT GAMES ON MY /V/!!!!!!Retarded psycho fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWquuWkHVP4
>>719623710Human is too much. A bird should be that. A bug shouldn't be able to comprehend the size of a human.
>>719623854How so?
Would the first ending actually seal Radiance for good? Unlike the "pure" vessel, the knight does actually seem to not have any bonds strong enough to get himself corrupted
>>719623928I don't think so, but I don't think that's the canon ending.
>>719623854Then you shouldn't have any issues with the game.
>>719623926If you were a real man you'd know
>>719623971Real men don't play video games.
YOUR MAJESTY! HAVE FAITH IN ME!
>>719624009That's where you're wrong, you failed the trial Jimmy, now go play with your barbie dolls.
>>719624096You aknowledged thst you're not a real man. I accept your concession.
>>719624135Oh the old "no u" switcharoo, not gonna work on a real man sonny.
Why is everyone outside this place calling Hornet a lesbian?
>>719624256LGBTQIAAP+ insist every single character from every franchise they like is one of them.
>>719623968kek destroyed that discordtroon
>>719624256Because mentally ill people have taken over most online social spaces, largely thanks to the fact that no one is allowed to criticize them.
>>719624330Just how /pol/c/v/cks insist everything is hetero and for (you)?
>>719624256Enemies to lovers in Silksong.
>>719624380Shut up faggot, you wouldn't even be born to spout your idiocy if you didn't have a MOTHER and FATHER. Ungrateful shit.
>>719624224Concession accepted. You shouldn't be posting during your classes, you know.
>>719624380yes, we are the same coin. you choose your bubble. nobody cares about the truth, everyone wants to be pandered to.
>>719624458>I reject reality and substitute my ownTypical tranny behavior, have fun playing your favorite lesbian bug game little man.
>>719624457But not everything is hetero.
Which characters do you want to return?
>>719624548Playable Hollow Knight. Knight can retire, I never was fond of the idea of playing as a deformed big-headed baby.
>>719624538>hollow knight>male protag>lesbianLmao, you stupid and clearly underage
>>719624698>thinks I'm talking about the old gameClinically braindead
>>719624256(me)Okay, i got some replies but not a real answer. Is there some canon reason why people think Hornet is a lesbian?
>2 more days
>>719624747just shipfags projecting their faggotry
>>719624747go back to twitter and stay there
>>719589592That's why I think Hollow Knight is good, but not great. Once you learn how to micro jump and slash for the quickest damage, you've figured out the main attack form for the entire game. If you've played metroidvanias before, you'll know this within the first couple fights. It's much too long for such a basic combat system.
>>719624831>you lived long enough for zoomers to tell you to go backI met your mom on /soc/, gurl
>>719624409Which is a headcanon.
>>719624741>ayyyeee laddy, no true scottsman, ayyyyeeRetard
>>719625197soc wasn't even a thing when i started browsing this shithole lil mannow go back and stay there
>>719624256>>719624747Because one of her main rivals revealed in the demo is a sassy fencer girl with an equally cute design. That's it. There's no implied romance or anything of the sort, people just thought there potentially COULD be an enemies-to-lovers arc in the game and fixated on shipping the two, even though as it stands their dynamic is just one wanting to kill the other.
>>719625248You're like those ailens from blindsight, you say a bunch of words correctly but you have no idea what they actually mean.
>>719625260I still met your mom on /soc/, girlie
>>719625430>aayyyeee, no sugar in porridge laddyy
>>719625229Which was me having a laff
>>719625361yeah, the devs knew what they are doing.
>>719580616>The literal exact same gameAlready dogshit
>>719625478off-model garbage
>>719625518But enough about metroid.
>>719625558More like>but enough about [insert any nintendo game made after 90's]
>>719625478>artists already in overdriveSo that's why /pol/c/v/cks are seething so much
>>719625657Dykes have the highest divorce % by far. Turns out mental illness and daddy issues are unhealthy.
>>719625478off-model masterpiece
>>719625819What does that have to do with lesbian bugs?
>>719625819Think I give a shit? Two girls making out is hot.
>>719626314No
I remember trying to replay Hollow Knight a year or so ago and for some reason I got really annoyed in the green area, I think, and stopped playing. Despite the fact I remember really enjoying the game. Hopefully I detoxed myself from whatever was making me salty, so I can just enjoy this game.
>>719626487Greenpath is for some reason the dullest part of the game, until you reach the first hornet fight and learn dash
>>719626531>for some reasonFor me specifically it's because the game doesn't open up until after greenpath which is a mostly linear affair until you learn dash. Forgotten crossroads is much more non-linear from the start
>>719626487Hollow knight is one of those games that has atmosphere, but feels really fucking dull until you get your basic movement and combat upgrades. This is what makes replaying the game feel like a chore for me, until you progress a bit.
>>719580616I can't wait to play this without engaging in any /v/ complaint threads and just enioy it for what it is
>>719626772Based
>>719622783So like Metroid Dread
>>719627253was that a good game btw? never hear anybody talk about it
>>719627284Only people shilling it are those suffering from buyer's remorse
>>719627284Yeah it was fun. Shame the music was so forgettable. Very satisfying to control and a surprising amount of sequence breaks for a modern game
>>719627284It was good only shitters got filtered by the emmi's though
>>719626314k-kino..
>>719580616>still lazy “indie” art direction that makes you not want to touch the game.
>>719622338Weaver king
>>719580616I thought OG needed a few more bosses actually. I remember going through several locations where I was expecting a boss and nothing happened like the spider lair.
>>719629218after all the dlc i think the only two places that are really missing a boss are the spider lair like you said and end of kingdoms edge where iirc you get the key for godhome
>voidgod has 8 eyes thus is a spider>hornet is half spider>spiders create silksay hello to the final boss
>>719580616Sounds like a bunch of shit indie devs promise and underdeliver
>>719580616Why is Hornet obsessed with these shoes?
>>719629496Pretty obvious void is returning in some form
>>719622338Trilobyte. Primordial bug
>>719624256You know how this whole board is full of midget mutts who get mindbroken anytime they see any woman and start sperging out about muh girlbosses muh black racemixxing muh porn? twitter is just the inverse of that where they get similarly mindbroken at the sight of men. they're just two sides of the same autistic unlovable never-gonna-breed gremlin schizo coin.
>>719596034It's literally the same though, just the framerate is worse, and some effects are slightly different>nu-/v/ thinks improving a game's framerate is some epic feat of optimization
>>719625478Letting them both fall in love and get married and then kidnapping them to rape them in forced threesome until they both fall in love with my as my devoted harem wives.
>>719629763This. They should have just released it on the old engine instead of turning it into unity slop. The unity physics and particle effects objectively drag the game down, and the framerate/animation would have been fixed with time and polish. Hollow Knight and Silksong only took this long because Team Cherry are lazy nodevs who rely on plugins to add more fake complexity to the visuals so you think you're looking at something more impressive than it actually is. The vignette adds nothing to the game for example.
>>719629763? There's a lot of differences>music>backgrounds>effects>hoppers and lumaflies in the crossroads>Myla's dialogue >whole fucking different map layoutWould be cool to play like a beta version of the game.
>>719629529>Excessive aggresion>Hangs out in the ruins of a dead kingdom>Talks in gibberish>Obsessed with adidasHornet is russian
I've got it all planned out bros>24h before release, leave /v/ and youtube>Wednesday evening, stock up on food>Thursday morning, show up to work early>Thursday afternoon, go to a meeting that will last until about 4PM>When meeting end, go straight home>Godwilling I'll be able to crank 4-5 hours before bed>Already put in a vacation day on Friday anyway
>>719630519I can assure you that with my guidance, Hornet's special military operation to Pharloom will last 3 days *at most*
It's funny seeing Xbox advertise this game so heavily, like they're begging people to not forget Game Pass. Game Pass loses its appeal when getting to keep Silksong in your library forever costs like, $6 extra lmao
>>719630554I should’ve taken Friday off. I still might be able to if I wanted, but I prefer to ask the week before.
>>719580616I took work off for the week just to play this nonstop the moment it launches. I haven't been this excited to play a game in years
>>719632967I saw a theory that Silksong is only $20 because MS begged TC not to price it any lower. Probably BS, but funny to imagine.
>>719633102I quit my job. Not purely because of Silksong, but it was a factor.
>>719580616The fact that they addressed the most important issue (movement speed) from the first game means it will mog hollow knight so hard you can't even imagine. Hollow Knight was such a shit game to navigate, I have more hours spent in godhome than in the actual game because only the fights were interesting. Really glad Silksong understood
ONE day, 23 hours, 47 minutes
I changed my loadout to confirm this theory and now I can say with absolute confidence, sisters of battle? Pure vessel? Nightmare Grimm? Absolute radience? EASY. BABY SHIT, IF YOU STRUGGLE AT THESE FIGHTS, YOU ARE SHIT
It's called SICK LEAVE.I got until Tuesday 5am to play. Thanks Doc.
>>719630171Wonder if such a build even exists
>>719629496This really makes you think
>>719580616kill yourself along with your stupid trannie meme
>>719634470Stop letting trannies get away with claiming everything. You just let them.
>>719580616>as many bosses as its predecessor plus all DLCI replayed through the Pantheons and fully half the bosses or more are fucking garbage. And I don't mean Pure Vessel, Pure Vessel and all the main boss fights are good, I mean those dogshit ghost warrior fights and fucking King Vengefly and all that "float around and throw trash at you" bullshit. Pantheon 5 could've been half as long, still been exactly as hard and just not wasted your time pretending these are real fights. I don't want more trash please, especially because you know they're going to cram a bossrush mode into this one too.>you can sprintYou stacked charms for like 1.6 run speed in the original, I kinda wish that was just a flat upgrade though. There's a lot of charms that just should've been upgrades. Maybe all of them because they don't matter or change that much. Oh cool 1.1 nail length how will I survive without this critical loadout the bindings are surely insurmountable.
>>719622968>>719622981>>719623125This makes sense, too much sense. I could easily see Team Cherry making the final boss of Pharloom a bird that made its nest in the bell tower.
>>719623928Possibly. The problem wasn't just that the Hollow Knight couldn't contain the Radiance properly because it had emotions that could be manipulated by the dream. It was also that the Radiance was getting stronger as the years went on because of the rage it felt at being forgotten. With the Radiance even more powerful then it was when the Hollow Knight sealed it, the Knight might still only be delaying the inevitable of the Radiance breaking out of the shell.
>>719633237>MS pays TC who knows how much to get their super mega hyped-up game on Game Pass>It sells for $20 so most people are just going to buy it instead of bothering with game passLOOOOOOOOOL
>>719580616Will the switch version have input lag?
I'm a Saudi Prince who has given the developers a few million dollars of pocket change and a handful of sports cars and I have good news! The game will be fully voice-acted by professional voice actors and all NPCs now speak English. No more insect gibberish! Team Cherry has the budget now after all.By my wishes, Hornet is voiced by Jennifer English and the returning Hollow Knight is voiced by Troy Baker. You are all welcome, my friends.
>>719636843ofc it will.dogshit console.
>>719582303Team Cherry should BTFO fags and troons by making Hornet get with this guy.
>>719580616>nobody questions all this shit>meanwhile Silksongfags were throwing a tantrum the other day about a claim that the game was shortYou are the Deltarunefags of the metroidvania genre.
>>719580616Too little too late
>>719594404Just be patient.
I'm afraid Hornet's craftable traps will be gay and tedious and not worth it just like craftable consumables in 99% of all games.
>>719637018Source?
>>719637007>guy
>>719637236Hopefully you craft them once and then they recharge at benches.
>>719637590They'll recharge by defeating enemies.Defeated enemies drop spools of silk.Said silk recharges your spool.
>>719637709why are there spools of silk inside enemies
>>719637920They're cleaning themselves by swallowing a piece of string like Robert Crumb's crazy brother in that documentary
think the game will actually support 16:10 on 'eck? I can't really think of any metroidvanias that do outside of both Ender games
>>719638651isn't the deck 16:9
>>719637920The enemies are made of silk.
>>719638818No, it's 16:10, so most games have black bars.
>>719637920It's just an abstraction. Hornet eats them and uses the energy to make more silk.
Hornet has a huge bug futa cock.
>>719627284it was fun, although it's a bit linear in places, the story segments are kinda boring and the environmental design isn't much to write home about, the controls, combat and bosses feel great though>>719627775emmis are a massive disappointment, they're all stuck to their little play pens so they barely feel like a threat and you pretty much fight them all in the same way
>>719639523>It's just an abstractionFirst game took Soul pretty seriously, to where hitting constructs (Siblings, the Uuma) or armor (False Knight) didn't generate any.
>>719639707hornet is a spider and thus the steals life energy from her targets to make her precious silk
>>719639707Well we don't know that every enemy generates silk. First game also still had money popping out of every wild animal.
>>719581056He's one of the best players ever.
>>719599168
>>719639883>named hornet>spider???
>>719640474Blame the devs
>>719640559there's actual spiders in the game [weavers] that look nothing like hornet though, and she has 2 arms/legs. although she does have the silk stuff going on.. is she a bipedal sex spider
>>719640709oh nvm she's part spider part wyrm, whatever that is
>>719640474Original concept was she was born to Herrah, raised by the White Lady, and trained in combat by the hive queen, who named her. That last part is of questionable canonicity though.>>719640709She's a hybrid. Her mother was a spider. Her father, the Pale King. Higher being genetics obviously dominate. She still wears traditional weaver garb though.
>>719640923i wanna have romantic sex with her
>>719640796>part wyrm, whatever that isA god and a dragon and a bug and also the world. One of those creation myths.Which sounds like total Donut Steel territory but she's just kind of a shitty version of the knight.
>>719637920Hornet gets off on violence and that makes her secrete more silk
>>719636984Ok?How about a non biased post
>>719589217>Challenge mode>You play as Zote>You have to do a playthrough and obey all 57 preceptsKINO
>>719640923I bet that her arms and legs can split apart to allow her to skitter properly. Lace calls her a Spider, so I am not going to question it.
>>719580616>as many bosses as its predecessor plus all DLCbut will they actually be good this time? Or will the majority of them be filler dogshit with one attack again?
>>719641818name a single boss with one attack
>>719641818I hope I never see Gorb or Markoth-tier bosses ever again
>>719641818So far everything looks fairly complex, even Moss Mother has 3 attacks.
>>719641818idk I'll let you know soon
>>719589217I don't want to play as Zote. I want to finish the trilogy of all 3 siblings and play a third game as the titular Hollow Knight.
>>719641906please get back to me as soon as possible
>>719641910There's a few more than just 3 siblings.
>>719641818Hope so, I would be disappointed if I have to wait for DLC yet again to get another Pure Vessel/NKG fight
>>719641968Ok but it is pretty commonly teased that the 3 main ones are the Knight, Hornet and the Hollow Knight
>>719641173ofc it will.dogshit devs.
>>719641968Yeah but they're all DEAD
chances of my goat returning?
>>719642461Horrifically bad payoff for a horrifically bad sidequest.
>>719642514i just like bestiaries in games man
>>719642619I can't see Silksong not having one of some kind.
>>719642461What kind of bug is he?
>>719641985For me it's Sisters of Battle. They struck the perfect balance with relentless boss aggression but exactly as many punish windows. No 20-second-long keepaway thumb-up-your-ass attacks like the Pufferfish or double-damage memes needed. Loved the battle pacing.
>>719598759Wasn't there a small cutscene somewhere that had the knight and all the other vessels in the abyss, and then a light starts to shine from above
What's up with the masks? The bugs are cute without masks, like midwife
>>719643090Antlion?
>>719643090Bugchaser.
>>719637709Hitting enemies gives silk like soul. Enemies drop shards which are used for regenerating tools
For me, it's Paintmaster Sheo.Every attack has a distinct animation and color attached to it; has many attacks.Aggressive but always open to retaliation from the player.Tough but fair.
>>719643462Pft
>>719641865The dream caterpillar in queens garden
>>719643531All the nailmaster fights were really good. I liked that Oro and Mato sync a punish if you're caught between them instead of just continuing their regular pattern, so you can actually predict/respond/bait it on purpose. Hollow Knight does group fights really well in general. I wish Sheo and Oro/Mato got suped up faster versions in Pan 5 to be on par with Sly, after PK/NKG/White Defender etc a lot of the fights feel like slow motion.
>>719643787MARMUUUUUUU
>>719625657>trying this hard
>>719641865>name a single boss with one attackI can name a boss with 0.
>>719643989She was a spooky one
Will HE retvrn?
>>719643989What was the lore with this shit anyways? Did they rip out their own eyes and fill the sockets with void to try to stop from becoming infected?
>>719644168Mr. Mushroom is the weirdest character in the game
>>719644176Basically. And that's the censored version, Backer was a total edgelord.
>>719634326>It's called SICK LEAVENo such thing in Burgerstan.
>>719590009https://www.youtube.com/watch/-VeUOUpTpLoIs this true, yo?
>>719644894weird, this stuff called “sick leave balance” that I can see in my timesheet must just be my imagination then
>>719634860Yeah it's obvious they had no idea what to do with the charm system and just gimped your default character for like half of them. Is the world really going to end if auto collecting geo is a default or upgrade passive
It'll be funny if it is.
>>719643989the dream bosses are user-designed and don't count, and yes most of them are ass
>>719645380A simple apology isn't going to cut it missy!
>>719590009*Ahem*Would.
>>7196191591 area towards the end of the game thats only needed if youre going for the true end put you off the entire game?... this post seems a bit disingenuous. I am accusing you of never actually playing the game. You will see a letter from my lawyer within a week
>>719619159They said that wanted to do more platforming segments and with Hornet being more acrobatic than the knight, they probably will.
>>719598947Never noticed this, but doesn't Nosk look like infected void creature?
>>719589217Only a 6K gap for the best feature on the game and they didn't make it...
>>719646515nah it’s just another infected deepnest nasty bug
>>719645312Hopefully the "alternate fighting styles" thing will be a more refined version of that, grouping charm effects into equips that actually significantly change things and just giving you the QoL passives. Otherwise there's no reason to not just stick with the passives.
>>719582620fucking age of mythology greek sounding ass>PROSTAGMA?
>>719645204>>719645380bros she loves us...
>>719647567
>>719644636What did the original one look like?
>>719648182The original concept was that the knight tore out her own eyes so she wouldn't have to look at the infected children killing her, and her fight concept was going to be killing several waves of infected children while the knight's lullaby had clues on their next spawn direction. Which I would've preferred over the bossfight in retrospect because that fight is ass.
No charm system? I'm going to miss it, I love my Paper Mario badges.
>>719580616Lol
>>719648582They have an effective replacement anyway. Crests give you slots to fill with tools and each Crest gives you a different play style. So rather then having to change up your entire slots to get a certain way of doing things, you just equip a crest and it not only gives you some stuff by default, but it also has different slots for tools. Throwing knives, knife bundles, drill, explosives, helper bots. All of those are different tools that we can use on many different crests.
>>719645204you are gonna get in trouble, anon.
jump slop
Okay, but controller or Keyboard+Mouse?Is there any practical difference for this game?
>>719580616>have to stop playing every 10 minutes to jack offthis game gonna take hundreds of hours to beat
>>719649234I'm a little skeptical it will scratch the same itch, I like thinking about BP/Notch cost and the difference between small, inexpensive vs big, expensive Badges/Charms. But if the crests actually give you different moves to use then sounds like I'm at least getting something good in return. I'll personally be hoping for a long-range melee weapon moveset, loved the nail range charms.
>>719649925Controller. It heavily uses non-cardinal direction inputs and push-weight for its character controller, I'd recommend using a gamepad joystick, it's not a d-pad game at all. Doable without but White Palace, and Silksong's equivalent, is going to be annoying as hell.
>>719650240I played with a d-pad throughout Hollow Knight EVERY time, there is no analog anything in the game.
>>719648552Holy edgeKINO
>>719648125Move over Arkantos I'm going to polish my spear to perfection with this.
>>719650240what the fuck are you talking about, using the analog stick is the worst thing you can do
>>719639675Imagine we got Mario Wonder but all New Super Mario Bros games didn't happen after the first. So overall it's a good but not great game, but thats more than enough after over a decade of no new game and even longer with no mainline game
>>719650230I think that will be the Claw Crest for you then. Hornet seems to play very different from the Knight. Knight wants to have correct spacing because it is very easy to get into an enemy hurtbox. Hornet doesn't care and all of her attacks actively push you towards the enemy. The Tools are all color coded though, so you'll have red for active use stuff, blue for utility or passives and yellow for special categories or things that modify other tools. So you can have Lifeblood syringe to give you life blood masks and then another tool will give you a buff when you take damage. This will allow you to keep up the buff without taking actual damage and using your silk to heal. It also looks like Blue tools will be "progression" tools, like the Magma bell, which allows you to be in hot areas without taking damage and taking reduced damage from falling into Lava.
>>719650240Unless it has something like Ori's Bash attack, I don't see why you would use the stick.
>>719614156>Surely you can use and read a dictionary, right?
>>719623473>game is called silksong>silk is a kind of string>string theory Just think about it anon
>>719623473Prequel would be really boring story-wise honestly
I feel like silksong is gonna have 1mil+ concurrents on opening weekend
>>719652062Yeah, I don't know why people want it to be a prequel, other then the idea that we see in the comic that Hornet was out patrolling the wastes when she found Quirrel coming back to Hallownest. The only thing a prequel would do is show us how a Vessel could have gotten out of Hallownest and then come back. Hornet tells the Knight that he is born of two voids, the VOID and then having left Hallownest, which makes you forget it. We know though that Hornet had nothing to do with the Knights return, because she is confused on how a Vessel got out of the Abyss in the first place and she was hunting them down because she didn't want them trying to unbind the Hollow Knight and failing to rebind the Radiance. A sequel would give us more insight into the world of bugs, especially after Hornet has made peace with her past and moved on from Hallownest.
>>719652472It's certainly going to be big and might have that between all platforms.
>>719652472She's like a shark swimming through a school of little fishies
>>719652472>indie devs right now
It's been a little bit since i've been this excited for a game bros (it was dragon's dogma 2 ): )>>719643090looks weirdly humanoid now that I look at him. he has all the same bones and joints as a human (spine, hipbones, elbow and knee joints, opposable thumbs). what does it mean?
>>719647567VULOME
>>719652472it's multiplat so it won't
Some people died waiting for this game.
ahh time for one of my daily 6 rewatches of the launch trailer
>>719649925>Keyboard + MouseIt's only keyboard
I have a flash game looking ass game syndrome
>>719652472What was even releasing this month of note? I can't remember anything announced for September before the Silksong surprise drop
>>719654484I watched it once and have pretty much succeeded in completely forgetting it. Wish they hadn't flashed the map, but oh well.
>>719652993Or a spider skittering through a colony of fleas
>>719580616>nothing gay in Nailsmith or Sheo's dialogue>literally just happy to have frens>achievement: Happy CoupleBruh.
>>719580616Wonder what will be the in-game explanation of her having shit equipment and skills at the beginning of the game.I'm guessing the explanation for her needle being low level is it either gets fucked up in the fall or hallownest smithing is shit compared to pharloom.
>>719656469apparently they added mouse too, I saw someone playing with it
>>719595534IIRC they said there's another mad god in pharloom years back when the demo first got played.I'm curious how the HK world works. Between this, Hallownest and the godseekers, it seems like bug societies depend on higher beings founding them and collapse if they leave. There seems to be nothing between the gods' kingdoms but arid wasteland. But that doesn't explain the bugs before hallownest who worshipped void, or how some people leave with no problems.
>>719656745Onirism.
>>719656972yeah I look away from the screen whenever the map pops up. they definitely shouldn’t have put it in the trailer
Can you not fight the regular Hollow Knight in the Hall of Gods?
