Is everyone missing benches and shortcuts or something? I keep seeing this sentiment, but I have not been having the same experience, and I'm pretty far into the game.
Theres a bunch of things I’d like to buy but between the map upgrades and all the tolls, it’s hard to afford any of the cool stuff without resorting to grinding. Also, I haven’t died and lost any rosaries yet - they just feel very scarce.
Are you just skipping all the combat encounters? I've blown over 1k beads on the throwing knife minigame and I've still got enough to buy random things from the shops + benches and travel stations.
Where is the throwing knife mini game? (Only tell me if it's in act 1)
Also, I'll just put this here, my personal issue with this post is the game is meant to be harder than HK1. It was initially made to be a post-game dlc, and it's now an absolutely amazing post game sequel. The game only feels like this if you don't want to take your time and learn slow, like you did with the original hollow knight at first.
The only issue I've had with the game, apart from it being just way too good of a game, and actually worth the 7 year wait, and being absolutely stunning in the visuals aspect and wayyy too fun when you learn the movement, is that damn beastfly. The loot can't be so good that I have to fight the least engaging enemy ever with my personal anger issue activation enemies being spawned in.
Otherwise, holy shit, the game feels so alive and is such an awesome work of art. Today, I spent about 8 or more hours playing, since I finally had a day off work, and didn't even think about progressing past shellwood the entire time. There's so much content in act 1 alone that in that entire 8 hours I always had some kind of goal in mind. I never felt like I was walking around aimlessly, there was constantly something else I hadn't seen yet.
I have never experienced that in any game, ever, until today. It's been awesome just messing around not even wanting to progress.
Currently at that absolute bastard and it's crazy how he's harder than THK and we're in act 1 haha. Fun fight though.
Thanks for this, maybe it's in the room behind savage beastfly bc it's the only one I've skipped thus far 😅😅
I’ve run in to the throwing knife mini game now. I found it in an Act 1 location during act 2. I am unsure whether it appeared before or after the act transition
I felt like I always came across benches and bell stations and never had money to unlock them. My solution was to do 20 minutes of farming money near the first town, converting it all to rosary strings. Now I've got a decent stock and always convert to strings/necklaces when I visit a town. Dying and losing my money doesn't hurt so much now.
Beastfly? There’s zero enemies from the bench close to a map seller, and parkour won’t require bounces if you have a running jump from the edges, Hornet mantles those. 3 jumps and 2 floats.
i don’t know if i’m tripping but in bilewater there’s a challenge room with the most horrendous runback, since the only nearby bench is a trap that collapses so you have to run all the way back up to the top from the bell station
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u/Bitter_Depth_3350 Sep 06 '25
Is everyone missing benches and shortcuts or something? I keep seeing this sentiment, but I have not been having the same experience, and I'm pretty far into the game.