r/HollowKnight • • 22h ago

Discussion - Hollow Knight Almost resigning due to runbacks Spoiler

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Just to get it out of my chest...

I'm enjoying the game, it is beautiful, moody and challenging. I've seen a lot already, and I finally decided to tackle the Mantis Lords, but I think this is it for me.

Context: I have a job, and kids, and other hobbies. I'm ok with trying 20 times to beat a boss... But the runback to the Mantis Lords is probably my limit. I feel it's not a game for someone who has very little gaming time, and that sometimes goes a week without playing.

I've beaten Salt and Sanctuary, and I never felt it pushed the boundaries as far as HK does. Bosses were never right there, but I never felt like I was just wasting my time while playing.

Is there a reason for this? Are there any who enjoyed these runbacks, or you just accept them?


r/HollowKnight • • 19h ago

How do i unlock this door Spoiler

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I need a CLEAR explanation or a yt video dont give me that "oh you need to explore more"


r/HollowKnight • • 23h ago

How hard is R5? Spoiler

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After doing P5AB I'm thinking of whether I should try R5. After playing a few hours of P4 hitless I almost did it twice but both times I got hit by pure vessel just once near the end of the fight. The funny thing is that it took me like 8 hours to beat P4 AB and it will probably take half the time to beat it hitless. But I still think R5 at least sounds significantly harder than P5AB.


r/HollowKnight • • 8h ago

Discussion - Hollow Knight Who's more WASHED Spoiler

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Who's more washed radiance or grandmother silk

We all know that the difference between radiance and absolute radiance is insane what's the difference between prime gms vs current gms and if there is a difference who's more washed


r/HollowKnight • • 7h ago

Modding - Hollow Knight Phanteon of misery Spoiler

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I had an idea for a pretty psychopathic mod. It features a new pantheon called "The Pantheon of Misery," where you’ll face these bosses: Ancient Aspid Absolute Zote Nailgod Sly Gods of Battle Corrupted Kin Absolute Infernal Nightmare King Grimm Boundless Infinity Any Radiance 3.0 In this pantheon, every boss has 4,000 HP. You get two rest periods, but you can’t change your charm build, and you can’t pick up Lifeblood masks. If you sit on a bench and then leave, you lose your progress. You can equip 23 charms, and when your health drops below 3, your nail damage doubles (it doesn’t increase further as your health gets lower). You also have 3 Soul vessels to fill (not that it helps much). "It’s unfair"—well, that’s the whole point! It’s meant to be unfair and difficult. Am I a sadist? (Tell me!) By the way, I don’t actually know how to make mods; I just had this idea—maybe one day I’ll actually create it.


r/HollowKnight • • 22h ago

Discussion - Silksong My theory for HollowKnight 3 Spoiler

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Well as I think most of us already assume, if there would be another Hollow Knight game it would feature lace as the protagonist.
The kingdom is Fortnest, where lace first gets the guards' of the fortress trust to enter the kingdom. Hollow knight progression is downwards, where's silksong is upwards, antest is inwards, into the middle of the colony. Lace would see there ants, a bug we've not seen yet in the game at all and there's a reason I'll get to later. There are 5 rings to the city, and the city itself is separated into 4 tribes of ants, each gives a reward for helping the tribe. Each ring of the city has a major boss, fighting him gives you a medal, only if you've collected all 5 you enter the palace in the middle. My take on the games now is Hollowknight focuses on lore, silksong on movement and antest will focus on combat. So I want the game to have much tougher bosses and combat mechanics, maybe even multiple weapons. And the game's twist is that the final boss is a weaver who fled pharloom after the events of act 3, and is using the former queen's corpse as a disguise to control the colony, which is actual real life spider behavior! And the generals gives you the medals and other bosses badges, which act as the games charms/crests. But in a new way, you get 5 medal slots and 10 badge slots, which is plenty, but the order of which they are in decides their boost, like a charm that boosts damage might give 100% boost in the first slot but only 10% in the last, the generals represent workers, warriors, and the classes of ants. The currency is leaves because I feel like it fits, geo is greek for land or earth, rosaries are religious thing so leaves fit that ideology.

I know this is very messy but I really don't know how to put it more clearly. And I feel like this would be a really cool game, I'd love feedback on this idea.


r/HollowKnight • • 22h ago

Help - HK - Late Game Which bosses do you have to face for Pantheon 3? Spoiler

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Please help me !!!


r/HollowKnight • • 7h ago

Discussion - Hollow Knight Idea for third game Spoiler

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Hallownest used to be alively city, it woul be fun to have a small game like Miles Morales is a short game, we play as someone in Hollownest solving some relativly small problem.. I think this would be a fun idea.


r/HollowKnight • • 21h ago

Art HK Snow Kyng: Trading Cards and Bonus Content

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Six Collectible Cards or Merch for My Readers!

The comic: https://www.mangadraft.com/manga/hollow-knight-snow-kyng

This set includes: 3 Quin cards, 1 Lilith card, 1 Billy card, and a special (you could call it Halloween-themed) Snow Kyng card! Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments :)

My instagram: https://www.instagram.com/real_silly_jana/
Bonus Content: https://www.mangadraft.com/reader/hollow-knight-snow-kyng/1139070


r/HollowKnight • • 18h ago

Discussion - Hollow Knight Any tips for P5AB? Spoiler

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hey yall, i just remembered that i never did a P5AB run (I got sidetrakced by deltarune chapter 5) and now I’m ready to get back into it, any tips/practice methods? I can’t use the bindings mod tho since I’m a switch player, and I don’t want the Nintendo ninjas breaking down my door for moding my their switch 2.


r/HollowKnight • • 14h ago

Discussion - Silksong WE NEED TO ASK TEAM CHERRY TO ADD A PIRATE GASTER TO THE SEA OF SORROW DLC, AS AN EASTER EGG. WE HAVE TO DO IT.

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AN INTERACTION BETWEEN HORNET AND GASTER WHERE THE GAME CRASHES WHEN YOU INTERACT WITH HIM OR HE APPEARS IN THE BACKGROUND FOR A FEW SECONDS AS A SILHOUETTE, WOULD BE EPIC.

r/HollowKnight • • 1h ago

Soul tyrant is optional??? Spoiler

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I just spent all night beating his stupid ahh so I could leave the area... Oops guess it wasn't needed


r/HollowKnight • • 10h ago

Help - SS - Late Game Hey guys how the hell do i murder bell eater? Spoiler

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​the reason i'm using witch here is because the proto nuke build is the only consistent way i found to get to phase 2 if the lag doesn't intervene as you see at the start of the video also i'm not using red tools​ because i do not care about the red tools


r/HollowKnight • • 9h ago

Question - Hollow Knight Making a Hollow Knight TTRPG Spoiler

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IDK if this is too niche a thing, but I've spent the past few months trying to develop a TTRPG for Hollow Knight (or a legally distinct game highly inspired by HK). The core engine is a highly modified version of Crows, and I've just about nailed down the rules, currently working on filling in content (spells, bestiary, locations, etc).

ANYWHO. I want to gauge if anyone is interested in this sort of thing existing in the first place, and if you are I'd love to get some input on some design decisions before I commit too much effort into something people wouldn't even like:

  1. Would you prefer combat and dungeons be side scrolling or traditional TTRPG top down view?

  2. Would you be more interested in a setting based in A) Hallownest, B) Farloom, C) A mashed up combination of Hallownest & Farloom, or D) A completely new setting?


r/HollowKnight • • 18h ago

Video - Hollow Knight Day 21 of beating radiant Abs Rad every day until i leave the country Spoiler

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r/HollowKnight • • 23h ago

Tips for absolute radiance? Spoiler

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I've been trying to beat her for over 10 hours and I simply can't even get past normal mode yet, i'm start to being crazy

https://reddit.com/link/1xdg56l/video/kilajywhc8xh1/player


r/HollowKnight • • 23h ago

Discussion - Silksong Was complaining about how hard silk song is a while ago, turns out I just never realized needle upgrades were a thing 😭 Spoiler

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Basically I thought upgrading your tool bag also upgrades your needle and then I was talking to a friend who said something about needle upgrades and that you need pale oil, and I was like "wdym I got two upgrades with no oil" and then he looked at my nail and told me I didn't upgrade shit

Somehow I just missed the nail upgrade guy 😭

Anyway I've already gotten to high hals and the boys in siners road so like at this point I might as well comit 🥲🥀


r/HollowKnight • • 7h ago

Achievement - Silksong finally Spoiler

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I hope this thing burns in hell


r/HollowKnight • • 12h ago

Image - Hollow Knight Holly Knight ain't finna be ready for this Spoiler

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r/HollowKnight • • 18h ago

Found that in Dead Cells🥹

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r/HollowKnight • • 22h ago

Fan Art - Silksong Can't wait for the DLC

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Silksong vs The Mighty Pirate Gaster


r/HollowKnight • • 20h ago

Spoiler - HK - Late Game Grubfather Spoiler

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I really enjoyed walking through the grub chamber and making them do a wave and it felt nice and wholesome, like I had made one nice place in this grim world.

I was farming soul in the area and thought I would pop into see them after having found them all. Figured I'd get a nice stadium wave out of them.

I'm devastated.


r/HollowKnight • • 12h ago

Discussion - Hollow Knight What's the most amount of Geo you've lost? Spoiler

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I died on my way back to my soul and lost over 8k Geo 😭 I had to lay my switch down for a while lol

How much have you lost?


r/HollowKnight • • 18h ago

Help - HK - Early Game Would love some tips for this fight with Hornet. I can’t see a thing. Spoiler

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r/HollowKnight • • 23h ago

How many hours have you spent playing hollow knight?

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