rule of Hollow knight. when you miss a platform for any reason, you will always dodge any platform in your way down attempting to land on any of them, effectively and super efficiently, cannon balling to the pool of acid at the bottom.

@silvercandra4275

5 жыл бұрын

true and always while carrying the stupid flower

@jacobradabaugh6241

5 жыл бұрын

This is all so true.

@doomrider7

5 жыл бұрын

Was about to say this. ESPECIALLY common in Kingdom's Edge and Howling Cliffs.

@andersenzheng

5 жыл бұрын

but when you want to just plunge to the bottom, the game somehow pulls a platform out of your fractured but whole, which you probably know is there, to stop you just enough so you have time to feel the shame of yourself.

@Thesaurus_Rex

5 жыл бұрын

Or, as you fall, you get intercepted by a flying enemy, or an enemy on the exact platform you landed on.

no matter how easy a boss is, once you get hit you begin spiraling downwards to defeat

@solacech.

5 жыл бұрын

can confirm

@Ryquard1

5 жыл бұрын

Is like misstepping on a dance choreography and losing your tempo

@Vanamonde

5 жыл бұрын

Me on the Nailmasters. Acing perfectly and then the first time they hit me I suddenly cant dodge any of their attacks anymore

@sutirk

5 жыл бұрын

@@Vanamonde not only you cant dodge their attacks anymore, but you find yourself actively dashing INTO the boss' attacks

@0whatman

5 жыл бұрын

mhm

Rule: There is a faster way to get to where you want to go. . .you will find it after you need it.

@aliced.3799

3 жыл бұрын

Mantis lords’ lifeblood chamber...

@trickytreyperfected1482

3 жыл бұрын

@@aliced.3799 I'm sorry. The WHAT?

@aliced.3799

3 жыл бұрын

@@trickytreyperfected1482 there’s a room with lifeblood cocoons right next to the mantis lords’ fight

@Rhobeni

3 жыл бұрын

@@aliced.3799 WHERE

@aliced.3799

3 жыл бұрын

@@Rhobeni I recommend you just look up a video for convenience but I can try and explain, it’s in the same room as the mantis lords. If you wall jump all the way up at the top left side of the room and destroy the top of the wall at the top left corner you’ll find a hidden room with a lifeblood cocoon. Hope that helps 🖤

Rule: You will always make the crossroads infected before starting the flower quest

@dylandematossilva362

2 жыл бұрын

my first playthrough i done flower quest just after got monarch wings...this quest is a pain in the @ss

@Setiny

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, easy af without infection

@CarlosSilva-bh4bi

2 жыл бұрын

I will, suffer, A LOT

@WorldTree33

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if it’s possible to not have it infected for that quest…

@dylandematossilva362

2 жыл бұрын

@@WorldTree33 yes,just don't take any dreamer or the monarch wings,this will infect the crossroads

Rule #20 you will attempt to dreamnail every possible thing in the game from person to interactible even benches twice

@edgybubblegum6404

4 жыл бұрын

yes

@cornbreadman3584

4 жыл бұрын

True

@accordimedes6967

4 жыл бұрын

And enemies

@evagarcia865

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, if you dream nail the bench next to the Leg Eater (In Fungal Wastes) it says “Why?”

@stevenethanlimanta1080

3 жыл бұрын

@@evagarcia865 you can dream nail benches???

Rule 11: bringing a companion charm into fog canyon can only end in disaster

@thijsvanpuffelen9273

5 жыл бұрын

Learned this one doing the grey mourner flower quest.

@twistedmyth5860

5 жыл бұрын

I learned this one when I before I got the map and on my way to get my shade back since I didn't notice the what the fuck was setting shit off.

@bronzeowl9

5 жыл бұрын

I always brought the dream shield. Woof

@Mega-hu9ed

5 жыл бұрын

Went into that little maze thing for the charm notch. Ended up getting hit by an Ooma with Thorns of Agony and it all went to shit.

@geoshark12

5 жыл бұрын

having not played the game what happens?

addition to rule 2, even though geo is worthless it will still always hurt to die twice and lose massive ammounts of it

@HuhWhatHuhwhatHuh

2 жыл бұрын

That has never happened to me…

@karameru_xd

2 жыл бұрын

@@HuhWhatHuhwhatHuh You are god then

@karameru_xd

2 жыл бұрын

That has happened too many times I can count

@masterofdesaster6040

2 жыл бұрын

@@HuhWhatHuhwhatHuh me too dont get how you could even die twice when youre soul is outside of bosses if you die or you can easily lure it out

@liveandletdie138

2 жыл бұрын

@@masterofdesaster6040 I died trying to complete a "platforming" section and when I made my way back my soul made its way to the end of the section I couldn't complete. To say it was infuriating would be an understatement.

Rule: you will almost always live the longest on 1 hp when fighting bosses but the moment you equip fury of the fallen it now becomes the shortest moment

@mihaivergelea26

Жыл бұрын

That's cuz you become reckless trying to soak hits

Rule 11: If NKG uses the spike attack when you're in a safe position, you will, without reason, dive face first into the spike attack

@sturicky2105

4 жыл бұрын

Shadowlord975 YES XD

@tahraki4918

4 жыл бұрын

And Pure Vessel

@siryurtle

4 жыл бұрын

Yes! I finally just beat him this morning, took around 3 hours!

@tahraki4918

4 жыл бұрын

@@siryurtle Congrats!

@coopersutherland8550

4 жыл бұрын

Yup. I attempted that fight twice. That was enough for a couple of months.

Rule 11: Every enemy has a pattern, until killing them is actually important. That is the only time their pattern will break and they become an RNG nightmare.

@exploertm8738

4 жыл бұрын

Seriously, fuck RNG. I legit ready to pay for stable seed dlc

@TheLudicrousLuv

4 жыл бұрын

*Grey Prince zote enters chat*

@elisaw.y.3280

3 жыл бұрын

I so hate Markoth and GPZ in PoH. Not only they are bosses who makes lot of damage and with little to none opportunities to heal, but they are also put together. So whenever I beat Markoth I get instantly killed by the other dumbass :( I just want to get to AR so I can practice in hall of gods and finish PoH, but those two are ruining my run.

@sapphireclawe

3 жыл бұрын

*glares at Mantis Lords*

@D9everything

3 жыл бұрын

Word yo.

Rule 11: During Hornet's fight in Kingdom's Edge, you will almost definitely find yourself obsessing over the spike balls and getting killed trying to get rid of them, either by Hornet stabbing you through your throat while you're trying to get one, or you running into it like a moron instead of hitting it and feeling like you just failed the most simple task in the entire freaking game.

@samspoonsskylanders5267

Жыл бұрын

For like my first 20 attempts of that fight I wasn’t aware you could hit them away

Another rule: when spike pogoing, you will always miss one and have to do the whole thing over again

@arpitkumar4525

2 жыл бұрын

I some times press the nail button before down arrow and I end up striking horizontally 😭

@tray142

2 жыл бұрын

@@arpitkumar4525 that always happens to me in path of pain and it gives me depression

Law 11: You will try to heal at a stupid time. Law 12: There will always be at least one charm you cannot go without. For me, Longnail.

@nex7402

5 жыл бұрын

Me sharp shadow

@MrCole58

5 жыл бұрын

Thorns of Agony for me, even when I got to the point that I didn't need it anymore, every time I took it off I would make stupid mistakes and from then on it was my good luck "charm"

@krzypl5959

5 жыл бұрын

Me quick slash

@exwhitewolf9391

5 жыл бұрын

Ryan Goldstrich have you met my good friend mark of pride

@Driffoid

5 жыл бұрын

Hive blood or my little baby spiders.

You will heal two masks and lose both of them instead of healing just one.

@typo691

5 жыл бұрын

best one

@GabrielSouza-jq3lz

5 жыл бұрын

When you heal 3 you lose 5

@FreyofKtau

5 жыл бұрын

Wat is 9:36??

@ST0AT

5 жыл бұрын

I feel called out

@liver1865

5 жыл бұрын

I'm being personally attacked and I don't like it

rule 11: on your first playrough, there's this one really good charm you could have get ages ago, but you missed it, and after you finally found it, you have to spend only the last 20-30% of the game with it yes, I found shape of uun only after defeating the hollow knight and now I'm angry about it

@BeriadanLocien

3 жыл бұрын

I feel your pain

@DJAlex1417

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@Reginald_Ritmo

2 жыл бұрын

For me it was stalwart shell after Herrah.

@bluevines1303

2 жыл бұрын

BRO SAME

@mysteriouslyseeing

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think that missing out on SoU is worth getting torn up over (unless you wanted Blessing, I guess?)

You will always feel a sudden sadness, whether it’s over a character, a place, or even if it’s just randomly sad with no bad thing happening

Rule 11: whenever you are fighting a boss, you will miraculously get farther in the fight than you ever have before, only to die and spend the next 6 or 7 tries getting completely creamed by the boss

@zawarudo3582

4 жыл бұрын

Zoroark MI and repeat

@mstrong2099

4 жыл бұрын

YES!!!!

@birduwu

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I did with soul master

@garibanibizzeka

4 жыл бұрын

That is a rule applicable to most games tbh and I hate it

@certifiedbruhmoment1436

4 жыл бұрын

That’s what happened to me in the pure vessel fight

one of my personal rules, the more predicatble an attack's tragectory, the more likely I am to jump straight into it

@joshveer1138

2 жыл бұрын

Me Fighting Grimm

@Iexcon

2 жыл бұрын

@@joshveer1138 me when fighting anything

@IssaalaaRacing

2 жыл бұрын

Facts

@curllum

2 жыл бұрын

Primal Aspid be like

@anarking5764

2 жыл бұрын

I died to the mantis lords so many times because I would jump into their ranged attacks

Rule 11: When fighting a boss, your first attempt is always the best one. If you die, it all goes downhill from there. The only times I’ve beat hard bosses is when I came back to them after an hour or so and did it first try.

@m1xzy

3 жыл бұрын

Same bro I done THK first try then i just kept on dying

Man, how nostalgic it is hearing the phrase “getting stomped by Mantis Lord over and over again”. I still remember that feeling when I died, multiple times, got up, and tried again until I won.

@alphathewolf583

2 жыл бұрын

When I first hit mantis lords I lost 1000 geo to losing my shade on my way back. I farmed at least 1200 from just killing every mantis on the way back to the fight over and over again after that

@liveandletdie138

2 жыл бұрын

IK know its been a year but i have to ask, did you upgrade your nail to beat them?

“You always have enough geo” **laughs in divine**

@TheActualAqua

4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking about that when he said about the geo, i had a hard time on the Colosseum trying to get enough

@OrionoftheStar

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheActualAqua I farmed the Great Husk Sentries. Set up a build for spells and get Flukenest, and your basic spell will kill them in two blasts (sometimes three, but you can just whack them once with your nail to finish them off instead). Head straight to the bench in the Stag Station after you've killed the 4 directly outside to respawn them. They drop ~80 each if you have Fragile/Unbreakable Greed, and you can kill all four of them in just a couple minutes. Plus another 60 or so from the fancy noble husks you pick off along the way. It's pretty dull and repetitive, but not too dangerous.

@noahcaelum6796

3 жыл бұрын

OrionoftheStar I farm the jumpers in kingdoms edge. You leave the screen and come back. There’s four every time and they each drop about 20. Really fast especially if they’re all clumped together.

@matthewloiselle8430

3 жыл бұрын

Noah Caelum I went to the failed tramway because it gives so much money and I like deepnest

@TheActualAqua

3 жыл бұрын

@@matthewloiselle8430 you should be feared

Another law: You will always forget to change your charms before a boss fight the first times.

@ccommissarr

3 жыл бұрын

@Ninjakitten42 still stuck ?

@ccommissarr

3 жыл бұрын

@Ninjakitten42 abuses smh

@ishthewall1915

3 жыл бұрын

I mostly use the same layout for everything, except in god home where I replace wayward compass and thorns of agony for unbreakable heart

@bautiba2728

3 жыл бұрын

“The first times” or like me the entire game

@eeshanmarathe3369

3 жыл бұрын

The only time I changed my charms the first time before a boss was on Massive Moss Charger.#decisions

for number 6, quitting the game and reloading gets you to the last bench you were at, so if you do pause before death, it's best to just do that instead of pressing continue it helps a lot in steel soul

@m1n3c4rt

2 жыл бұрын

some people kinda consider it cheating though

@PikaFleetsYolo

2 жыл бұрын

@@m1n3c4rt i mean, fair i guess, but it doesn't super feel like it since it IS something you can do without outright exploiting the game

@SourCoffeeExpert

2 жыл бұрын

I kinda consider it cheating since that takes away the whole reason you would play that mode in the first place but I did it for the achievement and couldn’t be bothered to play through the game in steel mode a fourth time.

@PikaFleetsYolo

2 жыл бұрын

@@SourCoffeeExpert it is definitely intended to not be played with quitting as a free get out safe mechanic, but if it's there and you want it, why not, yknow

@Phantasmans

2 жыл бұрын

this very mechanic is what saved my steel soul run 3 times- Once to flukemarm and twice to traitor lord

One of my rules: you WILL forget about every single secret room/breakable wall on your second playthrough. I literally forgot how to save Bretta, and it was only until I watched this video that I remembered how to get to the geo stash in King’s Station.

I love that there's a whole entire law about primal aspids

@zawarudo3582

4 жыл бұрын

Snot Mcvomitson primal bastards

@asonfrederick1126

4 жыл бұрын

Primal aspids, crystal hunters, and soul twisters, the unholy trio.

@twittersucks8297

4 жыл бұрын

They deserve 3

@oliviatilleman8055

4 жыл бұрын

@@asonfrederick1126 A Soul Twister killed me on my way to Soul Master and I lost like 3000 geo (ik it isn't a ton but at that point in the game it felt like a lot) and long story short I either kill them in sight or run away as fast as possible now

@stelfzor

4 жыл бұрын

@@asonfrederick1126 I really enjoy fighting the soul twisters. soul master/tyrant is probably my fav boss. But agree with aspids and hunters!

I didn't even know they were called primal aspids, I just called them bastard flys

@FabriSlv

5 жыл бұрын

God may damn them for all eternity

@dominickomaromi9060

5 жыл бұрын

Also known as fuzzy fuck butts

@RaiNAgara

5 жыл бұрын

The one you fuck you up in the tournament of fool

@tendo102

5 жыл бұрын

I've started playing this about a month ago, and they are winged twats to me. I really hate those things

@leetlefool7173

5 жыл бұрын

Bastard flies is also accurate

HK rule if you do multiple playthroughs: "Hold on, did I get this mask shard or that one?"

@MasterIsabelle

2 жыл бұрын

Me rn

Rule: The soul you "saved" by not using spells to kill an enemy faster will be spent on healing yourself because you took a bullshit hit to the face.

@arpitkumar4525

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. Descending Dark/Desolate Dive instead of Heal

@dan200smx7

2 жыл бұрын

Especially with primal aspids

HK iron rule: Even if the boss was playing pasive, the moment you start healing, the boss gonna jump stright to you or send a minion to do the same thing and let you just with one mask and suffering a little longer before killing you... i'm watching you lost brother vessel.

@redstonewatcher6651

4 жыл бұрын

Rule Against Broken Vessel/Lost Kin. It doesn’t matter what the hell the thing is doing, it doesn’t matter if you’re out of his dashes range. As soon as you use Focus, that butthole is GOING TO JUMP right into you.

@novaanimations5958

4 жыл бұрын

Tip, facetank him. Joni, strength, heart, grub. Same for Lost kin, just add on defenders crest. I know you already beat him by now but, it’s here for whoever needs it

@tetsudau

3 жыл бұрын

*me not having any charms and just trying to kill it*

@clarisseseferiadis3018

3 жыл бұрын

Mushroom spores was my savior on this one. Instant killing the ghosts 😁

@shapshapshapshap2829

3 жыл бұрын

Lost kin took me so many tries..... then I found out you could hide in one of the top corners, equip almost every single companion that exist, and just keep staying in the corner while my spiders, exploding flies, and Grimm child do all the work for me

The law of always saving Zote the first time you meet him and then regretting it for the rest of the plauthroigh.

@paul9218

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@matejtomala3166

5 жыл бұрын

So true

@GuyWithPants

5 жыл бұрын

I always regret leaving him, i love finding him in the stupidest places

@jacobradabaugh6241

5 жыл бұрын

How do you not save him?

@TP3200

5 жыл бұрын

The first time you encounter him (in Greenpath somewhere), just walk on by him. Check back there later in your quest to see if he's ok...

the path of pain taught me the art of the pure focus that the entire soul sanctum put hundreds of lives and hours into

3:11 In order to buy everything, you'll have to farm geo eventually. There's no way you'll have enough just by killing enemies and getting geo deposites on the way or turning all the relics in. Those unbreakable charms aren't cheap,

@Crocdor_UwU

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, If you arent Farming Geo and doing an 100% run, you have at least everything bought and (without unbreakable Charms) 9000 Geo left, so yea you have to farm, but not that much

@charlescormier917

Жыл бұрын

Or die to a boss mutiliple times....

Rule 11, Soul Masters fake death will catch you off guard. Rule 12, Anyone that claims to have not been trolled by soul master is lying.

@833Rowan

5 жыл бұрын

actually i saw the someone fight him before i did it myself but it def would have gotten me (youll probably still say im lying but whatev)

@ethiopiop7638

5 жыл бұрын

I beat it on the first try! (as in first play though first try) and that revival bit surprised me, but it wasn't too difficult to dodge the attacks after that...

@833Rowan

5 жыл бұрын

Ethiopiop M.C. Right? The second form is soooo easy it has such little health

@somewhat_human

5 жыл бұрын

It wont fool me, i had not actually played hk yet but im aware of that, edit in a few weeks to tell if i got gnomed by the soul master.

@lupuslunarem3235

5 жыл бұрын

I had seen it before and STILL got caught off guard

HK rule: one time you learn pogo jump (aka down slash), you will do in any place, even in a normal floor

@IntegralKing

3 жыл бұрын

I still try to wavedash in hollow knight. it just feels so right.

@dndkimenda

3 жыл бұрын

A. I will ALWAYS try and pogo jump wherever I can. B. I will randomly wave dash when I'm bored in trying to 112% my playthrough

@barathrk905

3 жыл бұрын

i thought i had fucking OCD doing that all the time. thank god i im not the only one

@privatizitat815

3 жыл бұрын

Does it ever teach you that you can actually do this? I googled what to do when I got stuck at the bouncy mushrooms, and apparently I'm not alone

@FFKonoko

3 жыл бұрын

@@privatizitat815 technically no. But if you find the room with the grub and platforms leading up to it with spikes, it slightly encourages experimenting.

6:50 well, you always can quit to the menu, load your game again and wake up on your last visited bench.

Number 4 really resonates with me. I had been stuck on the failed champion for ages. I was tucked in the left corner of the room, trying to avoid his attacks and I didn't realize he was on the last stage and was about to break through the floor. When he broke that the floor, the wall that was holding me in place disappeared. I was so happy, and shocked that I did it, that I forgot I was still holding down the left move button and ran off the edge of the platform before I could finish the fight. I wanted to die.

Hollow knight law for me personally: "oh god i finally defeated soul master" Soul master: "lol."

@jackyboii7750

4 жыл бұрын

Bruh, I've recently gotten into the game and this happened 😂

@thatstockimageguy1067

4 жыл бұрын

the exact thing happened to me

@TheLudicrousLuv

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@mporter1391

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@DragonSkylander30

3 жыл бұрын

He do be like that for every play through.

Rule 11: Dying to spikes in the Coliseum of Fools is the most shameful thing a human can feel

@krzypl5959

5 жыл бұрын

Dying by Ooma (big jellyfish) is the most shameful thing.

@icedragon477

5 жыл бұрын

What about dying to the first vengefly? Think that would shame anyone.

@lukasnovella9001

5 жыл бұрын

Qwerty Q I did.

@annoy4nce648

5 жыл бұрын

+krzypl but dying to uomas in the new uumuu fight is the most frustrating thing

@ValentijnEnJack

5 жыл бұрын

There is no shame in learning.

I'm literally sitting here listening to #9 and I'm like "i think ive seen everything", only for him to put some giant thing onscreen at 9:11 that i have never seen even in other youtube videos

@bb-im6hf

3 жыл бұрын

that is an NPC in Kingdoms Edge, located a bit under Coloseum i believe (you also find the other end of the being in Kingdoms Edge, lower and more to the right i think)

@logancamp9098

3 жыл бұрын

@@bb-im6hf yeah ive found him now but thanks

Rule 11: Everyone will have that one boss that they absolutely detest with every fiber of their being. It’s usually one of the following 3, Markoth, Grey Prince Zote, and/or Absolute Radiance.

@Proletarius87

Жыл бұрын

Yup, already mastered them myself, but only 2 of them. AbsRad is out of my league for now, and she is blocking my last achievement :(

Rule 11: When fighting a boss, you WILL attempt to heal at the wrong moment.

@FabriSlv

5 жыл бұрын

ALL-FUCKING-WAYS Jesus Christ the times I did that on Hornet v2

@robertadamsx2

5 жыл бұрын

Solution: Baldur shell.

@FabriSlv

5 жыл бұрын

Does it work? Most of the times it seems to me that whatever was trying to hit me, hit me anyway.

@robertadamsx2

5 жыл бұрын

@@FabriSlv For me it works. Sometimes a glitch happens where the Baldur shell stays on you when your healing is interrupted. And sometimes when that happens, it will protect you.

@jadebrimhall9173

5 жыл бұрын

No it's just the boss is coded with the words FUCK WHEN HEALING = TRUE and it will find a way to execute that specific code.

Rule 14: In a boss fight where you haven't taken damage yet. The second you do, you will likely panic and take even more damage. Effectively lower your chance to win by a decent margin and letting the boss shove his meter long nail right up your behind. (True story for my first playthrough. Loved the video too because around half of them applied to me.)

@snivyboy168

4 жыл бұрын

Same!!!

@nitefurie.

4 жыл бұрын

Only Half?!?

@mothgosally9333

4 жыл бұрын

Facts

@broster9211

4 жыл бұрын

This is why I lose to the Broken Vessel 7 times

@kizen1632

4 жыл бұрын

I still get my ass kicked by traitor lord even tho I'm on my second playthrough his attacks are so choreographed it should be easy especially with shade clowk

After my first playthrough I realized what a god you become like bosses that literally made me punch holes in walls before are now laughable and I love that feeling

A law that applies to me: I am shit at platforming or boss fights that requires me to use down striking with the nail.

Rule 11, you will always have to look up a guide for at least one thing on your first playthrough.

@nitefurie.

4 жыл бұрын

And if it's charm notches, mask shards or vessel fragments you will always ask yourself "did I get that one already?"

@cullenlatham2366

4 жыл бұрын

not entirely sure i agree. depending on the type of player and how deeply they get sucked in, they might refuse to look up anything, combine that with the game doing a great job of tracking most things of relevance, and the only thing that would truly need a guide is the scholar's items. If you adjust it to "there are things you will learn about the game by joining the community that you would never think of yourself" it would be more accurate.

@GisBanana555

4 жыл бұрын

for me it was at least 15

@HobbySauce

3 жыл бұрын

From experience this is not true. I didn't look anything up until I beat it (and the first thing I looked up was lore stuff because I had NO IDEA what just happened).

@crowqueenamps

3 жыл бұрын

I went in on an almost blind playthrough. I knew one or two things, but I kept most major events spoiler free. The only time I looked up something was 1.) I kept getting soft locked on my map since my focus binding was on my mouse, so I needed help with that and 2.) I got utterly lost in the Beast's Den, and after making four rounds I decided to look up how to get out of there.

Rule 11: When you reach NKG, Pure Vessel, or Absolute Radiance, Unless you are god you will not beat them without their move sets being coded into your DNA.

@clairelili873

4 жыл бұрын

pure vessel is just a buffed up version of hollow knight, with like, one new attack but oh god why nkg needs to be such a pain

@jortasaurus1750

4 жыл бұрын

NKG has killed my pantheon 5 attempts way too many times... Still haven't beaten it to this day

@GisBanana555

4 жыл бұрын

yep

@Mercy_of_the_Devil

4 жыл бұрын

There’s actually a theory that you play as the Pale King, reincarnated (The Game Theorists)

@K-7Maylis

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mercy_of_the_Devil That theory was heavily debunked by mossbag, it's not possible for it to happen considering the Knight encounters the Pale King in the abyss whilst getting the Voidheart But to the actual part of Pure Vessel and Nightmare King Grimm I thought they were easy asf, I spent more time on Hornet Sentinel alone. NKG probably 2 hours, Pure Vessel 2,5/3 hours, Hornet Sentinel 8 hours

6:58 fits perfectly with my first play through, I was doing the flower quest and died three times right at the end where all you had to do was time a dash, and I kept doing it to early then sliding into the thorns.

@yellowplaydough7894

2 жыл бұрын

I know exactly what jump youre talking about.

11. There will always be a person that says what you just spent the last 2hrs doing easy

@ishthewall1915

3 жыл бұрын

We spent hours in god home to perfect our skills and memorize their patterns, we also got our asses beat at first but got to the point where most bosses are easy. (But most people will lie and say it was always easy)

You can FEEL the rage at that ticktick in his voice.

Me: * just watching and zoning out alittle * Rusty: * Shows the King's Station chest * Me: *_THAT'S HOW YOU GET IN THERE!?!?!?!?!?_* My cat: * Yeets himself off my lap in fear *

@seamustheshameful9498

4 жыл бұрын

WAIT WHEN? i still dont know how to get there

@dragonfire2114

4 жыл бұрын

Seamus the Shameful 10:17 I’ve jumped there so many times and found nothing lol.

@cyk658

4 жыл бұрын

I'm ashamed to say that I got that geo abusing great slash and gathering swarm

@kyobomusudv2249

4 жыл бұрын

dude I know how your feeling, I went an almost entire sixty+ hour play-through of the game, without figuring that out. I passed that thing so many times and it always kept taunting me. I honestly don't even remember if I figured out how to get there by a video or just random chance.

@thebigiron2950

4 жыл бұрын

@@cyk658 same lol. Except I used long nail and mark of pride

Rule 11: you will always end up giving the flower to someone else before doing flower quest Rule 12: most of the time you don't realize that Zote does no damage because you took you time trying to avoid attacks as you normally would

On my first playthrough I struggled with Broken Vessel… _so much._ Then I started getting involved with the community and realized I was a complete mess.

11. You'll *never* find a bench when you're looking for one.

@TheLudicrousLuv

4 жыл бұрын

Not if im next to one

@koifish528

3 жыл бұрын

Luffydestroyer The Memelord Well you wouldn’t be looking for a bench then now would you

@IntegralKing

3 жыл бұрын

there's signs, bro :)

@christianp.7675

3 жыл бұрын

No no no. It's "when you really, really need a bench, you'll find crystal guardian instead"

@krzplays3811

3 жыл бұрын

@@christianp.7675 I saw the crystal guardian room today saw him sitting and went no just running past him

In what universe is the city of tears more confusing than Deepnest?

@qwhale

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the City of Tears was easy to navigate.

@havvik3505

4 жыл бұрын

I didn't die 60 times to soul master in deepnest

@snivyboy168

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@thomasg26

4 жыл бұрын

Deepnest is fairly linear, ngl, but yeah, city isn't bad at all.

@K4rmauh

4 жыл бұрын

It took me a bit, but after delivering relic after relic to Lemm, I eventually got it. I've got a pretty decent head for directions in Hollow Knight, but I'm pretty sure me not putting on wayward compass in Deepnest was a horrendous mistake.

The thing about primal aspids is that their spread pattern is exactly the right width that if you try to jump over the middle shot when shot at from the side of dodge to the side when shot from somewhere above, you’ll almost always hit one the side ones... plus they feel at least, like they actually lead their shots somewhat.

the other half of city of tears is screaming at the soul twisters

There's always a better way to fight any particular enemy, and you're the only one that couldn't figure it out on your first playthrough.

@GamerBogsa

3 жыл бұрын

except primal aspids

@frogfox4287

3 жыл бұрын

@@GamerBogsa I would like to agree, but my brother doesn't understand how everyone struggles with them.

@GamerBogsa

3 жыл бұрын

@@frogfox4287 i have to fear him

@frogfox4287

3 жыл бұрын

@@GamerBogsa I do to.

@rinastar1952

3 жыл бұрын

@@TeleTrenta I didn't know how to kill them well until beast's den ... then the game forced me to learn.

Law 11 The sadness when u die a second time trying to get ur ghost/shadow back and loose all the geo u farmed

@marcobering3945

4 жыл бұрын

Especcially if its in the middle of a hard platforming section and shade souls your ass through a wall.

@TheLudicrousLuv

4 жыл бұрын

Thats why jiji exists

@henryhirschler6766

3 жыл бұрын

Especially when you just got all your geo back from the thief

@Acefdiamonds

3 жыл бұрын

That's why I farm later areas for geo

@webberinternetpolice6431

3 жыл бұрын

Too true

"If you find yourself needing to go to the Abyss for any reason..." Reason: To skydive.

9:20 I actually so that on my first playthrough and I was like when it started moving: "wtf is that lol" when it started to walk away I was like: "WAIT! DON'T LEAVE, YOU MAY BE IMPORTANT!!! XD" I was so stressed lmao, I let it go afterward lol

(Still in my first playthrough) Rule 11: The instance you get a new move, the game will alter the level so that there is no location to use it on anymore.

@stanalex3966

4 жыл бұрын

i felt that

@terrarianerd9990

Жыл бұрын

still on my first playthrough and this is why i dont but should use spells

Rule #11: that feeling when geo drops in acid or spikes, and you don't have gathering swarm to get it.

@doomrider7

5 жыл бұрын

Especially if it's an expensive piece of Geo.

@maknirak

5 жыл бұрын

If the geo drops on acid it's lost forever, even with GS. It comes back if it drops on regular water.

@swirls5801

5 жыл бұрын

when geo gets knocked into the next room…

@tombstone_games

5 жыл бұрын

at the beginning of the game much less

@coolfishron6668

5 жыл бұрын

I always bring Gathering Swarm, unless it's either a boss fight or the Colosseum of Fools.

Just curious if that law applies only to me or not : "The first try on a boss will be better than the 5 that will follow."

10:15 wait that’s how you’re supposed to get that? I just used a nail lengthening charm and collecting swarm and hit it through the wall

"Even if you know that an attack is coming, you will manage to walk into it. With one mask left."

@blob4445

2 жыл бұрын

so true

"Your first steel soul death is always embarrassing" *Remembering the time I got knocked off of a platform by a crystal hunter*

@GuyWithPants

5 жыл бұрын

I was killed by the false Knight, usually I can beat him with little to no damage

@tank1837

5 жыл бұрын

I decided “screw it” after beating false knight and tried to take down the big guard in front of his arena. It wasn’t a very long run.

@cothrone3651

5 жыл бұрын

DZ The Random Knight i want to slap the shit out of the dev for putting that enemy in this otherwise beautiful game... its the most hated enemy for me by far

@Ryouski

5 жыл бұрын

My first attempt went pretty well for me. I lost to the second hornet fight. She was one of 2 bosses I was nervous about my first playthrough with the other being watcher knight. My second and third death were very embarrassing however.

@edwinmeyer1893

5 жыл бұрын

personaly i got killed by the mantis lord i suppose it's not such a lame and embarassing end

I’m currently playing through for the first time, so here’s a law for people like me: Your first time through, every new area is the new hardest area. I’m currently bashing my face against the soul sanctum so I don’t have to deal with crystal peak ever again. Prior to that, I was finding ever secret I could in the howling cliffs so I could delay city of tears.

9:38 WHAT THE FU- That’s the OPPOSITE way it should be!! My brain just imploded watching that

law 11: deepnest just deepnest

@silvercandra4275

5 жыл бұрын

deepnest

@jacobradabaugh6241

5 жыл бұрын

Deepnest was absolutely terrifying imo.

@kabouterlui5935

5 жыл бұрын

Fell into the pit without lumafly lantern on my first run after forcing my way through the mantis lords with the old nail 11/10 still gets vietnam flashbacks

@trynox0

5 жыл бұрын

The Deepnest...

@HerrTuring

5 жыл бұрын

Nothing horrified me more in the entire game than when I found a copy of myself just bellow me on Deepnest. I actually already had completed all the rest of deepnest when I decided to go back there and actually investigate what the fuck I had seem.

Law 11: No matter how many times you play through the game, no play through will be as good as your first one.

@K4rmauh

4 жыл бұрын

I literally deleted my first playthrough without a second of hesitation. Don't regret it, because my second went off to a wonderful start.

@theapproachingstorm2133

4 жыл бұрын

Took me a while to get into Hollow Knight, I deleted the game once cause I thought it was boring. I downloaded it again when I was bored and I fell in love with it. 85 hours into the game and I'm about to beat it (true ending) and I'm sad about it

@TheSVSexton

4 жыл бұрын

@@theapproachingstorm2133 do you mean true main story last boss, or Pantheon of Hallownest ending? I want the true ending, but losing so many times in the Pantheon is starting to burn me out.

@Nylspider

4 жыл бұрын

I actually got 112% on my first playthrough! It was really fun

@coopersutherland8550

4 жыл бұрын

Seriously today I got the Voidheart on a newer playthrough and my only thought was, "I don't have all the other charms in this save file..."

6:07 it was to a crystal hunter on the mound. My real most embarrassing death was my ONLY death on a 112% file where I died to a random vengefly on crossroads after playing literally eight hours that same day

Rule 11: When youre doing a bossfight early game and you die. You go to the boss room and shade is right at the very end of it making you spawn the boss as youre trying to kill shade.

@MasterIsabelle

2 жыл бұрын

Enraged gaurdian

6:45 Actually, there is one thing you could do in the menu: it's the button labeled "quit to menu" since it (as far as I know) returns you to the most recent bench/respawn point.

@Late0NightPC

5 жыл бұрын

That trick is most of the reason that I won Steel Soul. If I ever went down to 1 HP, period dot for any reason, I reloaded to a bench.

@marylou7230

5 жыл бұрын

Combustible Lemons lol same here. It's not legit, but you get that amazing title screen backround.

@Late0NightPC

5 жыл бұрын

In Axiom Verge, another metroid vania, it is actually a legit stratagy. If you do the speedrun mode and quit like that, the timer doesn't stop while at the main menu so you can abuse it for speed runs.

@tipdaddy78

5 жыл бұрын

I'm glad someone else pointed it out

@GodlikeGamersz

5 жыл бұрын

This is true, but he also could have just pogo-ed his way back onto the ledge as a less cheap alternative.

law 11: after you beat the game once and start your 2nd playthrough you'll feel like if you were in a wheel chair, blind, deaf and mute, you can do 1/100 of what you were able to do before, that's how you will feel: you can't dash, you can't climb walls, you can't double jump, yu can't super dash, you can't swim in acid, you do -1 damage, you have no health nor soul containers, charms or charm notches, you can't dream nail, you can't teleport, you have no magic, no nail techniques, no maps, no stag stations, no geo (meh who cares actually) and most importantly you don't have any of the combos that coulb be made by using any of these things above, for example you can't climb walls to then double jump and dash to get further away from the wall you jumped from...i think you get the idea, especially because i think most of you have been through this

@ShadwSonic

5 жыл бұрын

Such is the nature of any good Metroidvania... or part of it at least.

@Fox_Squash

5 жыл бұрын

That a big rule

@833Rowan

5 жыл бұрын

no its not long those were just the details the rule is "when starting you second play-though you will hate not having max equipment"

@IronianKnight

5 жыл бұрын

And then even with these limitations, everything feels so slow and weak at the beginning that you're bouncing around like an untouchable god

@thomasboys7216

5 жыл бұрын

There is one thing that carries over from your first playthrough - your skills. That first time you need to pogo jump to reach a grub or cache or whatever? It will feel as easy as walking across.

Rule 11 : “ Wait... I’m not the hollow knight? “

Remember kids: there is no shame in quitting to menu in steel soul to bring yourself back to a bench

I was today years old when I found out about the False Knight's weapon being a bug on a stick

@IOSIRIS

2 жыл бұрын

I found about it second playthrough because I was with a friend and we were strategizing for him (his first)

@Omewump

2 жыл бұрын

I found out my first playthrough bc after beating him I started checking a message I had only to see him up and run away.

Law 11 Mother's will always betray you. This one is self explanatory.

@Andrew-ow6fq

5 жыл бұрын

It took me a while to realize what he could have been talking about, and made me question the validity of all of his other strange tenets.

@smejes1

5 жыл бұрын

I dont get this one? What are you guys talking about?

@Andrew-ow6fq

5 жыл бұрын

It's a bit of a spoiler which you might enjoy finding on your own more than having me dictate it, so read below at your own discretion. In Deepnest, there is a hidden passage near the bottom-left of the map where you encounter an NPC named "Mother" in the side of the wall. She speaks with you briefly, before attempting to draw you closer and lashing out at you in an attempt to eat you. Hitting her will cause her to retreat into the burrow she emerges from.

@smejes1

5 жыл бұрын

Okay I wont read below thanks fam.

@smejes1

5 жыл бұрын

Actually I read it. And I still dont know what youre talking about lol. I found that NPC ages ago but gave up on her because she just "betrays you" by trying to eat you. is there more to it than just that?

You have to talk to the old man in dirt mouth. It's Hart breaking to see him cry and put his hand up to call for you

@dhark0n332

3 жыл бұрын

he was scared that he became like the others, that he had dissapeared, the elder bug is one of my favorite creature beside dug defender, because he is lonely, and even knowing we never talk with him, he still is friendly and even wants us close to him to make company

10:13 had me fucking shaking, I had no clue you could get in there, I used abyss shriek and the geo gathering charm to get that thing... edit: I have 200 hours and 107%, so I am solidly shook

Law 11: You will constantly question "did I do this thing" to yourself

@jaymun_1331

4 жыл бұрын

Happened to me

@ella-pj8bl

4 жыл бұрын

it happened to me a few hours ago

@michaelliang953

3 жыл бұрын

I HAVE GONE TO GET THE SAME PALE ORE 3 TIMES IN ONE PLAYTHROUGH

Law 11: people who explore deepnest without the lumafly lantern are legends

@linhphuong9720

4 жыл бұрын

I did that, it was a dumb move

@coxin8619

3 жыл бұрын

I did It in my First run 2 days to get to the Village

@-elcacas_u-2370

3 жыл бұрын

Or just poor

The best part about that spike death. Is that if he just held left he would've grabbed the wall and survived, instead he stopped moving after the double jump and welcomed death.

For me Fog Canyon was the place I could never figure out. I still don't understand how that place is laid out. I discovered the Queen's Gardens by navigating up from Deepnest for crying out loud XP City of Tears was the first dreamer I did. As soon as I got double jump I wanted to go there and find out what was up that one ledge.

Rule 17: You'll be stuck forever at a boss where you don't have time to heal, until you try out to go full lifeblood and just slash him dead brute force first try.

@K-7Maylis

4 жыл бұрын

I tried to do that with the Watcher Knights, it didn't work.. But the second I removed every lifeblood item and replaced it with strength and longnail I beat them easy

@IntegralKing

3 жыл бұрын

yes, but then that boss will be watcher knights and you'll get your ass handed to you regardless ...

@leechesg

3 жыл бұрын

@@IntegralKing Easy watcher knights: Gurbsong, Thorns, Spore, Quick Focus, Soul Catcher. You get hit constantly, but it only ever helps you

@electroshockgamer2733

3 жыл бұрын

Another point- you will always leave the boss for a while and then come back and wreck them on your first try. Happened to me with Hornet 2 and Dung Defender

@matteomarku7177

3 жыл бұрын

Mark of pride + 15k geo charm is always the way

rule 11: you will lie awake for hours on end trying to piece together lore, ultimately coming to a conclusion (such as it's all based on norse mythology, or the radiance is actually the pale king) and then wake up the next day, remember it vividly, and think that you're an idiot because it doesn't bloody make sense.

@kingtreedede7303

5 жыл бұрын

heek 89 are you ok

@mslightbulb

4 жыл бұрын

King Treedede no, he is not.

@kel4348

4 жыл бұрын

Hey mossbag

@Paulito-ym4qc

4 жыл бұрын

and then you will just watch a mossbag video, cause you are to stupid to get it. i got you bud, me too.

Rule: no matter who you are or how you play **** Deepnest.

6:40 In that situation, just quit to the menu and it will spawn you back at the last bench you sat at, all your progress would be saved as well.

9:41 wayward compass: _my time has come_

@sir27dagamer

4 жыл бұрын

that is why it is the most op charm

@freakywu2

4 жыл бұрын

nonexistent cornifer:

@miso-ge1gz

3 жыл бұрын

@@freakywu2 i went to mantis village, all the way back up and explored the city of tears before finding the fungal wastes map

@magis1234

3 жыл бұрын

Jokes on me, the city of tears' map was the last one i got and only found it because of the grimm flames

6:39 WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE INEVITABLE DEATH? JUST EXIT THE GAME AND COME BACK! YOU’LL SPAWN ON THE BENCH YOU LAST SAT ON.

@TheLudicrousLuv

4 жыл бұрын

IKR

@ondrejandydlohos

3 жыл бұрын

Thought exactly the same thing!

@littleskeleton420

3 жыл бұрын

some people prefer to die honorable death than to cowardly escape to the menu

@loganxavier

3 жыл бұрын

@@littleskeleton420 That isn’t what I said??? I said that it wasn’t inevitable. Also, I bet most people would do that when they’ve reached the ancient basin if they knew about this.

@loganxavier

3 жыл бұрын

@@idlegameplayer3756 That has nothing to do with what I said. I don’t give a crap about if it’s considered as cheating to people who think that they’d rather die than bench warp. I’m saying that Rusty was *incorrect.* That’s it! No one asked for your opinion.

3:25 relating to the shortage of geo thing, before beating hornet I thought you needed lumafly lantern and was so confused on how I was supposed to get enough geo.

Rusty: you pause the game but get frustrated because there's nothing you can do to prevent your steel soul run from ending Me: Err, quit to menu?

9:35 "Chances are there's an item or a scene or an NPC you somehow completely missed." HE SAYS AS HE'S WALKING IN AN AREA I'VE LITERALLY NEVER SEEN BEFORE SERIOUSLY, WHERE THE HELL IS THAT!?

@cogahan3105

4 жыл бұрын

Its the lake of unn but mirrored

@izscott264

4 жыл бұрын

@Alyssa Parker a very knowledgeable caterpillar

There will always be that one attack during a boss fight that you just can't figure out, and end up taking to the face

@varunchaturvedi2581

4 жыл бұрын

The spikes in Nightmare King Grimm's fight.

@j-man3267

4 жыл бұрын

Soul Masters fake-out dive. That shit is the reason he took me so long to beat

@silberkralle3711

4 жыл бұрын

The bloody sword from pure vessel

@tattersthebat6253

4 жыл бұрын

Grimm's Flamin' Hot Uppercut

@MASSOFTHEFERMENTlNGDREGS

4 жыл бұрын

Grimm’s Pufferfish Attack

Ok but regarding those rules: The one core thing to remember: Always heal up from one mask shard, if you have the chance (and most often also from two). And if you are on steel soul and absolutely can't get soul, then just save and quit lol. I don't know if that is scummy or not, but it also works in boss fights. Like seriously the example at 6:40, though funny, he could've just quit the game.

gosh I love how funny you talk Rusty, its why I subscribed to you in the first place, your brilliant comedy

Secret rule eleven: deepnest will scare you shitless somehow.

@IntegralKing

3 жыл бұрын

in my first playthrough I got lost in deepnest with base health and magic, no nail upgrades, nothing. ended up fighting through all of it, got the tram pass, beat the beasts' den. I almost cried when I found that deep nest stag station and gtfo back to dirtmouth to chill with elderbug.

@ishthewall1915

3 жыл бұрын

I still loathe it with a maxed profile

@ThePhantomSafetyPin

3 жыл бұрын

I was perfectly fine until the GODFUCKINGDAMNIT SPIDER ENEMIES THAT USE CORPSES AS THEIR BODIES. That almost for real made me throw the controller. I was speechless for a goof two minutes, then all I could say was "what the fuck man?" in increasingly hysterical tones for the next three.

@ishthewall1915

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThePhantomSafetyPin I damn near threw my controller I jumped so hard the first time I got slapped by one of those fuckers

@myukunigunde8372

3 жыл бұрын

I went into Deepnest prepared. Upgrades, defensive charms, 8 masks, and ready for the worst possible jumpscares or scenarios. I actually found the area much easier than expected. And then I stumbled upon the Midwife and nearly had a heart attack and noped the nope out of there thinking it was some sort of snake head enemy.

Rule 11: during a second run the boss you thought easy is going to kill you.

@TheLudicrousLuv

4 жыл бұрын

Uumuu killed me in my SS run

@iHateHandlesGetRidOfThis

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheLudicrousLuv broken vessel killed me.

@ishthewall1915

3 жыл бұрын

All bosses aside from the big three are pushovers to me after 30 hours in god home

@ShinyLP

3 жыл бұрын

@@ishthewall1915 honestly the "big three" are easy as hell to me by now. Pure vessel and nkg have become a joke. Absolute Radiance is hard and.... this might sound weird but... Markoth in ascended mode.... that shit's hard as well

@ishthewall1915

3 жыл бұрын

@@ShinyLP ascended Markoth is probably the hardest boss tbh and he’s one of the 3 bosses I can’t beat on radiant, he just sucks

Every defect you outlined in this video has been corrected through the dlcs, fantastic