I never played hollow knight

Should I change that?

What makes it goated?

Tagging for same.

It's pretty much a perfect game for what it is.

lilORANG posted...

It's pretty much a perfect game for what it is.

But what is it

As close to perfect a Metroidvania that we will ever get

Same. Actually, I started playing it for like an hour last week. Gonna try and play some more tonight.

I never heard of hollow knight

A very good if overrated Metroidvania.

What makes it better than all the other meteoidvania slop out there? Does it top SotN?

I played it for like 4 hours and decided it wasn't for me, but that's a personal issue with it not being my type of game and not an issue with the game itself. If you like the type of game it's trying to be, it's pretty much one of the best of that genre from what I understand.

If you're like me and really need a structured story and defined goals to enjoy a game, then Hollow Knight probably isn't for you. But if you like games with wide free-roam exploration, tons of branching paths, lots of freedom to discover things for yourself, and you're not bothered with the idea that you won't know what you're supposed to be doing or where you're supposed to be going at all times, you'll probably love Hollow Knight.

If you don't like exploring and being lost in games, Hollow Knight is not for you and neither will buying Silk Song fix that. It's just what it is.

The fights are fun, but believe me you're gonna have to do a lot of lost exploring with no general lead of where to go. If you don't like marking on your map parts where you could progress if you had macguffin or ability, you will hate Hollow Knight. But that is generally what metroidvanias are. This one is one of the less linear metroidvanias out there, so if you're expecting to just go and get new content all the time you're gonna hate it. And that's generally what leads people to hate HK. Silk Song DOES NOT fix this (at least in my two hours of playing).

You just get more Hollow Knight with Silk Song don't know why there's so much hype when it seems like most people probably didn't even beat HK lol. I loved HK but I get that it isn't for most people. The hype makes it seem like it's the greatest game of all time, when in reality it's one of the best games of its genre, but it isn't breaking the genre to the point where random casuals or people who never played the game will enjoy playing this, and I think that's what trips a lot of people up. If you don't like metroidvanias this isn't gonna make you love them any more than you loved them before. In fact probably reinforce why you hate them more than anything.

HK isn't a game you recommend to people to get into metroid vanias, it'll probably push them away from it more than anything.

This is how I described it another topic...

One of the best sidescrolling metroidvania. Pretty much nails everything, atmosphere, story, action, gameplay, exploration. I've seen some people say it's a souls like due to it's difficulty, which can be quite high. But it's a very rewarding game to play imo.

Edit: I did get corrected in the other topic about what makes it souls like. You need to recover your lost loot upon death and lose it forever if you die again before you do.