Thread 719869526

>Finally get to the Pantheon DLC
>It's literally just every boss but instant kill

What the fuck?
90% of the bosses aren't even designed to be no-hit let alone with extra moves.
Seriously, giant jellyfish boss without the other guys help?

Nightmare Grimm was better content than this dogshit.

Yeah I skipped it
Nigger devs not wasting my time with dumb shit

>>719869526 (OP)
>>719869572
git gud

>>719869526 (OP)
it's optional content for hardcore fans only.

>>719869526 (OP)
Some of them are kind of fun with all of the upgrades available (wings and shadow dash, especially), but I agree. Godhome is too much of a slog for me to sit down and finish. And every time you take a break to play something else, you're going to have to invest even more time to relearn the bosses / mechanics when you come back. Usually, I wind up clearing a couple of my remaining radiants before getting bored again. Just need to clear Pantheon of Hallownest; I've done all of the bindings for the other Pantheons.

Best part of the game

>>719869526 (OP)
filtered

>>719869934
>>719869614
Post full Radiant clear.

For 112% you don't even need pantheon 5, just do the first 4 pantheons with no bindings
And if you do want pantheon 5, aim for Attuned (silver) on each boss in the statues room, then get 3 consecutive wins against Grimm>Pure Vessel>Radiance before you start actually grinding it

My problem with Godhome is that it looks fucking terrible, the yellow-brown palette is irritating and the new arenas make bossfights unenjoyable.

>Be me
>Finish game like 2 years ago
>Try Pantheons
>Go up to the Pantheon of Sage
>whatever build I tried fails me (or I fail it)
>return to game a few days back
>try again with the most basic unga bunga build
>beat it first try
I have no idea how that happened or what possesed me, the build was literally like Unbreakable Strength > Mark of Pride > Quick Slash > Nailmaster and 1 or 2 that ellude me right now...
I haven't tried Path of Knight yet, is Path of Radiance really one-hit-death?

>>719869526 (OP)
Yeah I didn't bother with that because it was just lame. Very disappointing because the way you got into it was so cool with finding the sarcophagus in the trash mountain.
100%'d the game besides this and I also picked the choice of making the circus go away because that sounded like it would break the curse.

>>719872051
>picked the choice of making the circus go away because that sounded like it would break the curse
i'm replaying the game so I could:
> Let Zote die
>Banish Circus
>Get ending A
I didn't make the circus go away the first playthrough because I wanted to beat that mofo NKGrim

>>719872697
>Get ending A
What's that?

>spawns fireball inside your head
>spawns sword inside your head
>hides attack telegraph with previous attack
>kills you with fireball whos animation showed it disappearing but whose hitbox is still there, just invisible
>glitches out and kills you with projectiles spawned during stagger
>glitches out and floods the whole screen with void because you went too high

great boss great fight wow!
i just wanted to finish off radiant hall of gods before silksong but this shit is miserable
why did they make a boss you only encounter in the context of long grinds one of the most rng dependent fights in the game?

>>719872978
Because they aren't good game devs.
They just know how to make things presentable.

>>719872920
the basic one... i got locked out of it because i explored too much

>>719873119
this is my overwhelming feeling on hollow knight. it has its moments of pure kino but there are some serious flaws. it just gets lapped up b y a crowd who
A) are distracted by the nice artstyle;
B) buy into the worlds lore (which, btw, "lore" has been a fucking disaster for video games), and;
C) thinking playing a game that has a reputation as being hard makes them pro gamers and they can just dismiss any criticism with "git gud"

i dont hate the game. id say its a solid 7/10, and at its highs its honestly a 10. NKG is one of my favourite fights in any game, ever. there are just some aspects of it (bloated map, horrible movement/traversal, way too many samey bosses, story delivered via lore bullshit) that are huge letdowns.

(i also think having radiant as an option at all is pretty dumb since the game and its bosses were clearly not designed around pulling off hitless kills)

>>719869813
this, so long as you dont do radiants

>>719869526 (OP)
>t. filtered

>>719873441
>and they can just dismiss any criticism with "git gud"
this shit is obnoxious. I think I ended up with like 102% and I did that horrible retarded end game platforming thing so don’t even @ me

>>719870030
no

>>719875816
>legitimate and fair criticism
>git gud!
>filtered!
basically flying the “im a big fat fucking retarded faggot” flag

>>719869526 (OP)
Just abuse magic damage builds buggy

>>719872978
>>719873119
>>719873441
>>719877063
You're bad at videogames and terminal contrarians and you need to kill yourselves NOW

>>719872978
>wtf God cheated to beat me
lol

>>719865672
pathetic rentfree last replying waiting beastiality kike

>>719869526 (OP)
LilAggy beat P5 in one stream start to finish lmao, only died on NKG, PV and AR, so 3 deaths, then practiced these bosses and did a full clear

>>719869526 (OP)
I had more fun with the Path of Pain than the Pantheon. Same with the colosseum, it's designed to waste your time as much as possible so you can get to the ONE hard part and try again.

>>719871928
That's unironically the best build.

>>719879659
I underestimated it but it's comfy I can't lie. No thinking, only slashing

>>719873441
Yup my impression of hollow knight is that it’s a competent indie game and that’s it. I genuine don’t think there’s anything about it that makes it special compared to other competent indie games

>>719879896
Exactly this

>>719879495
>it's designed to waste your time as much as possible so you can get to the ONE hard part and try again.
Just practice the bosses in rooms if you have to

>>719873441
>A) are distracted by the nice artstyle
I find this one funny because the artsyle is just kind of mediocre. Visually its smooth and looks good in motion, but the style itself is so bleh.

>>719870114
>new arenas make bossfights unenjoyable

This, I never understood why they didn't give you the option to pick the original arena.

>>719869526 (OP)
>>719869572
Agreed on the DLC sucking but I just found it boring more than difficult.
The back to back boss fights is not really a thing that interest me, if there’s nothing in between it’s boring.
Grimm’s troup was much better.

>>719872978
>>719873441
This is optional endgame content, it's meant to be a challenge. With seals it's literally the hardest content the game offers, so applying the same metric as the base game is desingenuous and stupid
>Not designed around hitless
You have multiple playstyle options
You can spec into movement and fully be a dodge ballerina
You can also be a heal slut and face tank
You can do magic and go burst mode
At this point the game assumes that you have a full (optimized to whatever end) build and complete mastery of the game's mechanics.

At its worse 'git gud' is just to mock thinskinned faggots than can't persevere. At its core, 'git gud' is a statement on understanding: if you are not good there's shit you just don't understand and are acting wrong about. Either drop the ego and THINK about what you're missing (and act on it), or just be a faggatron and stop playing hard games

>>719869526 (OP)
Its just for people who want to squeeze every bit of content out of the game

>>719883183
>This is optional endgame content
content being optional isnt an excuse for it being dogshit. if something is presented as an option to the player, it should still be to a good standard. if a game had a room you could optionally go into that instantly deleted system32, retards like you would screech "well its just optional content" in its defence

>>719883183
post radiant hall of gods

>>719869526 (OP)
Just do the pantheons? You don't have to do radiant bosses

>>719869526 (OP)
Literally saved Hollow knight from mediocrity. I really liked the true arena in Kirby exactly for the same reason. The game shines with certain bosses. It's a shit game on pretty much every front. No rewarding exploration or cool movement tech to perform unlike super metroid or rabi ribi. Silksong is already the same. I hope there's a godhome there too

>>719873441
For me, the best fight in all of HK is mantis lords/sisters of battle. I think it perfectly captures the flow of combat and what 'good play' looks like. Its always a joy to fight and feels like a dance.
Nkg is up there too, along with pure vessel.

Im holding off on buying silksong until I finally beat the pantheon (no lifeblood), having come back after so long to try again. Please pray for me.

Literally the only good bosses are Mantis Lords and Nightmare King Grimm.
That's it, they're the only bosses that actually feel good to play and master, the rest you facetank or whatever and spam attack.

It goes to show the devs literally had no idea what the fuck they were doing and just threw random mechanics at you.

>>719869526 (OP)
I didn't even bother with that shit, beating the game with the normal ending was good enough.

>>719884538
>the rest you facetank or whatever and spam attack.
You didn't play the game

I had fun.

>>719884739
I did and you're mad.

That shit was made for trannies and content creators. Just skip it like 99% of normal people

>>719873441
>not designed around hitless
pure vessel and NKG are literally built for that
You have almost no room to heal in their fights

>>719886615
The only boss I could think that wasn't made for hitless is Fluke mother, I don't know what the others are bitching about when this game has been beaten hitless long before the first DLC was ever announced

>>719869572
Same. At least it was free and optional. I can't hate it too much if other people like cock and bug torture. The game is massive enough as is.

>>719884336
Don't do that to yourself you're gonna be burned out by the time you get to Silksong

Absolute Radiance? More like Absolute Cancer

>>719886615
>>719886778
pure vessel and nkg are the exceptions, not the rule. oblobbles, markoth, absrad; really anything with rng projectiles?

>>719889218
Yeah ok fuck these niggers

>2025
>people still getting filtered by markoth floorless
use the fucking dash slash and great slash
nuke him with spells

i just got burned out by harder pantheons because of how long it takes. i didn't want to spend an entire month getting good at patterns. i even tried to mute the game's audio and listening to podcasts and stuff but it was just too boring. i would've done it if the pantheons had checkpoints

>>719894356
It's 30 minutes

>>719894430
>make one (1) mistake
>have to spend another 30 minutes beating the filler bosses to get to the hard boss again