 Here we are We are in this Land steel soul run when I don't know I'm definitely gonna be playing more of this afterwards like first I'm gonna beat it then make then take a break on it and then figure out that skin mod that I've been working on with some help And then I might do a 100% run some sometime later 100% or 112% as people are calling it as well as a I don't know what steel soul run is But I assume it makes it harder. It's like hard mode. No death. No I guess I could attempt one, but um Yeah, no promises that sounds rough, but I guess it would be easier once I know the game now You know all the enemies because this game is really really fair The the boss design is amazingly done in the fact that everything is telegraphed even the the soul boss No, no the dreamer boss. I guess that I was fighting not the dreamer But the boss that I went into the dream with the dream now, you know the one like even that one It was really hard But like I could tell like all of the damage that I was taking was my own fault really So I kept making mistakes and it's not like Dark Souls where it's like like I love Dark Souls And they're really good at making fair bosses, but sometimes it's a blurry line with some bosses in Dark Souls But with this one like I really I feel really confident in saying That this is oh hello Sorry, let me finish that thought I feel really confident saying that all of the bosses so far are very very fair And I'm not just saying that just because I first tried a few of them Oh, what are you doing out in this miserable downpour? Impressive fountain, isn't it? I'm sure we'd be able to protect it more if we weren't both getting drenched the night up there was an important one The plaque here mentioned its sacrifice, which carries something of an ominous tone Probably meet some sort of horrible end though It sounds like the night's goal may have been achieved in the process in all the relics. I've collected I've yet to find a clue as to what that was I will be getting back to the shop soon if I stay out here for too long I'll get washed into the waterways come and visit if you like if you have relics. I mean I'm not much for chatter That's right. I have a I have a pass now for the what should I call it the tram system Where shall we go I think we shall go up there to the resting grounds So I can turn in all this green juice Just passing through tell you you're all epic you're all up your epic you're an epic gamer You're all epic gamers Figure out that exploding birds noise wasn't a grub friend. Oh, yeah I noticed that it wasn't the same my tribe closed it long ago and forbade it's open But as far as I can tell I'm the only member of my tribe still breathing That means I didn't feel bad about breaking a taboo as proof of my belief in you. I'll open the door There the door is open I used my mind powers to do it and you can enter the glade beyond it Listen closely in there and you may hear the uttering of bugs long gone The old kingdom are starting to cling to you very encouraging You've clearly made my dreary work here more exciting being the caretaker the care the cake taker The caretaker of this place hasn't been very stimulating. There's not even any cake. How can I care for cake if there's no cake? I shouldn't complain though tending these graves and guiding the wielder all penitence for old crimes Certain things have to be kept in balance. Take this trinket for your efforts and return with 500 assets Keep up your tireless work pale ore. Oh, nice. I can upgrade. I still have a thousand more essence cheese 500 essence you're a master in the making well done well done I have a small reward for you plucked from one of my most precious memories This charm will bring you the dream nail closer together still the secrets of this kingdom won't be able to hide from you any Longer take it and return once you've collected 700 essence more gifts away to you Dream wielder. I was a bear to charge the dream nail faster and collect more soul and striking foes neat Spirits glade Hello the bugs within this glade are under my watch Treat them with respect and you may remain a razor nail and you could tend contend with me Buy my cookies there. I'm so tasty beware your own mind little one Twisted minds breed docked deets and mine was more twisted than most I thought it would be my end, but instead I found this glade With it a sort of peace So all of these people are people that I can kill with my a dream nail, but I'm not gonna I used to help others They brought to me sick and dying What difference does it make any victory against death will always be temporary don't fear little creature though a violent rage Once possessed me a peaceful air in this place seems to keep it at bay or you a warrior little one a true warrior Is one who can stand strong in the midst of a storm? I was once obsessed with power through my time within this glade it has shed me of such desire What folly it was to ever crave such a vicious thing? Okay, so these are all warriors of some kind and a cookie seller You seem to now have some kind of peace in a strange after life We're always left with Reminders of the errors we've made let your mistakes not burden you But serve as guide posts on where not to travel Do you like my nail little wander? I only carry three far less than legends may suggest still each is sharper than the last and I'd require only one to Cut you down. Oh, I like this one. Are you admiring my fabulous mockings? I'm of the distinguished species you see though. I've not seen another like myself for the longest time Oh, it's a mock. I like them. Are you enjoying your time? I'd offer advice though to have made it here. You obviously You're obviously quite adept at navigating our world and its parents. Oh Don't fear my rotting form my body sheds Changes my core remains the same all of life's problems can be solved by crushing the force Such a simple mantra and one I've always lived by if you weren't so scrawny I'd suggest you follow my example is really testing the limits of my voice acting Don't judge me by my appearance though my stature is ma a bear a dark soul and a tendency to go berserk in battle Hark fellow adventurer. Are you heading out into the world? I'd join you But it's been a long time my fear. I'd lose my head I get it because their head is on there Why should having a shit touch it? This is just the same voice again having a shit I don't know what you get very easy to protect your sister in my cat You're saving your new she's waiting to meet me. I'll see you soon. She said that was long ago I wonder where she went. I like the designs of all that. Oh, that's cool I've been many places Many things But I suspect you will undo me by far out to do me. Sorry I've long ceased traveling the caverns of hollowness, and I suspect they're now far more dangerous than in my journeys Though with your capable heir, I'm sure you'll do the same. You'll do fine. I can't read. Good luck It's a fast world out there. I came from here far away to reach this place Though my shell may seem foreign beneath it. I'm a bug the same as you got so many This is cool. So I can fight all of these guys Interesting, and they're all unique fights. I assume maybe one day maybe one playthrough, but not this one. I know what I'll do Well, that's a wall Fast travel use a tram pass. All right Hmm. I see Press the glowing button. Why not? Hey, and we're back here. We're at the crossroads. Nice All right, and we can get to the crystal place from here. Myla, right? No, myla's up there Okay, she's picking away. Oh No Myla That sucks God I have one critique of this game. It made me sad. I hate it. This game sucks. Nobody likes this game Nobody likes Hollow Knight Sorry about that shaman crystallized mound It's over here. Oh It's a shaman. Hello descending dark while holding down straight Spelled to pleats soul replenish. Oh So this is like a more powerful one I think you're all cool just because you could shoot lasers. So could Jesus. You're not as big a deal as you think Bible spoilers Sorry in Leviticus 1114 Jesus shoots lasers out of his eyeballs. Oh Hollow Nests crown. Oh, this is like the highest place. Hey another pale ore It's down here Okay, just back down. All right Hmm, and I can't go up there. So this place is pretty much fully explored. I think let me just double-check really fast like Yeah, so these are all messages things carved in left behind for people to read I can't read them seems remember light This is either a mass of mass or a mass of nail or just a statue There is down here. I'm charted territory friend. Oh, I hear friend. Oh friend oh friend. Oh, hey friend. Oh, yeah Oh You're not a friend. Oh Yikes real friend. Oh, okay. Oh my gosh. Holy crap. All right. Oh That was freaky. All right. Good to good to know that that's not what a friend. Oh turns into it was just a mimic of some kind We see if there's anybody new here or anything new to buy Potomastio more health, please Ray Findo or friend. Oh, hello elderbug Circuitous roots beyond the cliff beside us. It's a hard trek now But in the kingdom's prime things were far simpler. There's an old pass in the cliff that once allowed easy access I bridge up to it has long since crumbled away and even without it a huge door bars entry I can't complain. Mind you. It's meant we It's meant we've only ever had to accommodate a trickle of travelers even during the busiest times I wouldn't want hordes of bugs to descend on dirt mouth. I like the quiet that noise the old lift Where does it go up to the old mines? They carved into the peak? I suppose have you been up there? Is it drew the crystals glow grow everywhere you set a villager brought some of those crystals back to the village once? I don't quite understand the allure myself. You can't eat them and they don't make very good pillows They hardly seem worth any trouble to me. Oh elderbug you ignorant boomer Let's go. Let's go to fungal wastes over there perfect or soul, please What is my favorite enemy been so far I don't know. I really like the little crawlies the creepy crawlies the various flavors of that They're very cute. I like the fluffy white ones one little figure of it or like a plushie I also like The little green the green one the green bushy ones. I like those the most actually I also really like them. They're not really enemies because they don't attack you But the little mushrooms with no face that just run into the wall and run away from you I love those. They're in a where are they? They're in green path. They just run around. They're so dumb I love them favorite boss I think the hmm the wizard the master of soul or whatever. He was pretty satisfying to fight Also hornet I always like dual fights where it's like you fight someone of kind of equal abilities Or similar. I know some can find it boring where it's like it's like you but they're evil But I just like the occasional one, you know Do I like the game so far nah hate it never gonna touch it again awful only kids play cartoon games like this I play manly man gamer games like Call of Duty shoot a guy and Dank souls not these baby maple story looking games Look at this. This is just this game's just a rip off a maple story with all the mushrooms and the jumping and slashing in the 2d ranges are good in divinity 2 they get both. Oh these guys. I love these guys. Look at them go And they keep bumping into the wall too. I love them Look at them go Okay, he's gonna fall down there. You like what? God, they're so dumb Say I could be like manuela save a line. Oh, what good to foresee a demise unavoidable Hail worm there's been talk of like some kind of worm throughout Hello. Oh This is Down here. Ah, I've been trying to figure out how to get up there this whole time neat Well, that explains a deep nest the rest of deep nest I still don't know what that random like other me was in here There was another like bug night that was down here that looked just like me that was just standing there menacingly looming He's just standing there Menacingly I tried to follow him just kind of disappeared. So that means I mapped out Yeah, I mapped out the rest of that. All right, cool. So there's a way in Mantis Village down there So that's our next stop. Yeah, I have my own website. Oh They bow to me now. That's really cool. Hello. Oh, that's neat because they respect me. That's so cool Hey, remember that time I beat the man just lords on my first try at rich farm remembers They're making raisin bread like grandma made wait, but that that just goes fog Canyon, which I can't go to yet All right, I think I'm pretty lost now because I'm thinking every every way I've gone there's so yeah Help me out chat. Where do I need to go next? I said the magic words help me out chat the tram in the ancient basin Okay, I guess I haven't done the tram in the ancient basin. So I'll go there. It sounds like a good idea All right, I'll go to the tram This is where I broke the stream last time because I was doing this And then the stream happened to end All right, just take the tram This one's clean the hive whoa I've not seen this ever. I mean, I've not seen a lot of these this is like totally different. I mean come back I want to kill you. Oh Whoa You like jazz We've awoken the hive. This place is pretty very different from the other environments. I like it I've not seen anything of this area. So this is like totally new to me not even like in like screenshots and stuff Bench Cornifer Kingdom's Edge Hey, Cornifer Isn't this a cozy hole have been venturing about the wilderness beside here and thought a moment break was well called before The landscapes all rather serene this side of the city of the inhabitants are as ferocious as ever and I'm out Right sweet. Okay. That's a new icon Colosseum of fools This bench down there too Oh Hello Okay, I see there's a Colosseum up there. I assume those are the losers Okay, now, what's this supposed to be? secret oh That's cheeky. It's very cheeky. Wow We've never found that that's hidden. That's like old-school secret. It looks like shedding First I thought it was like salt, but I'm pretty sure all these things would be dead and it's falling I can hit it. We are bugs Friend time new friend Hello I love him. Um, tiny thing you climb high seek then knowledge of these lands This ashen places grave of worm once told it it came to die But what is death for that ancient being more transformation me thinks this failed kingdom is Product of the being spawned from that event this falling ash is malt the worms corpse decaying endless Serene sad with it's like gone the world is smaller Okay, so the worm is apparently some big ancient important thing Don't mistake. I am not a worm or too small I am too many limbs no foresight like those old beings for quiet retreat Did I climb up here away from spitting creatures or yes high up away from simple minds lost to light There's is a different kind of unity reject of the worms attempted order I resist the lights allure union it may offer but also a mind bereft of thought to instinct alone a bug is reduced Okay, so yes, this confirms my theory that light is bad beyond your way Then it's rest I'll return to though in these times sleep off proves uneasy What are you dream of? One prefers its mind not be pride. It's rather unsettling rather invasive. Oh, he knows. Oh Sorry, sorry about that. That's rude of me. I mean, it's technically right I shouldn't go reading people's thoughts like that willy-nilly a breach of privacy How about you don't please I don't come into your dreams Hey, is this us shortcut City of Tears. I remember this area. Okay, sweet Bench on the map bench Wanderer's journal sweet. It's a tent. So there's a worm up above us somewhere Hey, what's up? Hello. Is it daytime? So you pursue the deeper truth. It isn't one the weak could bear All right round two Prove yourself ready to face it. I'm not hold back My noodle is lethal and I'd feel no sadness in a weaklings demise. Show me you can accept this kingdom's past and claim responsibility for its future faster Heal That's a counter. Okay, that's not fair. I don't get to lay traps. Okay more traps. All right. Oh Oh Geez It's getting getting there Almost first try baby So strong you could do it if you had the will but could you raise your nail once knowing it's tragic conception and knowing yourself And do it goes to Polo nest head on wood burn that mark upon your shell and claim yourself as king. Oh Crap is this it? Shit, I don't know if I'm ready yet. Hold on. Let me go heal up. I can't be I'm I'm guessing there's more I don't I don't know that I'm that close to the end But I'm gonna go here regardless. I'm gonna go heal up still feels like cuz I still have to do the three dreamers So I'm assuming that I'm not done yet She called me the ghost of hollow nest No, no the worms above us cast off shell The king's brand hollowness shall recognize a new ruler the kingdom's gates will open. Oh Okay, let's get out of here All right My night has been shining armor. She saved me where to now I guess Well, I have two directions I can go I can go further into this hive nest or I could go open that door I'm gonna since I'm already here. I'm gonna go through the hive This is oh It's the third one. Yeah, I think you'll find me down here where the world ends Yes, I know why you're here You came to learn nail art from the legendary nail master Oro It is the law of the great nail sage that I must pass down my teachings to those who are worthy But no law forbid me from exacting a payment for my time if you truly wish to train under me and prove it with Geo. All right. Yeah, sure Dash slash concentrate energy into the nail release the button while dashing to perform a dash slash Hmm, I must say you're an excellent pupil your skill with a nail and your thirst to become stronger You remind me of my brothers. I met your brothers. I have taught you all I can go back into the world traveler and leave me to my solitude Brother motto and you're a lonely home at the top of the world Do you still think of me as an enemy? No, he doesn't in the future if you will listen I will tell you why I chose to tread this path. Oh, I want to reconcile Seems like some kind of superstures Waterways royal waterways, okay New friend of new NPC. Oh, hello. Ah, what a surprise. It's not often I receive visitors. It's been so long ages Even I hope my manners haven't left me. You've no doubt sensed my affluence. You're right to guess I'm renowned amongst the upper cast of hollowness. Well, I was once until those cretins cast me out Have you met them my former fellows? That's them outside their bodies shambling around all mindless and empty And I'm still alive to witness their pathetic demise. I'm just so happy. It can be a wonderful thing. What up? Wow. All right Oh Could it be you returned at last? No. No. Oh, pardon me. Just for a moment. I mistook a certain quality about you You seemed almost recall. Well, I am the new king silly. I know it's clear. You're not of high birth wandering all dirt and tattered like that Okay, isn't life just wonderful. Geez She's kind of a Doubt this one will meet its demise at the nails of the city's guards I will love you too little grub as I did all the others. Wow, okay Geez, she is In need of some manners Well, since we're here might as well go get an upgrade. She is bigamini head. Seriously. Wow How cold can you be towards these like husks of dead former residents? He says killing in drool. Listen, it's self-defense because I know they'll they'll fight me otherwise You know, I pity though. I don't I don't feel joy from what these what happened to these creatures. I pity them She doesn't she's all like Boy being alive is great. Oh being alive, man. I'm glad I still have my sanity unlike those husk like Monstrosities outside. What losers am I right? All right, nail upgrade. Let's go as you wish. I'll work on them There we are forging is complete I modified the nail to spiral form very tricky task It was to find it stronger than ever before off you go now cut your way forward pretty be careful Let's see this. Whoa a powerful weapon of hollowness refined beyond all others. Ah I see out. Okay Hello, is there a new friend here? All right, I'm following your voice. Hello boss time. Okay boss time probably Hey, can we can we chat for a little bit first you talk you seem like a cool guy I love this guy. I like his music too. Oh Look at him go Swimming through I Love this guy. Oh He's falling over. Oh, he's having such a good time The happiest dung beetle I've ever met. Oh He's angry now. He's getting aggressive. Oh Love that guy. Oh No I'm so far away. It happened again. It's time to do a little bit of hoofing This is this is my favorite boss so far just the personality Mr. Defender Don't get too close. You can apparently hit you with his hand while he's throwing those He'll up. Oh, he's having such a good time Yeah, I like jovial characters too You're just the best. Oh, hello. Oh, no, don't die. No. Oh, there it goes. Oh No, he's fine. He's fine. He just scrounged into the dong Yeah, favorite boss so far Fenders crass unique charm bestowed by the king of the hollowness to his most loyal knight Scratched and dirty but still cared for causes the bear to admit a heroic odor. Oh, I love it Okay, we've been putting off the hive for a while now. Let's let's go to the hive. Let's go back to the hive Hey bouncy one. I like how fluffy they are to bouncy beat. Oh my god, they can break those They're cracked. I was wondering why they're some of them were cracked. I came in like a wreck in me Here we go. Kingdom's Edge. Yeah, all right secret passage Queen all right Hello Hi Like that, there's a little rendition of flight of the bumblebee in there How long have you had those in you hate those things? Oh, man Right. Oh, I'm a snipe to the ads Queen I am am I your new night now. I have the yellow robes man So this whole area was optional interesting. Hello my night at last you are freed Small thing. I know you're kind if you attempt to resolve your past then no I'm not the queen you seek it is the pale being that bear blame for your nature though this hive exists within Holonest We play no part in its attempt at Perpetuation to rail against nature is folly all things must accept an end. Okay, so there's a cycle That's going of some kind does that mean she's dead. I guess so I guess that's just like her bloated husk So all that was an optional area interesting so now I can head to there now that I have the king's mark Let's try this though hit me Does it keep going? Okay? Does that one come back? No, all right? I see so if I get hit if I keep waiting it'll come back Okay, I think this is the way. Yeah, there we go. Oh, that's a lot of shells. Oh It's literally the of this aha Hello good sir Indelibly oh Nope Happen to have any geo on you. Would you I didn't think so. I hope porno for never comes here I would love a map, but I hate to think that he traverses kind of place Hey souls. Oh my gosh. That's so bright Geez, oh the bright light is shining on these this black goop. It's making it so I can traverse Yeah, hello There's a Samoth the Metroid statue. Oh Boy shade cloak dashboard cloaked in shadow use the cloak to dash through enemies and their attacks without taking damage This is what I need. This is what I need to get through that thing. Yes Yeah, this is definitely this is straight up a Metroid reference. I appreciate it Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba. Let's see. Oh, yeah We dark souls now Al. Oh Hey, Hornet ghost. I see you face the place of your birth and now drape yourself in the substance of its shadow Though our strength is born of similar source that part of you that crucial emptiness I do not share funny then that such darkness gives me hope within it I see the chance of change a difficult journey you would face but that choice it can create prolonged world Stasis will face the heart of its infection. Mmm. So I'm so I was born down here That's why all those things look like me and the infection I'm guessing the Hollow Knight fights off the infection and this is all theories I could be totally wrong and I'm not gonna reach out just in case so feel free to discuss it amongst yourselves And be like oh my gosh Joe got it right or be like God Joe Joe's an idiot. He's completely off the mark I'm guessing Attitude to take that harder path, but what end may come the decision rests with you I'm guessing whatever infection comes back and the new Hollow Knight has to seal it away I don't know their links There's some kind of cycle and they're linked where it's up for you alone I just don't know how they're linked because if I'm causing the infection by killing the dreamers Then that doesn't make sense But if it's happening anyway, and it's just represented by me Killing the dreamers. It's just representing the passage of time. Then yeah, that makes sense. All right Well time to go back to the it's called The jellyfish place and also down there. Oh As odd as much of holoness can be there's a whole new level of strangeness about these cabins Did you see the dark gate below? It was quite unsettling to be near it did my best to avoid it fortunate for me I found another route in though. I did end up a little singed after waiting through some acid. Yeah Quirrell, what's up, dude? Doesn't this kingdom just abound with surprises? I building atop an acid lake despite the side I can't help but feel familiarity something stares in my mind though I can't yet tell what I thought it my lust for discovery that led me here But now there seems to be something else this building beckons me. I can feel it calling dare. I had in A lot to explore is this a rapture. It really does look like rapture Hello there Boss time Moomoo, okay, I can't hit it We Quirrell Yeah, thanks, man. Whoo, dude. Quirrell's the best Quirrell to the rescue Quirrell, please help me out, but Nice Dude, it's nice to see him in action. What a badass dude Yes, whoa Quirrell all so hot Stop being so thirsty chat. I've been a bad influence on you. I blame myself Something close within the tank Hello, Quirrell. Hey bud. Thanks for the help. Did she call you too then? I realized it's no coincidence. We arrived together Now much of my memory is blank this place I recall within these chambers the teachers saw to restore to store the kingdom's Knowledge and at its core she stored herself to save hollowness the teacher willingly became a seal but upon herself She enacted an additional protection. No, I cannot recall. It's happening I played a part in the feet. She called me here now to reverse that protection all in aid of you Whoa, oh he had her mask on his head this whole time Do not hesitate a choice to reform us hers. She knows what you would do and seems to welcome it Well, maybe I am the good guy a figure sleeps within the tank. Oh, there we go. Oh, she's a dreamer Hello For diversity the seal world forever unchanging seals must break forever She said it's okay Achievement unlocked teacher. All right. Here goes another one One more I don't like that I Her seals break. It's a heavy thing you attempt But I've seen your powers up close and she too believes you capable be on your journey then allow me to rest a time With the deed complete. I begin to feel my age. Oh Coral, you're so cool. They're this kingdom's fate World's such a bro. Wow. I almost have this whole place mapped out All right. Now that we're at a station. I'm uh I'm gonna call it here for now. I'll be back in the next video. Yeah, I'll be back