 Shout out to Squarespace for sponsoring today's video. Let's see what's next. So next thing that I'm thinking of doing is we're gonna, I'm gonna attempt to do that flower side quest again. So we're gonna get rid of a few things. We're gonna redo our charms. I don't, so the thing is a lot of these are not useful because I don't intend on getting hit because when you get hit, the flower dies. So you can't get hit once. So all of these defensive things like grub song and soul catcher are useless because I don't need soul, I don't need to heal because I'm not gonna get hit. What happened to the custom Hollow Knight skin? Every time, it unfortunately isn't working. Whenever I install it, it prevents me from loading any games. Like on the load game screen, it just goes blank and I don't know how to fix it. Why? Yes, I'm sorry. I'm trying my best. Oh, oops. I got a good feeling about this one. Watch. First try this stream. Speedy. Very speedy. Who gave that preemptive F? No preemptive Fs here. I'm gonna make it. Am I doing the thing? You bet. I'm doing the thing. I want to go up. Yeah. As we discovered last stream, the tramway, not the stagway, but the tram apparently does not break the flower much to some people's beliefs. Remember to not get hit? I'll try. Hold your Fs yet, chat. No, don't do your Fs yet. We're not out of the woods yet. I just know this is gonna be a place where one of my runs goes wrong because of this dropping nonsense. I'm one with the gorp. The gorp is with me. I'm one with the gorp. The gorp is with me. Oh, I went under the platform. Oh, what a goof I am. Listen, lady, it's really hard, okay? There's a lot of things. I don't see you trying to do this. Well, now Nemesis part at Mantis has killed me, rather not killed me, but gotten in my way multiple times. Tired of you messing around and messing with my plans, ruining my side quest. Mantis. Mantis. All right, you jerk, you unpleasant being. You know, when they say higher beings, you're a lower being. You're the one. You're at the bottom of the rug, Aspid. Aspid, more like Aspid because you're ass because you smell. You smell bad. No one likes you, Aspid. Smelly. Smelly Aspie. He's poopy. He's doodoo head. You're a poopy head. When we spell it out, you're a poopy head. This quest has made me lose my mind. I'm resorting to kindergarten insults. More like butt, Spid. More like poopy-doopey, Spid. Yes, I'm doing the flower thing. This is my third try this stream. I think eighth, ninth try overall. I think I did six tries the last time. Where are you? Wait, do they not respawn it? Nope. Nope. They do. They do. I'm terrified. Hello. Come on. One Mantis down. Taste it. I could smell that thing. I could smell the grave. I'm gonna give it one last shot. And then if I can't do it this time, I'm gonna look for something else to do. I think Team Cherry's out to get me. They saw how good I did on the game in my YouTube playthrough and they're like, we're gonna crank up the game just for him. We're gonna make a personalized patch. We're gonna fuck with him. We're gonna make the Mantis's respawn. And then next stream, we're gonna make him not respawn. We're gonna mess with his brain. It's all conspiracy, I tell ya. Team Cherry, they have it out for me. I know it. All right. Yeah, we're gonna have to continue this some other time. One day I will. That day is not today, but that day exists. And when it comes, oh boy, victory will be sweet. Order of business should be exploring the waterways. So, hello, you. Oh, what was that? Huh? Yo, what's up? Oh, you want some? Fuck you say to me? All right. Love how you just instantly turns around. Oh, hello. You are a thing. Hollow Knight knows how to make things simultaneously adorable and terrifying. Hello, you are gross. You're just terrifying. You're just gross. They're like day of the tentacle tentacle. Those things are just gross, not even cute. God, their sounds and their design and everything. God, this is like a more wet deep nest. It's like deep nest but grosser. What percentage am I at? I am at 82%. Slowly but surely making progress. I haven't gone to the right. I think the right was blocked off by Sprite, what blocked me last time. But maybe I didn't explore enough. Let me go see. And I can't reach it because I can't swim in the Sprite. Oh, it's just water right now. Okay, so this is not Sprite. This is just water. Okay, so that means I could probably get to that place that I wanted to get to. Map that out. Time to head to the right. The right direction. Yeah, this. I need to be able to swim in the Sprite to do that. So I have not found the swim in Sprite ability. Only those who prove their honor and comment may enter the grove beyond the defender. So this is the way to Dung Defender. And I beat Dung Defender already. Frendo, I hear a Frendo. We're going to save Frendo. This is new. I've definitely not been here. Isma's Grove. No, I've not been here. What are you? Isma's tear. Acid shall be repelled. Yes. Finally, I can swim in the Sprite. Yeah. Oh my God, that makes things so much easier. Now I can go a route that I think there's another route that I can go to the Queen's Garden now. Man, things are going to be much easier. Okay, now that I have this, let's clear the way. Let's scout. I'm going to scout. We're going to scout ahead, killing some things on the way. We're going to scout a new route, an easier route, perhaps. So I think, I think it was actually through the fog canyon that we weren't able to go. Fairly certain. Fog Canyon was the way I hope we shall see. We shall see. First, just go my normal route, killing things ahead. Fog Canyon time. Luckily, it means I don't have to deal with those dropping guys. So that's one less worry is that I don't have to worry about falling into the Sprite, which makes one part a lot easier. This provides a new different type of challenge. Pretty sure these jellyfish respond. This is going to be a little bit hectic. And so on the deep, that's an explosive. All right. Good to know. Good to know that there are explosives lying around. Just hanging out. I don't know if this is necessarily easier than Greenpath. So far, it just seems different, especially this part. Oh, God, geez. What a smart game design and foresight to put these, knowing that your people are going to have to go through this for the flower quest. Okay, so it doesn't seem like I needed the Sprite swim to get through that. It was just an alternate path. But so far, I don't have to deal with any mantises, which is always nice. Okay, there's the mantis. Where's the mantis? So there's that one. And then there's another one up here. Get rid of them, because apparently they don't respond despite my craziness getting to me. Okay. And then this is the final route does not change. So this doesn't change. Nothing I can do can change this. I just need to be careful. This jump right here is a is a doozy. This one, do it too early and you run into the spikes, do it too late and you fall into the spikes. But I think we have a better route now. I'd much prefer this one to the other one. Jellyfish, jellyfish. I should have killed these jellyfish, but they were too scary because they were big jellyfish. I did kill these jellyfish, but they came back because apparently it's inconsistent which ones we spot jellyfish. Ah, come on. All right. That's not too bad. Feeling it up. Whatcha say? Oh, honey, you only meant well. Oh, baby. Whatcha say? Whatcha say? Oh, baby, whatcha say? Oh, my gosh. There you go. Oh, hello. Oh, it's a Mantis. Here sleeps the Trader's Child. Oh, okay. All right. So that's the Trader's Child. I wonder if the Trader has any relation to the Mantis Lords. I assume it seems like I have an alliance with the Mantis Lords, but not the Trader Lord. I guess the Trader Lord went against the Mantis. I'm going to look at my hunter's notes because apparently these, this is the closest thing we have to like lore stuff. So I'm going to look if I have anything on the Mantis Trader Lord. Disposed Lord of the Mantis Tribe embraced the infection and turned against his sisters. I see. I felt that desire, the desire to take the infection on into myself, to become stronger, more powerful. These thoughts haunt my dreams during the darkest times of false hope, but it can burn so brilliantly in one's mind. This tells me that apparently the infection, you can willingly take the infection. Just like we saw with the Vagabond, which is very interesting, is the Vagabond and their followers willingly gave themselves to the infection, as did the Trader Lord. Yeah, the hunter's all alone. So let me look what it says about the Mantises. There it is. There they are. Mantis youth. As it grows, it loses the ability to fly, pass it into adulthood is often celebrated. But as time goes on, we realize what we have lost. Mantis Tribe and the bugs of old hollowness had no love for each other. The Mantises out live their rivals, though, and their civilization still stands. Leaders of the Mantis Tribe and its finest warriors, they bear thin nail lances and attack with blinding speed. I like the only entry for Gorb is, I am Gorb! Gorb, Grimkin Novice, young and playful member of the Grim Troop. As part of the ritual, it gathers scarlet flame within its torch. It will relinquish the flame once defeated. Shadows, dream of endless fire. Flames devour an ember's swoop. One will light the nightmare lantern. Call and serve the Grim's dead troop. Powerful and devoted member of the Grim Troop, Grimkin Master. As part of the ritual, it gathers scarlet flame within its torch. It will relinquish the flame once defeated. As a spark of red lights darkest dream, Scarlet Nightmare's bright and wild. Visions dance and flames do speak. Burn the father, feed the child. Grimkin Nightmare, terrifying member of the Grimkin Troop. As part of the ritual, it gathers scarlet flame. Dance and die and live forever. Silent voices shout and sing. Stand before the Troop's dark heart. Burn away the Nightmare King. So Grim, I assume Grim is the Nightmare King. Don't confirm or deny chat. Don't tell me if I'm right or wrong. I'm just spitballing. I'm just thinking out loud. I'm guessing Grim is the Nightmare King. Because when I fought him in his dream realm, it was like Nightmare King Grim. I don't know if defeating him is something that they're trying to prevent or he's trying to prevent. Or if it's all part of the act. It's like, oh, you've defeated the Nightmare King. Oh, you know, all part of his act. Don't confirm or deny me, like in the chat. I'm just discussing and just thinking out loud. I don't know if it's all and my main point is that I'm spitballing, that I'm thinking out loud is that I don't know if this is all an act on his part or if he's actually trying to maintain his kingly hood. All right, let's go see. I finally have done your chore. Mourner, I did your chores. Me, the mayor, you have done this thing. Is it possible? This world's cruelty. I thought it overwhelming, but the mayor such great compassion that she's love would know her partner's heart, even her own past. Is it that limit such grief can end? She can end. Who are my dear love? She too can end. Oh, achievement unlocked solace. Wow, so she's at peace. Have I not gone down there? Have I not explored down there? Nope, Nest. Go back to Nope, Nest. What is there left for me there? Deep nest bottom left if you want lore. All right, so my options are deep nest nightmare king grim. Oh, yeah, I missed that part. Oh, look, I am missing that part. Huh. There's like a little, yeah, there's a little spot right there that I didn't explore. All right, looks like we're going Nope, Nest. All right, we're going to do Nope, Nest, but first upper part of soul sanctum. I don't know soul sanctum. There it is. I'm blind. I'm a fool on the road again, playing hollow night on the road again, going to Nope, Nest, so I can kill more never friends, bug night, and I'm on the road again. Whatever ornate door. There we go. Elegant key. Oh, hello, you're back. I've fought you plenty of times in the arena fools. You don't scare me anymore. You ain't nothing about anything. No hits. Suck it. No. It's shaman figure connected to the device examined closely, but their shell is different. Shaman, you all right there? Are you a different shaman? I assume that's a different shaman shade soul. Yeah, there we go. Sweet. Amazing. I guess that was another shaman just being tortured. Hollow nest is messed up. This kingdom's fucked up. Torturing a poor shaman, hooking him up to a bunch of soul things. God, will these vods be uploaded to YouTube? Yes, you can find, if you do exclamation point, Vod, it will link you, I think anyway, I think that's the command. It will link you to my Vod channel, Joke at Streams. If it doesn't link, then you can find Joke at Streams on YouTube where all of these will be, yeah, there we go. Yeah, all of these will be uploaded to the Vod channel. If you like to watch them in full, if you don't have time to watch them in full or prefer not to, I will likely be hiring Tizen again to cut these down and highlight them so that they can go on the main channel, because I know a lot of people want to see me finish up the rest of the game, and it's fun. Bang! Yeah, I got a new upgraded spell. It's all black and edgy. That's how you know it's more powerful. Black War Graemon, more powerful than regular War Graemon. Yeah, I said it. It's the truth. At least I think it is. What am I doing now? I'm going to Notenest, and I'm reading the chat while I'm not looking at the game. I'm going to Notenest because apparently there was a place that I didn't explore. Am I doing a crap guide to Hollow Knight? No. Firstly, because I don't know what I would do it on. People have suggested the charms, but like, there's not enough to each charm, right? Like, they'd be really short, makes it easier to escape from dangerous situations. So like, great. Like, how do I make a full video on that? I feel like I would be stretching it out. And if I did it on sets of charms, right? There's still a lot, and I'm just, I'm just not interested, you know? Wait, this isn't where I'm supposed to be. This isn't the right way. Silly Joe. Wait, no, this is the right way. What? Ah, I'm confuzzled. It's like the same. Oh! No face, is that you? Oh, please, please. Don't be shy. There are some nasties about here, all right. Not me. I'm a friend to all, and happy to serve a traveler so bold as you. Is it information you seek that I can provide? Oh, yes. Midwife. The midwife of whom, might I ask? The village above here, home to a sad creature. Hers is a tale of tragic exchange, cost her and her people greatly. Though I suspect she bore no regret in making it. Yes, I know, I know. You're intrigued. You want to know the tale? Well, I'm sorry. I'd love to tell it, but I'm just, I'm very sorry. I haven't eaten in some time. I'm so, oh, I'm starving. Can I feed you some of my charms, if you would prefer? Oh, should've dream nailed her. I feel like I missed something. Hidden area. A bit lower. Could I go lower? The lower right part. Okay, yeah, because I was planning on going there, but I'm talking about in here, in this area. Is there anything left in this area for me to do? No? Okay, all right. Because, all right, it's all mapped out. Oh, she's back. Okay, I guess she is back. My good friend, you wear that bright mark of relationship. Then you've met her, perhaps. Her, who'd guard the mark, the gendered child. A lot of people seem to know Hornet. A sprightly thing, isn't she? Pale gift to the nest and the beast. And fair trade for sacrifice made. Long she's been distant. And do our spirits well where she took grace us a visit home? Oh, I'm sorry. Old memories cause my mind to wander on such silly diversions, especially when I'm oh so famished. Come on, stay still. Can I not dream nail you? All right. Hangry. Ow, okay. Should have expected that. All right, I'm coming back later when you're less upset. All right, so I gotta leave the room and come back. God, get out, get out. Oh, she knows. She doesn't like me reading her mind, apparently. Ah, it returns. I do apologize about before. No matter, no matter. My appetite off gets the better of me. For now, at least, I'm content. Would you hear about myself? There's not so much to say. I'm a servant to the nest, though few in recent times would seek my service. Our brood is lost to that pestilence of the mind. A sad fall for the most intelligent species. Ah, but I've eaten yes and full. Then again, another morsel would make me so happy. The perfect end to a meal. Get out of here. That's right. Get some manners. Hello. My dear, aren't you so kind, checking again on my well-being. I'm ever the caring host. I can't understand why more don't visit in your manner. I can't imagine why either. Could it be your horrible appetite? Now, you wouldn't mind while I take just a little bite, just a leg perhaps. A full belly is the best path to happiness. Must have exhausted all her dialogue. What are you thinking about? Yeah, you don't like that, huh? You don't like someone looking in your brain. Yeah, all right. Time to head to the bottom right of Nope Nest. Goodbye. So, okay. So I missed, I must have missed something. Feels like there should be more. Because you guys said, the way you guys phrased it, it sounded like there was more to know. Help me out, chat. Because I'm probably going to look up a guide for this anyway. Help me out, chat. Where is the that that I missed? West of the hot spring. Not the Frendal Room. I'll figure out how to find the Frendal Room on my own. But if there's another that, that's not the Frendal Room. Left of the hot spring. All right. Okay, so here, I'm here, and then left. This one. Oh, okay. I got it. All right. Thank you. Thank you, chat. Frendal, wait. Home. Okay, you're safe. Go home. Hey there, me. How you doing? Looking good. Yeah, I'm thinking the same thing. How are there two of me? I'm me. How can you be me? I'm me. I'm me, he says. What are you looking at? Looking at something? What are you looking at, old sport? This is some limbo shit. Came back this way. Wait, come back. I'm all right. No worries. Oh my God. Hello. Ah, gross. Ah, gross. Anyway. Gnask. Very fast. Very jittery. Oh, are you on the ceiling? Yeah, you are. Okay. I seriously thought I could one try that. Oh, screwed up my frames. Dang. Sorry about that. I feel bad for Teeson. He's got to edit. I feel bad for the people on YouTube too, if they're going to watch a stuttery stream. So sorry if you're watching this on YouTube. There's not much I can do about it. Oh, you just got to, all right. You just got to do that while I'm getting my thing back. All right. That's cool. What a jerk. It's my play style. My play style is sucking right now. You haven't done that in a while. Oh, God. Okay. That was stressful. They call me to try Joe. Get out of here. I'm the only mask around here. What's next? Hello there. Pale ore. Hey, one more and I can upgrade my nail one more time, I think. Oh, look at them all. Hey, give me all the useless money that I'll never use. Is that it? Yes. Final pale ore. All right. Thank you. What do you dream of? I can't see. Look at all the grubbies. I only have a few left. All right. So now we got to go to the nails, Smith. Pretty be careful. I bet that makes discussion in the chat very confusing and frustrating. No one knows what anyone's talking about. One person's talking about the bloob spewer. The other person, one person's like, oh, he needs to get the sole vessel to fight the bloob spewer. And then someone's like, oh, they must be talking about the leg, leggy skitters. Yeah. No, no, no. He doesn't have to get the keys for the leggy skitters. No, no, no. He does because I'm talking about the bloob spewer. Dang bloob spewer. Hello, Nail Smith. You've returned. I see you have some pale ore, a rare fine metal that 4000 GL. Wow. Pricy. It's done. The reforge is done. Your nail is much stronger than it used to be, as strong as it could ever be. And only your weapon have I seen such potential. Finally, I behold a majesty of a pure nail. To think this moment has come upon me so soon, I must step outside a moment. Hey, my life's work achieved. What more has left? With a pure nail forged, my work in this lifetime has come to an end. My only remaining desire is to see and feel the next nail strike true. I beg you, cut me down as my final moment in life. I want to taste the blade's exquisite edge. Oh, dude. After all this time, all this toil, haven't I earned it? Nail Smith? Nail Smith, no. He has no dreams. It is his wish. Okay, that was kind of silly. Nail Smith? He's gone. I'm sorry, Nail Smith. You were the greatest. That is depressing, though. Blacksmith was like, I don't want any more. Kill me. I've done my duty. There's nothing left for me. That's depressing. This game is depressing. Like, it's nice and everyone's, everyone's, oh, adventure. And there's a few creepy stuff. But then freaking, this guy's just like, I want to die. All right, let's look at our charms. This is going to be a tough fight. All right, then, here we go. The child. Oh, I need wiggles. Okay. Here we go. Yeah. All right, we're going to be here a while. Oh, you, that's different. All right, yep. Well, I lasted longer than last time. It's the same attacks. It's just got a little extra, it's a little faster, and it's got a little extra umph, like fires and stuff. But it's otherwise the same move set for the most part, and it deals more damage. Geez, you can't get hit once. Why don't you just kill him or something? I didn't think about that. Fire, bad. Ah, fire. No fire. All right, this attack is when he's most vulnerable. I'm just not going to, oh geez, I was going to say I'm not even going to bother getting him. Oh no, he just dashes sometimes. He just dashes when it feels like it. All right. Yeah, I really can't feel in this fight, which makes the hive thing even more valuable. Grim is the kind of person who takes hurt me daddy a little bit too seriously. Covered a little spot. Watch it not work. What is that, 17? Oh, I'm the better dad. Oh my God, they called me 17 trijo. Ultimate wiggles. What do you think, elderbug? Aha, good riddance. That creepy carnival is vanished and the towns return to its former self. Nice and quiet as I like it. It's quite enough to deal with just the occasional traveler. Whole structures appearing out of nowhere, dreadful music, horrific masks, all far more than one old bug should have to face. Horrific music, what are you talking about? Oh man, elderbug, you boomer, you don't know good music. Ah, that charm, it's beautiful, most precious thing, little lovely. Will you let me see it? Have to show it to me. Yeah, I'm not gonna use it. Such a little beauty, such a smell, such a smell. Ah, so good, so tasty, a perfect, perfect thing. Just for me. Ah, you're good little lovely. You're very sweet to bring me such a gift. The one who made my gift. Ah, somewhere below, yes. Very good gift, very tasty, delicious. Do you want something little lovely? You don't want to take my gift back, do you? Not necessarily, but I kind of would like something in return. Eh, so nasty, so cruel if that's true. Once you give something as a gift, it's lost to you forever. That's, yeah, that's true. She does have a point. A gift for you, so greedy. But I can show you something if you're nice to me, little lovely. Will you do a nice thing, lovely? Give them to me, your Gio. Give me your Gio and I'll give you a gift. Oh my, 9,000 Gio! I don't have 9,000 Gio! I used to. No Gio, why? Why don't you have enough Gio? I'll be right back. Ah, geez. Never thought she was a gold digger. Oh, Nightmare King, the expanse of dream in the past was split. One realm now must stay apart. Darkest reaches, beating red, terror of sleep, the nightmare heart. Well, I guess that's our next objective because I've got nothing to use Gio on anyway, nothing to spend it on. All right, here's your Gio. I don't think I want that anymore. Unbreakable greed. Oh, it's not fragile anymore. Causes the bear to find more Gio when defeating enemies. Nice, I guess. I mean, I guess that's nice. Okay, so she turns fragile charms into unbreakable charms. Good to know. Also gross! That time, man, Teezen is a great editor who put this whole video together and I want to show my appreciation for him somehow. You think I could pay him with money? But I prefer to pay in wheels of cheese so I can use that money to buy more Mog Station items to feed my Final Fantasy XIV addiction. Oh, I know, I could build him a website instead with today's sponsor, Squarespace. It's a super simple and user-friendly site building tool, perfect for throwing together a professional looking website dedicated to Teezen that looks like I spent a load of time and effort into when in reality, it only took me 10 minutes and about the cost of one cheese wheel. And if I don't know where to start, Squarespace has hundreds of great looking templates ready to go. 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But one thing you may notice, I have almost no Geo as compared to last time. So I did a little playing off screen or off stream and I got a few charms. I went and I grinded out two more fragile charms and brought them to What's Her Name and grind it out all those Geo. I also sold the rest of my like these, the King's Idols and all that. I sold those and just used up all of my Geo. So now I have that. I also got a few other charms. I got this one, which makes a bunch of little meese, little Jill bugs. I got quick slash, which was pretty cool. I ran into like some kind of NPC like spirit that was fighting me and stuff. I got Mark of pride, which I can't believe I missed. It was back in the Mantis place. I got Glowing Womb, which was from this like large infected bug that was like breed, like all it ever thought in its dreams was breed, breed. And I was like, okay then. Last time I got Weaver Song, which was in this crazy creepy place in Nope Nest. And I got Shape of Oon, which was in, I don't remember where, but like this large snail thing just comes out of the water, spits it out at me and then leaves. It was pretty funny. I was like, all right. Well, yeah. And they all seem pretty neat. And I'm going to readjust be a readjusting my notch build because I really like quick slash. It feels really good to use. But yeah, that's the setup that I'm going to use long, long dream bosses, false night broken vessel dream bosses. Okay, so I have to find dream bosses go to the room with the false night. Oh, I can dream nail false night. Okay. All right. So I can dream the false night you say over there. All right. Guess we're going that way. Thanks chat. So that's actually a husk. So I can't dream nail that. Oh, no. No, I don't want to hurt. No, it's we can talk. Oh, okay. Well, what is even happening that a long time ago at the beginning of the game, I killed this boss called the false night and it had one of those things in it. And I killed it and they seem really scared. Now I'm going to fight him again in before he's the most intense difficult boss ever. Hello, false night. Hey there. Long time no see. Oh, that is much taller about an attack. Oh, that's a nice remix of the menu theme. Oh, he's getting bigger. I think Lord. All right. Yep. The once first try boss is now probably going to give me a lot of trouble. They call me to try Joe. All right, you can stop now. Okay. Geez 123 something dodge one attack right into another two heels is good. See, that wasn't so bad. There we are. That shouldn't have taken me as many tries as it did, honestly. Hello, false night. I wanted it, the strength to protect the others when I saw that night sleeping safe in this big armor shell. It wasn't madness that drove me to it. I just wanted it. But in the end, if strength cannot serve save you, then what can you do? Oh, don't make me feel bad for the first boss. Not gonna hurt you. Time to head back to dream nail person. Hello. Ah, you've returned. Let me have a look at the dream nail. Yes, I thought so. More than 1500 essence. The dream nail is close. So close to fully awakening. Continue your path, wielder. I know not what guides you nor what will. It is that drives you forward. Once you have collected 1800 essence though, I will be here waiting. Take this gift. May it grant you strength and help you to collect the essence of this world. Yes, more health. Yes, the time has come. The dream nail and you as well, wielder. It is time for you both to awaken. The essence you have collected. The hope that still remains in this old kingdom. Pure potential that has coursed through you and into the dream nail. Hold it aloft, wielder. Awaken. Awoken dream nail. The dream nail is upgraded. It can break into even the most protected mind. Ah, yes. No dream can hide itself from you now. You can peer into the darkest places. You just need to find the right crack. What will you do with such power, wielder? Though whose memories will you hunt down? Do as you wish. My promise is fulfilled. May the crimes of my tribe be washed away in time, like the rest of this kingdom's. What are you doing poking about in a dusty old mine like mine? Nothing of worth is hidden here, believe me. But keep probing the world around you with your dream nail. Hidden things will reveal themselves, so you don't have any deep dark secrets. The dream nail has fully awoken, yet you still collect essence. Perhaps I've instilled an obsession in you. Keep at it then. I'm happy to wait and watch your progress once you've collected 2400 essence. Return to me. I've no more gifts to give, but you'd prove yourself the wielder my tribe await. This kingdom is full of old memories, both beautiful and grotesque. Seek them out, reveal them, and gather essence. So I know exactly where this needs to be used, palace grounds. There's an old king looking bug that I could dream nail, but it wouldn't give me anything, and I've been curious about that ever since. Hello there, corpse in white armor. Ah, here we go. Oh, hello. What are you? White palace. New area. This place looks important, and I can rest. I can rest in a dream realm. Chat seems very excited. It's time. I'm scared of what time it is. Time for what? I look forward to it. Or I'm scared, one of the two. Hello, another one of you. You are very silver nighty. I like you. I gotta remember I have quick nail now. Guard construct of Hallownest's palace and skilled wielder of the curved claw blade. Its heavy white armor protects a fragile body. They say the old king died long ago, but his influence echoes around us still. A creature like that. What did he desire? Oh, soul? Oh, I opened the door. Okay. Hey, we will wait king. Oh, thanks. That's right. I am the king, aren't I? I found the crown and everything. It's like, you drop this king. My king. All of us. All for us. That's a saw blade. Whoa, those are two saw blades. I'm going to check around exit. Okay. I did not mean to exit. All right. Here I go. We're super meat boy now. What? Okay. Can't dash through that. Yes. Yes. Yes. I'm very great. Oh, that's tricky. Hmm. That is a doozy. That's not the way. I'm guessing this is that that this is that platforming thing people are talking about. Oh, saw noises. There we are. That was tricky. Oh, saw blades. Oh, okay. All right. Sweet soul. So they do have some manner of checkpoints for you. So there is a little space. All right. Let's walk into that. Look out. Oh, thanks. That's bad. Oh, need it to be faster, faster. Oh, super meat boy. Oh, saw go dash into the saws the third time. Gord. Gord. Help me, Gord. There we go. Oh lord. Oh, come on. Really? Oh, this is sadistic. Yes. Yes. I am very great. Your troubles let us. Hey, so that must have opened this. No. Here we are. Whoa. That is a weird one. Watch out. He got a bzzz. It's like, I'm coming for you. I was like, Pogo, Pogo as fast as you can. That's what we call saw surfing. Just do it with the boys back in the day. Take a shot for each death. I don't want to be responsible for any sort of kidney failure. Oh, it's out here. It's so pretty. Yeah. I have a question. I have a question game designers. Oh, okay. Dude, imagine bringing the flower through this. This is downright sadistic. Yeah, seems so. Seems to be that way. Super meat boy ass looking. Oh, man. I might have. There we go. That's how that's supposed to go. Hidden the skips. Was that a skip? Actual speed runner. You could do that. Yeah. If you hit the thing with the side of the nail, that was not the intended route, but good job. Speed run strats. I'm like 25% speed runner because I'm good at games, I guess. All right. Let's see what's behind door number three. Is it more buzz saws? Oh, I hope so. My wish was granted. So bugs, electro bugs. There might be bugs. You don't say. I wonder what let's look at the way we're supposed to go first, actually. Looks like there's multiple routes. So there's this way. Very curious. Gosh, I don't know about all this. This is not the way I went before. Ow. Well, all right then. Okay, so now I'm over here because I dropped all the way down. And I assume this pogoing I'm doing is making me skip a lot of things, which I do not have any problems with personally. I do not mind. Oh, there are platforms here. I was like, oh, I got a pogo all the way. No. I mean, this seems like a nice satisfactory challenge so far. Nothing path of pain feeling yet. This. Okay, so there we go. Just got to be super fast about it. Okay. There we go. Got it. Anything over here? No. Okay. That's cool. More of those things. Music stops. So something tells me this is some sort of important boss time of some kind. What are you? No cost too great. This was the former king of Hall. Don't confirm or deny chat. And I'm also just not going to read chat just out of safety. This must be the old king of Holonest because that crown looks like the crown that I got. Or rather, there's a lot of this crown shape all around Holonest. And he is sitting on a throne. It's not much other king that he could be. So I'm guessing this is the king of Holonest. Just right here. He looks a lot like me. That's a coincidence. He looks like he needs some milk. Oh, the king soul. Nice. I got both pieces now. Soul of worm, soul of root, heart of void. So then is that it? I don't feel like going through all of this. Help me out chat. Is there more stuff in this area that I can access now directly above you? It's really well hidden. Okay. Thanks chat. Path of pain. Here it is. Oh, here it is. Actually, I'm going to look at this charm first. Holy charm symbolizing a union between higher beings. The bearer was slowly absorbed. The limitless soul contained within opens the way to a birthplace. Oh, so I should wear this because it gives me soul to witness secret sealed. One must endure the harshest punishment. The path of pain. Well, here we go. Path of pain. The path of... There's no floor here. There's no floor here. Why am I doing this to myself? Because I must prove myself once and for all that I am a gamer. This first part, once I get past this first part, the rest should come nicer. I say as I... So they do hurt. All right, let's scout this. Sorry. Every time we get further, we're scouting. How far does it go? I'm guessing we haven't even scratched the surface. If I know this game, I'm guessing I've barely touched the intro. All right. Part one, finished. Oh, it's so bad. All right. More instrumentals coming. Whoa. Take your time, Joe. Take your time. There we go. Now what's next? Checkpoint at least. Floor. No! I shouldn't have dashed. I should have just jumped. I do got this. I do got this, chat. You got this. You got it. All right, you go. Yep. Yeah, I got it. The sound of silent focus. Next part. So room one, I guess. Room one, finished. I must defeat this so chat can hear better music or rather hear more instruments to the music. My anxiety is what is pushing me. Oh, I'm going to take it in for a sec. None out of the woods yet. Okay, so I have to get up there. Oh my god, what a... What? So it seems hive blood is not as mandatory as it seems, but maybe it will be later on when there is no soul to heal. I almost made it. There we go. I just needed to rush it. That's all. Woo! Oh man, all right. What's next? What have you got for me, game? I panicked. We have two aerial movement abilities that can keep you from knocking on the ground. See, I think this is where keyboard would do better because I'm going, I'm slashing to the side when I thought I was slashing down because a slight imprecision of using a joystick. I think this is where a keyboard would be easier because keyboard is binary whereas a joystick is analog and Hollow Knight from what it looks like only has four directions unlike Celeste. Well, even Celeste only has eight directions. That's also binary. Well, actually not when you have the feather. The feather is analog. Oh, that was it. I'm going to die here. I did it. Wow. I can't believe I did it. Wow. Is that, is that me? So that was either me or another vessel similar to me standing next to the king, soul of binding, the intricate seal of ancient design used to contain a powerful force or to preserve something of great importance. Hmm. Okay, so we are done here. Well, that was an ordeal. What did I think about the white palace as a whole? It was beautiful. I loved it. That design was cool. It's nice to see. So this, I assume, don't confirm or deny chat. Remember, I'm just speaking my mind. This I assume is the ruins of the palace since the, this archway, this little window right here looks a lot like the architecture. But yeah, this window looks like the architecture. I'm going to see like ruins in the background. And there was this night, very, very close. So a few of the percentages are these missing charms. And I'll do that off stream. Help me out chat. What are my options now? What are the things that are left to do? Search for grubs? That's true. I could search for grubs. So I've got grubs, king soul, upgrade your last spell, get the charms, secrets to discover. I mean, obviously, I mean, major things. So I'm going to go do that abyss stuff now. Honey, I'm home. There's a lot of masks in here. Hello, brother. Hello, sister. Sibling, far down below us beneath the kingdom, the air grows stiller and senses of emptiness pervades can life flourish down there. So I will hunt it. There does seem to be a form of, it's me. This is where, oh, I think this is where I was hatched. Maybe that's what that means. I don't know. Either this is where I was hatched or something hatched from there. That's my theory, anyway. Oh, shit. I just dreamed about nailing myself. Oh, damn. No cost too great. I'm okay. Am I in my own dream? I don't have my map. So this is my dream, mine to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering. Born of God and void, you shall seal the blinding light that plagues their dreams. You are the vessel. You are the Hollow Knight. Voidheart. Oh, man. Oh, there's a lot of ways to interpret that. So that other vessel was the Hollow Knight and was appointed by the king. But I was, I guess, also in line to become the Hollow Knight. But I guess I wasn't strong enough. And I was knocked down here. Or maybe there was some kind of trial. There's so many vessels down here. There's so many vessels. Like look at all these masks. There's a bazillion vessels. I was close. But the Hollow Knight, current Hollow Knight, made it. But I couldn't. I don't know what else that reveals aside from that because they realize I'm one of them. It's because I have the Voidheart. There's two. Hold on. An emptiness that was hidden within, now unconstrained, unified the void under the bearer's will. This charm is part of its bearer and cannot be unequipped. Damn. So the king's soul is no more. I've unified the void, whatever that means. So there's, seems to be multiple sides of this as well. So there's the light, which seems bad. You know, that whole infection thing is light and rot and all that. And we are part of the dark. We are the void. But the void seems to have its own questionable things as well. Like it mentioned husks. No pain. No nothing. We are vessels. So we are not really that alive either. It seems like, from what I can tell, that it's the same problem just dressed up in a different color. Because sure, this whole darkness thing can defeat the light, but it's no different. Because the things born of darkness are equally as void and kind of just mindless. But that's just my thinking. Higher beings, these words are for you alone. Our pure vessel has ascended beyond lies only the refuse and regret of its creation. We shall enter the place no longer. So after the hollow knight was created, or at least the one that was worthy enough to be the hollow knight was created, I decided there's no reason to go back here and just left all the other vessels behind. I could be totally off the market. And everyone was like, wow, that's a stretch. But that's my theory. I like that theory. But that's the whole thing about these ambiguous games, right? There's many different interpretations. Although that door was sealed because I needed the king's, because the king closed it. The king wanted nothing to do with that place anymore. Because that door was closed by the king's brand. Oh, this is cool. I love connecting these pieces together. It's like a cool little puzzle. Doesn't seem like they're made to be dream nailed. Oh, it rejects it. That is the only instance of it being rejected. Like, it wasn't just dream nailing nothing. It dream, it did work, but nothing came from it. Not just nothing came from it. It bounced back. That is interesting. I guess because they're incapable of dreaming. Because this, it's not like this when I dream nailed this and then it didn't work. Dream nail bounced. That is cool. Okay. All right. I'm going to go fight the Hollow Knight then. Thanks chat. Much appreciated. How much percentage do I have? 99%. All right, it's go time. Hive blood quick slash market pride. Let's go. Oh, hornet. That path is open one way or another and end awaits inside. I won't be joining you in this, but the space is built to sustain your likes. Its bindings would drain me where I to join. Don't be surprised. I'll not risk my own life in your attempt. Though if the moment presents, I'll aid as I'm able. Ghost of Holonest, you possess the strength to enact an end of your choosing. Would you supplant our birth cursed sibling? Or would you transcend it? Oh, she's a vessel too. Could it achieve that impossible thing? Shoot it. Here we go. Hey, buddy. How you doing? All right, bring it on. Brother. Yep. I remember that. Oh, it played this. Oh, that's some significance in freaking symbolism and music choice. Okay. Don't die. Don't die, Joe. You've beaten this boss before. Come on, Joe. You're better than this. Oh, hornet. Oh, I'm in the dream of the Hollow Knight. Oh, shit. Challenge. It's the light, the radiance. Oh my God. Oh my God. Jesus. Oh, it's got soul magic. Okay. This is ridiculous. Jesus. Okay. Yep. Oh my goodness. Oh, Lord. Hello. Nice of them to break the chains for me. All right, so I have to kill the Hollow Knight each time I go in. Dang. Yeah, get him. All right, radiance. I can already tell how this is going to end. Heal time. That was some bad hits. Get on the defensive when he's casting magic. Just endless barrage. That's a she. Sorry, she. The brighter you shine, the deeper your shadow, radiance. Oh no. That's a bad time to not have dodge. Oh, shit. Nope. Didn't think it was over. Oh, shit. Oh, fuck. Okay. Hello. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Heal off. It's only a single heal, I guess. How do you come over here? Oh, I love that. Oh, that's a cool touch. Because I have the void heart now. My soul is just comes to me in one hit. It doesn't even care. That's a neat little, I love all the small touches in this. Radiance, praise the sun, Hollow Knight. Yeah, I don't think so. Wow, radiance. You just let me have that? You just let me heal like that? All right. This radiance also has a crown-like thing on its head. Sure is not a coincidence. Okay, so the darkness is trying to take her, but she bounces out. Lots of good hits. Clutch. Could not see that. It's too bright in here. All right, laser beams. Here comes all the vessels. It's the Hollow Knight. So that's it. That's the end of the infection. Not just held or contained. It's gone. That's amazing. Oh, well done, Team Cherry. Oh my God. And I guess them fading away is like, oh, that's why they were still there. Because the Hollow Knight is a vessel like me, and they serve their purpose. Oh, that was so cool how all the vessels came together at the end, just teaming up because they were all together. It didn't take the Hollow Knight. It didn't take the new Hollow Knight, me. It took all of the vessels, every single one of them working together. That is fucking cool. Oh, I love this game. A penny for thoughts on Hollow Knight hurting himself. Is it lore? I would say so. I would say that's probably a combination of the Hollow Knight inside fighting, but also the radiance using the infection, like using the Hollow Knight's vessel like every last bit of it to try and get the radiance power out there to fight Bug Knight. That is what I think anyway. Wow. Thank you guys for coming along on this journey. This was epic. God damn. Steel soul mode, no shade, no reviving, death is permanent, the ultimate challenge. No, no, no, no. No, thank you. Wow.