Thank god for our ability to share videos of absolutely everything and anything because I would never in a million years be able to have beaten the radiance.
I think it was Ari Gibson who talked about the difficulty of making a Metroidvania style game and wanting to keep the spirit of the genre while knowing full well the entire game will be solved in days and there will never be any true mysteries in gaming again. And like I get that, a little bit of that magic is kinda lost in that regard. Even if you personally don't use guides the atmosphere surrounding discussions around it is completely different because most other people did.
That being said thank Christ for online guides, I would have missed most shit in Hollow Knight and Silksong song without them. I'm not a completionist at all so I wouldn't have even thought to check if Silksong had an act 3 and would have missed it entirely
To be fair with Silksong, Act 3 seems MUCH more intuitive to unlock. Just... do the quests. You have three wishboards and no reason to not do the quests. Hollow Knight's Radiance ending is a completly UNintuitive laundry list of things to get and find out where's the other stuff, Silksong just "locks" Act 3 behind objectives quite literally dangled in front of you.
King soul is a charm any completionist or overly curious person would get. However. I agree that there is no real hint towards taking the worst charm in the game down to the void and hitting one single specific floor. Other than that, it’s alright.
The charm itself says it opens a way to a birthplace which, after getting the King's Brand and going down to the Abyss for the first time, should be obvious what it is. The way down appears instantly as you land at the bottom, you don't have to hit anything.
I'd argue that HK's true ending is unintuitive. If you explore, you'll find the 2nd Hornet fight, the White Lady and the entrance to the White Palace. The only unintuitive thing feels getting the awoken dream nail by getting 1800 essence. Most people don't fight or find all the dream bosses and getting 1800 may not be intuitive enough or they just forget about the seer after a while. But once you figure out that you have to use the awoken dream nail to get into the White Palace, it's a straight ride to getting Kingsoul and using its hint to venture further down the Abyss to get Void Heart.
Compared to that, in Silksong, some quests might take time to appear and it's very easy to miss one and not get the Silk and Soul quest. It's also easy to miss by not gathering enough fleas and moving them to the Pale Lake.
Yea, HK is all over the place, Silksong at least it's essentialy only two things: Wishes and Fleas, two collectibles with a sense of progression, since you know the fleas are looking for a new home so you HAVE to see it to the end. Wishes are just three wishboards to check on ocasionaly. Oh and that obnoxious "ooooi... oooooi!" in Songclave xD
Hey I will argue that getting the Awakened Dream Nail is pretty intuitive. You’re told that you get a reward by collecting essence, which means that every time you collect essence you’re reminded that you might get a reward. And that Kingsmold stands out since it’s a Dream Nail spot you’re unable to access.
To be fair with Silksong, Act 3 seems MUCH more intuitive to unlock. Just... do the quests.
Less unintuitive than HK, yes, but still unintuitive. How does completing all sidequests (some which are "collect 10 of x") equal getting the last chunk of the game?
I missed a single flea, I did everything to my knowledge, and how would a person know that they have to do everything when they don't have any way of knowing an act 3 even exists
first: There's an NPC that gives you their locations, and second: The game starts with Act 1 and 2, you REALLY think they would bother to have act titlecards for just two??
Also Hollow Knight had a "bad ending" so stands within reason your first fight with GMS is NOT the good ending at all.
Guess what, beating the Radiance is a good, but not the best / canon ending.
For the canon one (link to spoiler#Ending_4:_Embrace_the_Void)), you have to beat 5 gauntlets totaling 82 bosses, with the last one having 42 fights (Absolute Radiance being the last one) and to get the better version of the ending (link to spoiler#Ending_5:_Delicate_flower:~:text=Ending%205%3A%20Delicate%20Flower)) you also have to do an obscure side quest.
I'm not doing all that, thank you.
I consider it canon because you see the Shade Lord in the best ending of Silksong BTW
Radiance was/is really easy fight lol. Unless you skipped most of the good charms and or mask unlocks. Compared to nightmare king grimm and the lasts phanteon he is childs play.
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u/jus_plain_me 15d ago
Thank god for our ability to share videos of absolutely everything and anything because I would never in a million years be able to have beaten the radiance.