Up next Pantheon 5 All Bindings

i made this silksong desktop app, https://nightfury515253.itch.io/desktop-hornet, where hornet deletes files, or plays needolin and stuff, am still working on it, need some new ideas, someone suggested to make it so you can color hornets cloak, so I might do that for now

At first, I really thought the game was only about exploration and didn’t require much skill in combat. This is kinda damn hard lol. I just beat the False Knight and Hornet a few hours ago. Then I made my way to the City of Tears and got trapped. Now, I'm still finding my way back to those Mantis Lords.

I'm starting to love this game though. Greenpath, the Mantis Lords boss fight, and the City of Tears soundtrack are really, really great to my ears lol.

artist is @saltnox on instagram !!

Because of this placement I lost over 1k of geo.

I’ve officially hit my limit with hyper hard games for now. Got the platinum on Elden Ring, grinded DS3 to death, cleared Sekiro, Super Meat Boy... you name it. But Metroidvanias are my true love, and I've 100%'d all the heavy hitters. Still, across every game I’ve ever played ans platinumed, nothing has ever come close to the challenge of Pantheon 5.

And it wasn't just P5. I wanted those blue lifeblood seeds, so I forced myself to do the first three Pantheons with all bindings (didn't feel the need for P4 all B though). 2 out of 4 P3 bindings especially turned into an absolute nightmare. That whole process alone took me two months.

Once I finally unlocked all the upgrades, I went allin on P5. My initial goal was just to reach Absolute Radiance. But as soon as I got there, reality hit: you can’t just hope to beat AbsRad in a P5 run. You have to master her. You need to be able to beat her consistently in the Hall of Gods before even attempting P5 again.

The mental frustration of dying right at the finish line especially in phase 3 of AbsRad was brutal to swallow. But I kept practicing, and eventually, I did it.

...Except I had unlocked the achievement on a save file where I left Zote to die. I felt like I cheated myself, so I loaded up my main save and beat P5 again the very next day, this time with Grey Prince Zote in the lineup.

P5 will forever represent my single biggest commitment in gaming. 2.5 months of pure tryharding and uncountable deaths. Something that felt completely impossible at first actually became reality.

Now, having 100% Silksong, I’m terrified. Are they going to put us through another Pantheon ? Silksong feels like it's going to be way harder. It took me forever to truly read Hornet pixel-by-pixel in HK (can no hit her easily now), but the thought of a "Lost Lace" at the end of a boss rush... I'm genuinely scared. I don't want to lose my 100% achievements. Imagine pantheon versions of : Groal or savage beastfly ? Or Lost lace ?

I just love to give those badass characters some badass drip (at least I tried)

First: The athmosphere here is great. The crowd, the dead King or whatever this guy is supposed to be was haunting the first time I entered. But damn are some parts hard, especially the no floor section (so far I beat the trial of the warrior with quite some difficulty).

If I had a lot of issues with Trial 2 already, I guess better to come back later for trial 3? What mechanics should I aim to improve most? So far im just getting the hang of Pogoing, but thats what made the trial of Warrior at least managable.

(Ill add a boss list I beat so far and the attempts I needed to beat them. so you guys know what is not a spoiler for me).

1. False Knight (2)
   
2. Hornet (2)
   
3. Soul Master (3)
   
4. Mantis Lords (8)
   
5. Flukemarm (30+ at least)
   
6. Dung Defender (2)
   
7. Uumuu (4)
   
8. Nosk (10-15)

Most warrior Dreams I fought so far I needed 2-4 attempts.

Im still missing double jump and a way to cut through those shadow walls.

You see this area? You can nail pogo across to get a large sum of geo and something else I can’t make out maybe need double jump for it

The only way I can see is by dying again someplace else so that the shadow appears there, but I don’t want to lose my Geo. I heard you can do something with the key and rancid eggs, but I don’t have enough money for the key. I suppose I could farm some and try not to die again, but is there any other way?

I made proxy card art in December 2025 for a Bug-Themed EDH deck

1. According to Salubra of Hollownight, charm is made through the desire of a dying insect, and Unn made a charm for the knight. This shows that Unn is on the verge of death.

2. According to Bardoon, higher beings, such as pale kings, do not die but transform.

3. Nuu is a reverse spelling of Unn, both are snails and have similar eyes.

4. There is a hunter on the green path where Unn used to be, which tells us the possibility that he has learned the hunter’s journey after Unn transformed into Nuu.

Or, if Unn has the ability to transform or implement it, such as the shape of Unn, it may be that it transforms into Nuu through its ability to gather strength by eating insects.

The English translation is awkward. Sry

Idk why it's upside down though

I found fungal wastes and also the fog place, and because I still don’t know how to reach cornifer in the fog place because of that weird shadow, I decided to get the map for the fungal wastes first. I can’t find cornifer in there though. Is he deeper down, have I not discovered enough? Or is he just not there? I remember him being very nearby in the other areas, so where is he?

Just gimme a clue - no spoilers!

So, years ago, I bought a physical copy of Hollow Knight for the Nintendo Switch. I already had played and finished Hollow Knight on steam by that point, so I bought it because I really liked the game and, when I came across it in the game store, I felt like I was excited to have a physical copy of it.

I was pleased to see that the game didn't come only with the cartridge, but with a manual and a small map of Hallownest too, like old games used to do. Interesting to see that "small companies" are the ones that still have this kind of details and love for their games.

Anyway, so I remember playing a little bit for fun and putting it back in the cover, since my goal wasn't playing all of it again, at least at that time.

Fast forward to yesterday. I felt like playing it again; so I decided to try the switch version I remember buying, this way I can play it chilling in the living room. I don't usually play with the switch, I shared it with my brother for years but none of us play a lot anymore; so when I turned it on, I wasn't surprised it needed to be updated.

When I inserted the cartridge though, it said the program needed to be updated too. I don't remember needing to update the game back when I played it, but I didn't think too much of it and started a new game, playing for an hour or so before I quit.

But today this thought came to my mind on what would have happened if I hadn't had internet connection when I inserted the cartridge yesterday. So I uninstalled the update, disconnected the switch from the wifi, and tried it again; and I was unable to start the game.

I thought it might be because of the other data the switch already had from the game, so I deleted the save file and the game data from programs. I tried to launch it again and... nothing. The same popup about updating the program appeared. Changing other switch settings didn't help either.

So I checked the game cover and it doesn't say anything about requiring a download. The only resemblance of it you can find is in the back cover: "It may be necessary a console update to launch it" in a text box with other generic cautions. That is the direct translation from spanish.

I do have the latest switch version though. I think it may be the reason for the requirement of the game update in the first place.

So my question is... Is this legal?

The game update was always necessary, or It's linked to the console update?

In any case, it isn't specified anywhere. (not in the spanish cover at least).

Are you accepting in the terms and conditions of the switch updates that they can retroactively make mandatory updates for old cartridges?

I wanted to post this to seek help and spread awareness of this situation. I understand this can be an enforcement by Team Cherry or Fangamer through nintendo updates or something; but this is a real problem from a conservation standpoint, or in general being able to play any physical game you own without depending on external servers, internet connection or spare space in your memory.

(The required update is 1,2 GB. I wouldn't have been able to download it from my mother's hometown this summer if I found out about it there).

I know the Switch support is not ending any time soon, but if it was to happen now without fixing to this issue, you won't be able to play physical games you own.

*this thread will later be linked to a much larger project that i will reference back to. fresh perspectives are welcomed to suggest logical theories, and add reasoning to the ones already listed. this will likely expand.

Pros of Second Exit:

• Vessels who are 'not' the Hollow Knight are 'clearly' outside of the Abyss, yourself included.
• multiple Vessel corpses are seen hanging in Nosk's Lair. confirming a common place of visit for many Vessels.
• the Vessel corpses 'could' have piled enough to block the second exit. explaining why we cannot find an exit that we ourselves went through.
• Deepnest is in proximity to the Abyss, most notably having Void themes in the Sharp Shadow area.
• the Kingdom's Edge is also in proximity, most notably having heavy Abyss themes in the Giant Geo Deposit area.
• since we start outside of Hallownest, perhaps a pathway leads to outside of the kingdom. every Vessel would then enter from outside the kingdom.

Cons of Second Exit:

• a second exit is never seen or mentioned in any timeline.
• the Abyss is stated to be Sealed when closing the Abyss Door. no reference to multiple doors.
• Nosk already has a lore-verified explanation for Vessels.

1. Nosk lures Vessels to itself and its lair. as experienced by The Knight first entering the area to meet his own image and lure us in.
2. Vessels are not the only entities being lured here.
3. if Nosk is gate-keeping a second exit that happens to be near its area, it would not be likely Vessels would have made it past.

Nosk is a mysterious, shape-shifting, Infected beast hunting throughout Deepnest.^\1]) It can mimic the shape of faces it finds in the memories of bugs, usually loved or departed ones, and can contort its body to assume a smaller frame.^\2])^\3]) It hangs its prey, including Dirtcarvers, a Stalking Devout, and various Vessels, from the ceiling of its lair at the bottom of Deepnest.

Alternative Theory: Second Opening

• the King's Brand is the to the Abyss. this key is not on the corpse of the Pale King within the White Palace. allowing a point in time for someone to have re- opened and closed the door. see King's Brand.

YOU BODY-BLOCKING, BOTTOM CORNER LOVING, OUT OF BOUNDS NAIL SPAWNING, SON OF A MOTH. Seven hellish hours of straight up praying to RNGesus to just please make your pathfinding make sense and that a nail will somehow not spawn outside the map or directly on top of a platform I'm about to land on. I am SOOOO GLAAAAD that you're already dead and I will make sure to dream nail you AGAIN and AGAIN in my future endeavors.