The Pantheon of the Knight – Hollow Knight | Blind Playthrough [Part 28]



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24 thoughts on “The Pantheon of the Knight – Hollow Knight | Blind Playthrough [Part 28]”

  1. You have finally met my favourite boss ever! Pure vessel is just amazing, the music, the might, the speed, and the deleted dream dialogue (unfortunately deleted if I may add) but I think it's worth mentioning. It's the first boss ever I beat on radiant too!

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  2. Hey dude! It’s cool that you decided you like nails more than spells. It’s good that you have an idea of what you prefer it definitely makes it less stressful when you don’t ever have to worry about charms. I would however like to suggest trying to include more spells into your play style because even if you don’t have shaman stone spells are still extremely useful. An example you could look at yourself is when you fight the pure vessel and he throws those knives, you usually dodge away and just wait but in that scenario you could attack from long range. I don’t recommend looking for tricky timings or anything like that but an occasional shade soul might make a fight easier.

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  3. 1:30:10 My lore guess is that, since you have defeated the Pure Vessel within Godhome, you have "attuned" yourself with the realm… Now you are after actual "Ascencion" (thus the text cue when interacting with the Void artifact at the top of Godhome). Since the Void is a part of the Knight (main character) the substance itself has been attuned into the dream too after defeating the Pure Vessel (the cutscene showing all the siblings). It is now ready to fight alongside you against the Radiance, once again, within this realm of Gods. PS: I wonder if Grob knew about or was a Godseeker, but without wearing the Egyptian-looking shell/mask. Ascend! Ascend with Grob!

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  4. Not only is the Pure Vessel silent instead of screaming at the opening of combat, even the text meant to clue you in on where to find him (empty statue in theboss practice room) is written not "I await you…" like all the others, but "This empty god stands at the peak of the pantheon", like somebody else wrote this about him. This really reinforces the whole "No mind to think, No will to break, No voice to cry suffering" since the Vessel in its pure form would not be able to express itself in any way, shape or form

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  5. Your talk about challenging games is something I've wrestled with too, determining what's a skill issue vs what's the game being unforgiving (even if intentionally so). You mention getting greedy in fights, and while I see what you mean, I think you are patient when it counts—you keep at it until you get it, which is what matters. I have the opposite problem, in that I can be patient in fights but I'm IMpatient when it comes to trying again; I just don't have the tolerance to keep fighting the same things over and over. I've been curious about HK after all the hype, but I know it's not the kind of game I'd enjoy cause I just don't get a lot of pleasure from "difficult" games where combat and bosses are the main draw. (Not a dig against them, I just love my RPGs!) That's why I appreciate you playing this, and lots of other genres for that matter, so I can experience it in a small way with your commentary and humor.

    (Also the surprise Cotton-Eyed Joe made me snort)

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  6. You beat yourself up over your reaction time but you're doing great. Good reaction time just comes with practice, these fights are near impossible to first-try.

    Honestly your biggest weakness (and I say this in a constructive way) is trying to unsafe heal too much. Especially not on a double damage boss, it's just not worth it to squeak out one unsafe heal, when you will probably immediately take a hit, which leaves you at a net -1 health. Even doing the double heal on Pure Vessel, which you can sometimes do and sometimes not, means that you end up flipping a coin on gaining 2 hp if you're lucky, or spending 2/3 of your soul meter to gain 0 hp which is much more likely. Unsafe healing is very bad on the harder fights, it's definitely a habit to break.

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  7. Yeah, that's exactly why i love DS (and other games like that). Essentially, you're not fighting the game. You fighting yourself. The moment you realize that and stop preventing yourself from winning – the game becomes super-easy and you start asking yourself "how is it possible to have problems with it?"

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  8. 19:00:00 map u definitely are stronger . I feel like in the future you should watch your journey from the begining because you went from struggling Against the small enemies and falling to mastering the game. Most youtubers dont get through the pantheons and youre beating them easily. And practicing against nightmare grim by choics. Yea youre a god gamer you have to take on cuphead or shovel knight nezt. Shovel knifht can get brutal for some cartoons lol

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