![]() The home of the fallen kingdom’s monarch was already festooned with spikes and saws and deadly foes, but the Path of Pain took things to a sadistic level by thrusting the player through a nightmarish stretch of tunnels and passages rarely bookended by safe ledges where the player could breath, relax, and shake out their white-knuckle grip on the controller. Such was the Path of Pain, tucked away behind a hidden wall in Hollow Knight’s White Palace. One thing I keep chewing, more than the stellar atmosphere or boss battles that often left me apoplectic, is my experience with two specific sections that forced me to reckon with everything I had learned so far.Ī secret path in a endgame area allowed access to the game’s most unforgiving gauntlet of platforming challenges that can only be overcome by a combination of determination, exhaustive use of abilities, and raw time. ![]() I recently finished Hollow Knight, Team Cherry’s breakout game officially released in 2017 (but finding new critical and commercial success thanks to a Switch port), to a point where I feel comfortable putting it down and digesting my thoughts. ![]() This piece contains spoilers for Hollow Knight ![]() Then an unsuspecting sidequest put all his skills to the test. ![]() Our reporter Chase thought he’d mastered Team Cherry’s atmospheric Metrovania adventure. ![]()
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