Hollow Knight round 2!! Playing it again with the dlc on the switch. I ended up not even completing that much DLC content but... Damn this is still such a great game. It took a while to get used to the switch's controllers, I definitely felt worse at the game than I did when I originally played it on PC. Visually it is basically identical so that was nice at least, not having to suffer downgrades.
The game is still exceptional, it has an amazing world and plays extremely well. Knowing generally where to go and what to do I feel like I cut my time in half with the game, but I also went out of my way to keep track of little side spots I found (there are now helpful map pins you can get!) so I also found a lot more stuff (I believe I went from 60~% game completion on PC to 90% on Switch) and got all of the caterpillars!! That was my real goal in all this, the caterpillar family.
Oozing in atmosphere and with wonderful sound direction, journeying through Hollow Nest was still very moving. There's enough playfulness, fear, and sorrow in appropriate amounts that the game never feels like One Thing, but does all of them equally well. Deepnest though sweet jesus... The City of Tears is probably still my favorite area, with the music and rain throughout that really pushes a wondrous sense of melancholy for this lost civilization. The side characters are a treat as well, from the sad fate of the miner bug to all of the great shopkeeps (including the map couple, who are just great. I'm sad he sleeps the whole rest of the game though!) and the dream nail that lets you read their minds is great.
Originally I was shooting for one of the new endings added in the last DLC, but frankly the new last boss was so crappy and Not-Fun to fight (in stark contrast to the old last boss, who was awesome) that after the 20th try I said fuck it and just youtubed the ending. I kept the picture though from that ending because it is dope as hell.
The game is still exceptional, it has an amazing world and plays extremely well. Knowing generally where to go and what to do I feel like I cut my time in half with the game, but I also went out of my way to keep track of little side spots I found (there are now helpful map pins you can get!) so I also found a lot more stuff (I believe I went from 60~% game completion on PC to 90% on Switch) and got all of the caterpillars!! That was my real goal in all this, the caterpillar family.
Oozing in atmosphere and with wonderful sound direction, journeying through Hollow Nest was still very moving. There's enough playfulness, fear, and sorrow in appropriate amounts that the game never feels like One Thing, but does all of them equally well. Deepnest though sweet jesus... The City of Tears is probably still my favorite area, with the music and rain throughout that really pushes a wondrous sense of melancholy for this lost civilization. The side characters are a treat as well, from the sad fate of the miner bug to all of the great shopkeeps (including the map couple, who are just great. I'm sad he sleeps the whole rest of the game though!) and the dream nail that lets you read their minds is great.
Originally I was shooting for one of the new endings added in the last DLC, but frankly the new last boss was so crappy and Not-Fun to fight (in stark contrast to the old last boss, who was awesome) that after the 20th try I said fuck it and just youtubed the ending. I kept the picture though from that ending because it is dope as hell.