Hollow Knight is an amazing Souls-Like experience, that really has the heart of it's inspirations worn proudly on it's sleeves, while still being it's own gorgeous beast.

Visually it’s an absolute joy, with beautiful art and stunning effects to make exploring a pleasure and combat engaging. The gameplay is absolutely solid, the Knight controls excellently in both movement and combat, and landing hits on enemies just feels great.

However, navigating Hallownest can be a bit of a pain, there's an absolute mountain of envrionments to explore but with no easy ways to track your progress outside the markers (which are limited and can't be labelled), it's very easy to get lost and be unaware of what needs doing next.

And whilst most of the bosses are an absolute joy to take on, some of them do feel like they're difficulty for difficulties sake, a problem a lot of games in this genre tend to suffer from. Bosses that deal double damage, or have randomises attack patterns that put the player at a disadvantage, the Radiance (the final boss of the game), being the biggest culprit of this.