You have a basic melee attack and enemies take a set number of hits to die. The same could be said about the combat as well.Ĭombat in Hollow Knight is fairly straightforward. While this leads to the nostalgic feeling that older games of the genre give off, it will undoubtedly be frustrating for some. That is to say that you will be backtracking as part of the narrative and out of not knowing where to go. To get the point out of the way, Hollow Knight’s biggest issue is the unbelievable amount of backtracking. This mechanic can cause some frustration as you can spend time exploring the same rooms looking for a new route to take before you finally record all of your progress.
Instead, you must buy a map from a vendor and update it with the rooms you explore whenever you sit down on a bench (which also serves as a place to save and regain health). The knight doesn’t have a constantly updating map as he moves from screen to screen. Hollow Knight doesn’t shy away from its inspirations, but it does add to them. As you murder your way to answers, however ambiguous they may be, you gain new abilities and fight intense bosses.
After entering a small town you find out that the residents have gone missing and the ones that reside below the town are a bit nuts. You play a small knight with a small sword and some basic combat abilities.
It’s a side-scrolling action platformer with Metroidvania qualties - you’ve played this game before and know how it goes. Hollow Knight dumps the player right into the action and doesn’t insult their intelligence with a lot of setup and tutorials.
Hollow Knight is all about execution and polish, a Metroidvania that utilizes the tropes of the genre in a near-perfect way while also adding new elements to freshen up the experience. That being said, it’s pretty refreshing when a game comes along and utilizes those concepts in a well thought out manner. The concept of having a giant map to explore, needing power-ups to get to out of reach places, and backtracking to get to those places are nothing new.
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