![]() ![]() You and your shade even share a pair of horns. ![]() It has what look like tentacles, a uniformly black body with no shading, and creepy off-key music plays when you get near it. The visual design for the shade you leave when you die is cute, in a way, but also resembles what many other franchises (Kingdom Hearts, for instance) characterize as an embodiment of evil. You are hollow, another Hollow Knight.Īt first glance, this true nature, even divorced from what others think of you (and many bugs who you talk to do feel that you are creepy, or unnatural, or even scary), is terrifying. It becomes clear later that this shade is your true form, and represents the literal Void inside of you, essential to your being. When you die, your white mask cracks and splits, and what looks like a ghost made of darkness emerges. Very early on, though, depending on how you play (there are multiple endings), it becomes clear that you are not. The camera is shaking terribly at this point.Īs mentioned earlier, the characters of Hallownest are all insects or arachnids of some kind. After all, the figure, who you will later learn is the titular Hollow Knight, is your sibling with a shared experience and the same abusive “father.” Your journey is a show of solidarity. Because of the speed of the sequence, it’s easy to miss that the shriek was the reason your Vessel began their journey (yes, “their”-in a nice change of pace, the protagonist of Hollow Knight is canonically genderless). The opening cutscene shows a strange, horned figure (the king’s nearly successful experiment, the Pure Vessel) letting out a bellowing shriek as orange light fills its eyes before cutting immediately to a short cutscene of your Vessel looking out upon and heading towards the small town of Dirtmouth. In the end, you can either replace them in their gilded cage and seal the infection into your own body, or travel within dreams to destroy the source of the light.Īt the beginning of the game, it is not clear why your Vessel is journeying into the depths of the ruined kingdom, Hallownest. Throughout the course of your journey, you solve the mystery of the so-called “Pure Vessel,” who had not been as empty as the king thought. The king’s standard for emptiness was, of course, not only unconscionable but impossible, and so the kingdom fell to the plague regardless. ![]() Vessels who failed to be “empty” enough were cast back into the dark pit where they were created and sealed away, with only a few escaping. The infection is a strange sort of light that is transmitted through dreams, so the king of the land of Hallownest thought that such a vessel would need to be living and have dreams, but also would need to be unable to think, feel, or talk to prevent it from succumbing to the infection itself. In Hollow Knight, while your avatar is initially shrouded with mystery, you eventually learn that you are playing as a Vessel designed to contain a mysterious infection in quarantine. There are story and thematic elements, though, that I think will miss a lot of its audience, but caught me square in the chest. It’s a fantastic game fun to play, fun to watch, and fun to think about. So, when I first played Hollow Knight, a Metroid-like game with an isolated and moody atmosphere and a fabulously cute art style, where all the characters are bugs, I had high expectations. TerminatedWeasel, donut, Evan Carville, GameroftheWinds, Jorito & Phoenix Down RPGĢ4.Those who know me well understand that I dearly love insects and other creepy crawlies, enjoy Dark Souls 1 and Super Metroid more than most games in existence, and have a deep and abiding appreciation for cute things. Andy-Ru, TeraCMusic, Daniel Capo & Hannahġ3. Danilo Ciaffi, Chromatic Apparatus, GameroftheWinds, KestrelGirl, Psamathes & RichGCġ2. Justin Thornburgh, Dewey Newt & Chromatic Apparatusħ. "Voidheart" is a FREE Hollow Knight Tribute Album made by the Pixel Mixers community! We do not own any of those songs, all were composed by Christopher Larkin."ġ. ![]()
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