This is the vidya equivalent of an A24 movie. Shallow pedantry that progresses by force of self-insistence alone...

Did the devs of this game kill your family or some shit?

OP, using a thesaurus doesn't hide the fact that it's still just you, spamming these threads non-stop.

It's good and popular, what else do you need?

Seething

Because it got popular. It’s great and will always be so. It’s the best of the Metroidvanias that have come out in the last 3-5 years.

a24 is good and so is this
cope

It's non-stop though. Like every thread that mentions the genre has to have at least one guy sperg out about how much he fucking hates it.

>too much of a brainlet for A24 movies is too much of a brainlet for Hollow Knight
checks out

Usually I can see why people fall in love with games, even if I think they're bad in many aspects. I can see the appeal of Undertale, for example. Or New Vegas, even though I personally can't stand either of them. I don't get the appeal with Hollow Knight. The combat is shit, the platforming is boring, the exploration is a chore, the lore is nonsensical... everything about the game seems designed to waste as much time as possible from the retarded map system to the damage sponge enemies to pointless backtracking through empty hallways. I don't see why people love it this much.

I guess calling it pretentious wasn't netting enough (you)s, was it?

This really.
I think no other metroidvania has remained rent-free in the heads of so many people so consistently. That alone already convinced me that it's a legitimate classic.

Im 3 hours in and still dont know what to do, should i search for a guide or not value my time searching for another hour?

OP is not a fag, HK is aggressively mediocre and dull

Post map.

>The combat is shit
It's not? It's simple but fun.
>the platforming is boring
Games feels great and once you start getting movement options it's really fun to just move around.
>the exploration is a chore
Maybe you shouldn't be playing this genre.
>the lore is nonsensical
I'll agree here but there are some pretty likable characters in it.

Yas Forums has a hate boner for fucking everything.

If it's old and niche it's boomershit people only like for street cred.
If it's popular and recent it's zoomer trash.
If it's difficult it's artificial difficulty garbage.
If it's anime or has attractive characters it's coomerbait
If it has ugly or unconventional characters it's SJW pandering
If you can't find a reason to actually dislike the game itself but need a term to call it anyways, it's reddit

Fuck this website and fuck the people who use it

can I have a map to this sentence?

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It's just for the sake of being contrarian as a way to feel like an individual. When you don't have a personality you have to adopt extreme points of view to feel special. The irony is that there's nothing unique about not liking something popular and no one gives a shit. I doubt OP actually knows if they like it or not.

t. OP

There is a stark difference between liking a game and hating it enough to shitpost it for months and years. Its fine if you don't get why others like the game, you don't need to when you dislike the game.

Dangerously based

>doesnt mention the music
Not even worth my time

Game is ok but path of pain has definitely taken some of my good will lmao
Whoever made it so that the double jump has you dip down before ascending should burn in hell

Playing it now. Why did the devs get lazy and just stick spiky walls everywhere towards the end?

Oh yeah also the game has some of the most unoriginal metroidvania powerups ever and the walk cycle for the MC is really dumb

Still a good game overall 7.5/10

Using big words doesn't make your argument seem better, fucking retard.
Only people trying to over compensate talk like you do.

Realistically, when do y'all think Silk Song will come out?

Dumb take since Path of Pain is 100% optional and not required for anything.

It's literally one autist spamming the same thread for years. See listfag and ACfag for a similar phenomenon.

2021

Late 2020.

>the exploration is a chore
there's your problem. for most people, exploring is fun, but you find it too hard to enjoy.

Man I wish Ava's Demon didn't have such a slow upload "schedule".

the same is true for all metroidvanias except for literally metroid and castlevania

how?

A lone autist got filtered. I assume some other people started parroting his shitty opinions without actually playing the game themselves.

I got that Humble COVID Bundle that included this game alongside 25 more, but haven't used the key yet. I've been playing MindSeize and Escape from Tethys. Convince me to redeem the key and play this game, since I played it years ago and it was slow and confusing. Is it meant to be like the old Metroids??

I don’t give I shit my normalfag friend beat it in like 2 hours and I’ve been stuck on it for months I’m pissed fuck the devs

early next year at best

No cost too great

the farewell, first reformed and uncut gems were great. Otherwise I agree that A24 is trash and does NOT represent indie/arthouse film
that describes most A24 films

Uncut Gems is awful, stop buying into the meme.

I was very skeptical of it when I started watching cause most A24 films have been utterly disappointing to me. I really liked it

The game's biggest weakness is how slow the knight without his movement upgrades feels. But that gets better one or two upgrades in. Confusing, though? Only in comparison to the ultra hand holding of all to many modern games, not by any reasonable metric.

>it was slow and confusing
And that's a good thing!
According to hollowcucks, at least. Go play an actually good game

I started using Reddit a few months ago. I mostly just scroll through the front page, sometimes I tap into the comments of a post and read through them too. They don't really say anything interesting, and their jokes fucking suck, but some of the content is alright to kill some time with. I felt like admitting this because this board is so fucking shit and so far below the quality of even Reddit these days and it disgusts me. Just look at OP's post. I don't even have to like the game to think he types like a retarded faggot. I'd take the obnoxious pun chains that happen in Reddit these days than see threads get flooded with those ugly wojack edits. They're offensive to the eyes.

Basically, fuck this board and the retards who dwell on it. They say you're here forever but I'm proud to say and gloat over the fact that I hardly swing by here anymore and I hold you all in contempt.

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Fair enough, user. I thought the ending was trash and couldn't see why everything thought the whole thing "omg, so intense". And I also couldn't work out whether the soundtrack was meant as an elaborate joke or not.

>The game's biggest weakness is how slow the knight without his movement upgrades feels.
>Implying spamming dash makes the movement any more tolerable
And then the devs had to fuck it up even harder by giving hornet a sprint that's tied to the dash instead of making it the default movement speed from the start

>I thought the ending was trash
what didn't you like about it? the fact that he died? I think it would feel incomplete if he hadn't. To me the film did a great job portraying what makes the thrill of gambling so addicting, and the tragedy it results in. I think of it as the Trainspotting of face-spaced city life and gambling.
I think the point of the hyperbolic, magical music was great to make us feel just how much all this bullshit means to the main character(s), and how ridiculous it is in reality, which is why the tone of the music doesn't match with a bunch of NY jews on the street screaming at each other. Howard is stuck in his own little fantasy land

hollow knight is more than a mere game
it is a conundrum passed down through the ages
the ONLY game that would dare to ask the immortal question
what if a cockroach was cute

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Nah, it's a good game.

>lesbian
It's not cute.

you make grey mourner sad