Hollow Knight

This game is not only disappointing, it's plain bad. The darksouls genre spawned a lot of bad games, and Hollow knight is a prime example. Any of the following things would be fine by itself if the rest wouldn't be abysmal aswell: - the controls are flimsy. There is a weird delay between attacks which seems random. I can't tell why I sometimes can attack quickly in a row and sometimes not. This is not only bad in fights but also when you climb spikes - enemies push you around, when you hit them and when they hit you - when you get hit the something happens that is just bad design. The screen darkens and blurs and you don't hear anything anymore. It's like you get hit by a flash bang in counterstrike. After getting hit you usually will get hit more because you can't see projectiles and enemy attack stances - you start the game without a map, which is bad in a metroid like game. So if you don't completely suck and walk off the boring main path, you end up in hell. I played until I met a mini boss called broodling mawmew or something - everything looks black blue. Not only does it look extremely boring and uninteresting, everything looks the same and meaningless. Nothing in the world is in a location that makes sense and the world is too boring and samey looking to care to keep track of anything. This combined with no/a really bad map when you get it... - when you get the map it's still shit - in towns for some reason you can only walk, not run - most characters I met are more annoying than fun - when you die in a bad spot you will lose all your money - inconsistent frame rate, which can be partially fixed with the control settings, for whatever reason - because this is imitating dark souls, you will have walk all the boring paths again when you die My feeling told me the game would be bad, but finally I bought into the hype... and I regret this 6 Euro purchase like nothing else. This game is not good. Don't buy into the fake hype, trust your guts.

For a Metroidvania game you don't get any interesting and fun abilities to unlock. After playing for about 10 hours I feel like I had gotten most of the abilities I should have started with in the first place. The combat consists of just hitting things with a standard melee weapon, and the typical fireball/magic ranged attack. There's nothing groundbreaking or inspired in that department However all that can be overlooked if the game world itself is interesting and unfortunately that's where the game is the most lacking. Everything is drab and dull. Some of the areas have a distinct aesthetic, but all the rooms in those areas look so much alike that it's hard to tell where you are most of the time. It's made even worse by the bizzare and convoluted map system. Instead of uncovering the map as you go so you get a good idea of where you are and where you've been, you run around blind untill you find the guy who sells the maps. If that were all there was to it it could work, but no, it gets worse. The map you get only has a few rooms uncovered, you have to explore the rest of the zone on your own. If only it were that simple, the map still won't uncover the rooms you've been to until you stumble upon a save point. So first it's blindly wandering around until you find the map salesman, then it's blindly wandering around until you find a checkpoint, and then you can backtrack through the areas you were just in to hopefully stumble upon the correct way to go. Oh, I forgot to mention that it still doesn't show your location on the map unless you equip a compass. As you'd expect the pace of the game is agonizingly slow, and mostly consists of blindly wandering around until you find an exciting new ability like a short dash, or wall jump.

- the combat is really stubby and basic, feels like a flash game - the visual style is extremely bland - for the first few hours, every environment is some kind of monochrome cave - later areas aren't much more interesting - level design feels like it could be procedural for how uninteresting it is I don't understand where the appeal for this game is. It's another in the pile of bland Metroidvania games. Play Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight instead.

played this game and newer completed it, becase i got stuck and didn´t know where to go basically. though i should try it again. i basically knew why i got tired of it but it was worse then i remember. can´t get any health except you use a annoying system, and it basically borrows from dead souls some stuff.. but either way played a bit died. got back to where i saved last.. tried to get to another save point died. also because it used a similar system like dead souls the money (?) go to zero after i died, which reminds me how i at tried too grind to buy stuff i do not remember what though. either way if you want an annoying hard metroidvania with stupid crap system. mainly with the saves. and got the skills try it but if you don´t just don´t bother with this. thinking about uninstalling it will probably not touch this shit again it feels like..

For designing The White Palace, Team Cherry desereves a special place in hell. One with hundreds spikes and thousands buzzsaws.