What did go right?

Team Cherry don't seem to give a fuck about the backlash, they'll do what they want.

There was a backlash against Godhome? lol

gameplay was gud. could do without every game trying to tell its story like dark souls though.
>muh deepest lore

SILKSONG FUCKING WHEN

Do not lewd Hornet.

Pretty much everything, but the main reason is immersion which is made up of multiple parts but is greater than their sum.

It makes you forget that you are playing a video game, you are completely absorbed in the setting, world, story etc etc

Only after killing all the dreamers and whole White Palace business did that notion of playing a video game come back to me, before that I was the hollow knight, I was exploring that dead kingdom and that world and not many games have made me feel that way especially as I have grown older.

Aesthetics, and nothing else.

You'll have to beg for it, fuckboy

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Reddit mascot as a main character

oh user, i can lewd so much more than that

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Finally got it today.

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i just beat the pantheon and was super smug about it. i dont have the energy to go to the land of storms, i think

few people with a vision and the talent to pull off said vision

Dark Souls didnt invent muh deepest lore

When did games start doing this? Just tell your story straight and for the love of god leave out “muh dreams and eldritch beings ahhhhhhhh” unless they’re the focus of the game

[grub cooing, ragged breathing, slapping noises]

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It's a trope trying to emulate the feel the creators had when they were kids and played videogames. The lore in all of the games sans RPGs and maybe even then was scarce, leading to your imagination filling the gaps. That is what this type of storytelling is trying to do. At least that's my take.

Since games have been around. Most old games only had stories that you could infer from the most basic of concepts.
What does it matter how they tell the story? If you don't care then you'll literally almost never here from it

I like deepest lore because it helps with the immersion and cuts out cringy dialogue and stupid story.

I’m fine with games that do that, but take Hollow Knight for example, it doesn’t just immerse you with metroid style hints, it shoves poems and cryptic dialogue down your throat:
>HIGHER BEING
is an instant skip for me, I just don’t care if your lore is in poem form. Sorry.

I guess I more have a problem with games trying to get super deep with their stories even when it’s a poor way to tell it. It’s like dozens of game devs played FNV’s lonesome road and went “wow this Ulysses guy really knows how to tell a story”

What are you even trying to say here

Learn to read.

Great artstyle, music and exploration. The combat was too simple for my taste, especially early on. The dash should've been avaliable from the start, as it would've made the forgotten crossroads way less boring.

Ok, I’ll learn to “here from it” while I’m at it

>HIGHER BEING
It's an obvious nod to the player, making a note that the tablet is not a part of the game world and is in fact a tutorial.
After you find out the knight is royalty, the same words mean a different thing and the mechanics tutorial explains are recast as innate powers of the knight as quite literally a higher being.

It's one of the most brilliant world building moments in the game and you're a complete retard pretending it's "deep" so you can shit on it.

>The Virgin typo vs The Chad not being to understand basic shit

>Focus your soul and you shall achieve feats of which others can only dream.
>HOLD 3 TO FOCUS SOUL AND HEAL
>COLLECT SOUL BY STRIKING ENEMIES
Yeah very amazing world building wow

cant fuckin beat nosk

You did not read a single sentence of what I wrote. As the other user said, learn to read

You’re retarded. You argue that the tablet is not part of the game world and yet in the next sentence argue it’s an amazing piece of world building that you just said is not in the world.
Plus you’re not even correct in your assumptions about who the tablet is for- even the autistic guys on YouTube who study this shit can’t agree on what the tablet is trying to do. It’s literally just being cryptic and cool for the sake of being cryptic and cool.
Fuck off and make a better argument before pretending I didn’t understand yours.

Let me blow your mind, user. The tablets work both as a regular tutorial and a piece of in game lore at the same time. That's why it's great.

It's far too late to stop it

Alright so let me get this straight, the tablet is referring to you the knight, the HIGHER BEING. So who made this tablet?
99% of the vessels died and out of the few that live one is already fulfilling the purpose that the Pale King created them to do (contain the infection).
So the tablet had to be made by someone who knew the “knight” (it’s vessel btw, you’re not the hollow knight) was going to come back from the howling cliffs. Who knew this was going to happen?
It makes no sense.

-> It doesn’t function as ingame lore because it would make no sense for anyone in-game to make it. So it literally just functions as a tutorial, and once you realize that you realize the devs artificially made the tutorial littered with cool sounding stuff to appear deep.