Hollow Knight speedruns are much harder than you think

Today we are going to speedrun with Hollow Knight, which is a really cool but difficult speedrun. Now we'll start the speedrun as soon as we get past the opening cutscenes, we want to pause and then open our inventory because that allows us to fall faster and will cancel out the lag once we hit the ground. After this we just walk around avoiding all the bugs because we don't really have to worry about killing them and making cuts because that will open them up. To get up the gates without having to be knocked back, we'll also use a lot of jumping and do some little quick running strategies like this one where we jump as we go so we don't have to go all the way around. go over that one too, hit that guy twice and hit the little pointy thing and go through another door.

After this, we'll go down to this area where we can do a couple more jumps and we're almost out. the starting area, all we have to do at this point is open it with three bars and move to the right, finally we have the big door that we just hit with a few more bars, it opens and we will move on to the first one. part of the game foul mouth oh by the way you may notice during the loading screens that my timer will actually stop, that's because the speedrunning community created a timer that does that to make the

speedruns

as fair as possible and having a better PC won't do it.

I'll give you a better time, but anyway we're going through the dirt mouth and you'll see that I'm jumping across it because normally you would walk a little slower, but after that we'll go straight to the Forgotten Crossing, which stops this part. We'll just walk to the left for a moment ignoring the enemies as usual. Now, once we get to this room, what we want to do is go over here and do another one of these inventory drops to make sure we drop. very quickly and we cancel the animation when we reach the ground, we will also go down here to this room where we will have a small Arena Battle and we have to take care of a couple of flies, we can catch the first one with some pogos and then we will try to use the pickaxe, but unfortunately I missed that one, luckily it's pretty easy to clean these guys up and I'll take some of your money for this room too, I want to jump. right here and then make these other jumps so we can go straight over there, they'll hit us but it propels us forward a little bit so it doesn't really matter too

much

and next to this room there are a couple of flies everywhere I mean .

They're not too hard to dodge, though, so we can jump up there, do a couple more jumps, and go to the next room, which is just jumping a few more times to get up here, the path we're taking now. On our way to the fake night so we can get the Vengeful Spirit along the way, there will be another one of these guys who aren't really bosses, but they are pretty tanky, we don't feel like dealing with him and thankfully the game doesn't. You don't have to do it for this part, you'll see the tall guy will usually jump if he was in a different position than the short guys, he'd just walk under him and jump over the short guys, but yeah that part was a bit weird after this we're going to make the fake night appear and we just have to cut it a few times.

I'm very healthy, so I don't have to worry about getting hit and everything we have to do. is to eliminate him once he will reveal his little ghost that we can cut eight different times and then he will jump and have a tantrum but this will be the perfect time not to fight him because in this fight we can actually skip everything by opening that wall afterwards Let him get angry, then we head to the left and go straight towards the snail shaman because, like I said before, we have to get the vengeful spirit started. This platformer is pretty standard here, we just go to the insurance center and we're a little low on health, so I'll stop at the bank before I go talk to him.

He'll say, "Oh yeah, I guess I'll help you." and he gives us this thing that gets absorbed into our body and knocks us out, so yeah, maybe we shouldn't accept random things from strangers, but he does give us the Vengeful Spirit which will be our main source of damage once we get it. At the end of the game we will now wake up on the other side and before the shaman lets us out of here he wants us to take care of a mini boss so first we have to go through and do some platforming, it's pretty simple. things once again, by simply avoiding the enemies when we see them, we can also get rid of these wooden platforms.

There's a cool part where we can jump this guy by doing an upward slash so we don't have to try to dodge him and there were the spikes on the ceiling so that would be annoying too, we can also pogo one of the flies and finally get to this little guy, where we have to hit him with two of our special attacks, he will eventually throw up one of the roly-poly guys and we can get a couple more special attacks, kill him and go back to the shaman, where he says oh, you already killed him and he finally lets us go, so now that we have the full spirit of Venge

much

more.

The game has really opened up for us and we're going to head there. We can open this door that will take us back to this room and now we will return to this path. We want to hit a couple of these enemies so we can start raising our soul because obviously the soul is important for our Vengeful Spirit attacks and important for healing if we want to do it later, but we definitely need our Vengeful Spirit attacks because we'll see another of these guys, but we can actually shoot him by moving the screen back a little bit and yeah, for some reason, that makes him die right away.

I'll just accept it, I'm not worried. Now we just have to continue moving to the left, which takes us to the Green Path. Now, for this, we simply need to keep moving to the left. We want to beat up a couple of these guys so we can get more soul like me. I'll jump and slash and I actually miss that guy, we won't talk about that, but yeah, pretty much whenever we're not full of Soul, we want to get in some quick slashes while we can, what I can do here is actually jump. I hit a couple of those birds that will give me some soul and they crossed that platform too.

So we'll see Hornet over here, she's going to run away, but we could actually go straight after her by doing that little jump, basically what I jumped and when I started to go down I turned my back on her, pressed the Vengeful Spirit button twice and then I kept moving to the left, which barely allows us to get there. We are also going to do exactly the same thing. I'll have to deal with this little one here, but this is a very precise jump, which is fine, I barely made it, it's perfect, probably the best one I've ever done to be honest, and we'll take a little more salt out of it. these guys, this part is just a bit of platforming, some annoying enemies, not much to say and then once we get to our next minibus, what we can do is cut it right off, use three of our magic attacks and it'll be over . so yeah, we've been going pretty fast so far and we've also gotten some money, which is going to be very important because pretty much throughout this entire game we're going to get just the right amount of money that will allow us to keep going, but what we want to do in this room is eliminate a couple of these enemies so we can uplift our soul, you know, like always, but we especially need it right now.

For this little trick, what I do is I jump slightly and move to the left and use three of those attacks right there, hit him with a final slash which will kill him immediately and give us all this free money, which is pretty much the quickest way. to do it. I was a little wrong because you can get a slash before you get hit, but it's still pretty cool and now we can head to the Hornet boss fight, we'll take this upper path, go down here, slash this guy a couple of times to get a little more soul and yes, we are doing it quite a bit.

Good for health, so I can be risky during this boss fight, basically for the heart of the boss fight. I just want to make sure she doesn't hit me. I'm going to use my magic attacks and combine them with my slashes as much as I can. What you want to do is slash and then use a magic attack right after, which will help us deal a lot of damage very quickly. To be honest, this is our first boss, it's not very difficult, especially once you start getting to know his patterns. to react to a couple of moves like jumping on it and like I say you just have to react, I mess up like that, but she's almost dead, we just have to finish her off with one more slash, she'll run away and we can pick this up. which will be the Mothwing cape and which will allow us to run, so from here what we can do is go out to the menu and return to the game to be on the bench next to the shaman, so now you will also see we have the cape, which is very good at platforming, but we still need one more thing to be really good at platforming and to be able to do some really cool tricks, so what we're going to do is go down to the left that we have. this little jump we can finally do there and then we'll head over to the mushroom waste right here, what we want to do is another one of these inventory drops so we can get rid of that drop animation that's getting in our way.

Go through here as quickly as possible and finally head right, then there will be this room, we don't have to worry about that little fungus because it doesn't start being active soon enough and yes, we can ignore it. and yes pretty basic platforming these platforms actually took me a while to learn just because you have to remember every little detail that happens but once you get the hang of it you can do it pretty quickly now that we get to this mushroom area we won't . we're supposed to do that or that okay please let's work with me anyway we can use them to jump making a jumper so that will be good for our platforms too and yes we'll just go back down but this is where we go to use a really cool trick, what we want to do is drop down here, we'll do a dash and another dash right there, then we have to wait for this explosive thing to come down and do it twice in the air, which allows us to go to a area we are not supposed to be in.

I love that trick, it was really hard to learn but I'm so happy to have it now and now we have to do another trick since we're in Mantis Village first. After all, we have to press this switch that will open a door, then we will use these mantises to take out Pogo and return there. Normally we wouldn't be able to do this, but we can just do We get there getting those three mantises and yeah, we jump a little bit more backtrack and we have to do that kind of thing, so there we go, that's going to be the Mantis claw and now we can jump By the wall.

We'll also exit the menu again and let's go. Going back to the shaman, this is where the platforms really start to get fun because we have a lot of different things at our disposal and yes, we can go fast almost all the time, but now we will return to this room and go to the right, like at the beginning of the race, you can see this room is a lot more fun with the cape, even if I got hit there, we're not going to talk about that and yes, almost every room. They're a lot more fun because I don't have to worry about being as accurate as long as I have my Dash.

Now what we want to do once we get to this room is go up because then we can go here to the left and open the toll machine that will allow us to fast travel and we will come back here later and then we will go back in this direction going down where there will be another one of these nervous guys, but first we take care of him. I want to cut it three times. Cut it three times too, which will give us a lot of soul before facing the guru's mother. Now this fight is pretty easy.

What you do is cut and then use your magic and I was supposed to do it a third time but then I messed up, okay maybe I shouldn't call things easy, that's always when I mess up but we can take it out with a couple of cut more, she will start to explode. 50 Geo and you can see that there are some weird things coming out of his belly that we can prepare to use some of his magic to eliminate them immediately and finish these guys with a couple of cuts, giving us some more money, but we don't do it.

We don't have enough money, we actually want 220, so I'm going to change my route, take care of a couple of these people and also go to this building where we'll see our boy Sly, we'll remind you who. he is and it is important to unlock him because he will be our merchant but anyway now that we have that extra money I can start heading to the right and we will go to salumbra's shop saloonbra is the person who will sell you amulets and Now we have enough money to get the Shaman Stone that will increase your spouse's effectiveness, so we can head to the bank and equip our Shaman Stone.

Haveenough notches to use it and now it's time to die because I killed a couple of people, although it will take a little bit longer because we have to wait for this guy to start moving slowly and that's because we want to die right here, we'll let this one guy delete us and you can see that. our little Shadow comes out, now we're going to respawn at the bank and what we can do is get close to it, slash it once and we'll get to this wall where we repeatedly jump over the wall and then we can Pogo and barely get there.

It was actually like one of the scariest jumps. I thought I screwed it up for sure, but you see now we're in the Blue Lake and no. We don't even have to do any platforming, we can just go through it and eventually once we get there we'll move on to the rest rounds. What we want to do here is cut that switch through the wall because we have to wait for a little animation and we go to the right after running a little we will start to see the dreamers and these are the people we have to defeat to face the final boss, they will all appear in their ghost forms and be like hey, let's knock you out now and we wake up and immediately run out of the ground because we want the moth to spawn a little faster and die after it does, now we have probably one of the more annoying platforming sections, it is not. a difficult platforming section but it's difficult when you're trying to go fast because if you don't time your runs right you can completely die and I really don't want that to happen so I'll be careful with this just so we don't fall and have to lose some extra time.

There's only this one left so I can do a couple of these jumps. I just do a long jump and then Dash after that and you're usually fine once. Do that, we will finally have the chance to talk to the moth and they will give us the dream now, which will be the weapon that will allow us to wake up the dreamers and break their seals now, right after we achieve it. That little section of text I want to start mashing home and then as soon as it disappears I rush to the right what we can do with that is exit the building during the loading screen and yeah you can see it's just a a little faster, so now we'll head back to the rest area until we get to this room.

I can do a couple of races. I make the time very specific and then there's this guy who always shows up at a different place who was a little faster. It's a little scary, but we can reach the switch that will transport us to the city of tears and there are many things we want to do in this section, first of all, we need to obtain many more. money to finish this game so we can start taking out these guys and okay, I didn't want you to do that, but that will give us some money along with some soul to collect more money because we want to take out these two as well.

People, give us a few more dollars and get this Wanderers Journal so we can sell it later. Then we can ignore this guy because I don't really care, but there are a lot of people down here I want to beat up. with one of my spells that's going to give me a lot of money right there, I don't know how this guy didn't get hit and okay, I guess you don't want to give me your money, but yeah, we'll do our way down in the air and towards the right because here is another one of these stations, but we're not going to open this one yet, instead what we do is this little platform where we can get up here and get the The

hollow

seal is another thing that we want to sell and it will be worth a lot of money.

From here we will return to this room and this time we will go to the left so we can face our next boss much later. a little bit of extra stuff because first we want to go collect some money in the city of Tears, now we'll enter this room, we can take out a couple of those guys just by using our spells and then we'll see the beautiful husk. Now what you want to do for this fight is make her appear with your bar up and then we can hit her with a spell and get a double header, which is basically when the same spell hits her twice, so she just lets us go. a little faster, now we are done with that room, we head to the left, there will be another one of these guys, fortunately they are very slow and yeah, there is not much to say at the moment, we can take care of these people.

I'm just trying to get some soul, so I'm not too worried about them, but we have to make sure we go into this room on the left because there will be a switch that we will have to press now to be able to return. Later, we're going to take this elevator up and once we get here, what I want to do is jump and at the height of the jump, okay, I messed up, yeah, let's restart that real quick anyway, which was. Saying is that we want to jump to the height of our jump, do a pogo and we can get there.

That was a little embarrassing. I'm not going to lie, but I'm also going to take a little bit of soul out of those people, so then we can use it on these flying guys, we just have to cut them once and then we can use a spell. Now after this, what we want to do is press a switch on the floor that we can barely press if we time it right. and now we are in a completely dark room, but I know where we have to go just by doing a couple of jumps and there we go, we made it here, after this there will be another one of these flying guys that we will see. just ignore it because I don't really care, we can take this elevator up and we're actually going to skip this elevator because it's taking too long, now what we want to do is touch this ceiling a couple of times. because we are on our next boss, which will be the Watchers nights and we can eliminate one of the nights before the fight by collapsing one of the chandeliers, so we will use our dream nail on a couple of these. husks that will give us some extra soul before the fight and yes, now it's time for probably one of the most difficult fights in the game.

First of all, we only have to deal with one of these guys and he's pretty easy on his own, you can see this. The general combo I'm doing by throwing in a bunch of spells and also some regular slashes, we can take him out very quickly and then he'll spawn two more right away, yeah normally during this whole fight you have to deal with two of these. Guys, at the same time, we dealt with the first one so quickly that you couldn't even generate a second one, but anyway we have to deal with both people and at the same time try our best not to die, which is much more difficult than that you could I

think

if you've played this game you probably already know how hard it is, but yeah my basic strategy is to always have both of them on the screen, if one of them goes off the screen they'll do one of their jump attacks or something. like this and there won't be enough time to react, we also want to time our spells so that they hit both of them at the same time instead of just hitting one of them.

I'm taking my time with this to make sure you don't rush anything because this fight might be terrible of all the fights in this game. It's probably the one I put the most into this one. The scary thing is that there isn't much time to heal, the only time you really have to. Healing is when one of the creatures dies and you can find a moment where they are doing one of their rolling attacks, but other than that I just have to play nice, like here. I can take that time to heal and climb a little higher. and now we're dealing with the last two and I'm actually doing really well in this fight, it usually doesn't go so well at this point, I'm just completely focused, I don't want to get hit by these attacks.

The really annoying part is his jump attack because it can be very difficult to dodge the way I do, basically don't try to escape from him most of the time because if you try to escape from him, on the second bounce he will hit you. So yeah, you just have to play smart, but it seems like they should be very close to dying. Fortunately, one canceled their raw there. Sometimes that happens and I am very close to dying too. I only have two HP left, please guys. I just need you to die, this is the part where my heart always, oh well, okay, we're going well, like I was saying, my heart always beats faster during this fight, but yeah, that really turned out very well, I'm proud of it, so now.

We can head up and we're going to head towards Lurian, the first dreamer. For this part, we want to start riding the elevator, but then we'll send it back down so we can jump up here. It is not like this. much faster to jump, but then we can fall on the way back, which will be much faster than taking an elevator, so we will dream of Nail Lurian entering the dream of him. It's a pretty simple dream and not too much either. platforms and we can slash them a bunch of times, eventually they'll die and we can use our heal button to absorb their essence or something.

I really don't know what's going on, but that will break the first seal on him. now that we wake up, we're going to head straight to the left, press the elevator button so we can move it out of the way and do another one of our menus, then we can head to this room, go left again. open that chest that will give us a lot of money and get the seal of sanctity right here so we can go back through all these corpses of slightly morbid bodies, but we're not going to talk about that and yeah, now we're pretty.

We're pretty much just trying to get out of the city of Tears so we can get through this long hallway. There will be a switch on the other side so we can go through that door and before we leave the city of Tears, we really want to go. Say hello to our guy Lem so we can sell a bunch of stuff and to do that we can open this store, hit that switch so we can let the elevator go past us and go straight down, then once we're in this area , we have To open this door we can also run a couple of times towards the Fountain and that is where Lem will be first.

We have to talk to him before we can use this store, so yeah, he's just making us waste more. time, but then we will go back to the left, go up the elevator and talk to our guy, where we will sell our Wanderers journal and our two Hollow Nest stamps, so yes, now we have a good amount of money, but we need a total. of 2400 to finish the game, so on my way back to the Fast Travel point I'll kill a couple of guys just to take their money, like these guys in this room. I can hit this guy a few times and then use one of those. to take care of those people, thanks for the money, we still need another 40, but we'll have them for the rest of the game and yeah, not much to say about this room, we just jump on these guys, normal stuff, we'll get there eventually.

Return to King Station, return to this bank area and open the next tall machine which will cause the Deer to come. We have to wait this time and press this bell, then the Deer will come running this way and yeah. He'll say: Hey, now I can fast travel for you, so we'll head back to the dirt mouth from here. First of all, we have to take this little elevator, but then we can jump up there, hit that switch to open the door and yeah. I'm back here. I'm going to sit on this bench because it will be an important part to teleport to later and we can talk to Sly, who can now buy the Lumify flashlight, which is incredibly important for a later part of the game.

For now, although we return to the station and we are going to go to the Forgotten Junction, but it is no longer the Forgotten Junction, it is now the Infected Junction, you can see that they are much crazier enemies like this guy. who, okay, I really don't want to die here. I want to get off of them to give myself some height, but please guys, stop. I don't want to lose this race right now, we're just going to run away, okay, that was too close. Yeah, um, we're not going to talk about that anyway, another one of these tall machines.

Then I'll heal a little bit because that was too scary, that's sad because there's a really cool move right there, but you know, I'm just. Happy that we're alive, I'm also going to punch this guy in the face a few times so I can get some more healing and yeah, we'll be on our way, so this part is probably one of my favorite parts of the game just because it's so beautiful, there are all the purple crystals and cool creatures here, plus these miners who don't really like me, but I guess I don't really need them, like me, even though they just beat me up because I made a mistake.

For that jump for this guy, we also have to hit him three times in the face and then we can use one of our spells. Then we have all these guys shooting lasers from their crystals, so this is a scary part, especially when I only have three health points. I'm going to play it pretty safe. I don't know what's going on, but surprisingly it worked well. I'll take it for this one. Okay, I messed up a little bit, but you know, they didn't hit me. so I can't complain, I'll wait for that oneguy comes out and then he's going to hit me anyway, but here we go, we made it through there and now we're pretty safe to get through the rest of the glass area because we can. we start heading to the right and we just have these little mines that we just dropped using our inventory, yeah not much to say but after that it's time for more platforming, we don't have to deal with enemies which is nice and instead I just have to make sure I don't mess up, especially since again I only have two Health right now, so there will be a lot of things that can kill us, like these gems that shoot lasers, for some reason.

I'll wait. this is ruled out because we don't have much health that can get through there and almost this entire part is just about patience, if you jump you can usually wait for the lasers to go by and it's okay, actually I'm going to have to do it. hurry through this okay we did it it was scary but it's good because I got to the end and now we can get our next upgrade and this upgrade will be the crystal heart which is a cool upgrade for our move but now it's the Time to go back to the menu which will put us on the bench in the dirt pit right away we're going to use our new power and you can see why it's good for movement and why we needed to get it before finishing the race.

We can use it in many areas just to go. faster but there are some places where it's really necessary, we can go down this area again but these flies are much bigger and two of them hit me this time, that was a bit annoying but yeah this whole place is infected right now , but we don't have to deal with it too much because we're going to head left where I want to stop my momentum and I mess it up, but it's okay, I still have a lot of health, that guy's stuck down there too. Did you see that?

I'm going to play it a little safe by taking this guy out just so I can get the extra soul. He will spawn two types when he dies, we can heal ourselves because this trick is very scary. What I have to do is use that power and jump at the right time. I'm really surprised that I tried it for the first time, but yeah, it's a really cool jump that we can do and at this point it's time to head to our next boss, but this area is a little annoying, there will be a bunch of jellyfish that just They'll just sit there, but like almost everything in this game, if I get hit by one of them, I'll take damage and yeah, we don't really want that, but now.

We can enter this building and it will be time to fight the Umu boss before that, although I will take a safety bench. To be honest, if I die during this run, I'll restart it, but I want extra health. We also get to see all these different jellyfish that I can take out to get their soul as well and yeah my main goal here is to not get hit so it's as safe as possible for the boss fight. I'll have to use the Crystal Heart right there and now we can generate umu right away, we want to hit them with one of our Dream Nails, which actually now that I'm

think

ing about it I didn't need to do because the Dream Nail doesn't actually do anything.

The damage just gives you soul and I was left unresolved, but anyway what we want to do in this fight is guide Umu to the right places after they do three attacks, they should come here and then they go to oh. That's not what was supposed to happen, okay, yeah, sometimes this fight is a little weird, I guess because we wanted to drag each other, which I don't know if I said that, whatever the name is, we want Coral to go and attack on umu. so we can attack its center and that didn't work exactly how I planned, which wasn't perfect because normally what you want to do is leave umu trapped inside a platform so you can hit him a bunch of times in a row, but yeah, it hasn't worked in the best way, okay, I just need to not lose my cool, especially because this is an amazing race for me so far and yeah, I really don't want to ruin this just by being stupid.

I'm going to go ahead with the plan, what we're going to do is hit Umu right here and please, Quirl, actually do some damage. Yeah, I'm not exactly sure how the AI ​​works for this boss fight with Curl, but we'll hit him a couple of times right there. I mean, it's not going to be the worst. I've definitely had worse fights than this. The thing about this fight is that honestly it's very easy, but it's hard to go fast, especially when we're not getting actions like I'm trying, but I mean we already have a good amount of damage, it should only take one or two more attempts, so umu will use that attack again.

I hope Coral comes here, thank you and now we can hit umu a couple of times and please stop doing this. areas, it's okay Coral, just do your thing, I'll hit him and please Gabe, okay, with another spell, it should be his death and it was a single swipe with my fingernail, that's actually very sad, okay , it's not the fastest boss fight I've ever done. but I'm glad we got through it and yes, now we can head straight over here where we'll use our glass heart again to get to this area and we'll be able to see our next monomon streamer and we want to inspect it.

Then Coral will come and say: I have to break this seal and let you do your thing, he will break the seal, we can hit her with our Dream now and yes, it's pretty much the same as last time, but this time we have the glass heart , so I guess it's a little faster move, but yeah, we cut her a couple of times to absorb all that Essence and now we've broken the second seal, which means there's only one left and now we're going to spawn here and not even to even talk to Coral because that doesn't seem to be my problem and we have to get out of this building unfortunately every time you do one of these dreamer missions we can't do the normal thing where we just pause and leave.

We headed back to our previous bench because technically we just rested there, so it would take us back to where we took out the dreamer. Now we are just leaving the master archives and this time we will head to the Salí taking out this small wooden platform and this will take us to a new area where again there are a lot of jellyfish. These guys are really annoying, especially since I haven't mentioned it, but the big guys, if you try to cut them down, then I'll hit you with a really strong attack and yeah, we're just not going to worry about it.

I'll go straight through the queen station to this area and we'll head this way which will take us back to the mushroom waste and Yeah we won't be there for long it's just a pretty simple part where we head right and then we return to the left. We'll do a couple of wall jumps here, go through all of these enemies, and go down once. If we get to this area, we can do some pogos to make our platform a little faster, then we can do a Crystal Hard Dash so we don't have to worry about any platform hitting that wall with one of our spells to open it. up and we have to walk far enough backwards, which will collapse us and sink us deep into the Nest.

Now the deep dust, as you can see, is a pretty spooky place and it's also very important that we have the Lumify flashlight, otherwise I wouldn't be able to see it, so yeah, there's going to be all these bugs and things that we're going to have to worry about, but I already know the way, so I'm not too worried. We will take the path to the left and then go down. go right, there will be that guy, but a folding floor, so we don't have to worry about him, there will be another one of these guys, we just have to wait and go right here and yeah, it's kind of I guess it's a linear path, as long as you know where to go, okay, I don't know if that just makes sense, but anyway we can drop down here in one of these pools to heal ourselves and get more soul before continuing.

To the left now this is where we want to have a lot of soul. I'm going to hit that guy right there because I can heal my soul by slashing him a few times, but yeah, I just want to stay at three souls, so we can take out some specific enemies in this game later. Now let's make some simple platforms. We don't want to catch up on these things. We don't want to get hit by all the spiders that crawl around and in general. just to the left until we reach this part where we want to jump that spider there.

I don't even know how it didn't hit me, but there will be spiders on the ground and spiders spawning. If you stay still for too long, pretty much the whole thing we just want to keep moving, which, to be fair, is all sprinting, but we're going to take these upward paths because there are going to be those floors that are going to collapse. I don't want to deal with it and once we get to this room we're almost done. I really don't have to worry much here. I mean, there's one spider I'll try not to hit, but yeah, not too much. worried about him before leaving, this will take us to a distant village where it is time to find our final dreamer.

We have to do some platforming to get to this building and this is a really strange place where there are a lot. from people I accidentally talk to but they really want us to sit on this bench, unfortunately for us, it was actually a trap and yes, they all come towards me, quite an awkward encounter, I'm not going to lie after that weight, waking up in a bunch of spider webs and we have to fight our way out of them and yes we are now on the Beast so yes this is another one of the scariest parts now for this latest streamer, they don't actually have a fight against a boss, but these enemies do.

Some of the most annoying guys in the game which is why we wanted to have Full Soul so we can hit them with three of our spells at once and hopefully kill them quickly, but if they hit us with their claw attacks then they make two holes. damage instead of just one I really want to be safe with those guys. I'm going to get a little more Alma here because I have to deal with another one a little later, but overall most of this isn't that bad, it's like trying to play pretty. Well, I'll probably do some damage to the tank and that's okay, it was actually a terrible move, a little embarrassing, but we're almost done with this, we're almost to the final boss and I'm really excited, I really hope I don't drown, but we're not going to talk about it.

That's it anyway, we're almost done with this part. I'm going to open this guy because I mean, I might as well be there and I'm actually going to heal here because I'm a little scared and there's going to be this guy, which is fine, that's not what was supposed to happen, something good, I healed, yes you can actually skip this guy, but I'm playing really bad, it's probably nerves because this is a very good race, but okay, I'll leave it. He slashed me twice so I could jump on him and that was a little scary but now I have to play the next part really well because there will be one last guy, it's not worth healing at all because I would have done that. to heal me twice and I could also use it for my spells, we just hope they don't hit us and this will be a pretty slow battle, pretty much the only thing you can do when you have no spells is hit them once and then run away because we don't want to get hit by those Claws, here we go, thanks.

I was so freaked out by that bar anyway, it's finally time to deal with Hera, our latest dreamer, that yeah, we just cut them off. a couple of times they absorb all the Essence from it and that will be the last seal broken now that we wake up and all we have to do is get out of the Beast so we can fast travel back to the beginning of the game and be on our way. to the temple to face the final boss see a pretty simple platform fortunately there are no more enemies we have to deal with there are those guys that are dead I don't know if we killed them or if someone else killed them but I mean, something did and I can go up here to reach our last farewell station, which will cost us 250 Geo and now we are going to the dirty mouth from here, we will take the same path.

At first we just went back through the waves, but this time we finally head to the right, what I can do is jump right there and then we will use our crystal heart to be able to skip all the platforms and get to the building that will be the Temple of the Black Egg immediately once we get here you will see that all the seals are broken and we can go in which yes it is a little intimidating but we should be fine and finally it's fight time which can make or break my speedrun yeah this is it pretty stressful but before we get to the actual fight we have to take care of these chains you just have to cut each of them four times which is pretty easy and now it's finally time to face the Hollow Knight so for this fight what I want to do is slash him once normally and then do a jump slash to make sure he doesn't hit me with any of his fast attacks, so you'll see. do a slash, jump, slash, he could use a pogo or something and every once in a while when we do enough damage he will stagger which will give us time to heal or do a slash on a spell, he has a couple of attacks on this moment.

They are not the most difficult, probably theThe hardest part of this group will be the parry and then once we get him far enough he will use that attack which is very annoying. I hate that attack, but yeah, let's just have to focus on this guy, he can do a lot of damage to you very quickly, especially if you lose your cool, so I just have to be smart. I'll line up there just to make sure I'm safe. He wears two Perrys and a row. which is really annoying use this attack over and over again thank you very much man but so far it's going pretty well that's one of the attacks that's probably the easiest to dodge so I always like to see that we can do a couple of pogos and Les I show my butt just to make fun of him while I heal a little.

I mean, for the most part, it's just about staying airborne in this fight, taking damage while you can, showing him your ass while you can, all that kind of stuff, but Solo should have a little more health and here we go, okay, once we get him at this stage he will stab himself a bunch of times which gives us a chance to get a ton of soul and this is when you know we are close to beating him, I mean not too close yet we have a good amount of fight left, but he gets very angry.

I mean, the real reason for the game's story is that the Hollow Knight gets a moment of clarity and decides to help us kill. him, but yeah, I'll play the game yourself if you want to understand the story, it's interesting stuff, but this is an interesting attack because what we can do is not so good, thanks for stabbing you. I appreciate that I explain that attack to you in a moment. I know he is incredibly close. to death, although I can actually jump over that one because I was prepared for it and this attack is one of the most annoying attacks, so it goes and vomits everywhere, but I actually dodged it all, so I'm really proud of myself , please. stop using your pairs and anyway this is the attack I was talking about what we want to do is walk up to One Direction and hit him as he falls but eventually you'll see him do another one of these long screens and that means he's going to be weak , so yeah he doesn't really have much in him, his slashes are very pathetic at this point, we only hit him with a couple of these, he can't really do much, this is the part of the fight where he really doesn't.

I want to die because it would be a bit embarrassing, but there we go, the Hollow Knight is done, we still have to finish the quick run because he enters this part and we can start absorbing that Essence, but eventually it gets to the point where the screen turns black and my automatic divider will divide right there to give us the time of 48.40. That will also tie us for 427th on speedrun.com and I'll take it, subscribe if you liked it, bye.