The 45 Hour Hollow Knight Speedrun Got Even Worse

So before we get started, let's go over a few things. The low percentage of true completion refers to failing to fulfill the dream. Finish by defeating normal Radiance with the lowest completion percentage possible. Previously this was 26, but since my last run there have been some great developments. There will be a jump in White Palace that could not be completed without wings; However, thanks to the discovery of Stalbaugh and this specific one found by Kamikilla, it is now possible to completely complete White Palace without wings and therefore the entire race. Due to this, the minimum completion percentage has actually been reduced by three percent, two percent for Monarch wings as it is only worth two percent for some reason and one percent per broken boat.

Now, this, of course, is not without consequences. If you're familiar with the old Route, you have to grind through most of the 1800s. Essence needed for a welcome dream now, outside of the 1 in 200 Essence drop chance from enemy kills, we were previously able to get 400 Essence from lost relatives, since the broken vessel had to be defeated anyway to obtain wings which can no longer be made so that means you will have to collect 400 more Essences than last time. Fortunately, advances have also been made in other parts of the race and we now have a much more efficient way to grind essences without being slowed down by load times and input errors.

Fortunately it does not require links, so without further delay let's go to Run. Hello, I'm already regretting it. I'm like starting the transmission. You know what we're going to play. to get back into the crazy new route stuff so I should probably stop delaying because we're going to have to do a lot of stuff like the new classic game why am I doing this again? It's because three percent have been removed since then. three percentages have been removed, my previous run is no longer the lowest percentage and we have to correct that, so yeah, we're not going to have wings, that's going to cause a lot of problems, we're going to have to do a lot of crazy skits. but it makes it a little more interesting and unfortunately a lot longer, so if you've seen the original run, a lot of things will be pretty similar, although we do have to avoid beating the bosses, so we'll just skip from here, so any boss that can be avoided should be avoided and the same for any similar buff spells and abilities, we get ventral spirit because it's the best way to enter Green Path.

The other ways to enter Greenpath also require percentages, so a bit. Something different that I didn't mention is that we are now on the current patch and the reason is that Stalva was actually patched in version 1.4 I think, so you can't do Stovall in the previous patch, so we're going to lose a little bit. of time to run in a slow stage, but it is a waste of time required oh, I also need vs for Stall Ball, that is also true oh, we are reaching our favorite room. I'll kill some birds to remember old times, but really we are. don't come back here the birds can live this time we'll just say it's because their sacrifice last time they're free this time okay don't die on greenpath or i'm actually going to restart oh i could sit here but that's suboptimal cop shaw cancels two crazy shots.

I think that means we're going to get a favorable RNG for exercises B. I think that's exactly what it means we have to go find Claw now, luckily Claw is actually required to win the game. normally there, you know, just for a couple of reasons, a couple of little reasons, like halfway through the game, oh oh, I got it, okay, we have to keep going because, just like in the last race, we'll take the route through a nest deep in the city. The gorge allows us to skip the gross mother and also get the Tran pass for later, so yeah, fun fact about Zote.

It was theorized that Zote would be faster because he could kill a great Prince towards the essence without getting anything extra, but it turns out. that to get grapefruit you have to kill the disgusting mother in the Colosseum, which would increase the percentage by one, so it wasn't really a valid strategy and also at this point you need Wings to reach the Grand Prince Zone anyway, the wings literally. open the basement so yeah unfortunately that was not a viable Stratocaster we will never be able to find anything that will reduce the time of this race it only increases the time of the race that's the curse of low tee so yeah luckily everyone Dream trees are accessible without wings. a couple of ghosts that we can't get, one of them is Vespa because now that they created Hive Knight, which is a percentage, you can no longer get that ghost without earning a percentage, so we have lost a ghost and Joni is also a ghost, but you can never do Joni without getting Joni's blessing, so that wasn't an option in the previous Route either, but everything else, all the other ghost entries are available and that actually brings us to 500, which is enough for get the dream bearer. routine so we at least have the improved chance of essence dropping from Dreamweather like barely yeah, let's kill all the ghosts we can because we need all the help we can get, what do I do if I have an extra percentage?

I don't get an extra percentage. I would know if I didn't kill Marissa. Imagine that Meme where the guy just smiles in response to the question. Okay, dream, nail, a very important part of this race, as we all know, okay, we're finally going to land. so we can get rich most of the money is for flashlights and some of it is for steaks and stuff and now we grind for a while we are Sun so yeah at least we got Crystal Dash in this race it would be pretty annoying not to be. I was able to get it, oh, that was a clean backup.

I forgot the tree. I forgot the tree. We have to go back. We have our first dream tree, which is actually one of them. It's a big headache, so yeah, this tree. uh you're supposed to have wings because normally you have to use wings to get up here, but you don't really have to, some of these are in annoying places, so now we're at 21 Essence of uh, well, 508 or 506, I think that is. what we came before bird uh bees birds and the bees so yeah there are some bosses and things we have to do uh I need to get the three dreamers and there are some unavoidable bosses like The Watcher nights and you know, since we don't we have spell upgrades no Shaman Stone some of these fights can be pretty intense do the smash definitely worth saving that time well we can do it objective list that's the objective never mind the objective is not to die oh the double ending wait What really I thought they both died, why did I do this last time?

It was because I was bored this time, it's because of the memes and to stop everyone from posting in my YouTube comments. Winslow told me: Hey creepy, did you know there's a new discovery in Low? I'm out of food, so we're going to climb this tree and we're also going to grab this key to get into the pleasure house because there are a couple of things in the pleasure house that we want you to be able to guess right, chat. It's time for everyone's favorite part of the race when something, something and there are ghosts or something, I don't know the words, who are you going to call Ghostbusters?

Okay, the ghost hunted by the ghosts, the number one ghost has been arrested, but there are actually two ghosts, a cool song, give me your essence. It has to be done because we need the essence, that is the goal of the race. I can't just skip the whole Essence. I would have to work

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harder, a shortcut if I can achieve this, uh, this is kind. It's hard, but it saves me a little time, yeah, there we go, we got it, but now I'm almost dead and I have to jump over the aspen, oh geez, okay then, side effect of not having wings, not really we can get up. here via normal memes so we need to push our little friend here and do some honesty be pretty cooperative right now so shout out to Aspid yeah make sure to tell Shaw's chat which is very important for the RNG minute, so yes, the spike continues. for a moment so you have to be careful come on there are no deaths yet maybe we can make the low immortal work electronically because I didn't get that last time neither nine sha nor ten Sha that's really important to know which was. 10.

Okay, that's good, that's an

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number that brings it to 12, which I think is a good sign, it's time for my favorite tree. Actually, a lot of today's stream will be doing stuff instead of just working, so m I apologize for not being able to see the fun part. In fact, I have them all. Wow, that was pretty good. I usually miss one and we'll have to look for it. Okay, it's a good thing Hopper jumped off the cliff where Are you going to see Hopper? The worst part about this tree is that you can't just start from the top, you have to go all the way down, back up, and then back down again, so I might as well put them up. the way down the second time okay important moment here you know we have to capture all the ghosts in the game so we can max out our essence count so we have to save the claw so we can kill the cloth later.

Is there anything else? Frick, what's broken? What's happening is the cloth is going to be saved just because I had a weird bug, okay let me try to reload honestly this probably isn't worth it right now but it's so weird that the goth wants to live okay we save her like What was happening. I saved her for the last time. time, that's so strange, whatever it is, you can't escape the bloodthirsty alien, you can't escape, yes, climbing the White House without wings is an interesting adventure, but it worked, we also have to get out of here without wings, as if everything was a little more annoying. when you're doing things with real endings without wins because the platforms and everything are basically designed to have wings, they can just be completed without them, hey, I remember the route to get here without wings, it's like a slightly different route I think.

I can go this way, okay, we're good, Chad, it's time for the trick that makes this route possible, we'll do it here. It is a simpler version. Oh, I forgot to turn on my FPS cap, so this trick is a framework. It depends on speed, so yes, Stovall, you have to fire your incendiary bomb. Pogo, I messed it up, so you saw the slope, that's what you want, but you also want Pogo like that, here we go and there's another one of those in White Palace, which is what makes the wing jump possible, this one is just for listen a little faster without wings instead of using it as a shadow jump, but that's the trick that makes all of this possible and now I'm turning off vsync because it sucks to play like this, okay, very important. part of Run uh we're literally going to open up the shortcut dream tree and then just put it in because otherwise there's no way to get this from the Queen's Garden side.

Hi Mossy, you can't be a pet, unfortunately I became more important. things to do you can just rest Mossy Mossy rest well, cut, wait I got a call, someone called me I think it was Elder Bug about a ghost situation there's the Ghostbusters, okay, fun, little stretch here, we have three trees in a row except this one is infected Crossroads, so maybe it's a little less fun. They are harassing me. I'm going to die. I have to go. I have to go back. I'm going to die if I go back there. Okay, reroute, uh, come on. make the street and then come back, okay, it's really fun about this tree, uh, this actually requires another enemy to jump.

See many enemies jump in this race because they have wings. I may not have wings, but they have links. Thanks, do you know why? help you live now. I have to go back to that other room in an

hour

. I don't know if I should have done more, but I think we're good. I definitely have some issues here and there, okay? most of them up here, so where didn't I get them? This one is fine and then I do it in the results list the second time. This tree is pretty fun, although it probably went higher up the tree tier list.

I'd say it's okay, a umu tutorial cycle. This will definitely be a cycle, don't listen to the chat, they don't know what they're talking about, so what you want to do is look down three times, what's left, look up twice, up umu that many times and then. Give up because you're on the current patch without Shaman Stone only vs there we go alright, a cycle Wallace, look I don't even have many notes left or honestly we have to be almost done, I'm done. Halfway through my notes, oh, but there's a note. Wait, what does it say?

Obtain 1800 Essence. Okay, maybe we're not halfway there. Oh ghost, don't forget ghosts and sneak grass. Oh, we even have to kill some birds for old time's sake. true 277, if only we could get the essence that quickly throughout the entire tour. I hate how these things always fly over your fireball every time, oh, that was good, ah, that's okay, don't go to marmu, that would be a badthe chat, everyone press F, it goes too fast, okay, to hell with this, sad