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seriously tho that was pretty fucking sick. mad i waited so long to play hollow knight, glad i finally did. there are a lot of metroidvania genre conventions i think it doesn't particularly execute well but everything else around it is firing at like 300% power and more than makes up for it. when you reach that critical threshold of having enough mobility moves, charm combos you like using, and combat awareness, the game is just goddamn butter

white palace spoilers i guess

really enjoying traversal and combat in hollow knight now but holy shit i really fuckin hate this map system! all it does is make you backtrack way more than you should have to

the tldr is your map doesn't live update as you explore, it updates only at designated rest spots. so you can pass through areas, sometimes through one-way tunnels/falls, and miss shit without realizing until you're on the other side of the one-way and you rest and it pops up on your map. time to not only backtrack to that place, but i gotta go the long way around again. you coulda just told me that shit was near. what does this add to the experience besides tedium?