It's funny because HK is probably the best in class for powerup gating, you're usually never stuck in 1 small area until you get the new powerup to progress that 1 gate and then you forget about the powerup ever again (I'm looking at you Ecclesia).
People were hyping it up for an entire year. They were getting frustrated with us Switch holdouts. They turned out to be right!
IDK, as a whole the soundtrack of all 3 games is stellar, SM is the weakest but that's just because of how limited the hardware can be at times.
I expected another Axiom Verge : a good game but nothing THAT spectacular.
That is a fair outlook but a little off. There are definitely puritans who don't look to kindly to the genre bending that is required to move beyond that first great game.
Someone who's only seen a small fraction of a game doesn't have the perspective necessary to criticize it. For example, someone who's only seen the first three areas of Hollow Knight will have spent most of their time in the tutorial area and forgotten crossroads, and will think 2/3 or 67% of the game has the same dark drab color-scheme. Someone who's played the whole thing will know that it's only those two areas that look similar, all the others are shockingly different and would never criticize 2/10 or 20% for being too samey.
It's not about creating long lasting franchises. Super metroid/SotN are genre defining games. Hollow Knight is an extremely polished game, not an innovative one, unless you'd try to claim that hard difficulty and death system from souls games is innovation.
The game sold 1.25+ million copies. I'll hold you accountable to that.
I'm going to make 2 distinct points here.
It's a question you really only see on forums. HK is not being championed outside of here and GameFAQs.
I can't remember if Richter has a double jump, but he does have a soaring uppercut move you can chain indefinitely to basically fly, kind of like Alucard's gravity jump. It's not as precise (or slow) as bat form, but it will get you where you need to go.
It's a well done indie metroidvania. All metroidvanias are compared to those two. The term comes from those two games. Personally I enjoyed Axiom Verge more, another well done indie metroidvania.
Um, a ton of enemies from SotN were recycled from Rondo of Blood, dude. It's a well-known criticism of the game. Hollow Knight has 150+ enemies (none of which are recycled from previous games of course).
It won #21 GOTY 2017 on ResetEra, close behind Mario + Rabbids, and ranked above Samus Returns and other high-budget games like The Evil Within 2, Hellblade, Destiny 2, For Honor, etc.
It's not a slight to HK, it's just that I think that the legacy that bloodstained brings with it will win in the end. Heck I'm planning to buy it basically blind, unless the press is overwhelmingly negative.
It would be amazing if any Metroidvania sells 1.25 million copies in a week, so I'm just making sure you know how strong your claim is.
This is exactly how I felt. Maybe I would have changed my mind if I had continued, but I was closing in on 2 hours played and had to choose whether to refund or not.
Having played HK and MSR in the same year (2018), I can't think of any way to put Samus Returns above HK.
Definitely. The things you praise about SotN and Super Metroid, Hollow Knight has in spades and more. There is so much to find, exploration is always extremely rewarding and it's worth revisiting old areas for new stuff all the time too.
Yeah ok no.
