I Spent 40 Hours 112%'ing Hollow Knight 

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hearing him talk about playing hollow knight as a kid has aged me 100 years

Should I attempt all achievements next?

''So i inmagine in the lore hornet came through here and sucked all the color out with her needle or something'' 10/10 completely accurate lore

"Some of the most insane bosses I've ever encountered" Shows Flukemarm

Very, very, very basic plot summary. King comes in and gives bugs intelligence and creates a kingdom. Radiance doesn’t like that and infects the minds of bugs. When her influence spreads, the infection seeps through the body. King finds Void. King decides to use it when creating countless children to make an emotionless vessel, as emotion is what the Radiance latches on to in order to infect bug minds. King has three big bad bugs become seals to keep it further locked up. It doesn’t entirely work as the titular Hollow Knight isn’t completely emotionless. Kingdom falls into ruin. You’re one of those children, coming back from somewhere to either kill the Radiance or become the new, better vessel to keep her contained. Again, VERY basic plot summary.

you gotta thank the gods that pantheon of hallownest isn't part of the 112% but it does have its achievement so you still gotta do it to 100% the game not the save file

HE DIDN'T BOW FOR GRIMM

I love the lore of this game, where it’s hidden in the backgrounds, description of items, and conversations with seemingly unimportant little guys. The world building has so many layers it’s great.

0:54 that guy with the glasses kinda looks like seanie

I would literally cover my body in paper cuts and lemon juice for the rest of my life just to see Seanie ATEMPT all the achievements in hk or at least the pantheon of hallow nest

„This is not only the hardest challenge in hollow knight“ *Absolute Radiance and NKGrimm laughing hysterically*

“That’s why I’m the Hollow freaking Knight man!” ***we literally are not*** This part got me 😂

Man. This was the first metroidvania I ever played and i was so bad at it. Now I occasionally 112% it on steel soul just for fun. Such a good game

Seeing Seanie kill Gruz Mother after Mantis Lords and getting the first nail upgrade is so crazy to me since most people end up finding and fighting her before/soon after False Knight

cant believe he called hornet a beetle

Did you see any bugs?

in case anyone wants a brief hollow knight lore summary: the moths used to worship the Radiance. Then the Pale King came to Hallownest, giving bugs a mind. He then started to govern his new kingdom and became the king. Eventually the moths moved on from the Radiance and started to worship the Pale King instead. The Radiance was not happy about that and started to infect bugs (the orange stuff). The Pale King was not pleased about that and started the project to seal the Radiance away forever. That would make the infection disappear. So he made love to the White Lady, and made lots and lots of babies. He threw these babies eggs into the abyss. This would make them "hollow", as in, no dreams, no voice, no thoughts. The infection of the Radiance can only infect beings that have higher thoughts (dreams mainly). The strongest baby/vessel that emerged got trained and turned into the Hollow Knight. The King then got 3 other people and turned them into the Dreamers to make the seal stronger. Lurien was loyal to the King so he had no problem getting turned into one. Monomon agreed that this would be the wisest choice. Later on during gameplay she has changed her mind and allows the Knight to kill her to undo the seal. She also placed a 2nd protection around herself that needed Quirrel to undo it. Herrah agreed to be turned into the 3rd Dreamer only if she gets a child from the Pale King. The Pale King and Herrah then did the deed and Herrah birthed Hornet. Since Hornet was not tossed into the Abyss, she s just a normal bug. Everything seemed perfect and to work, but sadly, the Hollow Knight was no longer perfectly hollow. The Pale King and the Hollow Knight had developed a father-son bond, which allowed the Radiance to influence the world despite being sealed. Hallownest fell because the Pale King couldn't help himself but love his son. The Knight we play is perfectly hollow, and therefore able to perfectly seal the Radiance.

doing mantis lords first try with nail 0 and then saying BROKEN VESSEL is a hard boss was not something i expected lmao 😭😭 even lost kin is the most chill of the dream bosses

You can tell right away that Seanie played HK before because he knew how to pogo

1:04:28 that is NOT the king's corpse!!! that is one of the GUARDS!!!!

As a player that got 100% in a steel soul file in under 3 hours, YES! I can't wait to see Seanie suffer through this game lol Edit: i should mention I'm a speedrunner and in no way got that on my first attempt lmao edit: i was high af and should clarify, I did NOT do 112%, Steel Soul, and the sub 3h achievement all at once lmao

“throughout geo rocks and souls I alone am the hollow knight”

Seeing you absolutely decimate the hard bosses and struggle with the easy ones makes me feel so worthless yet bamboozled on how amazing and bad you are i have never felt so many emotions towards someone for playing the game i love

okay still watching the video but imma leave my thoughts throughout: Absolutely love the implication that hornet protector (hornet 1) has two phases, she only has one throughout the entire fight 😂

Is no one going to talk about the pantheon of Hallownest. It’s the hardest challenge and gives you an ending.

this man 100% palworld before hollow knight... im going insane-

“Makes your shawdow do damage… well I’m never using that” oh my Gosh, you have no idea how good sharp shadow is 😭

Quick tips :) 1. Get desolate dive early game, then get descending dark in crystal peaks afterwards 2. Break the damn chandelier before watcher knights 3. Get more charm notches before watcher knights 4. The best loadout for 6 notches is shaman stone, longnail, and wayward compass You gotta listen to that last one

'The howling cliffs, the very peak of hallownest' Hallownest's crown: 👁👄👁

Congratulations, P4 is definitely one of the most difficult base game challenges. That said…any plans for pantheon 5? Or the other pieces of challenge content that don’t actually give % points?

"i don't know whats going on in the story of this game" *skips the dialog*

I knew this man was a hollow knight fan he keeps using the music in his vids. A great game with a great soundtrack

I know it doesn’t matter now, but using dream nail on enemies restores soul which is super helpful throughout the game. Was chanting at the screen saying ‘use dream nail’ in that charm notch room lol, but it’s also very helpful in things like coliseum

New drinking game, take a shot whenever Sean says “irregardless”

Seanie: "I really don't understand the lore of this game" :/ Also Seanie: *Doesn't read the dialogue*

He actually completed it 112% before silksong. Is it a dream, possibly, that silksong was a dream? A hoax?

Oy sonny, what's that game your playing? Oh, it's just silksong granpa. Silksong? Finally it's been 60 years! What are you talking about granpa? Well, sonny, back in my day, we were so delusional we though silksong would be coming out in 2024. Really granpa?

If you thought that Pure Vessel is hard (which it really is), can't wait to see you agains The Absolute Radiance :D I trained for hours for both of them, even though I could kill Pure Vessel almost 100% of the times, I think I could only get the AR about 60-80% of the times

I’m so glad you did the fly skip for the grub at the beginning

just two breakdowns? rookie numbers (once i died in steel soul to the two dudes at the end of path of pain)

My favorite HK youtuber is playing stardew, and now my stardew youtuber is playing hk... hmm Any of you heard of Skurry?

The fact that it took Seanie so long to upgrade his nail physically hurt me

I thought you playing plants vs zombies a while ago felt weird, and seeing a HOLLOW KNIGHT video from you was super unexpected, as I don't you've ever mentioned it before. I have done every single thing you can think of in hollow knight

NGL I was hoping he’d do all achievements.

You really should have fought the harder version of grim, it is my favorite fight in the game

Watching Seanie fail to understand the lore/basic plot while simultaneously actively skipping dialogue is rather interesting to watch

Gotta show respect for this guy on not losing his sanity and winning a nightmare fuel game. Gg mate. You have my respect and always will.

Actually you CAN get that Grub with that Vengefly. It's really easy to do.

You not fighting grim DESTROYED me on the inside

The 112% of Hollow knight is a reference to the 112 years it will take for Silksong to come out

Thank you for this! Love all of your 100% videos

Pal complains about damage for the better part of 30 minutes when he could just upgrade his spells

I know it doesn't matter for the video, but I love how you look like you're in your twenties/thirties, but you have the voice of a teenager

never did I expect to be scrolling on youtube and see Seanie dew 112% hollow knight. (Me a fan of hollow night for a long time) I am very ashamed of you for liking the Invincible, Fearless, Sensual, Mysterious, Enchanting, Vigorous, Diligent, Overwhelming, Gorgeous, Passionate, Terrifying, Beautiful, Powerful, Grey Prince Zote.

112% Hollow Knight is for sure the hardest thing I have ever played, I speak from experience. Good job!

Seanie opening up a thesaurus to find alternatives to brutal

the fact that he didnt fight nkg just makes me so mad

1:17:03 I thought he was about to do pantheon of hallownest lmao 🤣

Your reaction in finishing pantheon 4 was mine as well. Pure vessel is insanely hard. Now on to Pantheon of Hallownest.

Seanie looks like cornifer tbh

You're right, Seanie. Cornifer doesnt look like you... You look a LOT like him, though. 🤔

45:18 Quick Slash definitley helped there and is very strong, but I’m pretty sure steady body was actually what got you through that fight. Steady body not only stops your nail from knocking you back, but also makes bosses that stagger (when bosses like hornet, dung defender, and lost kin stop attacking and just sit there) get staggered more often, which gave you more downtime to heal. Kinda funny to me because a lot of players wouldn’t even equip that charm if it was free because the no-recoil screws up the movement your used to.

seanie completing the game in 30 ish hours while i'm 60 hours in and about 30% of the way through is my villain origin story

Aw hell yeah, video to watch while going to sleep

17:00 What need to heal when you're aiming to not take any damage

by the way, you can use the fragile strength/heart charms during soul memory bosses, even if you die they won't break because its a memory boss not an actual IRL boss so the fragile charms don't break

The Watcher Knight fight can be shortened by climbing up the left wall before you agro them and break a chandelier and it destroys a couple of them before you start the fight

So question, is Seanie saying “irregardless” a bit that I’m too new of a subscriber to understand? Or does he genuinely say it? Yes I know it’s a real word now.

You gotta do Pantheon of Hallownest :)

the most useful piece of advice from speedrunners I watched was to fight every dream boss with a lvl 1 nail and just spell them to death, dream bosses escalate with nail upgrades so when I replay or go for steel soul I always go for spells upgrades rather than nail ones and my god what a difference does it make, specially markoth, he's so easy with this strat, so by then I have collected enough pale ore to upgrade and cruise to all the other bosses, the speedrun achievement it very easy this way.

Nice playthrough! I felt a lot of vicarious pain remembering 112% completion, though I think the most painful part was that you kept using the misnomer "irregardless." Good stuff, either way!

Celeste next?

tuesday appearance winning

21:14 when you get nail upgrades, it actually gives the ghost warriors, including soul tyrant, more health, more than the nail gets damage, so less nail upgrades are better

Great video as always :) Though I can't help but wonder how you'd do against the 3 bosses that you still missed. Would love to know if you'll ever do gpz, nkg, and absr. (Shortened names to avoid spoilers) If you ever do, all I can say is good luck.

love your video speaking of the devil i want to see you 100% ing rain world( plus the downpour dlc) its not as hard as hollow knight but i think you'll have fun through it

Pure Vessel is my favourite boss, I can never get tired of fighting him.

If you really think about it wayward compass is like a mentor. It guides you thorough in the beginning guiding you but the more stronger you get and the more experience you gain your need for a mentor decreases.

I’ve literally been playing this game since middle school (I’m in my 4th year of college now) and know everything about it so this was so simultaneously entertaining and painful to watch

tips for soul master/tyrant for whoever wants them: when in second phase and he is teleporting above you, you can swing upwards and hit him while he's hovering above you

I can imagine the rage he would have fighting pure vessels as fight 41 (well 40 because he never saved zote) and then have to fight abs rad

Tuesday," Your so kind." Seanie, *slurps the souls of his enemies*

0:10 >"some of the most insane bosses" >Proceeds to show flukemarm and soul tyrant

I cannot wait till Seanie does all achievements. Path of pain, NKG, and P5 should be great fun to watch.

i didnt even know that little room at 40:31 existed?? thats one of the reasons why hollow knight is great every time you watch someone else play you will always find out something new even if its something this small

Watchers before any spell upgrades and only Vengeful Spirit is insane to me. And the Quick Focus, Mark of Pride build is also super wild. I don’t think I took off shaman’s stone once. 😭

One of my favorite part of Hollow Knight vids has to be the opinions on bosses and charms, so far similar to my first playthrough lol

I feel like so many creators I like are getting into HK recently, just like me. This is the opposite of a complaint btw I love this video

@seaniedew, I was in physical pain watching you farm in city of tears for over an hour. After you beat colosseum 3 you can redo the colloseums as many times as you’d like. And you get the geo reward.

explaining hollow knight's story like this is an actual fever dream lmaoooo. great video these are so fun to watch

U should 100% Mages of Mysteria. A game that no one knows from 2017 that you need to play on hard difficulty cuz its kinda easy that I also just so happen to love. If its any incitve there's a cute necromancer in it.

I love watching people 100% games I take slight interest in because then I get to teehee giggle while I watch somebody play a game that would take years off my lifespan

No way mate lost all of his gel in the same frikn room I did… Anyways, I always enjoy watching hollow knight stuff, and seeing someone else struggle at the game but eventually succeed is pretty cool since I can relate a whole lot! Nice vid mate!

It’s awesome how you could do this! I beat hollow knight recently, so I know how you feel.

Awesome job on the 112%! That said, as someone who hasn't played hollow knight (so I could be wrong) isn't there one more boss? After defeating radiance and getting the true ending, isn't there an Absolute Radiance boss fight in the Pantheon? If I remember correctly, the Pure Vessel isn't the final boss of the final pantheon. Either way, awesome job!

Hollow Knight and P5 Steel Soul one of my favorite video game accomplishments for sure

Yeah, Seanie always seems to love the most evil characters, so I can't be surprised he loves Zote. I'll say, I'm definitely playing this game again soon and when I do, I'm not saving him, lmao

yo that's great! i'm on my second all achievements run rn and i absolutely love doing it

When he said "an hour long who's got the time I mean uh uh please just keep on watching this video" I immediately checked how long this video was and wasn't even surprise it was over an hour long.