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Glad you enjoyed the video. Regarding the question about shriek and THK parries at the end, it's actually kinda funny. It depends on the direction you're facing when you do the shriek. This flips the directionality of the knockback, which also changes the direction of the attack for the purpose of detecting whether the parry stance is being hit from the front. So if THK is to your left and you shriek facing to the right, it will hit THK as if you hit them from behind, bypassing the parry. This ironically makes parries one of the fastest attack patterns if you're using shriek, as long as you're careful about your facing direction. Facing direction is also useful when dealing with dream warriors that take a lot of knockback, as your facing direction changes whether they're sucked in toward you or pushed away from you (also applies to Wraiths).

Bruh silk song needs to come out. You guys are becoming desperate.

Regarding the early Wraiths in the route, this is mainly so that we have Wraiths for Soul Tyrant (it would be ridiculously slow with only nail0 fury.) The early Soul Tyrant in turn lets us get dreamgate before Lost Kin, which lets us consolidate Basin/Abyss into a single trip. Not being able to buy stags leads to all sorts of weird routing implications.

Jarlyk’s runs are honestly some of my favorite pieces of Hollow Knight content. Dude is insane at what he does.

*You know is a Speedrun when you don't understand what is happening, and you know is TAS when the Speedrunner don't know how it does that*

ok, if this isn't a good enough message to team cherry to give us silksong, idk what is.

8:35 I got a feeling that even if you could interact with the toll gate without Lantern, that still wouldn't be an option for this challenge...

I want to believe that he got sharp shadow just to hurt that one primal aspid just before going to Markoth.

It just looks like he has a mini sun following him every time he has large amounts of geo chase after him

I just thought of All Achievement TAS, and while I'd never want anyone to go through that torture, if Jarlyk ever did it, I'd watch the whole thing.

I'm definitely looking forward to your reaction to his "The Floor is Lava" TAS. The gimmick follows the entire run in that TAS, so you're constantly getting exposed to sick movement strats, instead of just in the rooms where you have to spawn Geo.

39:19 In case you missed where that geo came from, there is a crawler in that room that crawls into the spikes a second after you enter. One of those really obscure facts that never matter, until you do a rediculous challenge run.

Oh I love this TAS! Excited to see you react to the wild dodges.

These challenges are becoming more and more unhinged, I'm getting slightly concerned but also intrigued. Man, silksong better come out soon, hk players might actually start losing their sanity before it even get released. But awesome video as always fire!

This TAS guy keeps doing insane things and nothing cant stop him

I don't know who this TAS person is, but they're very good at a lot of games Jokes aside, I love seeing these TAS speedruns. I would like to see how a TAS true ending Low % would go, although that one would probably take too long to be worth it.

40:25 "I wanna get back into 112%, though." OMG yes please! I've binged ALL your 112% vods, and I love the run!

This is so relaxing, listening to fireborn’s chill voice while watching a satisfying TAS. I just finished a long shift at work and I could seriously just fall asleep to this 😌

I think the reason that soul master's first dive doesn't hit you at the top is so that he doesn't spawn on top of new players and hit them for something they couldn't have known he would do! Playing for the first time, falling into an empty room, you know the boss is still going probably but you might be running and jumping around or climbing up walls, generally exploring the little area seeing if there's anything of note. and then boom, you're too high on the screen and this guy spawns on top of you and you get hit. Having that free bit of mercy was a very good choice, I think, because then the player knows definitively to stay away from the top of the screen, and be ready for him to dive. For soul tyrant, idk. It might just be that they copy and pasted the boss and made the adjustments necessary so they didn't have to build it up from scratch again lol.

I've been loving Jarlyk's speedruns, this one is definitely a favorite, but also watching him do a whole game the floor is lava tas is a close second. You should check that one out too!

Back when I watched this when he released it, I was hoping you would do a reaction video to it. So fun and crazy to watch

Seriously insane how quick some of that was! I learned a lot.

The fast Markoth kill made me so happy

I love your TAS reaction videos, you're a good commentator and I like your voice, it's relaxing

After I saw this tas now whenever I play and use gathering swarm then I just try to dodge it (so fun especially if you learn how to get it into a orbit)

! This is the first time I've seen the video before Fire did a reaction video! Yay I guess I'm officially a part of the HK community now lol

Jarlyk is lovely, much love to TAS creators ❤️

I love how gathering swarm turns Hollow Knight into Undertale

Honestly thats one of the cool things about speedrunning. Everyone goes with the run they want and develops their niche. And then has their mind shattered when watching other runs they aren’t familiar with.

seeing that ball of pure geo orbiting around the knight is so satisfying

I clicked on this video thinking you were going to attempt this... I applaud you for keeping your sanity! haha

When they got the grub in peaks my dumbass really thought "maybe they needed the geo" like bruh

Crazy run, great work.

Thank you for keeping us entertained while we wait for silksong lol

Terminally Amazing Speedrunner

How nice of hornet to get the knight out of the sand after it kicked her ass

Those spikes at sharp shadow actually don't have a hitbox lmao. I don't remember if that's a patch specific thing or not though. Also sharp shadow is useful for WCS because it makes your dash speed faster, and your speed when using WCS is based on your dash speed, so higher dash speed means you move faster.

TAS's are so much fun. They're just pure swag flexing xD

A great video, as always

Literally insane what you can do with a TAS

16:45 - oh that's interesting! Jarlyk usually just says "to make it legal", assuming that everyone knows what would it mean. Thank you!

Jarlyk is so great! If you haven't already, you should watch his more recent TAS with the minimum amount of time spent on the ground. It's all about showing off and weird routing

I watched this video already...like 3 months ago. But it's worth watching again with fire!

I love how you jump to God Gamer now immediately

52:33 the moment you mentioned this glitch i thought *"huh... you know that would be really useful for the place where ismas tear is"* and then you mentioned the exact place i thought of, i swear its _gamer instincts_

This was a really nice run in all honesty

28:40 That is so satisfying. Looks like upwards moonwalking

A 1hour+ TAS what a dedication

that white palace run made me want to quit playing HK altogether

Just 🤯 … that’s all my brain can comment at this point.

The TAS in three words- It bullies things.

😂 Fireborn: I guess he might do the thing at some place …going someplace soon … maybe.

"It's all about the damn tive save" is a sentence we can all use for life too, specially when taking paths to places lol

44:36 mossbag and fireborn collab where mossbag just explains the basic lore when

I love watching your hour long videos, I just turn them in while I do homework and it’s entertaining and school is less draining

This TAS dodging geo like parents dodging the question when their child asks where babies come from.

As soon as you touch the void soup

I can imagine dude doing snack or lunch breaks while knight is crystal dashing through a long room

When you need silskong.

GPZ doesn’t exist on this patch.

Wait, this is literally just the vod footage of my first time playing the game

Imagine if you could spawn geo during the Radiance fight, or certain dream bosses. Would be amazing to see TAS dodging geo while fighting some of the harder bosses lmao.

When all of the geo gathers up into a ball of light, It kind of reminds me of the fairy from Zelda.

Finally he is back with milk after 11 days

This sounds like A. Hell B. The Hollow Knight equivalent to the Green Demon challenge from Super Mario 64 and C. Fun to watch I'm commenting this before watching the video, so good luck to the runner!

Hey fire, did you see the new strat for room 1 in path of pain? They broke another second barrier!

Bro beat true ending faster then I got through greenpath

I constantly accidentally do the orbit thing and its kinda annoying

The wcs use in the run is actually up to jarlyk's personal preference

Suuui you finally watched it

42:55 the same for (almost) every game : pseudo random numbers need a seed in order to be random, and in mooooost of the programming languages the seed is the hour. But if you have the same seed, the numbers will be the same. So, you start with a fixed hour (and you can change the hour while playing, the linux command to do that is pretty simple to setup in a TAS)

This. This is what TAS bots were made for. Not perfecting human runs. Not exploring glitches. Not mapping possibilities. No. TAS bots were made so people could map the dumbest most humanly impossible bs together and absolutely crack the game wide open.

I find it really cute and funny how at 56:28 when jarlyk dashed pass and the stalking devout is just like: heh?

PAIN

I still have Xmas Money for when silksong comes out I’m covered

Who is TAS and why is he/she so good at every game he/she plays

About the using it vs he to refer to the TAS; I feel like he is more correct I know there’s a lot of confusion about what exactly a TAS is, but at the end of the day it’s still the guy actually playing the game, but a LOT of people I feel think that a computer is playing and using “it” might perpetuate that A more detailed description would be a recording of a person playing the game with client only “cheats” on. Think aim-bot, not no-clip (Except instead of a bot doing the aiming for you, you’re aiming at a fraction of the speed of the game, and you can save and reset until you get the shot (as well as many other tricks)) But I do also wanna stress that the gameplay you’re seeing is a recording of those inputs; it’s a playback of what the runner plays (so that the weird time manipulation and save states aren’t in the actual run)

Can you make a video describing all the speedrun/randomizer techs that you can’t search easily, such as trans dashes and sedic slashes? Or the minor strats such as why to hit Elder Baldur with 2 fireball casts? These can’t be easily found online so I assume there’s more of these minor strats/skips that I don’t know

Hollow Knight players when someone tells them to touch g(rass)eo

Markoth would be jelous of his geo swerling around him

Im pretty sure the video has subtitles explaining everything

Imagine beating absolute radiance with this mod equipped

I do find myself allowing myself to look up some puzzles, but only when I'm getting frustrated to the point of not wanting to play anymore. But only then. Im not super hard on avoiding spoilers but i do go in blind when i care enough to.

Bro actually did the challenge after months of request 😭

He doesn't have geo to open city storeroom stag which is why he uses the fungal wastes path

I'd love to see a Godgamers of Abyss climb, just adding my voice to such!

He is the geo bender

I watched this before and I don't know where he is going

Aw man, why skip the true ending scene? Best part of any run. Also though super cool video; thanks!

I’m sorry excuse me what

So! Jarlyk recently uploaded "Floor Is Lava" TAS Speedrun, I'm looking forward to see your reaction to it :D

the geo orbit thing happens to me consistently by accident lmao

(6:22) Your questioning here got me thinking: normally Crystal Heart is required for True Ending because that Thorn-Tunnel in White Palace requires it. That had been the main thing preventing Save Myla True Ending from being possible. But with Shriek-Pogo as a mid-air dash-refresh mechanic, is it possible to get through that Thorn-Tunnel without it, skip Crystal Heart? If so, what else would be required? Obviously Monarch Wings and Abyss Shriek, but, would stuff like Spell Twister and/or extra Soul Vessels be required as well? Would some kind of soul-regeneration combo like Hiveblood-Grubsong be required to make it through both the Thorn-Tunnel and the gap after that? Or are there other ways around that gap like cloud-pogos or something? This does not sound like a faster route for normal TE even with TAS by any stretch of the imagination, but as someone who was fascinated by the Save Myla meme category even before slopeball was discovered, I just wanna see whether it's possible to do TE with it.

You should totally do abyss climb video

This vid is fun

discord notifications lets goooo

People in 2018: can't wait to play silksong People in 2024 can't wait for silksong to get delayed

I am Gathering Swarm user and the orbiting geo constantly happens. But obviously, it's not intentional. Trying to make it deliberately would be very very hard. You are pretty helpful, though. You explained why he needs to have Desolate Dive for Crystal Peaks if he wants to get there. Let's leave playing fast for speedrunners. TAS is more about cool tricks that are more to show off than to be effective, haha. Just like You say. Even deliberately hitting the geo rock at the beginning is a proof for that. When You think of it, Hollow Knight is very weird and "buggy" technical-wise. Like You can easily notice many stuff that could have been done better. That's why I also think Silksong will lack many iconic glitches, because the game will be better on technical side. I'm not complaining that Hollow Knight works like it works, but it's just more of a simple thought I had few times. That may be the reason - to increase technical reliability - why Silksong takes so long. Because they most likely rewrite gameplay rules, build mechanics from scratch. Not just because the game is different, but also because of those weird stuff that happens sometimes. I don't know if You explained the Wall Cling Storage rule properly, because I already know how it works. You can't perform a skip using WCS if You can't do it without WCS. So not having a Heart means You can't normally do it, so having a Heart allows You to use WCS, because You can do it without WCS. WCS is considered major glitch if You don't have an ability to perform a glitch and minor if You do have that ability. Also I just noticed that Fury of the Fallen lacks that annoying effect on screen (it's still visible, but less than normally). I wanted to get rid of it myself, but I don't know where to look. Can it be done via Custom Knight skin? If so, do You or anyone else know what kind of filename it is? I would just set it to blank picture, so it wouldn't obstruct the view. You don't need to be an expert, You still understand many stuff, but things are going so fast that nobody can expect from You to know what would TAS, that could break any kind of logic (and I dont' mean game logic, more like speedrun logic), do. It seems that Queen Gardens require 200 geo, according to Hollow Knight Wiki. Oh, these replays are not Your doing, but they are here in the original video? I assumed You put them to show us how cool the TAS was. Then I was confused, because You were commenting on these replays and I was like "how do You know when to put the replay and to use precise moment for the replay too". Now it makes more sense, that these replays are pre-recorded in the original video... "Dreamgating here to go to Galien". And I am like "Where?". It's too dark to me to even notice which place it is, lol. Deepnest is already so big place to collect essence and I never know where to go, what is optimal route. TAS just chillin while in the dark 😂 I am actually surprised they thought of the dark room respawn mechanics. Every time I hear about it, I am amazed. Because that's something that can save the abdomen of the Knight. (Does bugs in this game even have an abdomen? Mantises do for sure, so do the bees, but Knight is too anthropomorphic if You ask me...) Lmao. Galien died so fast. It also made me think of anime screams. Galien screamed before he even started attacking and when he wanted to make an attack, he was already dead. If that logic applied to anime, like Dragon Ball, many opponents would be interrupted mid powering up, lol. Maybe it's without Shaman Stone, but casual players won't ignore the Nail Upgrades. Dream Warriors die so quickly, because as You mentioned, they scale with Nail damage. People who upgrade their Nail won't have it that easy. For example I am Nail player and I always prioritize any Nail stuff, like charms and pale ores, so my spells aren't all that great. Plus in most cases You don't have upgraded spells when fighting some of these bosses. Like Xero for example. Galien died so quickly only because it's unupgraded Nail. At this point players would have third upgrade already, if not fourth. Despite Hollow Knight not having early/late game areas in general (except some places that needs an ability to come), some places are usually accessed later anyway. Galien is the example of that. You can get to the Deepnest quite early, just after beating first Hornet. But I usually go to the Deepnest very late. Usually when I'm doing Dreamers, which is at the very end of my gameplay. For me Galien is more tanky than that, then. Cotton moment, lmao. The spikes didn't damage him. Some spots are funny with the non hitbox spikes. I always remember Markoth, haha.