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Oh, thank you 😊No worries, it's completely normal to struggle with that one at first, you'll get him! If I remember well, Perpetual Noob also made a really good boss analysis of him which also might be helpful!

Only a measly 1.5K💀I might well be the slowest learner in the HK community, but I don't mind😄

When 😭

Aw, thanks 😊I guess 1) it's hard to stand out among the many insanely good players - and I'm not even remotely in that category! - and 2) only putting effort into the achievement itself but not or only barely into the presentation and overall entertainment value of the vid.

@@BattleFolly well mad respect to the channel dog

@ Yo, thank you :-D

Fits your name too!

Ha, thank you 😊 Indeed simpler than IKG, but it has a faster flow - IKG's spike repetitions and 5-pillar combo slow that fight down and are missing here. Curious what the combination of this mod with the IKG mod will do :-))

@BattleFolly I'm sure it will be chaotic 🤣

@@ThaOrthodoX Ahaa, yeah, if it will run at all! Enhanced Tribe of Battle for instance just didn't work: Traitor Lord was just a frozen prop in the background :p

You don't need a Jade to deal internal damage with an unbounded counter.

Thank you :-D

Oh, you were only a single jump away then, the pain 😩!! To be honest, this little demo has a pretty intimidating learning curve imo 😅But such a lovely style and controls are precise!

@BattleFolly oh I agree. I was able to play the first demo so it wasn't so scary second time round

Oh, I actually liked him! It's basically Shuigui, but with echos :-))

Oh no 😄 Are you stuck in one particular spot? Generally you just have to avoid being seen. As soon as you're seen by anything or anyone, the guard is alarmed and will appear out of nothing wherever you go.

Understandable, it's not obvious that his bright red attacks are parryable!

i sucked at not getting caught so the amount of times this dude respawned was crazy

@ That makes the achievement of making it to the node extra cool! :-D

@@BattleFolly for me it was the fact that in many games being discovered like this means game over + Yi was on the brink of death + the guard had no health bar 💀

@@Diherd2 avoiding them isn't hard but it's so boring 😂 I used nymph extensively to watch their patterns..

Ey, yeah, I got all the power seals and all voodoo feathers / mask pieces. The windmill shuriken is worth it if you intend to speedrun the game in NG+ mode, as hitting an enemy with that also resets your cloud jump, allowing for crazy skips. But I didn't do it for any of that, I just enjoyed the extra jump puzzles :-D Btw, if you enjoyed this, I really think you'll enjoy Celeste too! The skill ceiling of this game is ridiculous and most content beside the main quest just wasn't for me because skill issue, but the main quest I found super enjoyable :-))

Here actually some cool footage of the Voodoo Totem fight with the windmill shuriken: ruclips.net/video/mF9wOQsTFJE/видео.html at around 9:45 Quite game-breaking !!

@@BattleFolly that was disgusting. What the hell?? Completely skipped the laser phase as well? I feel compelled to get all the power seals now 😅

@@ThaOrthodoX I just now see that that same speedrunner actually made an entire windmill shuriken tutorial :-D

Ey, it's the finale of that entire dream section, so reaching that requires solving all the tile puzzles and finding all your upgrades again! Enjoy, I think it's a very neat area :-))

Ha, thank you 😊 I later watched a vid "The Messenger Developers React to 33 Minute Speedrun", and that runner is an absolute master at keeping the momentum - see for instance at around 4:03. So cool :-D !

@@BattleFolly oh yeah I watched that the other day. Truly incredible

So I've been trying that build against Eigong with absolutely horrid results, lol. You're basically sitting at 1 HP constantly because of Qi Swipe. It seems doable, but by somebody with a much higher skill level than me.

Ha, the speedy slashing style might well be much faster, I've seen some boss battle speed runners use it! But I generally gravitate more towards slow and heavier attacks, plus here I also have my parrying key under a strong finger and my attacking key under a weaker finger, so attack mashing feels physically a bit annoying. So cool they added Memories of Battle, right :-)) Yeah, the internal damage strats really almost force you into no-hit running, which def is doable with patience! Enjoy the experimentation :-D

@@BattleFolly Yeah, I saw your key bindings in the other comment thread, and I was hit with a wave of nostalgia. I played a lot of PC gaming and emulation back in the 90s, and I never did graduate to using WASD for movement. I can definitely see where furiously mashing attack would be a bit awkward for you, and all the heavy attack jades certainly put in some work. I'm actually a bit jealous that the heavy charge jade only uses one Qi as opposed to Qi Blade costing two Qi. And yes, Memories of Battle was an excellent addition, especially for us inferior console players who didn't have access to the mod for it, lol. As an aside, which spell style do you typically use? I was all in on Water Flow for my entire playthrough, but I'm beginning to think that's just a crutch.

@@WolfyRagnarok Oh, are you too from the DOS games era? Good times playing mostly Epic MegaGames and Apogee shareware :-P Yeah, I too like Water Flow a lot! The detonation itself does the least amount of damage out of the three, but it still converts internal damage into direct damage. This is great, since I also really like the Unbounded Counter, which does significant amounts of internal damage. And in turn the fact that you don't need to hold the Talisman for detonation creates extra opportunities to wind up an Unbounded, so I think those two were designed for each other!

@@BattleFolly Aye, the DOS days were grand, and games like Heretic still hold up well today! (I also still enjoy text adventures like Zork and Hitchhiker's.) Wow, you make a great point about Water Flow. With all the experimentation I've been doing I totally lost sight of how valuable that can be when Eigong's windows of opportunity tend to be so tight. I've been killed numerous times in testing while trying to dump a 5-Qi Talisman on her. Steely Jade will totally ignore her sword slashes, but her very common quick-wakeup-into-a-talisman overrides it completely.

Thanks and welcome back :-D So nice we have Memories of Battle now!

Not sure which fight you mean 😄 But you might want to check out Denots X on YT, an exceptional HK player who beat this fight radiant + nail only + no charms!

I meant this fight - God's as in mantis gods

Oof, yeah... :-P I linked a full fight to this short, but that attempt was luck beyond luck and I touched the floor several times!

Ha, you're welcome :-)) Yeah, that all sounds correct: only stand on top of the squares represented by a dot in the same order that you would meet them by following the line. A ledge-hang doesn't have any impact. Does that not work? I'd say, if it doesn't, then maybe you want to post that bit of gameplay on the HAAK discord with your question!

@BattleFolly yup, it worked! Thanks again. I finished the "chess rooms/puzzles" area, and I'm now at (I think)105.5% completion. Still not exactly sure of everything else I have to do though. Do you happen to know the "true" or highest completion rate for the game? Though to be honest, I kinda feel like I'm done with the game regardless.

@@Mockturtlesoup1 No worries :-)) No, honestly I don't know the full completion percentage, but if you have left the dream either via the white or the black door (no different ending, but the gauntlet is worthwhile!) and Baak was flown back to the village, you have done all, I think!

Oh, you're playing it 😊😊Did you already take... the leap of faith ?? :-D Yeah, it was received very positively but it never really got big it seems! And honestly I initially wasn't drawn to this game either - I don't care for retro - but got curious because I like Joseph Anderson's let's play style and watched some of his gameplay! Ha, anyway, I hope you enjoy what's yet to come ♡

@BattleFolly I've already beaten the sky dragon 😁

Oh, that's so nice to hear 😊True, the mini-bosses don't have this big introduction, but at least some of them are very satisfying to learn!

Slash at the right moment and in the right position - easier said than done :s Kripsu actually bothered to make a good video on it: Exploring Hollow Knight's parry mechanic.

Ey, they each have their own advantages, but most of the time I like Water Flow best! It does less damage than the others, but not having to hold for detonation is a huge advantage! But here some further explanation: Qi Blast: just attaching a Talisman costs 1 Qi and only does internal damage. Attaching a Talisman and holding for a short time will detonate the Talisman and will automatically cost max 3 Qi depending on how many you have. The more Qi, the more damage. At the end of the skill tree, every 3 Qi detonation will give you 1 arrow refill. Water Flow: just attaching a Talisman costs 2 Qi, at the end of the skill tree only 1. You don't need to hold and the Talisman will detonate automatically. You can only attach another Talisman after the previous one exploded. Full Control: just attaching a Talisman costs 1 Qi and only does internal damage. Attaching a Talisman and holding for a short time will detonate the Talisman, but this time you can control the amount of detonation damage you do by how long you hold after attachment. If you have 5 Qi = max and hold for long enough, you do extra big damage. Important: internal damage dealt will only be turned into real damage by a Talisman detonation! Good luck :-)

Ha, no, he looks scarier than he is 😄

Thank you, don't underestimate weak Yi :-))

Which one(s) would you change? :-)

All of them

Ey, very strange :s that sounds like a glitch honestly: normally he is number 5. Very curious how that happened!

@@BattleFolly My order is general yingzhao/kuafan then goumang a then yanlao then jiequan then lady etheral is this normal my mistake he was fourth

@@shamansilva2833 Oh, no worries, then actually nothing weird happened! I had also counted Kanghui as a main boss, because he too has the big title screen despite not giving a sol seal... so by that count Jiequan is no.5 and Lady Ethereal is no.6.

Ha, truth, whenever I messed up the stealth and this guy appeared, I too thought, ok, I'm dead :p

Aha, the bombs are sneaky! :-D

thanks to you tho, I didn't know there was a shotcut to this boss using the butterfly thingy and I backstabbed the boss using an arrow dealing huge ampunt of damage and beat it

Thanks 😊

@@BattleFolly You’re welcome.

Good idea :-D This is my first play-through and I love it!

Oh, nice :-D We didn't have a NES, we played on an Intel 286 PC (indeed so am I ;-)) Games from Epic MegaGames and Apogee!

@BattleFolly man that's so old-school!

@@ThaOrthodoX Yeah, the first game we - me and brothers together - bought from our pocket money was the full Jill of the Jungle trilogy ♡ The mechanics are too simple now to still be engaging, but back then that was my best game of all time 😄

Yo, thank you 😊I think you'll soon notice that indeed it's a pretty orderly fight once you understand her sword-shield attack!

Aha, then perhaps you're just really good at Eigong :-D

@BattleFolly not really I have been brute force my way through most of the boss with cloud piercing arrow to stun them and the triple talisman that give you ammo back every time you proc it until I meet him, literally force me to learn and use all the mechanic the game taught me plus side is every boss after that are much more manageable

Oh, I'm sorry! I guess that happened because I had this vid published, then unlisted and this morning published again!

@BattleFolly makes sense 👍 how come you unlisted it?

@@ThaOrthodoX He, I was in a perfectionistic mood and had unlisted every boss challenge that was not hitless or at least a PB... but then I regretted it again, because it doesn't acknowledge the whole bumpy road towards those achievements, so I put some of them back up :-))

@@BattleFolly oof, same! I have a bunch of private content that I've deemed "throaways" but maybe it'll see the light of day one day. I even have one of me beating Zote while simultaneously making a sandwich, which dates back to before day 200...but I wasn't happy with it because it needed to be hitless 🙈

@@ThaOrthodoX Ahaaa, that is gold 😂I totally understand the feeling, but I'm 112% sure your Zote & sandwich is a World's First, even if it's not hitless !!

Ha, thank you :-D Yeah, the movement abilities in this game feel really nice!

Ha, I'm not so sure :p

Def not just you: these are both made by Nomada Studio :-))

@@BattleFolly ohhh that makes sense

Ahaa, the daily Zote training is paying off then, I didn't think it was too easy! I tended to roll into her when I either wanted to close the distance or get behind her, or her little backhand swing got me :-D x-axis mirroring I already practiced in Gris extensively, but y-axis mirroring I also struggled with... until I switched my left-right controls for a moment 😁

@@BattleFolly that's so clever! Why didn't I think of switching my left-right controls??? I've just realised this is the final boss as well? 😭 I went into spring and got the flower to the left so I'm guessing there's just the ending left now

@@ThaOrthodoX I know, it's precious but short 😔... but it's worth re-experiencing AND you also still have Gris!

Oh, I'm so happy you feel it too !! ♡♡ It's like they captured the essence of the best moments of sunny forest walks, early winter morning bike-rides, quiet grand cathedral visits and the worst moments of restless dream-wake states and managed to put in all in one journey! He, I too am eager to replay the entire game from start to finish without any pressure of having to no-hit or record anything and to just drink it all in :-D Man, enjoy what's yet to come !!

Thank you :-))

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Yo, thank you 😊Yeah, that end shot was a lucky accident!

Aha, no, you def shouldn't watch yet! :-D Enjoy your journey ♡

​@@BattleFollyi bit the bullet and bought it an hour ago. 😊 Absolutely breathtaking.

@@ThaOrthodoX Ha, glad you got them :-D

@@BattleFolly I'm about 40 minutes into Summer 😀

@@ThaOrthodoX I'm curious for your verdict as it's something quite different and not a metroidvania :-))