They don't respawn upon exiting a room, so just clear the route, go back to the flower, and deliver it without worrying about a single aspid. Hoppers don't though.
@@Sukmai15 You sure? Worked when I did it a while ago, benched near the destination, stag or dreamgate to the flower (after the main flower quest), picked up the flower, and then just save and quit and continue
@Hlebuw3k pretty sure your bench is set to right outside flower quest when you begin it. They use it in 112 speedruns to go back to ze'mer as quickly as possible
My jaw dropped when I saw the ammonites flying/swimming in the background of the Ancient Aspid fight. The mod dev didn’t have to go so incredibly hard on the environment, the arena, and the music. But that’s what makes it feel like it fits perfectly in the world of Hollow Knight!
@@themustardman219part of that is because if you look through the cracks Hollow Knight takes alot of shortcuts. Note how most enemies that shoot infection projectiles shoot the same blob projectile for example. The goop of Nosk is identical to some of the lingering acid attacks of other enemies. And so on and so forth.
That's literally my only gripe with any of these battles. I think 5 hits would more than suffice for the 3rd phase of the fight. Doable in 2 or 3 cycles.
At first when i saw Nightmare and Void, I thought "Aw thats kinda lane, they just combined the bosses", but I was pleasantly surprised by how well the mod maker seemed to make the bosses flow with each other
i actually really liked the combined bosses, especially compared to super hard modes. at worst, they don't have much synergy but the novalty of fighting 2 bosses would always be cool BUT AT BEST! it can be such a fun and interesting fight like what we saw. Edit: Might be biased since they're my 2 favorite fights in the game.
@@JoannaFalkowska its a fan definition of when a boss is low on hp and begins to use they atacks much faster than before, or could be a final atack before they die
@@JoannaFalkowskait's usually a final phase of a fight where a boss does a lot of faster attacks for a short while before you beat them. This one certainly isn't a short while, though.
I find the last phase quite depressing for some reason, specifically because of the slight crack in his composure in one of his Dream Nail dialogues, "Accursed blade! Out of my mind!" while the rest seem composed. And especially the music. It almost made me feel bad for the Soul Sovereign. And don't get me started on "True Focus casts aside even the body." He went so far to achieve his goals... Even just for a minute.
I love nightmare and void basically forcing fire into the dance and still almost killing him And then there's the seer who couldn't catch a break from the endless nail strikes
It's like they said "okay, let's make Any Radiance *slightly* easier," but did so less by lowering the difficulty of the direct attacks, and more by lowering the percentage of difficult mechanics that are intentionally unfair.
Ancient Aspid looks so good that it actually looks out of place in the game. Like it looks better, visually, than any other enemy. Like having a minecraft texture pack that is normally 16x16 but the wither is 32x32
Immortal Light is such a cool and creative modded abs rad! So many modded versions exist for that boss, i didnt expect to see a really unique new take on it! My favorite part is the climb phase for sure, truly a fantastic idea for it.
I'm getting really close to beating Absolute Radiance on Radiant, died in the climb 3 times so far. Seeing the swords rain down scared me, but then having to pogo up them with lasers... how in the world can people do this??
@@RadiantSharaShayminBeing on pc makes movement a bit easier as the jump button and hit button aren’t so close to each other(in addition to not having to go either or while pressing i assume)
Shoutout to all the tremendous work (of different varieties) that went into these different bosses. There's a huge variety of inventiveness and refinement on display. My biggest wish is that they hadn't used the song Pure Vessel (from Path of Pain/THK fight) for Soul Sovereign because that fight didn't feel tragic to me so the song felt out of place but the mechanics in that were still really unique and interesting. Thanks for showing these off!
Soul Sovereign was literally trying not to die & trying to fend off his attacker with every last soul he could muster. A desperate act from a being that didn't want to die. Pretty tragic & sad.
That Immortal Light boss is probably my favorite modded AbsRad I’ve seen, all the attacks feel like more difficult versions of vanilla without just being unreactable, focusing a lot more on specific movement and pinpoint precision rather than just requiring you to spam D-Dark for literally every move like some mods feel like. 10/10, would hate to do that in Radiant mode.
Feel like some respect needs to be given to Samihamer1 for managing to combine Pure Vessel and NKG into a fight that looks like two bosses actually meant to be part of the same boss fight. Like, the other stuff is all cool, but it is at least partially just a matter of getting new assets and then remixing a few mechanics from other bosses, while the Nightmare & Void fight had to rebalance the difficulty of two whole bosses, and sync their attack patterns together in a way that would make them seem even mildly fair to fight that way. That requires a genuinely impressive degree of skill at balancing boss fights, since some game studios can't even work those things out that well. Either that or Fire only showed a run where they synced up, but I am choosing to assume that this is their default state because it would feel weird to waste time waiting for a near perfect synchronization if that wasn't the default state.
I like to lore the aspect behind the soul sovereignty that they cast away their physical form to become an intangible being of pure soul essence. However, as a fight, it is bad. Not being hit the enemy and being forced to fight for that long regardless of what you do.
The music for Ancient Aspid is one of the most hype and FUN video game boss themes I've ever heard. It feels as fun as my favourite theme from HK - Hive Knight's - except more dynamic and dramatic. Whoever composed this, you should be proud of yourself, it's an incredible work. I'll be listening to this one in the future on its own. Put it on Spotify! : )
I like to think the aspid one takes place on the surface. Also, can we talk about the Seer fight? The background, the animation, the voice too! All aweseome!
Nightmare and void made me realize how badly I yearn for the godskin duo equivalent in silksong. Sure we got the mantis lords, but they all do the same attacks, a fight with two enemies that do different things would be so cool as a dev product
out of these 5 bosses, I disliked Primal Aspid and Seer the most, but it's mainly because they never seemed to work properly for me. In the final phase of aspid, it would use the laser beam and I literally could not avoid it (even with D-dark for some reason). Seer was using more than 1 attack at the same time for me but I also didn't realize you could just pogo her, I wanted an honest fight. Unfortunately, I don't the footage for those :( All the others were really fun and challenging imo. Immortal light was the most fun (and easier than biblically accurate radiance imo). Either way, great mods and the people working on theme are very talented. Well done and to fireborn as well
The ancient aspid is the most creative one here tbh it uses original sprites(unlike 3) new and unique attacks, while having interesting difficult attacks andbits own sprites backround and stages
The Ancient Aspid is like a Primal Aspid and The Radiance mashed together, Nightmare and Void is just The Knight and The Grimmchild grown up and super strong, Seer is mostly unique but for some reason doesn’t sound like Seer at all and has Hornet’s battle theme, Soul Sovereign is like a stronger Soul Tyrant but with a third phase that lasts waaaay too long, and if Absolute Radiance was Randiance turned up to 11 then Immortal Light is Absolute Radiance cranked up to 11,111.
These are all so good! I can't help but wonder if Nightmare and Void were inspired by your own trial video from awhile back that had NMG and Pure Vessel as the final boss. I distinctly remember someone in the comments saying that the two worked well together, like a grown up Ghost and Grimmchild. Which leads me to wanting a sprite change for the Nightmare and Void fight to make them look more like Ghost and Grimmchild (though I'm not sure what they would do to make Grimm look more like his kid). Either way, these bosses are amazing!
Horrible challenge idea for the week before Silksong releases: 560% speedrun. 112%, getting one ending, deleting the save, 112%, another ending, deleting the save, and repeat until you get all 5 endings.
I love that hollow knight mod bosses are just existing bosses with attacks that fill the screen 90% of the time. I honestly wonder if the people who make them are the same people who make sans fan games
I love how Soul Sovereign actually has a phase where he turns into pure soul as implied in the game text. However, even knowing that his whole thing is his boss fight going on for longer than usual I have to admit that the third phase is a bit excessive lasting longer than most vanilla bosses.
While all these bosses do look like they've been modded in, the exception imo is Ancient Aspid, which looks like it's from an actual sequel to Hollow Knight. Its animations are so fluid!
When it got to the Immortal Light fight, my jaw was on the floor for the first half, and my eyes wide open the whole time. At one point, i actually thought, "so this is the power of a speedrunner"
@@luolewis2376 His pure focus idea succeeded, he seemed to cast off the power of the Radiance…. Or did he? Even then, all of his soul attacks are tainted orange. Even a pure focus couldn’t stop you from dreaming of something that will forever whisper in your ear. He still failed. All those bugs in the Soul Sanctum died for nothing but an extra long boss fight.
The seer had a great boss fight. I live the way the devs gave her light and dream attacks tying in to the moth tribes connections with both dream power and the radiance
I love the mechanics and unique attack patterns of these bosses! The only thing that felt a bit off was the lack of original spritework (I think even a change of color palette would feel better), or soundtracks. I think for the nightmare and void fight, a "pure" cover of Grimm's theme would be quite fitting! (Pure as in the same "voice" or "instruments" used in the pure vessel soundtrack or path of pain etc)
Additionally, a matching color scheme for both Grimm and the knight would do nicely, perhaps a focus on white, with red accents (particularly in the eyes, as is characteristic of Grimm and his troupe)
doing sprites and soundtracks are incredibly difficult and entirely independent of coding skill. so it is nice when a mod has them, but its far too much to expect from what is typically one or two people. a player skin for this game can take well over 100 hours to make, for context
@@erierierierierie yeah of course! I wasn't suggesting a single developer working on the mod alone should do it themself. Rather, perhaps seeing if anyone would be willing to take it on! For instance, I myself am a digital illustrator, and have had experience making custom sprites!
Man, the Seer is really well made giving audio cues for each of their attacks. The only thing that seems off is the wave whenever she lands. There's no indication of it
If I had to rate these in a top 5 5. Soul Sovereign. Way too long and tedious and while I'm sure the survival bullet hell sections are cool it seems to get annoying. 4. Immortal Light. What if Radiance but more difficult. Not the most unique but not bad 3. Nightmare & Void. Unique ways the moves go with each other and how the bosses are in sync makes it a lot less annoying looking than most bosses with multiple enemies. 2. The Seer. Looks rather easy, but it's unique with a completely new character design and attack designs. 1. Ancient Aspid. Takes the parkour sections in Radiance and turns them up to 11 while being a boss fight that doesn't look too difficult or annoying, I could see myself purposefully dying to this boss at the end so I could keep having fun fighting it.
Never expected to see soul master/tyrant get some attention but I’m equally impressed and terrified by what I saw, as well aswhat the community can do while we wait for silksong.
For soul sovereign i think something cool is an animation of the follies/mistakes turning into Soul Twisters or Warriors. The description of both (follies/mistakes) says they are awaiting their brothers to reshape them a new body
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primal aspids when im doing delicate flower quest to the nailmaster in kingdoms edge:
just bench outside then dreamgate to the flower and savequit. you can then just give the flower to oro
@@Alex_192. Doesn't work anymore, I tried to do it not long ago
They don't respawn upon exiting a room, so just clear the route, go back to the flower, and deliver it without worrying about a single aspid. Hoppers don't though.
@@Sukmai15 You sure? Worked when I did it a while ago, benched near the destination, stag or dreamgate to the flower (after the main flower quest), picked up the flower, and then just save and quit and continue
@Hlebuw3k pretty sure your bench is set to right outside flower quest when you begin it. They use it in 112 speedruns to go back to ze'mer as quickly as possible
My jaw dropped when I saw the ammonites flying/swimming in the background of the Ancient Aspid fight. The mod dev didn’t have to go so incredibly hard on the environment, the arena, and the music. But that’s what makes it feel like it fits perfectly in the world of Hollow Knight!
@@mildlymarvelous It's good but the art style is really off it looks Hollow Knightish but you can spot the difference easily.
@@Гангстер-с6ф it looks great
Bro must be jealous lol
@@Гангстер-с6фit just looks closer to what we've seen of Silksong I think
@@themustardman219part of that is because if you look through the cracks Hollow Knight takes alot of shortcuts.
Note how most enemies that shoot infection projectiles shoot the same blob projectile for example. The goop of Nosk is identical to some of the lingering acid attacks of other enemies. And so on and so forth.
I’m Imaging what other bugs have an ancient ancestor
Ancient stag and baldur anyone?
so glad primal aspids finally got nerfed
@@TheNamesFathom prime aspid
Same bro they were so OP!
I waited so long for this, glad they listen to the community
yea bro this is the biggest nerf they could have done by making a single one be a boss instead of all of them in worlds edge
banger comment, cringe replies
If fireborn himself equips carefree melody, it means that fight is truly unfair
@@WretchedParty76 agreed
ive beaten all of these fights perfectly fine without ever considering carefree lmaooo
@@erierierierierie sure you have buddy
Also unbreakable heart
He always wears carefree, it's one of his favourites
That Soul Sovereign fight went much longer than I expected.
That's literally my only gripe with any of these battles. I think 5 hits would more than suffice for the 3rd phase of the fight. Doable in 2 or 3 cycles.
@@DaTimmehIt really dragged on at the end.
Yeah, having to wait for a chance to hit is kinda rough. Was still my favorite I think
I think that the fight was unnecessarily long, having most of the fight be against the ghost thing kinda ruined it’s initial impact
"Why won't you die!"
"True focus, son."
Plot twist, nightmare and void is how the enemies see you when you have grimchild eqquiped
you are void, yet you still live a nightmare?
Pure vessel just use 5-level of grimchild
The primal aspid fight is so fckng GOOD, the background is so fire
@@lilith-thelustdemon5174 the spritework is phenomenal
very very good art
and the music!!!!!!!
Trust me bro it's different when you play it... I have ptsd from it
@@25914 Yeah it seems unfair tbh, I don't understand how I'm supposed to react
I love the concept of how the soul sovereign summons ghosts of soul warriors out of soul
At first when i saw Nightmare and Void, I thought "Aw thats kinda lane, they just combined the bosses", but I was pleasantly surprised by how well the mod maker seemed to make the bosses flow with each other
It looks like it's mostly easier than one alone though. Kinda sluggish?
i actually really liked the combined bosses, especially compared to super hard modes. at worst, they don't have much synergy but the novalty of fighting 2 bosses would always be cool BUT AT BEST! it can be such a fun and interesting fight like what we saw.
Edit: Might be biased since they're my 2 favorite fights in the game.
@@lomiification That is purely because fire makes it look easy, the proyectile attacks combined is hard to dodge, unlike vanilla
would've rage quit hollow knight so fast if there had actually been an aspid boss. id rather do the path of pain while intoxicated
Honestly I'd rather do the path of pain intoxicated anyway. Then I can at least have some fun
@@Wonkess_Chonkessso true
Agreed
@@Wonkess_Chonkess XD fr
I'm with you on that. Also, why is nobody hating on those mantis petras? Those flying jerks in queens gardens. I cannot stand them.
Soul Soveriegn's post death part is genuinely so creepy
I love it
I love the vibe too, but I absolutely despise desperation phases for bosses, and this one is way too long. A single one would've been enough imo.
@@davidnagy8941 what is a "desperation phase"? I'm asking because I couldn't find any actual definition online, and the phrase sounds interesting
@@JoannaFalkowska its a fan definition of when a boss is low on hp and begins to use they atacks much faster than before, or could be a final atack before they die
@@JoannaFalkowskait's usually a final phase of a fight where a boss does a lot of faster attacks for a short while before you beat them. This one certainly isn't a short while, though.
I find the last phase quite depressing for some reason, specifically because of the slight crack in his composure in one of his Dream Nail dialogues, "Accursed blade! Out of my mind!" while the rest seem composed. And especially the music. It almost made me feel bad for the Soul Sovereign. And don't get me started on "True Focus casts aside even the body." He went so far to achieve his goals... Even just for a minute.
I love nightmare and void basically forcing fire into the dance and still almost killing him
And then there's the seer who couldn't catch a break from the endless nail strikes
Ooh I saw ancient aspid a while back, can’t wait to see if I recognize any of the other ones here
The bosses are all very well designed. Then Immortal Light, the creator just thought, "Let's fill the screen with *_i n s a n i t y._*
Just wait till you see Any Radiance 2.0
It's like they said "okay, let's make Any Radiance *slightly* easier," but did so less by lowering the difficulty of the direct attacks, and more by lowering the percentage of difficult mechanics that are intentionally unfair.
brother the seer fight does absolutely not look like it's well designed
Lore accurate Radiance be like:
id argue immortal light is one of the best designed ones here, and all the other fights have their own issues, but arent the worst thing ever
Ancient Aspid looks so good that it actually looks out of place in the game. Like it looks better, visually, than any other enemy. Like having a minecraft texture pack that is normally 16x16 but the wither is 32x32
I think it would look good in colo
great analogy
Definitely. It’s like they said “you know what, screw it, let’s just one up Team Cherry”
In Hollow knight if a bug actually looks like a bug run
Bro that Soul Sovereign ain't dying istg
Immortal Light is such a cool and creative modded abs rad! So many modded versions exist for that boss, i didnt expect to see a really unique new take on it!
My favorite part is the climb phase for sure, truly a fantastic idea for it.
I'm getting really close to beating Absolute Radiance on Radiant, died in the climb 3 times so far. Seeing the swords rain down scared me, but then having to pogo up them with lasers... how in the world can people do this??
@@RadiantSharaShaymin Lots and lots of practice and extensive game knowledge.
@@RadiantSharaShayminBeing on pc makes movement a bit easier as the jump button and hit button aren’t so close to each other(in addition to not having to go either or while pressing i assume)
The primal aspid one is SO WELL DONE, the quality of it is absolutely insaneee
The first one looks like a heck of a lot more than a modded boss. More like a completely new level with new music! Hopefully more are like that.
Shoutout to all the tremendous work (of different varieties) that went into these different bosses. There's a huge variety of inventiveness and refinement on display. My biggest wish is that they hadn't used the song Pure Vessel (from Path of Pain/THK fight) for Soul Sovereign because that fight didn't feel tragic to me so the song felt out of place but the mechanics in that were still really unique and interesting. Thanks for showing these off!
Soul Sovereign was literally trying not to die & trying to fend off his attacker with every last soul he could muster. A desperate act from a being that didn't want to die. Pretty tragic & sad.
That Immortal Light boss is probably my favorite modded AbsRad I’ve seen, all the attacks feel like more difficult versions of vanilla without just being unreactable, focusing a lot more on specific movement and pinpoint precision rather than just requiring you to spam D-Dark for literally every move like some mods feel like. 10/10, would hate to do that in Radiant mode.
Love the creativity and challenge of these modded bosses! Thanks for sharing fire ✨️
0:04 this isn't modded. This is a normal primal aspid.
@@Lego_sun_wukong now i hate my life
@@Lego_sun_wukong 💀 so true
Nah its easier
easier than a normal primal aspid
I dont know what he's showcasing in the first segment, it just looks like he's in Kingdom's Edge
Feel like some respect needs to be given to Samihamer1 for managing to combine Pure Vessel and NKG into a fight that looks like two bosses actually meant to be part of the same boss fight. Like, the other stuff is all cool, but it is at least partially just a matter of getting new assets and then remixing a few mechanics from other bosses, while the Nightmare & Void fight had to rebalance the difficulty of two whole bosses, and sync their attack patterns together in a way that would make them seem even mildly fair to fight that way. That requires a genuinely impressive degree of skill at balancing boss fights, since some game studios can't even work those things out that well. Either that or Fire only showed a run where they synced up, but I am choosing to assume that this is their default state because it would feel weird to waste time waiting for a near perfect synchronization if that wasn't the default state.
16:41 That's it, I'm going to bed.
I like to lore the aspect behind the soul sovereignty that they cast away their physical form to become an intangible being of pure soul essence. However, as a fight, it is bad. Not being hit the enemy and being forced to fight for that long regardless of what you do.
Worthy nerf to primal aspids, it was too strong before!
Fr tho
Add Radiance to Nightmare and Void and watch TAS never ever touching the ground
I wanna see god of void and nightmares
I never see anyone mod soul master's fight, so it's nice to see someone make one.
Oh this looks FIRE!!!!!!
Edit: Ive looked through them and want to say, Ancient aspid and the Immortal light are my favorites..
Ican see the inspiration that Hornet gave the seer.
Edit: Fireb0rn is a still the godgamer of Hollow Knight
I'm pretty sure it actually took reference from Drya the fierce if I'm not wrong(it's another mod boss)
The music for Ancient Aspid is one of the most hype and FUN video game boss themes I've ever heard.
It feels as fun as my favourite theme from HK - Hive Knight's - except more dynamic and dramatic.
Whoever composed this, you should be proud of yourself, it's an incredible work. I'll be listening to this one in the future on its own. Put it on Spotify! : )
4:01 now this is true pain
Those focused soul sovereign attacks almost sound like they’re all crying out “not yet!” And the whole fight is a masterclass
This is no clickbait jesus christ
I like to think the aspid one takes place on the surface.
Also, can we talk about the Seer fight? The background, the animation, the voice too! All aweseome!
Nightmare and void made me realize how badly I yearn for the godskin duo equivalent in silksong. Sure we got the mantis lords, but they all do the same attacks, a fight with two enemies that do different things would be so cool as a dev product
6:43 THEY GAVE GRANNY THE POINTY STICK
How to go to each boss.
6:37 dream nail the seer
2:23 dream nail the mother aspid corps in the infected crossroads
The rest are from the pantheons
10:35 the flying bird that caught itself into where I would light my fireworks in the sky for the night
out of these 5 bosses, I disliked Primal Aspid and Seer the most, but it's mainly because they never seemed to work properly for me. In the final phase of aspid, it would use the laser beam and I literally could not avoid it (even with D-dark for some reason). Seer was using more than 1 attack at the same time for me but I also didn't realize you could just pogo her, I wanted an honest fight. Unfortunately, I don't the footage for those :(
All the others were really fun and challenging imo. Immortal light was the most fun (and easier than biblically accurate radiance imo).
Either way, great mods and the people working on theme are very talented. Well done and to fireborn as well
The fact that you had to pogo your way up the radiance climb, I’m speechless
I love the aspid queen's arena design, really reminds me of the ori boss battle design, not a locked arena, but a parkour area on it's own
i think the ancient aspid is my favorite. Its arena, its animations, and its attacks look so polished.
The Nightmare and Void honestly blew my mind
@@cringeon_main yesss very cool how their attacks were coordinated so well
It's just a more polished version of a preexisting idea
Would bet that they were added after Fire got them both in extra hard calosseum of fools mod and we all saw that they do work awesome together.
Great video showcasing and giving credit to great mods. Well done.
Soul tyrant is my favorite boss and soul sovereign really made me smile, such a great boss
Soul Sovereign casually summoning his stand for a ground pound every now and then
The ancient aspid is the most creative one here tbh it uses original sprites(unlike 3) new and unique attacks, while having interesting difficult attacks andbits own sprites backround and stages
Also the music which just works so well
The best fight here, yeah
Looks the most recycled imo
the seer looks absolutely nuts
Nightmare King Grimm and Pure Vessel is absolutely genius and looks fun. Mods like those make me wish I could have them on the console.
The last stage of Soul Soveriegn is very reminiscent of the boss attacks from Undertale. Pleasant bittersweetness of nostalgia...
Would love to hear your thoughts on each of these bosses and what you liked and disliked about each of them
I didn't love any of them to be totally honest, but I respect the crazy amount of work that goes into them.
@@fireb0rn you done it for us! XD
The Ancient Aspid is like a Primal Aspid and The Radiance mashed together, Nightmare and Void is just The Knight and The Grimmchild grown up and super strong, Seer is mostly unique but for some reason doesn’t sound like Seer at all and has Hornet’s battle theme, Soul Sovereign is like a stronger Soul Tyrant but with a third phase that lasts waaaay too long, and if Absolute Radiance was Randiance turned up to 11 then Immortal Light is Absolute Radiance cranked up to 11,111.
finally I was wondering when you would do these.
The Ancient Aspid is pretty much what I thought the final boss would have been before I fought The Radiance
I loved ancient aspid it had such a huge arena
a grimm and pure vessel tag team battle is really cute for the shippers in the fandom ☺️✨
Soul Soverign: "I didn't hear no bell."
I love how these bosses are hard as hell, but possible without glitches or insane plays
These are all so good! I can't help but wonder if Nightmare and Void were inspired by your own trial video from awhile back that had NMG and Pure Vessel as the final boss. I distinctly remember someone in the comments saying that the two worked well together, like a grown up Ghost and Grimmchild.
Which leads me to wanting a sprite change for the Nightmare and Void fight to make them look more like Ghost and Grimmchild (though I'm not sure what they would do to make Grimm look more like his kid). Either way, these bosses are amazing!
Horrible challenge idea for the week before Silksong releases: 560% speedrun. 112%, getting one ending, deleting the save, 112%, another ending, deleting the save, and repeat until you get all 5 endings.
The bullshido no jutsu on those aspid lasers was mad.
I love that hollow knight mod bosses are just existing bosses with attacks that fill the screen 90% of the time. I honestly wonder if the people who make them are the same people who make sans fan games
i adore how similar the aspid fight is to the radiance fight lmao-
The part of immortal light fight where you need to climb up using falling from the sky swords is absolute cinema
16:08 gosh that fireball stalling was so sexy, it had no business going that hard
16:21 This dash is insane!
0:20 music is great on aspid
I love how its like proper dual battle and not like just having Nightmare Grimm and Pure Vessel independent of each other.
Ancient Aspid and the Nightmare-Void duo are EASILY my favorite ones here. THEY'RE FIGHTS ARE SO COOL and look very fun to play!
I love how Soul Sovereign actually has a phase where he turns into pure soul as implied in the game text. However, even knowing that his whole thing is his boss fight going on for longer than usual I have to admit that the third phase is a bit excessive lasting longer than most vanilla bosses.
the immortal light's time motifs with the ticking and the circular movements is actually so so cool
ancient aspid 100% should be added, it fits too well, would be perfect for kingdoms edge
Soul Sovereign is DEFINENTLY my favorite. Looks like something that could actually be in the base game. Also that fake out when he "dies" is SO COOL!
I kinda wish fireborn would speak in more of his videos. His voice is soothing and helps with insomnia
While all these bosses do look like they've been modded in, the exception imo is Ancient Aspid, which looks like it's from an actual sequel to Hollow Knight.
Its animations are so fluid!
When it got to the Immortal Light fight, my jaw was on the floor for the first half, and my eyes wide open the whole time. At one point, i actually thought, "so this is the power of a speedrunner"
Yo these fights are all sick
At the rate this is going, people are just going to mod silksong into hollow knight before the actual game ever comes out
Bruh thought he is radiance at 1:31
Immortal light takes the concept of a troll fight to a whole another level
I love how Soul Soveriegn goes from buffed authentic boss to pure bullet hell course.
@@luolewis2376 His pure focus idea succeeded, he seemed to cast off the power of the Radiance…. Or did he? Even then, all of his soul attacks are tainted orange. Even a pure focus couldn’t stop you from dreaming of something that will forever whisper in your ear. He still failed. All those bugs in the Soul Sanctum died for nothing but an extra long boss fight.
@@JacksonVoet Mariana Deep
@@MD-bz1cr Really? I thought it was rather surface level.
Ngl soul sovereign looks mega sick. Love it. The end phase was a little tedious feeling but before that it was pretty nice and fast paced
The seer had a great boss fight. I live the way the devs gave her light and dream attacks tying in to the moth tribes connections with both dream power and the radiance
I love the mechanics and unique attack patterns of these bosses! The only thing that felt a bit off was the lack of original spritework (I think even a change of color palette would feel better), or soundtracks. I think for the nightmare and void fight, a "pure" cover of Grimm's theme would be quite fitting! (Pure as in the same "voice" or "instruments" used in the pure vessel soundtrack or path of pain etc)
Additionally, a matching color scheme for both Grimm and the knight would do nicely, perhaps a focus on white, with red accents (particularly in the eyes, as is characteristic of Grimm and his troupe)
doing sprites and soundtracks are incredibly difficult and entirely independent of coding skill. so it is nice when a mod has them, but its far too much to expect from what is typically one or two people. a player skin for this game can take well over 100 hours to make, for context
@@erierierierierie yeah of course! I wasn't suggesting a single developer working on the mod alone should do it themself. Rather, perhaps seeing if anyone would be willing to take it on! For instance, I myself am a digital illustrator, and have had experience making custom sprites!
The first boss is Absolute Radiance if they actually were a powerfull being.
Man, the Seer is really well made giving audio cues for each of their attacks. The only thing that seems off is the wave whenever she lands. There's no indication of it
Mr souls sovereign, stop edging me. Thank you.
PS: idk if that word is allowed here, I'll take it down if you tell me so. Hope I made laugh the moderator 🫡
The hunter's description for the aspid boss : "Precessor of everthing that flies, the most evil being of the entire Hallownest"
Ancient Aspid
Those were awesome 😍😍 that first boss was epic af
That has to be the coolest radiance mod I've ever seen
If I had to rate these in a top 5
5. Soul Sovereign. Way too long and tedious and while I'm sure the survival bullet hell sections are cool it seems to get annoying.
4. Immortal Light. What if Radiance but more difficult. Not the most unique but not bad
3. Nightmare & Void. Unique ways the moves go with each other and how the bosses are in sync makes it a lot less annoying looking than most bosses with multiple enemies.
2. The Seer. Looks rather easy, but it's unique with a completely new character design and attack designs.
1. Ancient Aspid. Takes the parkour sections in Radiance and turns them up to 11 while being a boss fight that doesn't look too difficult or annoying, I could see myself purposefully dying to this boss at the end so I could keep having fun fighting it.
Never expected to see soul master/tyrant get some attention but I’m equally impressed and terrified by what I saw, as well aswhat the community can do while we wait for silksong.
When Team Cherry doesn’t provide, the community does.
Damn, seer felt like an actual duel
For soul sovereign i think something cool is an animation of the follies/mistakes turning into Soul Twisters or Warriors. The description of both (follies/mistakes) says they are awaiting their brothers to reshape them a new body
My jaw dropped at Immortal Light and most of these fights are actually broken that I have no idea how he won.
Ngl, the climb phase of Inmortal Light is so cool with having to pogo the swords.
But oh my goodness so much stuff on the screen.