This is incredibly impressive man. The sheer amount of memorization, determination, and patience is unreal. I cannot begin to imagine the amount of time it took to plan this run out, not to mention memorizing and then executing it. Absolutely amazing that you made this happen, hats off to you. I hope that you feel very, very accomplished
Not sure if you've seen this yet, but blue said it was so he don't get reset back to the entrance of the room everytime he falls into spike in deepnest
small correction: dung defender being in the route is not a mistake, he's in the route because he's the best character and a run of hollow knight cannot truly be completed without him 👍
With another extreme challenge done by the members of the Hollow Knight community, I truly wonder what else is there to achieve while, almost endlessly, waiting for Silksong.
well, this speedrun was only for any%, so theoretically you can try doing True Ending and 112% blindfolded, but it would take months if not years for someone to do it
@@numbermumber7382 nah mate, i wouldn't even be able to beat an easy enemy blindfolded let alone beating the entire game, im just here to give some ideas
Hey! I just want to answer some questions real quick! Firstly: This is not cactus' first time doing the blindfolded run! He did it about a year ago, but used QoL mods and switched patches. this time was the first "legit" clear, which is why I only mentioned this run in the video. Secondly, the main reason to get Lantern is to prevent yourself from warping back to the entrance of rooms in deepnest any time you fall in spikes, because that would make the area incredibly painful. Thanks for watching!
@@hen618 A man may not scribe simple English unto the comments of a description of a recording of a simple entertaining game without being met with constant adversity from simple plebians like you due to his mildly extensive vocabulary? Pray tell, why is that?
Honestly, a really big mental barrier that I could see is sitting there for nearly 5 hours, pressing buttons but completely blind. All you have is the tactile feel of the keys and the sounds of the game.
Growing up I remember playing such long sessions of COD nazi zombies or RuneScape that when I went to sleep I'd be laying there with my eyes closed and I could literally still see and hear the game even though I was in a silent dark room, I'm sure this guy has played so much he can see every room in his mind
@@hen618 I think auditorial hallucinations are real yea, but don't take my word as medical advice. Also I think both of y'all should consider taking a break lol
@@tetra_kirby5691 honestly ive been playing lots of valorant recently, and i just got back into hk and been playing for like about a week or maybe like 5 days, idk why its kinda weird maybe its like when a good song gets stuck in ur head maybe the music is just that good?!?!?
Cactus : "anyone could do it" Also Cactus : *has a solid HK speedrunning career before tackling this challenge* Still Cactus : *spends 6 hours a day for a month and a half practicing a single run*
whoa, he's basically using his nail as a cane! That's kinda neat lol (you know, like blind people do in the real world!) edit: @18:37 he misses the last platform and you can tell he realizes it; cactus physically cringes as he realizes he's still in the air somehow 😂
I feel like he glanced over lantern so heres why: While its completley possible to do dark rooms, and trivial for a blind run, stuff that require prompt to interact are the only stuff that DONT work in dark rooms, unless you got lantern. So its impossible to pay the tall to get that gate open, to enter cristal peak. As far as i know the only other place lantern is required is No Eyes boss fight
I know that the joke is that since Silksong hasn’t released, the community is doing anything and everything, but I’m kind of thankful. Silksong not coming out has forced the community to make these incredibly skilled runs to constantly up the ante for this game. If Silksong came out, we never would have gotten bored enough to make the game interesting.
Honestly, this crazy community is kinda fun right now. Especially cuz it's (for a lot of people) done solely for the bit. The Reddit War over the Infected was definitely weird, but reading about Shadow Weaver, Scarlet Mansion and Mecha Zote was more than amusing.
@@tetra_kirby5691 what well i mean most people can do it way better than him hes acting like he did it BETTER than him which is prolly not true at all tbh
you know its always so cool to se how some games have such amazing audio design that people used it to beat the game blindfolded. there was a blind gamer who completed abes oddysee and legend of zelda ocarina of time. he played on emulator for ocarina of time to use save states and custom controllers, abe comes with save slots
As someone who was there throughout a lot of the practice, majority of the first run in 2021 (I missed about the first 3 hours of cpeak, it was a rough run), and through a decent amount of the recent practice and run (school kept me from a lot of it, truely a crime), I can confirm that cactus is sick as hell
From listening to channels like you and fire, I thought a blindfolded run had already been done? Unless people had tried this before but hadn't yet won. I am super excited to see how it was done though.
Cactus completed his first blindfolded run in September of 2021 and recently completed his second, idk why they said "a couple days ago" at the beginning of this video since the first run was over a year ago and the second was a couple weeks if not over a month ago
@@MyPetCactus Ah so that's why. I was also confused, maybe Blue could state this in the description so others who know about the first run are not as confused as us 😅
Iirc if you don’t have it, falling into spikes and stuff brings you to the start of the room instead of the last ledge, so it’s just to make things easier
There's almost no soul gain and very few heal windows, so an HP build doesn't work that well for him. Stack DPS charms instead (fragile strength + quickslash). Hit him two times after he does an attack, focus on avoidance at all other times. The period when he gets up after a stagger is also a good time to get a lot of hits in.
If you can down him once, you can kill him. Shaman stone is the only really mandatory charm for this to work. Down him, dream nail, hit him in the back (resets his stagger count, but doesn't damage him), dream nail, repeat until full. Now hit him to unstagger, cast abyss shriek, move to a corner and spam shade soul double hits as he does his middle attack. You only need three double hits with shade soul after abyss shriek if all 4 hits register. To avoid this uncertainty, hit him once or twice with the nail right after he stands up, then cast shriek. Soul twister to reduce cast cost if you want even more margin for error. Shaman stone, Soul twister, fragile strength, quick slash
@@dertpert This is the second blindfolded run. The first one was made a year ago, you can find a video about it here: th-cam.com/video/PCrvWWUGdl0/w-d-xo.html
Maybe Team Cherry is holding off on releasing Silksong because they're still waiting to see what other crazy shit these content hungry speedrunners can achieve
I feel like this video did a good job showing that this probably wasn't cheated, which might not sound like a big deal, but I've watched a surprising number of blind run documentaries that don't. Which considering that I've seen multiple fakers for blind runs exposed in the past ... Unfortunately, that becomes a bare minimum for this kind of video. That it was also done in a fun and engaging way where you're excited to hear about how it was a challenge overcome makes it even better. I've sean one or two alternative styles where it feels more defensive and embarassed which are just less fun. This style feels more proud of what the person featured was able to acomplish while using the interesting explanation of the method to justify the results in a natural way.
Can't wait for someone to beat Hollow Knight without focusing, and I don't mean the healing focusing, I mean the concentration focusing. It's actually possible to detect when a person zones out, so if Silksong doesn't come out soon, it'll probably be done.
Blinfolded runs are 80% memorization. And for most people games are about more than that, so personaly I don't think they are the pinnacle of gaming acheivements 🤔🤔🤔
2:39 "False Knight is trivial for cactus to take down because its a fight that doesnt require much thinking or positioning at all" me who took 8 tries to defeat false knight: ._.
Thinking how hard the few dark rooms I feel comfortable with doing are, which are among the most simple of them, this is truly amazing! Well done mypetcactus!
it seems extreme but is plausible the closest thing to this kind of skill i have is being able to beat most terraria bosses while focusing on a youtube video on high difficulties.
I swear every gaming fandom has a nutfuck or two who do the game blindfolded and they are always the epitome of the community in my opinion. I remember being baffled when I heard ParisianPlayer did A Link to the Past blindfolded in nine hours.
For the life of me I couldn’t fathom why he was getting Isma’s tear then I had the brainwave about getting into deep nest without fighting Mantis Lords blind, which is probably essentially impossible.
Thanks for the video Blue!! Great summary. You did me dirty using the voice crack clip twice though 😂😂😂
It's him! It's the boy!
You’re lucky i didn’t show them that time you accidentally shut down the game and rebound your keybinds lmao
@@BlueSR HAHAHAHAHA OKAY IM SORRY I TAKE IT BACK
@@BlueSR we need that clip.
This is incredibly impressive man. The sheer amount of memorization, determination, and patience is unreal. I cannot begin to imagine the amount of time it took to plan this run out, not to mention memorizing and then executing it. Absolutely amazing that you made this happen, hats off to you. I hope that you feel very, very accomplished
5:56 he didn't just shut down the game, he re-binded the controls and we had to tell him lmao
that's amazing, is there a clip somewhere?
Damn no way
@@spoonkitchenware clips.twitch.tv/ImpossibleUglyAniseLitFam-_Yn_3qPrmCq3Wbz4
Wtf ghost why did you out me, ur straight banned frfr no cap
@@spoonkitchenware I think there’s a clip of it in my original blindfolded video somewhere
I find it unreasonably funny that even though he is blindfolded, he still has to buy lumafly lantern.
Not sure if you've seen this yet, but blue said it was so he don't get reset back to the entrance of the room everytime he falls into spike in deepnest
@@shrochrome he also needs it to enter crystal peaks since the gate cant be opened without it
@@mystical_horn3176 dive entrance
Suspicious.. right?
@@guilhermefrotamonte8533bro, he has played the game for hundreds of hours, he doesn’t need it normally
small correction: dung defender being in the route is not a mistake, he's in the route because he's the best character and a run of hollow knight cannot truly be completed without him 👍
Based and true
FAAAAAAHHH FUNDAAAAA DOMA DOMA HAHAHAHAAA
Wait but you can’t get ismas without flipping the dung defenders lever? Right?
@@spudonion5339theres a skip
It's about sending a message.
A game being beaten while blindfolded is the ultimate testament to how good its sound design is.
Or how the fanbase is truly insane
and smell
@@NotTuredand taste
@@dusk._and *touch*
Yeah I think we’ve all lost it XD
I love how Cactus can remember a 5 hour speedrun but forgetting he put in Isma's tear and does the skips anyway.
With another extreme challenge done by the members of the Hollow Knight community, I truly wonder what else is there to achieve while, almost endlessly, waiting for Silksong.
Programing Silksong by ourselfs
well, this speedrun was only for any%, so theoretically you can try doing True Ending and 112% blindfolded, but it would take months if not years for someone to do it
@@sans6993 you, most definitely, can TRY
@@numbermumber7382 nah mate, i wouldn't even be able to beat an easy enemy blindfolded let alone beating the entire game, im just here to give some ideas
Blind, hitless any radiance only nail no charms
Bro he plays better when he is blindfolded then i play when i see
Bro plays better then me in my dreams😢
bro plays better then me when im on the title screen💀
bro plays better then i start the game
i doubt that... anyone can play better than him
in your defense, it's significantly harder to second guess yourself (and inevitably overcorrect) when you're blindfolded ;)
imagine how hard it would be to do dark rooms blindfolded
Broo I'm pretty sure it's impossible
thought you said 'dark souls' for a second
this would be as hard, as pass usual room, because he already blindfolded
@@OpurpleO wooosh
@@100mcuber4 There is always one, eh? :D
Hey! I just want to answer some questions real quick!
Firstly:
This is not cactus' first time doing the blindfolded run! He did it about a year ago, but used QoL mods and switched patches. this time was the first "legit" clear, which is why I only mentioned this run in the video.
Secondly, the main reason to get Lantern is to prevent yourself from warping back to the entrance of rooms in deepnest any time you fall in spikes, because that would make the area incredibly painful. Thanks for watching!
I can't imagine what unspeakable feats will be achieved by the community when Silksong is released
"unspeakable feats" 🤓🤓
@@hen618 A man may not scribe simple English unto the comments of a description of a recording of a simple entertaining game without being met with constant adversity from simple plebians like you due to his mildly extensive vocabulary? Pray tell, why is that?
“smh too easy bosses aren’t even one hit kill”- Hollow knight fans after Silksong releases in 3033
@@hen618 getting mad over a word? really?
@@Elden-Bear lol not mad just sounds kinda nerdy but i get what hes saying its just kinda .. . . .. . 🤓🤓
Honestly, a really big mental barrier that I could see is sitting there for nearly 5 hours, pressing buttons but completely blind. All you have is the tactile feel of the keys and the sounds of the game.
When waiting for silksong has resulted in superhuman capabilities
silksong super serum
Growing up I remember playing such long sessions of COD nazi zombies or RuneScape that when I went to sleep I'd be laying there with my eyes closed and I could literally still see and hear the game even though I was in a silent dark room, I'm sure this guy has played so much he can see every room in his mind
same sometimes i hallucinate and hear the audio of hollow knight.. idk if audio is hallucinating but whatever
@@hen618 I think auditorial hallucinations are real yea, but don't take my word as medical advice. Also I think both of y'all should consider taking a break lol
@@tetra_kirby5691 honestly ive been playing lots of valorant recently, and i just got back into hk and been playing for like about a week or maybe like 5 days, idk why its kinda weird maybe its like when a good song gets stuck in ur head maybe the music is just that good?!?!?
@@hen618maybe
The Tetris effect! I got it with Kirby Air Ride all the time. I'd see little top speed and glide patches falling all over the place.
a true legend. he managed to beat the game WITHOUT WAYWARD COMPASS. can you imagine that?
I watched glitched runs before I can understand how it feels to not see anything
Daily silksong updates guy !! 🤯🤯
Guy silksong updates daily
every time i think i've had my mind blown for the last time, this community once again yeets me into awe. insane run
Cactus : "anyone could do it"
Also Cactus : *has a solid HK speedrunning career before tackling this challenge*
Still Cactus : *spends 6 hours a day for a month and a half practicing a single run*
What he meant by that is that it's not some kind of talent you are born with. Anyone could do this if they just tried hard enough.
He is a true legend, not only for speedrunning Hollow Knight BLINDFOLDED but also for wearing a Critical Role cardigan while doing so!
amen!
Goddamn I was trying to find that shirt the whole time, never would have guessed. Don't watch critical role but might have to buy this anyway lmao
whoa, he's basically using his nail as a cane! That's kinda neat lol
(you know, like blind people do in the real world!)
edit: @18:37 he misses the last platform and you can tell he realizes it; cactus physically cringes as he realizes he's still in the air somehow 😂
Are we not going to talk about that flukemarm fight
it's a really nice strat, too bad they nerfed dive
@@calvindang7291 I accidentally dive on him sometimes. I suck
that happiness shown after getting past the lasers for crystal hearts shows just how much effort was put into this
This community is both literally AND metaphorically insane
I feel like he glanced over lantern so heres why:
While its completley possible to do dark rooms, and trivial for a blind run, stuff that require prompt to interact are the only stuff that DONT work in dark rooms, unless you got lantern. So its impossible to pay the tall to get that gate open, to enter cristal peak.
As far as i know the only other place lantern is required is No Eyes boss fight
i think the face mask blindfold should be improved
I know that the joke is that since Silksong hasn’t released, the community is doing anything and everything, but I’m kind of thankful. Silksong not coming out has forced the community to make these incredibly skilled runs to constantly up the ante for this game. If Silksong came out, we never would have gotten bored enough to make the game interesting.
Honestly, this crazy community is kinda fun right now. Especially cuz it's (for a lot of people) done solely for the bit. The Reddit War over the Infected was definitely weird, but reading about Shadow Weaver, Scarlet Mansion and Mecha Zote was more than amusing.
this is a certified silksongless moment™️
Bro did this blindfolded better than I can with sight
no anyone can do better than him
@@hen618 depends on your definition of can.
@@tetra_kirby5691 what well i mean most people can do it way better than him hes acting like he did it BETTER than him which is prolly not true at all tbh
@@hen618 it’s an exaggeration
@@hen618 Please speak coherent English. You don't make any sense.
This is the speedrun of all time
no doubt
you know its always so cool to se how some games have such amazing audio design that people used it to beat the game blindfolded.
there was a blind gamer who completed abes oddysee and legend of zelda ocarina of time. he played on emulator for ocarina of time to use save states and custom controllers, abe comes with save slots
He actually did a blindfolded run before this but it took 12 hours
This man beat the entire game blindfolded in less deaths than it took me to beat False Knight for the first time _with eyesight_
Hornet impressions were spot on 🥶🙌🏻
As someone who was there throughout a lot of the practice, majority of the first run in 2021 (I missed about the first 3 hours of cpeak, it was a rough run), and through a decent amount of the recent practice and run (school kept me from a lot of it, truely a crime), I can confirm that cactus is sick as hell
that fake mobile game ad killed me 😂
The dedication some people have towards their favorite games is lowkey psychotic, and there's nothing I like more than watching these people.
From listening to channels like you and fire, I thought a blindfolded run had already been done? Unless people had tried this before but hadn't yet won. I am super excited to see how it was done though.
Cactus completed his first blindfolded run in September of 2021 and recently completed his second, idk why they said "a couple days ago" at the beginning of this video since the first run was over a year ago and the second was a couple weeks if not over a month ago
The first run used mods and switched patches from cp to 1221, so this was the first ‘legit’ clear
Ooo, interesting.
@@MyPetCactus Ah so that's why. I was also confused, maybe Blue could state this in the description so others who know about the first run are not as confused as us 😅
I wonder if lamp was even necessary since he had dive and... Well, every room is blind
@TheRealSavio one of the peaks entrances also requires lantern.
@@mememan1546 dive
@@mememan1546 Yeah, bud since he had dive for the second entrance, he needed it probably as Savio stated 🙂
Iirc if you don’t have it, falling into spikes and stuff brings you to the start of the room instead of the last ledge, so it’s just to make things easier
Explained in the video, you dont gain any hazard checkpoints when in the dark so deepnest needs to be perfect or youre back to the beginning
People be out here beating the game *blind* meanwhile I can't beat failed champion on normal difficulty with max HP charms
There's almost no soul gain and very few heal windows, so an HP build doesn't work that well for him. Stack DPS charms instead (fragile strength + quickslash). Hit him two times after he does an attack, focus on avoidance at all other times. The period when he gets up after a stagger is also a good time to get a lot of hits in.
If you can down him once, you can kill him.
Shaman stone is the only really mandatory charm for this to work. Down him, dream nail, hit him in the back (resets his stagger count, but doesn't damage him), dream nail, repeat until full.
Now hit him to unstagger, cast abyss shriek, move to a corner and spam shade soul double hits as he does his middle attack. You only need three double hits with shade soul after abyss shriek if all 4 hits register.
To avoid this uncertainty, hit him once or twice with the nail right after he stands up, then cast shriek. Soul twister to reduce cast cost if you want even more margin for error.
Shaman stone, Soul twister, fragile strength, quick slash
@@cameron6538 thanks SM for the help! I might even get back into HK because of this :)
the wait for silksong is doing so much to people
*Oh no…* Here we go again…
AGAIN?
@@dertpert This is the second blindfolded run. The first one was made a year ago, you can find a video about it here: th-cam.com/video/PCrvWWUGdl0/w-d-xo.html
@@sion_9698 thanks!
wow the waiting room for silksong is getting better everyday, we need that game asap
Amazing summary! And INSANE RUN by cactus! Cactus if you're reading this... good flippin job mate!
hollow knight has the most wondorously dedicated speedrunning community I've ever seen
15:34 sounded majestic
Truly masochistic, well fucking done.
Maybe Team Cherry is holding off on releasing Silksong because they're still waiting to see what other crazy shit these content hungry speedrunners can achieve
I remember when he was mapping Kings' Pass. Glad to see him succeed.
I thought this was from long ago not today LMAO
Your pet cactus? That's not a cactus, that's a human person!
Bro plays better blindfolded than I do normally
nope
truly impressive how he pulled off dark deepnest amongst all the other challenges in this run
This is unreal
I feel like this video did a good job showing that this probably wasn't cheated, which might not sound like a big deal, but I've watched a surprising number of blind run documentaries that don't. Which considering that I've seen multiple fakers for blind runs exposed in the past ... Unfortunately, that becomes a bare minimum for this kind of video. That it was also done in a fun and engaging way where you're excited to hear about how it was a challenge overcome makes it even better. I've sean one or two alternative styles where it feels more defensive and embarassed which are just less fun. This style feels more proud of what the person featured was able to acomplish while using the interesting explanation of the method to justify the results in a natural way.
Just when you think another barrier of difficulty has been reached you get this (absolutely insane)
Your pet cactus is incredible at Hollow Knight
what an absolute gigachad
'Because false knight is so simple'
That cuts deep man....
Holy crap this is mind blowing team cherry needs to release the next game or the community will beat the game with their non dominant foot
blindfolded: buys lantern anyway
he needs the lantern in deep nest so that if he falls in a hazard he isn't sent back to the start
@@CashOut670 ah. i hadn't thought of that
Ah yes, menuing, the true bane of all blindfolded runs
I was listening to this video audio only and I started wondering how could a pet cactus beat hollow knight
silksong has gotta fucking come out soon dude these people are going insane
POV
It's 2028 and Team Cherry didn't released silksong yet:
"Hey guys, today I'm going to pass though path of pain blindfolded"
Can't wait for someone to beat Hollow Knight without focusing, and I don't mean the healing focusing, I mean the concentration focusing. It's actually possible to detect when a person zones out, so if Silksong doesn't come out soon, it'll probably be done.
Wasn't expecting that hand reveal there. Had me in shambles
Awesome video, such an amazing feat by MyPetCactus!! GG
Blindfolded speedruns are the greatest gaming achievements. Insane. Congratulatins to MyPetCactus for pulling it off.
Blinfolded runs are 80% memorization. And for most people games are about more than that, so personaly I don't think they are the pinnacle of gaming acheivements 🤔🤔🤔
Some might say it was a fluke, but we all know it was flukenest
Did anyone notice how he was 23 geo short from killing the run at 8:40 since he could almost afford quick focus?
So youre telling me bro can get speedrunner 2 achivement blindfolded while people struggle to get it? Insane 😮
if silksong doesn't release soon, this'll be the average hollow knight player
I love how he gamer leans vs the hollow knight, it's so ingrained in us lmao
2:39 "False Knight is trivial for cactus to take down because its a fight that doesnt require much thinking or positioning at all"
me who took 8 tries to defeat false knight: ._.
Aw we all start out somewhere
Thinking how hard the few dark rooms I feel comfortable with doing are, which are among the most simple of them, this is truly amazing! Well done mypetcactus!
dang man he should’ve used wayward compass to see where he was on the map
18:50 That was sick but that celebration was so zesty 😭
it seems extreme but is plausible the closest thing to this kind of skill i have is being able to beat most terraria bosses while focusing on a youtube video on high difficulties.
This was like 5th video I see from you and I tought I were subscribed but I were not so now I am. Amazing content!
woooo it's time for blue's once-in-an-era upload!
The luxmix song at 27:22 ! That is a LoL reference from a golden era. Nostalgia
Saw my notification and can't believe it. Started watching it now!
I swear every gaming fandom has a nutfuck or two who do the game blindfolded and they are always the epitome of the community in my opinion. I remember being baffled when I heard ParisianPlayer did A Link to the Past blindfolded in nine hours.
Still need lanturn, can't even do dark deepnest... 🙄
Sarcasm
For the life of me I couldn’t fathom why he was getting Isma’s tear then I had the brainwave about getting into deep nest without fighting Mantis Lords blind, which is probably essentially impossible.
5:55 don't forget that time he accidentally remapped his controls
I barely beat the game in five hours with vision and he does it in four without vision? Impressive.
It's so funny to think about a blindfolded player having to get Lantern, haha. Amazing run! GDQ submission? :)
Bro the amount of skill you need for this i have insane respect for this dude
I think the actual reason he postponed waking Lurien because it's literally called Lurien the *Watcher* that'd trigger him.
Now for someone to do 112% and Pantheon ending blindfolded
And he does the speedrun 1 & 2 too, bros built different 🗿
This is kinda random but you remind me of Portal speed runner Msushi, you both have very similarly styled content and are both fairly young.
He’s 49
Msushi is awesome, and he makes really cool content! Definitely someone who inspires me.
Sorry, huge nerd here...is MyPetCactus using the Caduceus Cardigan from Critical Role?? Fits the Hollow Knight theme too, that's awesome!!
your cactus is talented
18:56 alright cactusy, now to path of pain blindfolded, i believe in u
I can’t wait for silksong sometime this year. I hope it lives up to my expectations
Man beat the game blindfolded faster than me with my eyes open😂
pov: you're doing dark deepnest for the first time
I started laughing 7 minutes into the video because I realized what his blindfold actually was
Very impressed that your pet cactus beat Hollow Knight without eyes, or even human limbs