Hollow Knight fans made their own DLC - and it's AMAZING!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มิ.ย. 2024
- Pale Court, the long awaited fanmade Hollow Knight content DLC, is finally here; and it's pretty darn awesome! The developers of the mod were super kind to give me early access to it, so here's my playthrough! I'm blown away by the sheer amount of love and hard work that was poured into this thing; the mod really does feel true to the Hollow Knight experience!
Also, there are a few things that i don't do in this video, notably a pretty major chunk of Postgame content! I guess you'll just have to find out for yourself what it is....
PALE COURT: • Pale Court Mod | Launc...
SCARAB (the hollow knight modinstaller): themulhima.github.io/Scarab/c...
Setup guide: • The Complete Guide to ...
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:30 - The beginning!
04:40 - Mysterious Ze´mer
10:35 - Kindly Isma
17:55 - Fierce Dryya
21:00 - Mighty Hegemol
28:25 - Sheo's Hut
30:16 - Credits
32:25 - The Treasure Room and... postgame content?
Mod Credits: docs.google.com/document/d/e/...
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Editing by Pye: / pyefive - เกม
The Champion’s Call beckons… part 2 soon (?)
First comment
Second comment
Next is hitless on this DLC
Do the charms stack with other charms like how defenders crest did?
5th
The community really went
"We will have more content, one way or another."
Hollow knight fans: Since we can't get the new DLC from Team Cherry, we'll make it ourselves!!!
Rest of the community: YES
"Dread it. Run from it. Content arrives all the same."
I just relised the reason that Ze'mer's attacks aren't telegraphed as easily is because she's "Mysterious" Ze'mer
Bro we have the same pfp🤣
@@onyxperaza8961 Lmao yea
It's the small things that make you happy
Bro we have the same pfp
Oh wow!! Even the username!
Ze’mer’s voice actress for this mod here! I also had a hand in ideas for her boss fight/encounter. I’m so excited for people to play this mod! Thank you so much for this video. Watching you experience it brought a huge smile to my face.
You did such a fantastic job! I couldn't get to do the Challenger's Call stuff in this video but from what i'm seeing you really got to shine there! Cheers :D
OYU DID SO AMAZING VOICE ACTING HEER it fits so well 19/10.. .....
You absolutely nailed the defeated "whyyyyy" at the end lol
No way
You were spot on it was perfect
You’re so talented
10/10 VA
You did so good! The boss fight looked amazing!!
You have no idea how happy this video made me, it's still hard to fathom that we're finally releasing this mod, and I'm so excited to see everyone's reactions. I feel so proud even if I didn't specifically work on the bosses. Sorry you won't get to be there for the launch, we've definitely polished up stuff since we gave you that build. It's a bit unfortunate I didn't fix the charm descriptions and effects in that one, the two you got confused about were my work, and there's a bit more to them than you saw.
Great work! As you know, some game teams invite good modmakers like your team. So probably, that project gives you and your collegues more than you think. Probably (I really hope, so talanted people must be rewarded)
Don't feel sorry now, the work isn't even complete. The team is doing a great job!
How is this comment posted two days ago
I didn't realize how much I would love this mod. It seemed like just a few more bosses but the fact that you guys added lore, and you gave the champions personalities blew me away. Honestly, I wish this was canon. Absolutely insane mod. Now I just have to beat the champions call.
How are you posted from before the video
I love how their fighting styles reflect their monikers so well. Ze'mer is hard to properly read with bizarre telegraphs, Isma relies on setting up traps and cornering you (since she would probably be the least combative knight when they all fight as one), And Dryya and Hegemol just try to hit you really, really hard.
Dryya also employs fast and rapid slashes, which works for her "fierce" moniker and also the charm (which btw I think it got changed in the full release to be more interesting), and hegemol has the double damage and big shock waves and wind ups to be mighty
Ze'mer also seems to have Mantis like attacks to refer to her lover. And how she likely learned to fight with or like them.
the bread is indeed moldy
insanely gay moment.
bread.
@@ectotideyes, I am indeed homosexual.
How did you comment 3 days before the video came out???
i sculpt
Dude the fact that the new charms (with the exception of isma's) has references to Pure Vessels attacks, is so freaking cool!
I like to think that every knight has taught their own technique to pure vessel
And then the void tendrils attack as the last new charm as well, that's really cool (although I don't think pure vessel used the stinky charm or ismas deodorant charm)
How sick would it be if Team Cherry talked to the devs and made this mod a genuine DLC
Kind of like what videocult (who developed a wonderful game called rain world) did with their dlc downpour. It’s literally just a bunch of mods with added lore
@@eldritchcupcakes3195 yeah
@@eldritchcupcakes3195 I get done playing my artificer run and suddenly I find this comment. Interesting.
Just to see Dryya being officialized, I'd definitely be hyped for that timeline
@@GalactaKiller yea, the coolest of the bosses for me is Isma, if I had a pc I could play this but I’m strictly console gaming so I can’t download mods
The fun fact that all of the Knights combined. makes the Pale Knight's fighting style! If you look close, he uses bites and pieces of all of them as he was trained by them.
During Ismas fight you can see Ogram changes his position to always watch her. Cool detail!
Same with Che and zemer iirc
I know it's not likely to happen with Silksong and its DLCs taking up all of Team Cherry's time, but it would be amazing to see this become a collaboration with the official devs and the mod devs. And for Chris Larkin to collaborate on the music with the mod composers. Make this official!
I think it's great as is. I hope TC would agree.
ngl heg_win_1 is pretty drammatic but heg_win_3? it's my favourite
i love that in isma's fight she teleports a lot but u can just look at ogrim and hell stare at isma constantly so you know where shell be
It's crazy how far the community can go to create stuff that fullfills all parts of the game. lore, gameplay, music, aesthetics ...etc
Hats down to those who contributed in this. be patient, SilkSong is coming soon, trust my word. (PS: Kindly Isma is too perfect to not exist officially in this game)
it's finally here, hope everyone can have the same fun we had testing it
and we managed to get it before Silksong as well that's a win
oh hey
At this point you have time to make another DLC before Silksong
@@CamalinoFolly stop stalking me camalino
I mean you could have waited another year and still get it out before Silksong😂
Blue could've acted like this was an official new dlc and I doubt we would've even noticed. Such perfect encapsulation of the atmosphere each knight brings with the art, music and fights!
I feel like mysterious lady had a VERY janky moveset.
@@sunshineandrei2569Did you listen? He got the mod early!
@@Myownchaos and?
@@sunshineandrei2569her name was “mysterious ze’mer”. Her fight was purposefully hard to telegraph due to her name. “Mysterious.
@@sunshineandrei2569 and that means that her boss probably wasn't finished.
You get so used to the somber, dead state of hallownest during the game, even detached at times, that seeing it alive and well in this mod feels so amazing and sad at the same time.
This video was such a morale boost
I feel like you can see where the Pure Vessel learned his fighting style. I think he must have spent a lot of time with Kind Isma because she would have treated him the nicest.
5:01 is it only me or the bridge looks like a white version of the bridge outside of the dead guard you dream nail to get into the white palace?
Team Cherry: Take too long to release any form of information or content...
The community: Fine I'll do it myself...
*Hallownest Vocalized* *Pale court*
Fun fact: If you look closely during the Zemer fight, you can see the Traitor Lords daughter watching in on the fight in the background
Edit: wow 176 likes
It seems like every fight has someone in the background watching: Ze'mer - Traitor's child, Isma - Ogrim, Dryya - White Lady
@@dumpsterDeity nobody is watching heg ;-; he's watching the city
@@josebach02 *The Town Inside Me starts playing*
@@josebach02his kidnappers are, which is mighty unfortunate.
Another thing is her head follows zemer iirc which seems really cool
4:05
"its all abit of a mystery"
as hes going to Mysterious Ze'mer
aww man, not the one and only reward room npc place holder.
I hope devs of hollow knight will add "Bread" to one of characters in a new update/DLC.
17:22
pale king is a god
so you are technically a holy shit with this charm
Between, this and crowsworn coming out, i think that the silksons shaped hole inside my heart is filled.
19:14 the way Blue says "that's so COOL!" made me so happy he sounds like a little kid getting a toy racecar
This is so amazing wow, tysm for sharing your play through. Does anyone know if the devs have released the music anywhere? It’s some of the best stuff I’ve ever heard honestly
Music will be out soon, probably tomorrow. It'll be on the composers personal yt channels
My only complaint is that while almost every hollow knight boss has a cool intro, most of these just start
I would also add there don't seem to be many opportunities to heal; while some bosses are obviously made to be more difficult than others, the lack of stagger and healing opportunities are a bit too punishing to be considered fair
@@theguywithsomething8634 I feel like that's a result of this being designed to be challenging for people who are absolutely cracked at Hollow Knight. Which is fine, but it does blunt my enthusiasm for trying it out myself (since I'm not that good at Hollow Knight).
This doesn't make any sense, most hollow knight bosses have the exact same intro, these aren't much different, besides most people hate long intros on harder bosses anyway.
There's like 2 bosses with an intro
@@theguywithsomething8634 They’re definitely designed to be equal to or harder than AbsRad
Mystic Z’hmer especially. She moves like a DBZ character.
Imagine all the lore you can get from the upgraded defenders crest. Imagine how cool that would be
When i saw that beam attack in Fierce Dryya my brain automatically went "Empress of Light" and then you said it. Safe to say it scared me
"i think this guy was voiced by mossbag too cause mossbag is in the voice credits"
finally mossbag hegemol
dude im not even past the intro and already ive felt entranced by the dlc clips just the same way i felt entranced when first playing hollow knight, ABSOLUTELY BLOWN AWAY
Does nobody realize that Ze'mer calmly and randomly says "shaw" it's hilarious.
Shaw
Little detail: ogrim follows isma in her bossfight, you can see his head moving
I love this community seriously almost never you see one that creates content almost as good as the original game is just so impressive and beautiful.
Do these fights remind anyone else of hornet? I’ve only fought her first encounter so you can probably tell I’m not that far, but the way dryya flies towards you reminds me heavily of hornet’s dive along with isma’s vine whip compared to her needle throw.
Now that I think of it, they do- Isma and Dryya really remind me of Hornet because of how fast they move around and the audio queues before every attack
All of them remind me of Lace (Except Hegemol) very reminiscent of Silksong for a mod released pre Silksong
Isma especially seems like a more difficult version of Hornet Sentinel, albiet slightly modified.
I'm pretty sure Isma is using Hornets character model as a base, Dryya uses THK and Hegemol uses False knight (obviously). I don't know what Ze'mer uses though. might be totally original.
Edit: I'm pretty sure Ze'mer is based on Traitor Lord
@@xavierbehrens3015 yeah she was the first one I noticed
Turns out, if Team Cherry had simply asked their fans, they would've built Silksong for the team, likely for free 😂
17:58 what a beautiful little scene and a beautiful reveal walking in from the tunnel!
This mod is LEGENDARY. It looks almost completly authentic, like a literal Hollow Knight DLC in every way! (excluding those placeholder lines of course lol XD)
25:14 famous last words: "this is actually easier"
to use mark of purity, you have to hold the nail slash button. also, the last charm is in the abyss near the void tendrils unlock
now we just need the VAs to do "hallownest vocalized dlc: pale court"
"Insanely gay moment" Is forerever going to be my the most favorite 100% cannon dialogue in existence.
Great effort and taking Knights into this is also a great idea, I loved it. I only have a little bit of critics.
Mysterious Ze'mer fight could've been way better. If she didnt start to move immediately at start but start with a gesture (like old big bosses in the game) also flowers on the floor are to high, you cant see where you land which is sucks and why you take that many damage while she is just walking over.
And for Isma, even at hardest bosses of this game there is always a small gap for healing. And this one aint have, also there aint any clue about floor plants. I mean the plants on the wall can be trackable cuz she throws'em. But trap plants on floor spawns themselves and no clue for spawn or no clue when you kill one. So you never know did you kill it or a new one just came in.
Other then that, its creative for sure.
Art looks fine btw.
Also, Ze'mer probably the strongest of'em and Ogrim the weakest. So it should've start with Ogrim and going to Ze'mer imo.
And about Dryya, White Queen at background glows just too much and Dryya is white too, and her all attacks are white too.. Aint good for clarity which is HK known for in fights imo.
Also, I think she talks too much, too repetetive. Just take example of Hornet. She aint say a word with every attacks, most of the times we saw war cries, screams and grunts from her like a Tennis Player but Dryya just talks, and it kills battle vibe imo.
I just loved location of Hegemol, the background the lore behind this... Great Job. Great Job at Hegemol's animations too.
The combo slash charm is SUCH A GOOD IDEA. I really hope this becomes a real thing.
I'm so happy you got to play this early! This was amazing. I love being excited over this with the whole community. I am beyond impressed. This was so fun to watch and I can't wait to try this on my own at some point!
This is so cool!
I remember a reddit post from a few years ago where they asked what would be a cool Hollow Knight DLC/mod idea and I actually made a comment how I would love to be able to battle with the 5 great knights, seeing how all of them have some representation left over in the main game. It is so cool to see that people were actually working on that (or even saw that comment and made it, no idea how long this has been in development or even how long ago that reddit post was)
In the conversation that followed on that comment of mine we even came to the idea of a certain thing in the mod called the champions call which Blue has sadly missed in his first playthrough, so thats also really cool!
First of all, I wanted to thank you for such a wonderful video. The update came out really fabulous, with a pretty good challenge!
Your joy and enthusiasm are so contagious. Thank you for sharing
This was such a cool video to watch! Looking forward to part 2😄
Great video blue! Im super excited to play this now that i actually know what it is!
Yoooo this is so cool!!!!!! I can't wait to see it finished so I can watch a full letsplay
Im so glad you had fun playing this DLC!! I know I had fun watching!
what a fantastic fan effort! thanks for showing us.
Blue in the mod: I’ve never been happier of getting my asš kicked
I'm so excited!!! I've been looking forward to this mod since the trailer came out. It looks absolutely incredible, it's mindblowing, what this community can do. Thank you so much, awesome job everyone!
The upgraded defender's crest is interesting, I wonder if Lemm will have a different reaction if you visit his shop with it?
9:47 It’s a smaller version of the attack Pure Vessel uses later in his fight for those who don’t recognise it.
Pure vessel vs the young vessel (the Knight)
5:18 Omg, the mantis (presumably Ze'mer's lover) being there is such a nice touch!
Damn, bro made this right after the mod came out, that is some crazy dedication
He got it early
@@dertpert yeah, i kind of noticed that after i posted the comment
The final charm is in the Ancient Basin :) and it's EPIC!
What is it and where exactly is it found? I'm so curious
Pale King?
I felt that Gauthier did the music as soon as I heard the first fight theme! It sounded SO similar to their Guardian of the Silken Toll song and I love it. God, this mod just blew me away. It’s so amazing
The Isma fight seems straight out of silksong
Now imagine a Pale King fight 😨😨
The backrounds of the fights are fire
BlueSR simply must check out the „alley of agony“ located in the abyss that has been added to the Pale court mod.
The ze’mer charm is a reference to the pure vessel attack!
We need a pale king bossfight
I wonder hwat it would be like
@@macu1515 spikes raining down and the pale king attacking you with abilities of the 4 great knights
@@macu1515 buzzsaw. A lot of buzzsaw
"I wonder how [Isma] died" he said, while killing her
Great work from the mods that made that!
Also one question is there any place that I can hear the music from the battles without the sfx effects? I loved every music battle and would love to hear them without playing the game :)
During the isma fight the white defender watches isma go across the screen
25:15 LOL he really said "easier!? hold this bitch!!"
“They all bow at the beginning and you can kinda disrespect them”
Me, who bows at every boss as I face them: DISHONORABLE
This proves how badly we need silksong
If the devs ever releases the soundtrack, i’m gonna buy it, no questions asked.
Thank you for sharing this playthrough(?)! I really enjoy how genuinely excited you are ☺ Also,“now we smell like royal sht” makes me cackle so hard
This feels like a mod that is so good that you always play with it on no matter what, like hollow knight vocalized
That was awesome ❤😭 amazing what all this people together achieved, wow.
this is so exciting!!!! this mod looks awesome
The only way to stop Skurry from making the Hollow Knight everything randomizer
You can also fight Tiso.
And ye, Le-Mer have second fase in panteon "chempion call"
;)
28:50 😂😂😂 i died
The final charm is Abyssal Bloom and you get it for doing some parkour similar to PoP in the Abyss
what an insane mod! enjoyed the vid thank u blue :)
I would've enjoyed this a lot more if the lineart was just a few pixels wider on the border.
damn this mod is so cool, solidly on the same quality (or in some ways better for some of the less content packed ones like Hidden Dreams and Lifeblood) as the non-modded dlcs
also omega pog on Ze'mer's girlfriend cameoing before the fight with her starts.
I already finished the game on ps4 but just bought it on pc just for pale court. IM SO HYPED!!!!!
This was an act of love. Thank you to the creators
Petition for team cherry to canonize this
HK fans really said: "FINE, I'll do it myself!"
gave my hand at it, I was humbled once again by Isma. also noticed that tiso is available at the brooding mawlek statue but not sure if that's part of the pale court
It is
i love your absolute unbridled joy at all the bosses. like if the true diehard hk players who know the game like the back of their hand love this mod, it HAS to be good. i mean, i can tell the art is beautiful and the bosses are interesting, but as somebody who hasnt played past early game hk i dont think my assessment means as much as yours. also somebody tell me why hegemol's boss arena and the ambient music before the fight made me tear up
You have to replay it! There are many extra Dialogues for each Guardian when beaten, one for each other guardian
Is there a place to get this music? I’d love a download! It was sooooo good! Also, this mod in general was amazing, thanks to everyone that worked on this!
This DLC mod was needed to hold me over until Silksong!! I’ve already beaten all the bosses and seen most of the content in the DLC but it was so good I’m thinking about replaying the entire game, beating it and then replaying the mod on top of it!! 10/10 mod, at the top of my list when it comes to Hollow Knight mods!
I wonder what will come next after Pale Court, be awesome too see even more cause it can only get bigger and better:)
But they should be very proud of themselves for creating this mod
Now ccmaci must voice those characters PLEASE
"you should vocalize HK pale court NOW!"
This is basically Hollow Knight Convergence