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My favorite thing about the radiance boss fight is the beginning where you draw your nail at the freaking sun and it becomes radiance. Coolest boss reveal ever.
@@AlguienCualquieraDelMundo well she did get forgotten by her own followers so there's a reason why she's pissed. But she didn't have to go infecting everyone
It's weird that comments on TH-cam videos have become Marvel Cinematic Universe levels of connected now. And the worst part is I'm the guy who's seen them all and knows the references.....
That part in the original Radiance fight where the siblings show up and starts following you while you ascend the platforms is probably the most hyped I've ever been in a boss fight in any game ever.
IKR. They don't really do anything until their time comes to drag the Radiance into the abyss, but them just ascending toward her along with you just HYPES YOU UP SO MUCH
@@laisraposodematosbezerra3778 Personally I think that Dream No More has more hype because Embrace The Void has no ascending shades, because they're all molded into the Shade Lord
@@laisraposodematosbezerra3778 dude, we have to fight 42 different bosses, some in a more difficult version, also the last boss being the hardest boss in the game, while i can't even beat lost kin...
@@LeuhPoyo LOL Never seen anyone with that profile picture before hahahaha Also I've had the profile picture for a LONG time now without changing the chicken. Idk how. Years.
Sekiro, the good hunter, the chosen undead, the unkindled, the slayer of demons, the tarnished: *all lean to pat the shoulder of the hollow knight * You will get used to it buddy.....
0:16 is without a doubt the best snippet of the song. The rising chords, the booming voices, it perfectly encapsulates the Knight's situation. He's fighting the godly nemesis of the Pale King with the goal of destroying her, but she's not going down without a fight.
Not only is The Radiance the enemy of the Pale King and his family, but she has a far more ancient enemy in the form of the Void itself that the Vessels were created from. It's made a little more obvious in Godhome, where beating the Pure Vessel in the fourth Pantheon results in a cutscene that features the Radiance's light and fumes from the Void clashing around the Vessels, Ghost and Hollow included. It's also the Void that the Radiance is actually talking to when she's Dream Nailed.
1:30 is my favourite as when i fight her it always hits right when the climb phase starts. Really makes you feel like this is the final stretch and you only need one more hit to end this for good.
1:52 I once reached the last phase right when this segment played, and dealt the final hit just before the final note. Best feeling ever, especially climbing up to the last hit with the most triumphant and climactic part of the song in the background…
That was awesome. I also somehow got a similar timing. And as I was making the climb I see the shades in the background rising with me and my god it was magical
I always play this battle with max screen brightness. You cannot even see the homing missiles but the contrast between the light of the Radiance and the pitch black of the Void is awesome.
There’s multiple times you hear this theme One is at the end of the game, when you’re killing the final boss and finally getting rid of the infection that’s plaguing the citizens of Hallownest The second time you hear this, definitely will not be the *last* time you hear this
@@theminekbolt_1924 first try overall. In fact i did upload it to this accounts channel. Not to spam you with it lol, but i felt proud. I was only making it to pure vessel and nkg before
This snuck its way onto a "chill and relaxing Hollow Knight music" playlist I had on while doing an online exam. Suffice to say I was no longer chilled and relaxed.
Okay so my comment on the old one was simply erased from existance But before playing Hollow Knight this theme really reminded me of what "Shadow Showdown" From Drawn To Life: The Next Chapter felt like. In retrospect it kinda pails in comparison to Christopher Larkin, but overall for a 2009 DS game it was pretty damn solid and had a good feeling to it, something similar to the radiance boss fight, just.. for kids with a DS in 2009 playing a drawing gimmick game that had more plot than it probably had any right to have.
Definitely didn’t expect to see a comment about drawn to life here lol. The next chapter is one of my favorite childhood games and the music is still amazing to this day That game also had a shockingly sad ending so the comparison actually makes some sense
As the Hollow Knight peeled open The Radiance's facial orifice, there was only one thing I wanted to say, and only one thing I had to. "Failed Champion was harder".
I'm imagining a scenario of the battle here. At 0:00 , the Radiance teleports into frame. AT 0:20 , the Radiance gets a hit at the Knight. At 0:40 , the fight gets more intense, with the Knight getting more close calls. At 0:52 , the Radiance just barely misses the Knight. At 1:06 , the Void starts rising up and the Radiance rapidly sends swords down. At 1:30 , the Radiance is sent into a stagger. At 1:40 , the Radiance shoots up higher and the platforms appear. At 1:50, the Knight starts climbing and the Shades of its siblings follow. At 2:00 , the Knight breaks its shell and turns into a void abomination. At 2:02 , the Hollow Knight comes up as a shade and opens Radiance's eye-hole thing. At 2:16 , the Radiance sends her last spur of Essence.
1:30 feels like the last stretch of a journey, like everything youve done, every friend youve made, every enemy youve overcome, everything youve done, has all lead to this moment. its incredible.
My favourite part about absrad is that for the final phase the music stops and it is just really fucking tense like you are at the end of p5 and you are just praying you don't fuck up because if you do it's another half hour of bosses between you and another chance, and dealing the final hit is just the most relieving feeling you can ever feel, just like, idk go beat it and feel it yourself.
I like how in almost all of my radiance fights i always enter in the third phase (where you are climbing up and these other vessel shades ascend with you) EXACTLY when this part 1:30 is playing It is honestly an amazing timing
Me and my friends like to joke around about inserting a random ass character to replace the Radiance. So um...picture this. You just go into the dream world via the Sealed Vessel's head, and so on. So like, the Radiance appears and then a huge flash, and the Radiance explodes into a thousand essence (I know, crazy right?) And the screen turns white Suddenly you hear *"Who sent all these babies to fight?!"* Dead ass the boss caption reads *"Heavy Weapons guy Team Fortress 2"* And then the music starts 0:00 And its literally just an A-posing heavy
I’ve always felt like this theme tells a story, with different parts representing the different phases of the fight 0:01: first phase begins 0:20: spikes cover one half of the arena, signalling the start of the spike floor phase 0:37: the radiance screeches and the sword rain phase begins 0:46 the stagger 0:58: the platform phase begins 1:30: start of the climb phase 1:52: the knight is nearing the top 2:06 the final hit
Just got an add (on a different video) that started with the word “RADIANCE” showing up on screen in all caps (with some fashionable person in the background and followed by the word “ALLURE” showing up a few seconds after, but whatever), and this was what I immediately thought of, lol
This track is truly brilliant. Plus I love the part at 0:12 where it basically spells out “yes, you are climbing the stares to heaven to fight god.” Truly Magnificent
I've heard this song a million times, and it's amazing how it never loses its glory and always brings a feeling of something superior, I like to think of this song when I face a problem. let's go my brothers!
Who would win: an extremely powerful moth god of light who can shoot laser beams and ruin a whole kingdom or one smol void boi with a nail you can also go Who would win: a god of gods, capable of ripping apart an OP god of light in mere seconds and consuming the whole kingdom or flower
Its crazy that in the radiance pov the radiance isnt bad it just dont want to be forgotten. if it is forgotten its pretty much dies plus this all started because someone dreamed it or something making the radiance return and make sure it doesnt die again
Easily one of the most emotional final bosses of all video game history. I got so many chills when your dead siblings’ shades started accompanying the Knight on its way up to deal the final blow to the Radiance. I thought it looked like they wanted to see if their brief and sad existences had any meaning after all. When I leapt to deal the killing blow, I couldn’t help but think of Marissa, the HK, the Pale Lady, Myla, and all the other countless bugs that had their lives ruined by the Infection. I like to think that, for the first time in its life, the Knight felt something resembling an emotion: duty.
I remember when I finally beat radiance for the first time, when I entered that climactic final beatdown. I remember saying, "this is for Myla, you MOTHerf…" (yes I made the pun that probably everyone else has made too)
The session where I finished my first playthrough of Hollow Knight went through sunset and I was so immersed in the game I didn't turn on my lights, so during this fight my room was illuminated only by The Radiance( my monitor). Talk about thematic.
No mind to think No will to break No voice to screem Born from a false god and darkness Made only so you could "lock" me away from what is rightfully mine You are the "Hollow Knight" Yet you are not hollow You think You have desires Yes, in that "empty" head of yours you wished to be loved by your father and be proud of you, to have friends, to simply be But all of that was taken from you since birth My ancient enemy cursed you and your kind to this pain which you can't express Everything you have done, all the sacrifice everyone have done to help you with this... was useless Now you watch this kingdom fall and you can't do nothing about it It's all your fault, because you dared to think, to love, to feel regret Regret for not saving your brother, all though you might have spared him this life, with me all that wouldn't have happened you know? Soon you'll be forgotten and my light will consume them I know what it is like to be forgotten First there was only darkness and then I came to be, from my light and dreams the moths were born in my image I only wanted to be loved and they gave me that love, so I gave them mine We were united in our dreams Everything was beautiful, until the wyrm, THE ENEMY He came in this land, proclaimed him self king and with a fake light draw all insects to him My moths left me for that false god Soon I started to feel weak day after day My light was less and less bright, they were forgetting me Why did they abandon me? Why? Why!? WHY!? *WHY!?* DO YOU UNDERSTAND MY PAIN, SEALED VESSEL? DO YOU? TO BE LEFT AND ABANDONED TO YOUR DESTINY? TO BE FORGOTTEN? WELL I WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN! IF I CAN'T BE LOVED BY THIS REALM THEN NO ONE WILL! MY LIGHT WILL UNITE EVERYONE'S MIND TO MINE UNTIL IT WILL CONSUME THEM! THIS SHALL BE MY REVENGE AGAINST THAT CURSED WORM AND THE ONLY THING STANDING IN MY WAY IS YOU VESSEL! FREE ME! FREE ME! *FREE ME!* FREE ME AND LET THERE BE *MY* LIGHT!
I just had a thought. This theme starts with a bit that's frequently associated with the Vessels. Could it be that this theme isn't just the Radiance's? The part at 0:11 could be the knight being a silent menace, then at the part starting at around 0:20, the Radiance screams back with a litany of hatred and defiance. After that, the theme turns into a confrontation between two opposing forces. ...meh, I'm just pulling stuff out of nowhere, but I'd kind of like Davi Vasc to analyze this one. Maybe he could come up with something interesting.
As absolute light shines bright, all those taking shelter have only shadow cast upon them, a shadow not born from the shelter itself, but born from absence of The Radiance.
Ah yes, the final boss jump from a fight where the boss tries to kill itself while tries to kill you at the same time (I know the lore about HK and I know it's much more than that) to fighting the fricking sun
"I'm gonna die" Transition between Phase 1 and 2 "Oh that is the worst part. I'm gonna die." "I'm gonna die" "I'm gonna die" "How am I not dead yet" Climb phase "Watch me die on the last platform" "Hold up... this might be it" "PLEASE DON'T DIE NOW" dies "called it." I was so thrown off when at the last phase the Absolute Radiance did not die in one hit like the regular one tbh
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"Hold on! Hard times won't last forever! There's always a light at the end of the tunnel!"
The light at the end of the tunnel:
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👽
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Radiance: "You can't consume the light!"
Me: **lowers the screen's brightness**
It is "THE LIGHT CAN NOT BE CONSUMED!" actually
@@seneryy *Sets up some photovoltaic panels*
Plants be like: suck to be you I'm into this shit
Black hole : lemme stop you right there
*WITCHCRAFT*
My favorite thing about the radiance boss fight is the beginning where you draw your nail at the freaking sun and it becomes radiance. Coolest boss reveal ever.
You know you're fucked when the sun grows wings...
@@jeniffer7799 and then you get slapped with that full screen title card
@@manitobant6738 nkg: finally! a worthy opponent!
I swear all of the base game nail draw moments are amazing.
Niko
>wakes up
>births from void
>leaves hallownest
>returns
>kills the sun
>refuses to elaborate
>ascends with siblings
Just a regular Friday
@@Novickiy_Nikolayyes.
or should you say
descend?
with Gorb*
“Refuses to elaborate”
*No voice to cry suffering intensifies*
Any other game just before you go to the final boss: "Good luck, we're all counting on you."
Hornet just before you go to the final boss: "GIT GUD!"
She had good reason to saying that to us, you really need to Git Gud if you want to kill the goddam SUN.
It's more like "geet duh"
@@erubohinaus I think she meant get down
@@owenktron8780 Makes sense ngl
@@owenktron8780 I've always heard "get through", as in using your dream nail to get through into hollow knight's mind
It’s nice for a game to be embracing the dark and killing the light for a change
I mean they are bugs so it checks out
Dark Souls?
@@EvilResident777 you technically prolong the light
@@nijuhinaa except in the endings where you do the opposite of that
@@owainglyndwrlastprinceofwa2486 forgive me, 2 weeks ago i was not enlightened by the concept of choice
The thing I like about this track is that it _really_ emphasizes the fact that you're fighting *a literal god*
An evil and despicable one indeed
@@AlguienCualquieraDelMundo well she did get forgotten by her own followers so there's a reason why she's pissed. But she didn't have to go infecting everyone
I love the fact that the knight challenges the SUN to a knife fight and *wins*
@@Wylde_ the fucking sun demon
Well, you literally ARE a god. And in the Embrace the Void ending, you are literally the STRONGEST god there IS.
The last thing a little bird hears before kurgesagt detonates 10,000,000 tons of tnt in the Amazon rainforest.
WHY IS THIS SO FUNNY LMFAO
SROP I XANT ☠️☠️☠️
Just to show nature who's boss
LMAOOOO
You know it's a hard boss when the name covers the entire screen.
Nightmare King Grimm 💀
Tbh, both were not as bad as watcher knights. I spent about an hour trying to beat both radiance and NKG but watcher knights took a while day
@@Hollow0_0i found them easy
@@Hollow0_0bro you can drop the chandeliers to kill those knights
@@Inkexplinkmachine1042 I know, and I still had trouble with them
Remember that comment in "The only thing they fear is you" that said that song made him feel like he could 1v1 the sun?
This is that fight
It's weird that comments on TH-cam videos have become Marvel Cinematic Universe levels of connected now.
And the worst part is I'm the guy who's seen them all and knows the references.....
That part in the original Radiance fight where the siblings show up and starts following you while you ascend the platforms is probably the most hyped I've ever been in a boss fight in any game ever.
IKR. They don't really do anything until their time comes to drag the Radiance into the abyss, but them just ascending toward her along with you just HYPES YOU UP SO MUCH
Have you seen the Godmaster ending? Is like that but way better
@@laisraposodematosbezerra3778 Personally I think that Dream No More has more hype because Embrace The Void has no ascending shades, because they're all molded into the Shade Lord
@@laisraposodematosbezerra3778 dude, we have to fight 42 different bosses, some in a more difficult version, also the last boss being the hardest boss in the game, while i can't even beat lost kin...
...and then you get blasted out of existence on the last platform.
Now that's the real final boss theme.
Um tema de verdadeiro Deus
"Ah, finally ! I beat the final boss wich is the Pure vessel !"
Absolute radiance: *Allow me to introduce myself*
@@thatguyslostininternet3317kkk
1:06 is the absolute best part of this song, really makes the radiance seem extraordinary
Ha ha, Absolute
Definitely
Easily
A KINGDOM COULD NOT EVEN FIGHT ME, AND YOU, SPECK OF SHADOW, EXPECT TO DESTROY I, THE RADIANT SUN?! SUCH HUBRIS!!! *DIE!!!!!*
Sounds sympathetic and somehow determined, like it’s saying don’t give up in music
THE SUN IS A DEADLY MOTH THING (with lasers~)
Radiance in a nutshell
Big moth boi with god powers who likes to use swords and lasers because screw lighting powers or immortality or something.
Not anymore there's now a void blanket.
THE SUN SHOTS DEADLY LAZERS
The sun is a deadly lazer~
Not anymore theres a (void) blanket~
I hate that I get what you guys are talking about.
Never played Hollow Knight, but this song is the one that plays in my head in a tense situation.
Bro you absolutely should, it is a marvel of a game!
It’s a great game you should get it, and you get a lot of content for its small price.
I am unable to play it for various reasons but it's on my to do before I die list.
@@marhola100 hey pfp stealer !
@@LeuhPoyo LOL
Never seen anyone with that profile picture before hahahaha
Also
I've had the profile picture for a LONG time now without changing the chicken. Idk how. Years.
Start of game:
Let's go explore the caves :)
End of game:
*K I L L G O D*
Sounds like the basic plot of every Final Fantasy game ever.
Sounds like the plot of every Persona/Shin Megami Tensei game ever.
Sekiro, the good hunter, the chosen undead, the unkindled, the slayer of demons, the tarnished: *all lean to pat the shoulder of the hollow knight * You will get used to it buddy.....
Terraria be like
Kirby
0:16 is without a doubt the best snippet of the song. The rising chords, the booming voices, it perfectly encapsulates the Knight's situation. He's fighting the godly nemesis of the Pale King with the goal of destroying her, but she's not going down without a fight.
That part is good but my favorite is 1:06 it gives me shivers
@@Kryterior For me it happens when the brass comes in near the beginning playing the Hollow Knight theme
Not only is The Radiance the enemy of the Pale King and his family, but she has a far more ancient enemy in the form of the Void itself that the Vessels were created from. It's made a little more obvious in Godhome, where beating the Pure Vessel in the fourth Pantheon results in a cutscene that features the Radiance's light and fumes from the Void clashing around the Vessels, Ghost and Hollow included. It's also the Void that the Radiance is actually talking to when she's Dream Nailed.
1:30 is my favourite as when i fight her it always hits right when the climb phase starts. Really makes you feel like this is the final stretch and you only need one more hit to end this for good.
Doesn't 0:16 share the Hollow Knight menu theme leitmotif with a bunch of other HK OSTs?
*…ANCIENT ENEMY…*
*…I DO NOT FEAR YOU…*
*…LET ME BE FREE…*
*…I WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN…*
*…DAWN WILL BREAK…*
*…THE LIGHT CANNOT BE CONSUMED…*
Dreamnail .. I see
KILL THE EMPTY ONE
No mind, the usurper. Only strength...
"Void given Focus"
How tf did you dream nail the absolute radiance
@@evilesteye probably with dream wielder which makes the dream nail faster.
For Myla... For my siblings..
and all of Hallownest.
*Thinks of Myla* "You took... EVERYTHING from me."
Radiance: "I don't even know who you are"
"You will."
For Quirrel, for Tiso, for Leg Eater, for Myla, for Elderbug, for Cloth, and FOR THE HONOR OF HALLOWNEST 🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲
for Myla specifically
Just Myla
I’m just imagining the radiance meeting the empress of light and them just being op.
S W O R D S N L A S E R S
Before I knew what the Radiance looked like I thought of something like the Empress of Light
A BEAUTIFUL BULLET HELL
Imagine slapping a butterfly during the day and the sun grows wings
And since the radiance is literally the sun it's becomes daytime empress o_o
1:52 I once reached the last phase right when this segment played, and dealt the final hit just before the final note.
Best feeling ever, especially climbing up to the last hit with the most triumphant and climactic part of the song in the background…
Omg legendary timing
@@SpindleTheSpider I know! Beating her feels great enough, but dealing the final hit with that timing? Felt amazing :D
That was awesome. I also somehow got a similar timing. And as I was making the climb I see the shades in the background rising with me and my god it was magical
EXACTLY
Now do it in p5 lol
I always play this battle with max screen brightness. You cannot even see the homing missiles but the contrast between the light of the Radiance and the pitch black of the Void is awesome.
*subtle oled flex™* moment
I'm gonna start playing this every time I see a moth fly into my house
Yes place the curse on everyone you see. I already done it to my friends and my mum
@@SpindleTheSpider "The moth is shooting lazers!"
Even Light can't escape black holes.
Light cannot exist without darkness, but darkness truly can.
Try typing "black hole xxx" in your browser for extremely huge black holes
@@Kent_D_Nur wise words
There’s multiple times you hear this theme
One is at the end of the game, when you’re killing the final boss and finally getting rid of the infection that’s plaguing the citizens of Hallownest
The second time you hear this, definitely will not be the *last* time you hear this
If you're implying AbsRad, YES. DEFINITELY NOT THE LAST TIME. man fuck that bossfight.
Absolute Radiance was a walking cheat code. Shit was unreal
@@theminekbolt_1924i did it on my first try some days ago. Almost didnt make it tho
@@def2020 You mean like first try overall or like first try after not playing for a while because the second I can believe lol
@@theminekbolt_1924 first try overall. In fact i did upload it to this accounts channel. Not to spam you with it lol, but i felt proud. I was only making it to pure vessel and nkg before
This snuck its way onto a "chill and relaxing Hollow Knight music" playlist I had on while doing an online exam. Suffice to say I was no longer chilled and relaxed.
XD
GIGGLING
After 5 months I finally beat them. The ending was magical
@@mmmm9208ghgg no way in my life
@@IzzyKDoodles if it took you 5 months for radiance, imma estimate about 1 year for abs rad.
(Better get grindin' lol)
It only took me 2-3 tries.
smol question: how long did NKG take you to beat?
@@mrsuzan533 I haven’t
"It's just a moth dude calm down"
The moth in question:
Am I the only one that hears the vocals saying "Moth"?
You’re not the only one
I dont hear it
@@kluocduoc9835 Listen to it long enough and you might
holly shit you're right
I didn't. Before. Damn it...
A theme with true "could slay a God to this" energy
I mean, that *IS* what you are doing in this boss fight.
@@haruki_nyan slaying the f*cking sun
@@destructchronos3125fucking*
1:41
If you don't reached an Eargasm with this in game you're made of stone
Embrace the darkness, fear the light.
Then radiance summons that darn light beam that goes from one side of the arena to the other. Panik
@Data Yeah got used to it quickly. The beam is kinda wide so dodging is just about timing.
The worst this is when AbsRad does a combined attack with the beam and anything else. So annoying cuz that hits you like 90 percent of the time
Face the fear. Build the future.
@@reatard.8222 just use descending dark, that shit gives you invincibility frames for as long as the universe lives.
@@reatard.8222 descending dark
1:54 I love the rhythm on this part, really feels like the end of a journey
Especially when it plays on the ascent
Music that plays when the Hollow Knight soundtrack gets taken down
Btw you're a godsend
I m arham
@@ahmadbutt1741 and?
didnt the composer of the hk soundtrack upload the hk soundtrack himself? o.o (his name is christopher larkin btw)
@@jaydentt Larkin only uploaded the DLC soundtrack.
@@julinekk9206 oh ok
_Knight withdraws his nail at the sun._
The Sun: *_U W0T M8?!_*
Read this in Bri'ish!
*turns into Shade Lord*
Yes. I wot.
THE PALE KING WAS REALLY QUIET SINCE THIS DROPPED 🔥🔥🔥
FR BRO 🔥🔥🔥
WE GETTIN OUT OF THE WHITE PALACE WITH THIS ONE🔥🔥🔥
WE BEATING THE PATH OF PAIN WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥
Can’t die to the radiance if you don’t get hit. *It’s big brain time*
Actual genius
Can't die to Radiance if you have Kingsoul
Cant die to the radiance if you dont play hollow knight
@@Shawblade That's... that's not possible
@@softlysnowing3959 exactly, so I can't die to the radiance
Hollow Knight is probably one of the only games where you can 1v1 the sun and win
In Everhood you can fight the sun and the track that plays is hype
@@Dabajaws everhood mentioned 🔥
“I punched the f**king sun.”
“AND WON”
Okay so my comment on the old one was simply erased from existance
But before playing Hollow Knight this theme really reminded me of what "Shadow Showdown" From Drawn To Life: The Next Chapter felt like.
In retrospect it kinda pails in comparison to Christopher Larkin, but overall for a 2009 DS game it was pretty damn solid and had a good feeling to it, something similar to the radiance boss fight, just.. for kids with a DS in 2009 playing a drawing gimmick game that had more plot than it probably had any right to have.
Definitely didn’t expect to see a comment about drawn to life here lol. The next chapter is one of my favorite childhood games and the music is still amazing to this day
That game also had a shockingly sad ending so the comparison actually makes some sense
Gonna listen to this during the eclipse tomorrow
Me after beating traitor lord for the first time: "phew i hope there isn't another boss that deals 2 damage"
The radience:
@henriquebarbosa7841 ohhhh nooo
Whyyyy
Wait till absolute radiance 😭😭
The radiance:you cannot stop my light
The knight setting up solar panels
As the Hollow Knight peeled open The Radiance's facial orifice, there was only one thing I wanted to say, and only one thing I had to.
"Failed Champion was harder".
The maggot upon hearing that he was the strongest cries tears of joy
Your wrong
RADIANT WASAOSKI TIME BI-
Nightmare King was harder
traitor lord was harder too
This song really makes you feel like you're a tiny little gnat 1v1ing the fucking sun and it is glorious
1:06 my favourite part
Mah man☀☀🤝🏼🤝🏼💀💀
Same!!
Ye
This was also my favourite part
Same
I'm imagining a scenario of the battle here.
At 0:00 , the Radiance teleports into frame.
AT 0:20 , the Radiance gets a hit at the Knight.
At 0:40 , the fight gets more intense, with the Knight getting more close calls.
At 0:52 , the Radiance just barely misses the Knight.
At 1:06 , the Void starts rising up and the Radiance rapidly sends swords down.
At 1:30 , the Radiance is sent into a stagger.
At 1:40 , the Radiance shoots up higher and the platforms appear.
At 1:50, the Knight starts climbing and the Shades of its siblings follow.
At 2:00 , the Knight breaks its shell and turns into a void abomination.
At 2:02 , the Hollow Knight comes up as a shade and opens Radiance's eye-hole thing.
At 2:16 , the Radiance sends her last spur of Essence.
1:30 feels like the last stretch of a journey, like everything youve done, every friend youve made, every enemy youve overcome, everything youve done, has all lead to this moment. its incredible.
Especially when it plays during the final climb
the knight has no friends. but yeah.
1:41 best part
Agreed
My favorite is first ten seconds but that part is definitely good but I can say that the hole song really.
@@charsage1036 To be honest with you, it’s the same for me
The whole song is fucking epic but that part is just even more epic... Just wow!
@@davidnc9 If you realize about that part, it always ends so dramatically, and then you get the perfect loop
My favourite part about absrad is that for the final phase the music stops and it is just really fucking tense like you are at the end of p5 and you are just praying you don't fuck up because if you do it's another half hour of bosses between you and another chance, and dealing the final hit is just the most relieving feeling you can ever feel, just like, idk go beat it and feel it yourself.
I like how in almost all of my radiance fights i always enter in the third phase (where you are climbing up and these other vessel shades ascend with you) EXACTLY when this part 1:30 is playing
It is honestly an amazing timing
1:05 For some reason whenever I fight the radiance this part almost always syncs up with the final climb, and it makes things so much more climactic
1 TRILLION NONBINARY PEOPLE VS THE SUN
I mean, 1 trillion is a big number
1:42
This just makes me cry because of how amazing it sounds
You sure it isn't because of the laser phase killing you in absolute radiance level?
Me and my friends like to joke around about inserting a random ass character to replace the Radiance.
So um...picture this.
You just go into the dream world via the Sealed Vessel's head, and so on.
So like, the Radiance appears and then a huge flash, and the Radiance explodes into a thousand essence (I know, crazy right?)
And the screen turns white
Suddenly you hear *"Who sent all these babies to fight?!"*
Dead ass the boss caption reads *"Heavy Weapons guy Team Fortress 2"*
And then the music starts 0:00
And its literally just an A-posing heavy
Why did ghat make me laugh
That's great 🤣
Now that’s a pretty meme. Exquisite!
@@mandon7661 It spared you the burden of how dumb you are when you enjoyed it
Imagining isn't enough, I rly gotta see it to feel whole
WE GETTING OUTTA THE ABYSS WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️
I’ve always felt like this theme tells a story, with different parts representing the different phases of the fight
0:01: first phase begins
0:20: spikes cover one half of the arena, signalling the start of the spike floor phase
0:37: the radiance screeches and the sword rain phase begins
0:46 the stagger
0:58: the platform phase begins
1:30: start of the climb phase
1:52: the knight is nearing the top
2:06 the final hit
Just got an add (on a different video) that started with the word “RADIANCE” showing up on screen in all caps (with some fashionable person in the background and followed by the word “ALLURE” showing up a few seconds after, but whatever), and this was what I immediately thought of, lol
1:05 this part and everything past it is peak hollow knight OST
Princess Luna: My job is as important as yours, sister. I'd like to get a little more credit for that.
Princess Celestia:
It's catharsis in musical form and man does it go hard after this entier journey, especially if you went for the Dream No More Ending.
no one:
the song that plays when you die:
This track is glorious. Those brilliant sharp sound are so damn Radiant
RADIANCE REFRENCE????????????😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
@@apieceofcheese8870 yep
someone noticed : D
The sun is a deadly laser
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Yup I am definitely NOT the first one to make that joke
Not any more there's a Vessel.
Lololol I love how you intwined that with hollow knight
This track is truly brilliant. Plus I love the part at 0:12 where it basically spells out “yes, you are climbing the stares to heaven to fight god.” Truly Magnificent
Light side in Star Wars:
Light side in Hollow Knight:
I've heard this song a million times, and it's amazing how it never loses its glory and always brings a feeling of something superior, I like to think of this song when I face a problem. let's go my brothers!
Who would win: an entire kingdom founded by a literal god:
One single moth
Who would win: an extremely powerful moth god of light who can shoot laser beams and ruin a whole kingdom
or
one smol void boi with a nail
you can also go
Who would win: a god of gods, capable of ripping apart an OP god of light in mere seconds and consuming the whole kingdom
or
flower
The beginning, with The Radiance slowly revealing herself, is one of the best scenes in the entire game.
The best final boss theme ever
When you tryna seal the infection, but the infection hits you with that
“ANCIENT ENEMY”
“I DO NOT FEAR YOU”
This sounds like a dark souls boss theme.
Wait...
Kill the sun
Basically
my favorite part is when the darkness rises up to strangle literal god to death. so cool. 1:06
Oh my god i just realised the Radiance is the one Moth that reached the Sun and gained control of its Divine powers
Its crazy that in the radiance pov the radiance isnt bad it just dont want to be forgotten. if it is forgotten its pretty much dies plus this all started because someone dreamed it or something making the radiance return and make sure it doesnt die again
You are hereby forced to play this every time you see a moth, no matter what
Easily one of the most emotional final bosses of all video game history. I got so many chills when your dead siblings’ shades started accompanying the Knight on its way up to deal the final blow to the Radiance. I thought it looked like they wanted to see if their brief and sad existences had any meaning after all. When I leapt to deal the killing blow, I couldn’t help but think of Marissa, the HK, the Pale Lady, Myla, and all the other countless bugs that had their lives ruined by the Infection. I like to think that, for the first time in its life, the Knight felt something resembling an emotion: duty.
What I see: A harmless fuzzy little moth
What caterpillars living in my yard see:
I remember when I finally beat radiance for the first time, when I entered that climactic final beatdown. I remember saying, "this is for Myla, you MOTHerf…" (yes I made the pun that probably everyone else has made too)
I shall say, THIS IS FOR MAKING MY FATHER PUT THOSE SAWS
@@aaronpasache1847 Yea
We've got a lot of reasons to be mad at the radiance lol
A good one would be, THIS IS FOR GIVING PRIMAL ASPIDS ORANGE JUICE PROJECTILES!
In the game I couldn’t actually hear the music because i was more focused on trying to avoid becoming a pincushion but hearing it by itself is amazing
The session where I finished my first playthrough of Hollow Knight went through sunset and I was so immersed in the game I didn't turn on my lights, so during this fight my room was illuminated only by The Radiance( my monitor). Talk about thematic.
Vs Radiance: oh this is a cool boss ill beat it fast!
Vs ARadiance: *lays on the floor and cries loudly*
No mind to think
No will to break
No voice to screem
Born from a false god and darkness
Made only so you could "lock" me away from what is rightfully mine
You are the "Hollow Knight"
Yet you are not hollow
You think
You have desires
Yes, in that "empty" head of yours you wished to be loved by your father and be proud of you, to have friends, to simply be
But all of that was taken from you since birth
My ancient enemy cursed you and your kind to this pain which you can't express
Everything you have done, all the sacrifice everyone have done to help you with this... was useless
Now you watch this kingdom fall and you can't do nothing about it
It's all your fault, because you dared to think, to love, to feel regret
Regret for not saving your brother, all though you might have spared him this life, with me all that wouldn't have happened you know?
Soon you'll be forgotten and my light will consume them
I know what it is like to be forgotten
First there was only darkness and then I came to be, from my light and dreams the moths were born in my image
I only wanted to be loved and they gave me that love, so I gave them mine
We were united in our dreams
Everything was beautiful, until the wyrm, THE ENEMY
He came in this land, proclaimed him self king and with a fake light draw all insects to him
My moths left me for that false god
Soon I started to feel weak day after day
My light was less and less bright, they were forgetting me
Why did they abandon me?
Why?
Why!?
WHY!?
*WHY!?*
DO YOU UNDERSTAND MY PAIN, SEALED VESSEL? DO YOU? TO BE LEFT AND ABANDONED TO YOUR DESTINY? TO BE FORGOTTEN? WELL I WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN!
IF I CAN'T BE LOVED BY THIS REALM THEN NO ONE WILL! MY LIGHT WILL UNITE EVERYONE'S MIND TO MINE UNTIL IT WILL CONSUME THEM!
THIS SHALL BE MY REVENGE AGAINST THAT CURSED WORM AND THE ONLY THING STANDING IN MY WAY IS YOU VESSEL!
FREE ME!
FREE ME!
*FREE ME!*
FREE ME AND LET THERE BE *MY* LIGHT!
The knight be like -
Ok😐
*Starts to violently transform into shade lord*
Whatever you say puny god
I just had a thought. This theme starts with a bit that's frequently associated with the Vessels.
Could it be that this theme isn't just the Radiance's? The part at 0:11 could be the knight being a silent menace, then at the part starting at around 0:20, the Radiance screams back with a litany of hatred and defiance.
After that, the theme turns into a confrontation between two opposing forces.
...meh, I'm just pulling stuff out of nowhere, but I'd kind of like Davi Vasc to analyze this one. Maybe he could come up with something interesting.
Then have I got news for you!
It sounds so evil but holy at the same time
Radiance is an evil god
"HEY GOD" un sheathes nail "IT'S TIME FOR NEW MANAGEMENT"
“What are we gonna fight the sun?”
-Famous Last Words
As absolute light shines bright, all those taking shelter have only shadow cast upon them, a shadow not born from the shelter itself, but born from absence of The Radiance.
This is my favorite piece of music
You know it's over when the boss has "The" in their name
what am i gonna fight the sun?
yes. you are going to fight the sun.
1:58 could listen to it all day
Ah yes, the final boss jump from a fight where the boss tries to kill itself while tries to kill you at the same time (I know the lore about HK and I know it's much more than that) to fighting the fricking sun
Oh I absolutely love this
Especially without the screams of agony after a death in Pantheon 5
*I WILL FIGHT THE SUN !*
-Papyrus
Me in intelectual :
This theme really makes your heart go past the bpm rate on p5, when you reach abs rad
"I'm gonna die"
Transition between Phase 1 and 2
"Oh that is the worst part. I'm gonna die."
"I'm gonna die"
"I'm gonna die"
"How am I not dead yet"
Climb phase
"Watch me die on the last platform"
"Hold up... this might be it"
"PLEASE DON'T DIE NOW"
dies
"called it."
I was so thrown off when at the last phase the Absolute Radiance did not die in one hit like the regular one tbh
My heart rate completely spiked when I came to the realization that I was already at Radiance lol
Ghost
VS
*THE UNMATCHED POWER OF THE SUN*
The balls of steel needed to go 'ya, I can fight the sun'
BRO IM FIGHTING THIS SHIT WITH MAX BRIGHTNESS