Now we know that the real reason Hallownest collapsed was because the Pale King embezzled all their tax money on giant vertical mazes filled with buzzsaws and spikes.
It would have been funny if there was a thing to read just before the last chamber the Hollow Knight and the Pale King were in that says something to that effect. XD
I finally did it today. FINALLY! There were times that I had to repeat a part again and again to the point I was thinking "Am I an idiot?.....Am I a fool?"
I really like the final battle, just imagining this two guys stay there for years waiting someone to fight, and then see this enraged beast that kill both in less then 10 seconds without even get touched
Late to the party (by a good bit), but it actually happens the same way in the second part of the Hollow Knight fight, the more you damage him, the more instruments join in (it's the same music)
@@OrionoftheStar Yeah, just trap it inside an actual corpse like the White Knight forever. However, that would leave Pale King homeless so that would not be very good
@@ΠαναγιωτηςΣακκας-λ6γ I found this yesterday and completed it expecting some OP charm... I was disappointed, but I'm proud I beat this going in completely blind.
Pale King: “I need extra, EXTRA special security for my dream castle!” Architect: “What did you have in mind your Royal Paleness?” Pale King: “Hmmmm...You know, Mario Maker with a touch of Dark Souls and hints of Ghosts and Goblins!” Architect: “Anything else your Paleness?” Pale King: “Buzzsaws! LOTS AND LOTS OF BUZZSAWS!”
So happy that I just completed this a few minutes ago. Only took me about 3 and half hours to complete(I took a few breaks in between sections.) But, I'm glad I never have to do this again. This was probably the most difficult challenge I have ever done in any videogame, I've played. My God!!!!
I find it so unbearably tragic that the only mistake the Hollow Knight made was letting himself a brief moment of happiness and love for his father, and that such a tiny thing that had been denied to him all his existence was the root of his failure as a vessel. Alexa play despacito
Actually, i think it was the moment the Knight reaches that platform in the Abyss and the Hollow Knight actually looks back at him before walking away and the Knight falls
@@Xgendude14 It could be a spark for emotion. But the real secret is the end of Path of Pain, only by the fact that its a SECRET and SEALED, so that moment of happiness really was the vessel's doom.
Fabulous Pyro Also in the Godmaster DLC, the Pure Vessel has uncut Dream Nail dialogue. In that dialogue, he’s reciting to himself what the Pale King says during the Abyss memory. He’s trying to believe that despite the flaw he has, he can succeed in stopping Hallownest’s plague. He wants to meet his father’s expectations and be the kingdom’s savior. He even managed to keep the Radiance at bay for a time before the seal started to falter.
I interpreted it more as a pure vessel being impossible, as Hollow Knight had a moment of sympathy before he even left the Abyss. That's why the best endings aren't containing the Radiance but killing it.
@@jproductions1739 i would hardly call being taken over by an void entity as the best ending if. we don't give godseeker the delicate flower to stop it from going into the real world
@@carterdelaney4648 effectively, yes. the hollow knight was a 'failure' because it was not truly hollow - it had an idea instilled. this idea was it developing a bond with the pale king, thus making it no longer hollow, and unable to properly contain the radiance :(
@@dannadeleon7787 yeah, took me a while on my first run, but now it was just a couple of minutes. But I really hate that last zone, why do I have to wait for a saw or spears to just keep moving
It is like parkour from the depths of hell and it should be burning in hell with Satan but it is worse like a ultra extreme nightmare hellscape edition of the white palace and I am serious about it.
You know what is really painful??? The moment you get Through this sh*t after you took 2h of you life for this and THEN DIE BECAUSE OF THOSE 2 GUARDIANS AND NEED TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN!!! AHHHH IM SO ANGRY RIGHT NOW >.
Some servant bug: There you go, sir! Your palace is all done! Magnificent, isn't it? Pale King: Yes, yes, not bad.. but you know what's missing? Servant: Err no? Pale King: Buzzsaws. Servant: ... Oh, like, a buzzsaw at the entrance in case an intruder comes in? Pale King: No, I want them all over the palace. On the walls. On the ceilings. On the floors. Heck, put them in the sky if you can. Servant: B-but WHY, sir!? Pale King: BECAUSE I WANT SOME ALONE TIME! Servant: But you're the king! You can't just hide away from us and your subjects! Pale King: I do what I want. Now GET ME MY BUZZSAWS! And while you're at it, install some retracting spears and plant those spiky vines all around. A little while later... Pale King: Welp, I've gone deaf from the constant buzzing, but at least I'm finally alone...
It's crazy how the best kept secret in this game, guarded by this nearly unpassable gauntlet, and probably the sole Cause of the events of the game is "A Father loved his child, and his child loved him"
It's so good. A three second cutscene without words, and yet with context it shifts the perspective on the king and the knight and just explains so much.
I was always scared of the fight at the end but when I learnt that the desolate dive(I forgot what the upgraded version is called) had invincibility....
I died when I first ran into the royal retainers at the end but at that point I had died so many times I got back to the retainers in under 6 minutes only taking 1 hit.
@@jakeextreme4108 It is significantly harder. I did white palace in like 1hour maybe 1h20mins max. for path of pain the first set of platforms alone took me like 45 mins to geet through.
@Wriok Müller the path of pain is twice as hard as the normal route. For comparison, it took me 12 minutes to do the white palace normal, and it took 8 hours to do path of pain
if ypu have the stag station it isnt that bad and with sharp shadow that boss is a joke and to trivialize it even more you have an npc that can help you
I haven't done path of pain yet but completed white palace. And i gotta say white palace was so much easier than this platforms with thorns in Queen's Garden. I mean at least platforms in White palace are solid and don't collapse every time you step on them
My ten year old son just completed the path of pain! I'm so proud he stuck with it. Your video really helped to get past certain rough spots. He's a fan of your content and aspires to your level one day.
Be careful what you wish for. I thought the white palace was pretty easy (except for that retracting spike hallway) it took me like 20 minutes. I wanted it to be a "little" harder but i didnt want this monstrosity
I literally got to the last segment of PoP and was stuck at that point for a solid hour. Ragequitted and only found out how close I was to the end kater.
@@fabiolaperez8897 been there done that... all the game was quite "normal" sometimes easy.. but path of pain boy oh boy... I quitted the game like 3 times because of that S***
I have to thank you for just saying you aren't the best instead of complaining that it's too difficult and should be toned down. Not very many people do that. Hats off to you.
It also taked me 2h to pass normal white palace, and i used grub song with the crystal charm that heals double (so i had almost infinite heals) and i swear i taked so long to finish it that i almost run out of soul, i would only rage to the POP so i guess i'll leave it for the good players
Meh, I think I'll get my ass wrecked by Nightmare King instead. Moving through all-spiky corridor (while avoiding all the saws) just using downslashes? Ultimate no-go for me. Big bow to those who can.
StormT G When I bought the game I didnt expect platforming in that magnitude at some point. Its actually a pretty interesting cutscene at the end and Im salty that only people, who are good at platforming get to see it, in a game that never put its main emphasis on platforming (until someone had the idea of the white palace). Im not a platformer. I tried anyway. I managed to get to the gate, that you can open, but after that I was just too tired to get any further. I would have to invest way too much time and patience to ever get to the end and that means I never would have gotten that cutscene without youtube. (Before someone asks: Yes lore in games like this one is just that important for me) *Sigh* Well I guess it wouldnt hurt to try another time later maybe. I mean I atleast could skip the middle part. Now I kinda want to finish what I started.
The Pale King obviously cared about the Hollow Knight. He has multiple statues of them in the Castle. And installed one in the City Fountain too! No one knows about the Hollow Knight, he could've just built only the Dreamers' statues, but he made HK the main focus on the fountain.
Well yea The pop cutscene proves it He had to watch the others die, no wonder he ended up feeling affection for it since hk was the only child i could have kept
Fun fact:- if you dream nail dung defender he says "so there were others..." meaning dung defender knew about hollow knight but didn't knew there were more
"Welcome to the Salty Spitoon, how tough are ya?" "How tough am I?" "I beat the Path of Pain..." "Yeah so?" "Without taking any damage!" "Oh, uhh... Right this way GOD"
"Difficult" doesn't even begin to describe the level of fuckery you gotta master to get though this nonsense. Jumping off moving bladesaws, every ledge or wall off screen, and mini bosses at the end of it all. At least the other part of the White Palace was just jumping and dashing...
The fact that Path of Pain has half of the Sealed Vessel’s soundtrack shows how much the “To be a vessel one must endure all kinds of hardships” means. If the way to last half of Kingsoul is hard because of Pale’s king own paranoid, imagine what pain must Sealed Vessel had to endure
Me, before watching this video: "I think I'll try the Path of Pain. Let me watch this video to get a feel for what it will be like." Me, after watching this video: "... No. I don't think I will."
My EXACT sentiment. Took me 2 hours to finish the white palace, with rage breaks in between. Figured I'd watch the video for path of pain first. That's a hard no.
I made it about half way (to about 1:49) and I thought I was getting the hang of it. But that second part is just unbearable. The "checkpoints" (basically any time the knight touches solid ground) are non-existent. So you are just juggling in between saws and thorns and have zero room for error while also need to maintain speed before the saws catch up to you. I gave it a fair shot but I think its fair to say this aint it for me. I did PoH, but this..... this broke me.
I started playing a week ago and just finished the white palace, i already knew about path of pain but came here to check how the whole thing is and after seeing that section at 3:00 i just said nope lol, i know i could probably do it after trying it for a few hours but there's no benefit or a real reward so what's the point of going through so much pain haha.
Rotcrawler I got up at 2 this morning and usually get up at 4... but that tasty, tasty overtime is going to help me, college move-in is in 11 days and I need all the money I can get haha
This... this is insane. I've never seen this kind of skill. Makes your (very offensive) hitless Nightmare King Grimm look like a small accomplisment. Congratulations!
Count Artorias you must have had his attacks down pat man lol, I almost beat him hitless after a bunch of tries lol. It's weird that the one attack you got hit by is his easiest one to dodge. I agree that this is by far the hardest thing in the game though, i don't have the patience for this shit.
Yeah you're right, Dark Souls has made me develop patience for boss fights; not gonna lie, the grimm fight looked impossible at the beginning, but with repeated deaths and figuring out the best ways to consistently dodge each ability while also landing a hit, I was able to beat him (God the fight in which I beat him was super intense) That being said, I do NOT have patience for platforming like this, the fight they throw at you in the end is just stabbing you in the heart.
Count Artorias me too, I think anyone who has beat Nightmare King Grimm has either played Dark Souls or should play it immediately. My brother watched me play it and was like "I just woulda gave up" and i said "Dark Souls has taught me one rule... everything dies" lol. Yah I was blown away by how insanely hard it was, no other boss gave me any trouble except for him, difficulty went from a 3 to an 11 when I got to him lol. I agree as well that the amount of patience it would take to do this trial is beyond me, especially cuz i had already seen that you get jack shit. I'm playing through dark souls 1 right now, its the only souls game i hadn't played cuz i was waiting for the remaster, i started with bloodborne and went backwards lol, bloodborne made me fall in love with the series. The remaster is trash but i don't care cuz i have been waiting for to long to play it lol. I just fought ornstein and smough last night, I was apprehensive but I stomped them first try, it was fortunate I played bloodborne first cuz it has the hardest bosses in the series for sure so every other game has been pretty easy compared to that lol. Plus it taught me HOW to play a souls game, which is very helpful, dark souls definitely is about patience.
my mom walked in while i was watching this and she just said with this utter amazement in her voice "jesus that's so fast is that sped up??? you don't play it that fast" and i was like no mom that's like the hardest level in the entire game i don't even want to enter it
@@CatShapedDonut no this took me 8 hours to do normally which while stupid it's nothing for a speed runner like him. What's great is it's so hard that you basically master the first half of the area by the time you did it at all
@@arturjaroszewicz8424 Unlikely since he made a few minor screw ups like failing to get enough height on the double jump before hitting the vertical saw blade or bouncing twice on a few of the saws to presumably mentally catch up.
I mean that's kinda logical. I looked at the video to see how much was left. I still have three sections to do. But hey, I almost reached the second to last section several times and that one looks very easy. The last section is gonna be lethal. Oh, and I made the mistake of using Mantis claw and long nail. They are so many spots where you can bounce to high...
I actually had trouble with this part 2:55, took me an hour or 2 just for this I literally had to cheat by screenshoting it before dying there, pasting it on paint and estimate my jumps because I can't see far right without looking at the knight, shame. never coming back. @@legrandliseurtri7495 how's your adventure on PoP?
@@invigale Oh, I did it the day after I wrote this comment. Currently I'm stuck in the third pantheon. First, God tamer destroyed me like ten times, I don't understand why. Now, it's grey fucking prince zote.
Yeah, I was like "okay, this seems doable" (for the record I'm at the second statue on the way to the switch) when I saw that, I was like "I'm sorry, WHAT!?"
I really love the fresh new lore and content we get from this, adding to the Hollow Knight's dialogue "Father?" it's really heart-warming to see that the King and the Hollow Knight bonded as father and son, but it's also twice as depressing knowing that their relationship was the reason for the kingdom's downfall and utter desolation ;n;
Just finished a blind run for Path of Pain, after dying 400 times on the process. If anything in the gaming would qualify for an achievement, this should DEFINITELY have one to crown the amount of insanity, suffering and patience you must endure to complete it.
Play Celeste. It's a beautiful game. Then play chapter 9 of it. I 100% promise you it will be the most difficult thing youve ever done and it'll be very rewarding.
I would like to thank you for saving me a lot of heart ache. I've made it maybe a third or a quarter of the way through and thought I was doing pretty good. Then watched your video to see what comes next. Not only did I watch with my jaw almost unhinged the entire time, but I realized I will never finish this, lol. Again, thank you... and wow...
I made the first half, where you activate the switch. I also almost finished the first third of the second half multiple times. The second third looks quite easy, I don't worry about that. But the last third... This looks like big trouble. I don't know if I can do that:(
@@legrandliseurtri7495 It took me a RIDICULOUS number of tries but I eventually got it done, despite my despair at having watched this video. Stick with it; you can do it!!!
@@SirWiggy12 I did it!!! The last section, as expected, took me so freaking long. When I finally did the final jumps, I had such a mastery of the rest that I could have probably done it blind. Is this how speedrunners feel like?
It's funny because that 5 second scene at the end of the path of pain confirms part of the lore in the game that was previously unconfirmed and just theorized.
SuperShyerGuy Alright here we go for a lengthy explanation. SPOILERS AHEAD: The part that was previously unconfirmed but theorized was the reason that the first hollow knight failed to fully contain the radiance (infection). The Vessels were supposed to have no personality or feelings that the radiance could possibly take over, therefore making them the perfect containment unit for it. However this scene at the end of the path of pain shows that there might have been some sort of father-son relationship between the original hollow knight and the pale king. With these feelings implemented, the radiance could take hold of the feelings of the original hollow knight and escape from its confines.
I just died at the last fight because I wasn't prepared at all and now I have to do this ALL OVER AGAIN. Hell no... I want to die. PS: I finally did it. I couldn't feel happier.
Super meat boy : hahah buzzsaws Hollow knight : Gimme that Super meat boy : but its mine. Hollow knight : *Slap* Hollow knight : *Takes Buzzsaws* Hollow knight : Not anymore.
Have you ever battled Little Horn in super meat boy? that shit was the most difficult thing ive ever atempted not because it was difficult but because it complete bullshit. this can be classified as the same thing
@@VoodooCrow99 I don't think the path of pain is bullshit, it really is never unfair. But I think you're right in that I wouldn't call it more difficult than the hardest super meat boy or Mario maker levels.
I've played smb and the end is nigh. Hopefully my skills will pay off and this one will be easy for me to beat. Not the first try, but it shouldn't be so hard.
The first time I found the path of pain I attempted it for at least four hours nonstop before giving up entirely. Came to this video about a year ago and realized I was so close. Still haven't touched it though I'm not reliving the trauma
@rafa, because God, capital g, is the Creator of all, and nothing and no one compares to him. He is unique and stands alone in power, morality, holiness, invincible, eternal, almighty, perfection, etc. A god, or gods, lower case g, are also angels. These are creations from God. Hence, why God is known as the God of gods, the Lord of lords, the King of kings, the Host of hosts, etc. The gods can also refer to the kids of the gods, or the bad gods, fallen angels, etc. Those kids are referred to as nephilim, titans, monsters, giants, etc. A god can also be misconstrued as mighty warriors or beings who are strong or very strong, or people who do amazing things, just like the game Hollow Knight does or the gamers who play them. But as you can see, those bugs and people are still mortal, not invincible, bleeds, and can be killed. So much for them being "gods" lol.
For several days now I have been trying to go through the last stage of the path of pain. The whole problem is that the last saw goes out of sync. All other stages are completed in 6 minutes, but not the pre-final. During this time, I seemed to have lost parts of myself for the sake of completing the path. Perhaps this is so difficult for me, because I have never played platformers or games that require extreme reaction. It will be over tomorrow _No mind to think_ _No will to break_ _No voice to cry suffering_ _No cost too great_
It's great that the OP pogos on the last ground saw just once, I had to do two hits to get enough to the thorns to get the under-over jump right. OTOH for the very last jump I didn't need to hit the lower of the two saws to squeeze through so that was a blessing.
The music and everything is simply beautiful. Had to read the comments to pick up on that it was just to get a bit of bonus story which made it even better. I feel like more games need some kind of super challenging thing like this that only the more dedicated players will do just to unlock some subtle bits of story like this part here.
*First thoughts* I was expecting some big reveal of the biggest secret in hollow knight after all these pain and suffering, instead I see the king and the knight enjoying the freaking scenery and looking at each other for a split second as if someone farted. *Second thoughts* Okay... in all honesty I'm actually mildly interested in what was happening here. The way the two looked at each other, I'm getting a bunch of father and son vibes or something. Is the King and the Knight bonding here? Is the Hollow Knight really not that hollow after all? Was the King showing him how to be a ruler? That's all I'm getting at here so far.
I think the entire POP was a test created to prove that the vessel is the rightful being to seal the radiance away, and this shows that your vessel is just as good as the actual hollow knight. My only questions now are the relationship with the dreamers, as well as the fight to seal away the radiance.
I think its meant to imply why the Hollow knight vessel failed to contain the radiance. The hollow knight was supposed to be entirely hollow and devoid of any personality or emotion so he couldn't be infected. The father/son vibes you got are exactly what it means. The king probably felt attached to his creation and started to feel for it, eventually making the Hollow knight start having feelings as well. Because of this, it probably failed to contain the radiance and the events of the game take place. Considering how much of an asshole he was, the king probably ran after realizing the fuckup he just did and ashamed of himself, hid the memory of his acts as far as he could, which is probably why the path of pain is fucking impossible for anyone who isn't good at platformers.
nate wardle Clearly, the White Palace is just full of memories, that was just a memory of the king, not actually him. This new area proves that the king is still alive somewhere in the world.
Well you are a speedruner. . . all right. Impressive. I sat like 2 hours on the last room and couldnt do it. I´ll be getting some sleep and try again tomorrow. Good to know that this really is the last room. Thank you for the encouragement.
Hiveblood helps immensely for those of us who aren't platforming gods like OP. Infinite tries instead of needing to start from the beginning if you die. That plus grubsong, then fill the rest of the slots with stuff to help you fight the two knights at the end... I almost died to those assholes, wasn't ready at all XD
I beat all of super meat boy dark world and did all of kaizo after a long while as well as beat celeste, n++, stealth inc., and have an unhealthy amount of time on geometry dash and I still suck at platformers
@@bender5860 ask me if your searching for a noob in platformer. Hollow Knight was my first one and my god did I sufferd at that bullshit in grennpath. If I ever get to this my live will just end.
Maybe the Hollow Knight that we fight wasn`t actually "hollow" because the king developed a fatherly attachment to the chosen vessel and vice versa.They way they looked at each-other was kind of suspicious.
I believe the King tested the vessels by injecting them with his soul. I don't think emotions have anything to do with this, but I still need to finish this to see the text in the Hunter's Journal. :)
If you really want an honest answer not joke here it come. This scene reveal yet another secret of Hollow Knight. The king is not a heartless monster after all and the vessels despite being designed to be hollow, they're still a living being and thus something inside them still exist no matter how hollow they are. This explain that deep down the king cares about the vessels and acknowledge them as somebody not just tools. Sadly there is no other way to save his kingdom at that time and he need to make hard choice. The image of chosen vessel that would eventually become the boss "Sealed Vassel" and the king sharing a glimpse of warmness toward each other explain it all. It's a bond similar to father/son which is acceptable consider that part of the king himself created these vessels thus making him their spiritual father. That's how tragic it is, a father forced to endlessly experiment and discard countless of his own sons/daughters to save his kingdom that eventually failed anyway.
Pale king: you're not gonna defect on me just because i told you i love you right my son? Hk: pffft. No way dad *unknown time later Hk: DAD I DON'T WANT TO BE IN THIS PLACE ANYMORE! TAKE ME BACK HOME I DON'T WANT TO BE THE VESSEL *infection takes over hallownest Pale king:...*deep breath... fuck
I died at the kkingsmoulds EDIT: I actually managed to beat it after 5 pain staking attempts, my advice is take a break whenever you're frustrated, and take the kingsmoulds slow. Another thing is, once you've beaten the part where you press the lever, you don't have to do it again. Good luck to anyone attempting this! Pantheon of Hallownest, you're next!
![Hollow Knight: The Grimm Troupe - 2 New Bosses [No Damage]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/qXe9HIUY93c/mqdefault.jpg)
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yes
you are a god bruh
Yeeeee
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@@AyseOzturk-kj1gj wot
When you beat the path of pain without any pain:
*Path*
Lol!
Path of
Path of G A I N S
Lmao
@@MasterIsabelle i think you left your comment unfinished
Now we know that the real reason Hallownest collapsed was because the Pale King embezzled all their tax money on giant vertical mazes filled with buzzsaws and spikes.
Tell me more
the pale king died in a buzzsaw accident.
You forgot to mention the Hollow Knight statues that give you infinite soul
They're not infinite lmao
@@cymbient2972 I meant that no matter how many times you hit them they never stop giving you soul
When you beat the pain path before the soundtrack can repeat...
Like seriously how?
Absolute player
Heck fire is so good that the first play through in sliksong is a speed run
@@glitch6436 dayum
Bruh
I don’t even want to imagine what kind of nightmare they’re going to create when Silksong comes out
When silksong comes out...
@@bokkan4131 Path of Longing
Path of agony
Path of suffering
Path of Pain of Pain
“We’re leaving in 4 minutes”
“Ok”
*does path of pain*
Nick Springer 😂
lol
Nick Springer just imagine if anyone’s house was like the path of pain-HOLY
Pastel Spectrum
Pale king: actually...
Agath Mayers pale king NOT white king
Higher being, these words are for you: holy shit
Best comment in existence
Lmao
It would have been funny if there was a thing to read just before the last chamber the Hollow Knight and the Pale King were in that says something to that effect. XD
made my day
Mehh, doesn't sound the same without the "alone" after "you"
"Maybe I should watch a video just to get an idea of what I'm supposed to do here"
"THEY WANT ME TO DO *WHAT* "
Same
This kinda reminds me of megaman zero 3 and some touhou bosses
I finally did it today. FINALLY! There were times that I had to repeat a part again and again to the point I was thinking "Am I an idiot?.....Am I a fool?"
The path of pain's basically super meat boy on cocaine after doing the 401k
@@EmmanQuinones5234 yes, we are.
This guy doesn’t time his jumps according to the obstacles, the obstacles time their attacks according to his jumps.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic WHO?
Who's here doing the path of pain and impatiently waiting for the hiveblood to recharge?
hiveblood worth nothing. deepfocus+grubsong+grubfly elegy = infinite health replenish
That's why I don't take it with me.
There's checkpoint soul statues though I don't see why you would need it.
I beat it with hiveblood.
If you do it right after normal White Palace, Kingsoul is a no brainer. Grubsong or Deep Focus if you die to fast and let's go. :P
I really like the final battle, just imagining this two guys stay there for years waiting someone to fight, and then see this enraged beast that kill both in less then 10 seconds without even get touched
The real final battle It should be VS The Real Hollow Knight
@@captainblue5096 play path of pure vessel
@@ellgulag4174 Then I would cry
@@pedroivog.s.6870 Pure Vessel after PoP would be a crime against humanity, I'd cry with you
I mean what did they expect to come through that madness?
This is how my parents got to school
The only comment that make me laugh =)) because my parent always tell me about how hard is the way they go to school
All this while they were barefoot
Underrated
Hilarious comment lmfao
@@greybushgames1 up hill both ways
He just made my 5 hours of trauma a 3 minute and 50 seconds a walk in the park.
It took me like 2 hours, and i hated every second of it
@@luispineda it took me 159 minutes in all and i enjoyed it a lot but I was frustrated
Same
It took me 60-70 mins, it isn't that hard
@@jakeextreme4108 it really THAT hard, im playing fourth hour for now and cant make last part
Real talk: the way the music swells and intensifies as you get farther in the path of pain is ABSOLUTELY GORGOUS
Late to the party (by a good bit), but it actually happens the same way in the second part of the Hollow Knight fight, the more you damage him, the more instruments join in (it's the same music)
100% agreed, only slightly marred by how long you will be hearing it... unless you are this guy of course.
I feel like it kinda cheapens the hollow knight fight. They could've used a different track here instead.
@@dbugging404 i kind of like it since this was probably what instilled the idea in the hollow knight that allowed the radiance to seep out
Fuck that song, they should put a whole play list with the amount of time you usually spend there lol
No cost too great.
No mind to think.
No will to break.
No voice to cry suffering.
JUST ENDLESS SPIKES AND BUZZSAWS.
Should have just stored the Radiance in the Path of Pain.
@@OrionoftheStar so true
The vessel should skip the "No voice to cry suffering" in path of pain
@@OrionoftheStar Yeah, just trap it inside an actual corpse like the White Knight forever.
However, that would leave Pale King homeless so that would not be very good
Pale king: no geo left for medication
I’m guessing the Pale King never went downstairs huh
That's why he died cause his obsession became his and his kingdom's undoing.
*BUZZSAWS INTENSIFIES*
@@Spookpath Hallownest*
Spirit Spinner I mean- it was a good idea at the time!!
My king- I don't think this type of architecture would be best for-
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP
MY PALACE
MY CHOICE
@@IdiotPill NO COST TOO GREAT!
"What's is he doing?"
"He's starting to believe."
*Endures the Path of Pain*
Reward: "everything the light touches is our kingdom"
Dude that's what I was thinking too!
Everything the light touches is basically the same as everything that's infected, neat.
How is this comment not on top?
**what light i broke all the lamps**
"And... wait a moment is that emotion I feel!? AWAY WITH YOU!" Pale King to failed vessel #72950
Me: Tries to take it slow and figure out the best strategy to get through the level.
This guy: “Nah, we’re doing this geometry dash style.”
Wtf 😂
You do realise this 4 minutes wasn't his first time doing it? He has probably spent hours determining the perfect strategy
@@abdullahimran4624 hes just joking bro
Abdullah Imran it’s a JOKE
Besides it’s the same for geometry dash
You spend hours perfecting something
Then, once you got it down
*ITS SHOWTIME*
Or super meat boy
Imagine the guy who first discovered this when the game came out
And imagine they didnt know what they were doing here,as far as they would know the end could have had a mask shard or charm.
Pretty sure it was released as part of the Hidden Dreams DLC
@@sir_slimestone3797 It was a part of the grimm troupe dlc it's literally in the title
@@ΠαναγιωτηςΣακκας-λ6γ I found this yesterday and completed it expecting some OP charm...
I was disappointed, but I'm proud I beat this going in completely blind.
@@Topskew if you know the lore then this isn't disappointing at all lol
Pale King: “I need extra, EXTRA special security for my dream castle!”
Architect: “What did you have in mind your Royal Paleness?”
Pale King: “Hmmmm...You know, Mario Maker with a touch of Dark Souls and hints of Ghosts and Goblins!”
Architect: “Anything else your Paleness?”
Pale King: “Buzzsaws! LOTS AND LOTS OF BUZZSAWS!”
"Your Paleness" LMAO
Noice
I tough he played too much super meat boy
Dark Soul and Mario Maker? I present you Kaizo Mario
Don't forget about the THORNS!!!
i just died from those knights at the end... someone... send help... i'm dead inside
its the path of pain indeed. paths usually finish if you go
This just happened to me. And I was considering if I should call it a night. Thanks, game, for making my decision for me. >:(
Oof Rip i feel you bro... I feel you
It’s a lot easier the second time through. There’s also one section you don’t have to do again
So happy that I just completed this a few minutes ago. Only took me about 3 and half hours to complete(I took a few breaks in between sections.) But, I'm glad I never have to do this again. This was probably the most difficult challenge I have ever done in any videogame, I've played. My God!!!!
“NO! YOU CANT SPEND ALL OF OUR GEO ON BUZZSAWS!! YOU’RE GONNA DOOM US ALL!”
*”hehe buzzsaw go bbbbzzzzrrg”*
this is officiall super meat knight now
@@IschmarVI that hits diffent now that the creator of super meat boy made a collab with hollow knight in his card game four souls requiem
N O C O S T T O O G R E AT
I find it so unbearably tragic that the only mistake the Hollow Knight made was letting himself a brief moment of happiness and love for his father, and that such a tiny thing that had been denied to him all his existence was the root of his failure as a vessel.
Alexa play despacito
Actually, i think it was the moment the Knight reaches that platform in the Abyss and the Hollow Knight actually looks back at him before walking away and the Knight falls
@@Xgendude14 It could be a spark for emotion. But the real secret is the end of Path of Pain, only by the fact that its a SECRET and SEALED, so that moment of happiness really was the vessel's doom.
Fabulous Pyro Also in the Godmaster DLC, the Pure Vessel has uncut Dream Nail dialogue. In that dialogue, he’s reciting to himself what the Pale King says during the Abyss memory. He’s trying to believe that despite the flaw he has, he can succeed in stopping Hallownest’s plague. He wants to meet his father’s expectations and be the kingdom’s savior. He even managed to keep the Radiance at bay for a time before the seal started to falter.
I interpreted it more as a pure vessel being impossible, as Hollow Knight had a moment of sympathy before he even left the Abyss. That's why the best endings aren't containing the Radiance but killing it.
@@jproductions1739 i would hardly call being taken over by an void entity as the best ending if. we don't give godseeker the delicate flower to stop it from going into the real world
1:46 here, he realized his mistake: not equipping wayward compass
Best charm fr
Wayward compass becomes useless after you play the game after so much but i have the worst coordination so i keep it on anyways
But the Pale King made one mistake. He loved his creation.
umm... *looks in the Abyss* ... sure.
Yes, his buzzsaws
he really likes buzzsaws isn't he.
The real reason he died is because he tried to fuck a buzzsaw
@@nihilisticpancakeface6553 you made my day sir
those guards at the end killed me two times. you dont know how fustrated i was
Killed me once too since I went in blind; Second time round i slapped a shaman stone in there and blasted them into oblivion
With full soul they are a cakewalk
killed me once, I equiped the twist relic and spammed the black dive. Won with two health left.
Guys strength and quick slash are the best combo in the game
Killed me once. I got so mad I never went to that place again
By how much should we increase the difficulty on this part of the game?
"Yes"
Even though the ending is like 5 seconds it’s so significant to the lore of the game
Is that the reason the infection leaks from the hollow knight?
yep
@@carterdelaney4648
@@carterdelaney4648 effectively, yes. the hollow knight was a 'failure' because it was not truly hollow - it had an idea instilled. this idea was it developing a bond with the pale king, thus making it no longer hollow, and unable to properly contain the radiance :(
@@clericstance Another reason to love Hollow Knight.
Me brain: ok it’s not that bad
My hand: *DONT YOU DARE EVEN THINK*
My joystick was broken so I had to go through the whole of this without having some movements. Pain.
I’m in this part now 2:43, i want kill myself hahaha
@@dannadeleon7787 same, I really hate that i have to wait everything to just do one move
@@Mat-iz4ls I took 7 hours to complete the path of pain.
I'm bad at platforms
@@dannadeleon7787 yeah, took me a while on my first run, but now it was just a couple of minutes. But I really hate that last zone, why do I have to wait for a saw or spears to just keep moving
Holy shit that really is a path of pain
Certainly has a double meaning to it.
And is a kaizo level
I wonder if the player were human or god..
It is like parkour from the depths of hell and it should be burning in hell with Satan but it is worse like a ultra extreme nightmare hellscape edition of the white palace and I am serious about it.
You know what is really painful??? The moment you get Through this sh*t after you took 2h of you life for this and THEN DIE BECAUSE OF THOSE 2 GUARDIANS AND NEED TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN!!! AHHHH IM SO ANGRY RIGHT NOW >.
Some servant bug: There you go, sir! Your palace is all done! Magnificent, isn't it?
Pale King: Yes, yes, not bad.. but you know what's missing?
Servant: Err no?
Pale King: Buzzsaws.
Servant: ... Oh, like, a buzzsaw at the entrance in case an intruder comes in?
Pale King: No, I want them all over the palace. On the walls. On the ceilings. On the floors. Heck, put them in the sky if you can.
Servant: B-but WHY, sir!?
Pale King: BECAUSE I WANT SOME ALONE TIME!
Servant: But you're the king! You can't just hide away from us and your subjects!
Pale King: I do what I want. Now GET ME MY BUZZSAWS! And while you're at it, install some retracting spears and plant those spiky vines all around.
A little while later...
Pale King: Welp, I've gone deaf from the constant buzzing, but at least I'm finally alone...
Sometime later:
(Knight walks in, battered and tired)
Knight:....... YOU!...FUCKER!!
*dies*
Amazing. Good fun comment.
underrated
DJDelta0 z
It's crazy how the best kept secret in this game, guarded by this nearly unpassable gauntlet, and probably the sole Cause of the events of the game is
"A Father loved his child, and his child loved him"
It's so good. A three second cutscene without words, and yet with context it shifts the perspective on the king and the knight and just explains so much.
The pain isn't the labyrinth of saws, thorns and spikes, its the memory of a doomed fathers love for his cursed son.
The other pain is your hand going though your monitor.
@@yourweirdplant Lol
No I’m pretty sure it’s the spikes
Is it though?
I feel so bad for The Hollow Knight :C
Also, no big deal, but I would like to correct that THK isn't PK's son, but child.
I would genuinely like to know the reaction of the first person who cleared this only to find the only thing you get is a 3 second cutscene.
Sadness beyond any point
I was so angry, I had to put my PS4 into sleep mode for the night, then spend 4 hours total getting to the end.
@@sarahross975 dayummm
The accomplishment of beating it is worth it alone. Not everything is about a reward.
I was always scared of the fight at the end but when I learnt that the desolate dive(I forgot what the upgraded version is called) had invincibility....
Descending dark is the answer to everything.
I died when I first ran into the royal retainers at the end but at that point I had died so many times I got back to the retainers in under 6 minutes only taking 1 hit.
@@unknowncloak2073 kingsmould, if it were retainers that fight wouldnt be a problem.
"Finally, I have completed the white palace. Path of pain? Never heard of it but it cant be much harder than what I have just done"
Path of pain:
Me, i am on it suffering right now
underrated
Path of pain isn't harder than white palace
Stop reading my mind bro!
@@jakeextreme4108 It is significantly harder. I did white palace in like 1hour maybe 1h20mins max. for path of pain the first set of platforms alone took me like 45 mins to geet through.
Because someone decided The White Palace wasn't masochistic enough on it's own
It went on too long. An absolute chore
It took me 3 hours to beat that thing, I was about to have a mental breakdown
It's not that bad tbh. You can pogo and skip a good portion of it.
@Wriok Müller the path of pain is twice as hard as the normal route. For comparison, it took me 12 minutes to do the white palace normal, and it took 8 hours to do path of pain
@@Nihlm that sound like 40x harder rather than twice as hard as normal one
And here I am getting pissed off at the run back to that supercharged mantis boss thing in Queen’s Garden Lol
I just put a portal with the dream nail right before the boss fight there and just warped to it, about 6-7 times until i beat the boss
if ypu have the stag station it isnt that bad and with sharp shadow that boss is a joke and to trivialize it even more you have an npc that can help you
@@Ganja_Guru217 cloth does nothing lmao
@@andreicezarrusu4616 you have no idea how much you've helped me. why didn't I think of that? i did it with the hive knight lol
I haven't done path of pain yet but completed white palace. And i gotta say white palace was so much easier than this platforms with thorns in Queen's Garden. I mean at least platforms in White palace are solid and don't collapse every time you step on them
No cost too great.
For all these glorious BUZZSAWS!!!
I finished the White Palace without ever knowing I could pogo the buzzsaw...
and SPIKES and DEALDLY PLANTS WHIT SPIKES
"The local Home Depot was having a sale and I just couldn't pass those deals up!"
My ten year old son just completed the path of pain! I'm so proud he stuck with it. Your video really helped to get past certain rough spots. He's a fan of your content and aspires to your level one day.
Wow
That's amazing God bless him 👏👏
GGs Mad respect
This kid has accomplished more in 10 years than I ever will
That's actually hella impressive, bravo.
Be careful what you wish for. I thought the white palace was pretty easy (except for that retracting spike hallway) it took me like 20 minutes. I wanted it to be a "little" harder but i didnt want this monstrosity
I literally got to the last segment of PoP and was stuck at that point for a solid hour. Ragequitted and only found out how close I was to the end kater.
Megaxn Gaming that exact same thing happened to me
@@fabiolaperez8897 been there done that... all the game was quite "normal" sometimes easy.. but path of pain boy oh boy... I quitted the game like 3 times because of that S***
Fun fact! You don’t even have to do the retracting spike hallway. There’s a breakable wall right under it that you can go through.
@@spicypotato3743 wish I knew that
Spent like 6 hours with the regular white palace, I'm absolutely terrible at platformers.
No thank you.
I have to thank you for just saying you aren't the best instead of complaining that it's too difficult and should be toned down. Not very many people do that. Hats off to you.
I'm with you. I cheesed the white palace with the health regen. Looking at this, nope. Not for me.
It also taked me 2h to pass normal white palace, and i used grub song with the crystal charm that heals double (so i had almost infinite heals) and i swear i taked so long to finish it that i almost run out of soul, i would only rage to the POP so i guess i'll leave it for the good players
Meh, I think I'll get my ass wrecked by Nightmare King instead. Moving through all-spiky corridor (while avoiding all the saws) just using downslashes? Ultimate no-go for me. Big bow to those who can.
StormT G
When I bought the game I didnt expect platforming in that magnitude at some point. Its actually a pretty interesting cutscene at the end and Im salty that only people, who are good at platforming get to see it, in a game that never put its main emphasis on platforming (until someone had the idea of the white palace).
Im not a platformer. I tried anyway. I managed to get to the gate, that you can open, but after that I was just too tired to get any further. I would have to invest way too much time and patience to ever get to the end and that means I never would have gotten that cutscene without youtube.
(Before someone asks: Yes lore in games like this one is just that important for me)
*Sigh* Well I guess it wouldnt hurt to try another time later maybe. I mean I atleast could skip the middle part. Now I kinda want to finish what I started.
For a second I thought every time you paused you were trying to show off that you used wayward compass
Wait that’s illegal
wayward compass carried this of course hes showing it off!!
BEST FU**ING COMMENT!
The Pale King obviously cared about the Hollow Knight. He has multiple statues of them in the Castle. And installed one in the City Fountain too! No one knows about the Hollow Knight, he could've just built only the Dreamers' statues, but he made HK the main focus on the fountain.
Reading this i just realized that the vessels were kept secret 🥲
Well yea
The pop cutscene proves it
He had to watch the others die, no wonder he ended up feeling affection for it since hk was the only child i could have kept
Fun fact:- if you dream nail dung defender he says "so there were others..." meaning dung defender knew about hollow knight but didn't knew there were more
"Welcome to the Salty Spitoon, how tough are ya?"
"How tough am I?"
"I beat the Path of Pain..."
"Yeah so?"
"Without taking any damage!"
"Oh, uhh... Right this way GOD"
I get that reference...
Moosta2112 did that guy just say beating the path of pain is nothing to be proud of? REEEE
No spongebob 😂😂😂
*while nightmare king Grimm was hunting me down*
@@I_8_your_doorframe guys? It's the gods of gods of gaming XD
"Difficult" doesn't even begin to describe the level of fuckery you gotta master to get though this nonsense. Jumping off moving bladesaws, every ledge or wall off screen, and mini bosses at the end of it all. At least the other part of the White Palace was just jumping and dashing...
path of pain is fucking bs
No one:
This dude: I see no god up here.. *OTHER THAN ME*
Lol. Watch the ultimate speedrun in godhome by horheristo. That is what I call a god. All bindings and he slugged through abs rad and finished it.
The fact that Path of Pain has half of the Sealed Vessel’s soundtrack shows how much the “To be a vessel one must endure all kinds of hardships” means. If the way to last half of Kingsoul is hard because of Pale’s king own paranoid, imagine what pain must Sealed Vessel had to endure
Me, before watching this video: "I think I'll try the Path of Pain. Let me watch this video to get a feel for what it will be like."
Me, after watching this video: "... No. I don't think I will."
I watched the video to see how much I still had to do. Turns out I had done just over half of it. Yikes.
Lol me too, I barely made it across the white palace, no way I'm going through this lol
My EXACT sentiment. Took me 2 hours to finish the white palace, with rage breaks in between. Figured I'd watch the video for path of pain first. That's a hard no.
I made it about half way (to about 1:49) and I thought I was getting the hang of it. But that second part is just unbearable. The "checkpoints" (basically any time the knight touches solid ground) are non-existent. So you are just juggling in between saws and thorns and have zero room for error while also need to maintain speed before the saws catch up to you. I gave it a fair shot but I think its fair to say this aint it for me. I did PoH, but this..... this broke me.
I started playing a week ago and just finished the white palace, i already knew about path of pain but came here to check how the whole thing is and after seeing that section at 3:00 i just said nope lol, i know i could probably do it after trying it for a few hours but there's no benefit or a real reward so what's the point of going through so much pain haha.
At this point, anything that sounds like scraping metal is gonna make you rip your face out
-slightly licks frying pan-
@@omegaultramax **2 masks damage sound effect**
Accurate portrayal of me waking up at 5 to get to work.
Rotcrawler I WAKE UP A 3! WHERE IS MY SALVATION???!
Rotcrawler
I got up at 2 this morning and usually get up at 4... but that tasty, tasty overtime is going to help me, college move-in is in 11 days and I need all the money I can get haha
Were you one of the guys he killed toward the end?
Were you one of the guys he killed toward the end?
The knight in gameplay: *dies to aspid *
The knight in the lore:
You know, I wanted to do this... But I think I'm good. Thanks for sharing.
This... this is insane. I've never seen this kind of skill. Makes your (very offensive) hitless Nightmare King Grimm look like a small accomplisment. Congratulations!
J. Mário Oliveira offensive is putting it nicely, Grimm made me want to break everything in my house lol.
Beating Grimm is indeed much much easier than this shit, I almost beat him hitless; the only time he hit me was during his puff bullet hell attack
Count Artorias you must have had his attacks down pat man lol, I almost beat him hitless after a bunch of tries lol. It's weird that the one attack you got hit by is his easiest one to dodge. I agree that this is by far the hardest thing in the game though, i don't have the patience for this shit.
Yeah you're right, Dark Souls has made me develop patience for boss fights; not gonna lie, the grimm fight looked impossible at the beginning, but with repeated deaths and figuring out the best ways to consistently dodge each ability while also landing a hit, I was able to beat him (God the fight in which I beat him was super intense)
That being said, I do NOT have patience for platforming like this, the fight they throw at you in the end is just stabbing you in the heart.
Count Artorias me too, I think anyone who has beat Nightmare King Grimm has either played Dark Souls or should play it immediately. My brother watched me play it and was like "I just woulda gave up" and i said "Dark Souls has taught me one rule... everything dies" lol. Yah I was blown away by how insanely hard it was, no other boss gave me any trouble except for him, difficulty went from a 3 to an 11 when I got to him lol. I agree as well that the amount of patience it would take to do this trial is beyond me, especially cuz i had already seen that you get jack shit. I'm playing through dark souls 1 right now, its the only souls game i hadn't played cuz i was waiting for the remaster, i started with bloodborne and went backwards lol, bloodborne made me fall in love with the series. The remaster is trash but i don't care cuz i have been waiting for to long to play it lol. I just fought ornstein and smough last night, I was apprehensive but I stomped them first try, it was fortunate I played bloodborne first cuz it has the hardest bosses in the series for sure so every other game has been pretty easy compared to that lol. Plus it taught me HOW to play a souls game, which is very helpful, dark souls definitely is about patience.
Almost as difficult as beating Zote
pineapple pfft
Zote needs no dream boss, he’s already overpowered.
Underrated comment
Agreed
Fluffy Zote in the Colosseum obviously, took me a month to beat, did you see his sick back flips and sword moves? Zote is 2 op plz nerf
my mom walked in while i was watching this and she just said with this utter amazement in her voice "jesus that's so fast is that sped up??? you don't play it that fast" and i was like no mom that's like the hardest level in the entire game i don't even want to enter it
I don't think that "difficult" is the right word for this. I would say, "Impossible for 99,9% people and then there's this guy"
its pretty hard but its just trial and error you just need to not be mad and have some time to kill
Whose name is Neo
@@CatShapedDonut no this took me 8 hours to do normally which while stupid it's nothing for a speed runner like him. What's great is it's so hard that you basically master the first half of the area by the time you did it at all
Could just be assisted.
@@arturjaroszewicz8424 Unlikely since he made a few minor screw ups like failing to get enough height on the double jump before hitting the vertical saw blade or bouncing twice on a few of the saws to presumably mentally catch up.
2:42 is definitely the hardest part
I mean that's kinda logical. I looked at the video to see how much was left. I still have three sections to do. But hey, I almost reached the second to last section several times and that one looks very easy. The last section is gonna be lethal.
Oh, and I made the mistake of using Mantis claw and long nail. They are so many spots where you can bounce to high...
I actually had trouble with this part 2:55, took me an hour or 2 just for this I literally had to cheat by screenshoting it before dying there, pasting it on paint and estimate my jumps because I can't see far right without looking at the knight, shame. never coming back.
@@legrandliseurtri7495 how's your adventure on PoP?
@@invigale Oh, I did it the day after I wrote this comment. Currently I'm stuck in the third pantheon. First, God tamer destroyed me like ten times, I don't understand why. Now, it's grey fucking prince zote.
Yeah, I was like "okay, this seems doable" (for the record I'm at the second statue on the way to the switch) when I saw that, I was like "I'm sorry, WHAT!?"
The rest of the path of pain is baby compared to that last part just before the kingsmoulds
Me, watching random hollow knight videos while I’ve just beaten like three bosses and reached the City of Tears: “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS THAT”
It's pretty amazing that the devs were even able to design this level of challenge
I really love the fresh new lore and content we get from this, adding to the Hollow Knight's dialogue "Father?"
it's really heart-warming to see that the King and the Hollow Knight bonded as father and son, but it's also twice as depressing knowing that their relationship was the reason for the kingdom's downfall and utter desolation ;n;
It is too bittersweet a situation
Are you human?
Of course not
He's not
Every step is so perfect
Not even the girl is human.
Of Course Not . He is Asian.
I can see why it's called the path of pain
more like the path of FUCKING KILLING YOU WITH A MODIFIED VERSION OF SUPER MEAT BOY 9000 FUCKING TIMES HOLY SHIT-of pain
Just finished a blind run for Path of Pain, after dying 400 times on the process. If anything in the gaming would qualify for an achievement, this should DEFINITELY have one to crown the amount of insanity, suffering and patience you must endure to complete it.
Play Celeste. It's a beautiful game. Then play chapter 9 of it. I 100% promise you it will be the most difficult thing youve ever done and it'll be very rewarding.
Play VSC on geometry dash i assure you that's one of the hardest gaming achievements
I played it on ps5 and i didn't even give me the achievement
@@Tylerfan36 That’s because there’s no achievement for path of pain, op is saying there should be one.
@@thelargest5131 You do get a trophy of sorts
I would like to thank you for saving me a lot of heart ache. I've made it maybe a third or a quarter of the way through and thought I was doing pretty good. Then watched your video to see what comes next. Not only did I watch with my jaw almost unhinged the entire time, but I realized I will never finish this, lol. Again, thank you... and wow...
I made the first half, where you activate the switch. I also almost finished the first third of the second half multiple times. The second third looks quite easy, I don't worry about that. But the last third... This looks like big trouble. I don't know if I can do that:(
@@legrandliseurtri7495 It took me a RIDICULOUS number of tries but I eventually got it done, despite my despair at having watched this video. Stick with it; you can do it!!!
@@SirWiggy12 I did it!!! The last section, as expected, took me so freaking long. When I finally did the final jumps, I had such a mastery of the rest that I could have probably done it blind. Is this how speedrunners feel like?
What does the journal entry say that you get afterwards?
"Haha, you did this for nothing" - *signed Team Cherry* ?
that would be the ultimate troll
Like the stairway of lisa xD
It's funny because that 5 second scene at the end of the path of pain confirms part of the lore in the game that was previously unconfirmed and just theorized.
Which part?
SuperShyerGuy Alright here we go for a lengthy explanation.
SPOILERS AHEAD:
The part that was previously unconfirmed but theorized was the reason that the first hollow knight failed to fully contain the radiance (infection). The Vessels were supposed to have no personality or feelings that the radiance could possibly take over, therefore making them the perfect containment unit for it. However this scene at the end of the path of pain shows that there might have been some sort of father-son relationship between the original hollow knight and the pale king. With these feelings implemented, the radiance could take hold of the feelings of the original hollow knight and escape from its confines.
What demon did you sell your soul to
Lucifer from Pony Island
fireb0rn on his resumes:
“So basically I’m a world renowned platforming Jesus”
There's now a Path of Pain in the *White Palace* ?
*WELP* SCREW THAT MOBADIS
Keith Redacted I thought the what palace was a path of pain
I just died at the last fight because I wasn't prepared at all and now I have to do this ALL OVER AGAIN. Hell no...
I want to die.
PS: I finally did it. I couldn't feel happier.
Zirk. it’s been a year but good job dude, i’m proud of you
No cost too great.
Same thing happened to me, those walking armored ink piles were gonna pay!
happened 2 me twice
Super meat boy : hahah buzzsaws
Hollow knight : Gimme that
Super meat boy : but its mine.
Hollow knight : *Slap*
Hollow knight : *Takes Buzzsaws*
Hollow knight : Not anymore.
plae king sent him because he wanted BUZZSAWS
Finally a meat boy joke
Not gonna lie, when I first *saw* the path of pain, super meat boy came to mind!
I love how easy he makes this look, while I have trouble fighting in the pantheon and the coliseum.
Oh, and people thought that Cuphead, Super Meat Boy, and the unfair Mario Maker levels were hard?
*THIS*
*THIS IS TRUE HELL*
Have you ever battled Little Horn in super meat boy? that shit was the most difficult thing ive ever atempted not because it was difficult but because it complete bullshit. this can be classified as the same thing
*In order to see the secrets within one must endure the hardest punishment*
@@VoodooCrow99 I don't think the path of pain is bullshit, it really is never unfair. But I think you're right in that I wouldn't call it more difficult than the hardest super meat boy or Mario maker levels.
I've played smb and the end is nigh. Hopefully my skills will pay off and this one will be easy for me to beat. Not the first try, but it shouldn't be so hard.
Beat all of meat boy dark world, play I wanna be the guy the movie the game, beat all of n++, and dab, now you can do this
I genuinely feel like I just ran a marathon watching YOU do this. 12/10.
First room: meh
Second room: easy
Third room: meh
Fourth room: HELL
The first time I found the path of pain I attempted it for at least four hours nonstop before giving up entirely. Came to this video about a year ago and realized I was so close. Still haven't touched it though I'm not reliving the trauma
Rare footage of a God playing hollow Knight
You mean a god*' ... little "g".
@rafa, because God, capital g, is the Creator of all, and nothing and no one compares to him. He is unique and stands alone in power, morality, holiness, invincible, eternal, almighty, perfection, etc. A god, or gods, lower case g, are also angels. These are creations from God. Hence, why God is known as the God of gods, the Lord of lords, the King of kings, the Host of hosts, etc.
The gods can also refer to the kids of the gods, or the bad gods, fallen angels, etc. Those kids are referred to as nephilim, titans, monsters, giants, etc.
A god can also be misconstrued as mighty warriors or beings who are strong or very strong, or people who do amazing things, just like the game Hollow Knight does or the gamers who play them. But as you can see, those bugs and people are still mortal, not invincible, bleeds, and can be killed. So much for them being "gods" lol.
So shade lorde is a God of gods
He didn’t even use wayward compass, what an absolute chad
Wayward compass is useless in White Palace - there's no map.
@@sephjnr that's the joke.
@@sephjnr wayward compass / useless
pick one
I had goose bumps near the end with the music.
This game is really amazing and team cherry said the 3rd dlc will be the biggest
The fact that I just keep thinking “why aren’t they running out of stamina” and then I remember this isn’t fucking Celeste
For several days now I have been trying to go through the last stage of the path of pain. The whole problem is that the last saw goes out of sync. All other stages are completed in 6 minutes, but not the pre-final. During this time, I seemed to have lost parts of myself for the sake of completing the path. Perhaps this is so difficult for me, because I have never played platformers or games that require extreme reaction. It will be over tomorrow
_No mind to think_
_No will to break_
_No voice to cry suffering_
_No cost too great_
Learn the rhythm of pogoing on that last spear and you can do it!
@@fireb0rn it's over, the Carolingians don't have that memory anymore
Thanks for the support! 🍀
@@fireb0rn the path of pain in steel soul mode is complete
Thanks, Master
...and now I have steel heart
It's great that the OP pogos on the last ground saw just once, I had to do two hits to get enough to the thorns to get the under-over jump right. OTOH for the very last jump I didn't need to hit the lower of the two saws to squeeze through so that was a blessing.
Same for me, that last floor saw is a PITA, got under twice and happily pogging on the wall saw, but mistimed final jump and pogo both times :(
That last room took all the enjoyment out of my run
Looking back I can't believe I actually completed this. And I can't believe even more that there is no Steam achievement for this.
Can't wait for silksong to give us the "Avenue of Agony"
Corridors of Chaos
Street of Suffering
The music and everything is simply beautiful. Had to read the comments to pick up on that it was just to get a bit of bonus story which made it even better. I feel like more games need some kind of super challenging thing like this that only the more dedicated players will do just to unlock some subtle bits of story like this part here.
*First thoughts*
I was expecting some big reveal of the biggest secret in hollow knight after all these pain and suffering, instead I see the king and the knight enjoying the freaking scenery and looking at each other for a split second as if someone farted.
*Second thoughts*
Okay... in all honesty I'm actually mildly interested in what was happening here. The way the two looked at each other, I'm getting a bunch of father and son vibes or something. Is the King and the Knight bonding here? Is the Hollow Knight really not that hollow after all? Was the King showing him how to be a ruler? That's all I'm getting at here so far.
Perhaps we'll learn more when we play as Hornet in 2018
I think the entire POP was a test created to prove that the vessel is the rightful being to seal the radiance away, and this shows that your vessel is just as good as the actual hollow knight. My only questions now are the relationship with the dreamers, as well as the fight to seal away the radiance.
I think its meant to imply why the Hollow knight vessel failed to contain the radiance. The hollow knight was supposed to be entirely hollow and devoid of any personality or emotion so he couldn't be infected. The father/son vibes you got are exactly what it means. The king probably felt attached to his creation and started to feel for it, eventually making the Hollow knight start having feelings as well. Because of this, it probably failed to contain the radiance and the events of the game take place. Considering how much of an asshole he was, the king probably ran after realizing the fuckup he just did and ashamed of himself, hid the memory of his acts as far as he could, which is probably why the path of pain is fucking impossible for anyone who isn't good at platformers.
He couldn't have run, he's dead on the throne.
nate wardle
Clearly, the White Palace is just full of memories, that was just a memory of the king, not actually him. This new area proves that the king is still alive somewhere in the world.
Well you are a speedruner. . . all right. Impressive.
I sat like 2 hours on the last room and couldnt do it. I´ll be getting some sleep and try again tomorrow. Good to know that this really is the last room. Thank you for the encouragement.
good luck!
Hiveblood helps immensely for those of us who aren't platforming gods like OP. Infinite tries instead of needing to start from the beginning if you die. That plus grubsong, then fill the rest of the slots with stuff to help you fight the two knights at the end...
I almost died to those assholes, wasn't ready at all XD
Tenck
The game gives you infinite soul with the new statues, if you still need hiveblood then honestly I dont know what to say
Huh. I just figured they would have limits like every other statue, came prepared with Hiveblood, and so never found out. Ah well, nothing lost.
same lol
The music for this game is just beautiful, I love just sitting in certain areas and listening to the ambiance.
Me in the city of tears
It's in a dream world, all these spikes and buzzsaws are metaphors for the desperation to keep secrets of the palace hidden, made real.
Well, now I see how low my platformer skill is
I beat all of super meat boy dark world and did all of kaizo after a long while as well as beat celeste, n++, stealth inc., and have an unhealthy amount of time on geometry dash and I still suck at platformers
@@bender5860 weird flex but ok
@@sharunais weird flex but not ok
@@bender5860 weird flex but ok
@@bender5860 ask me if your searching for a noob in platformer. Hollow Knight was my first one and my god did I sufferd at that bullshit in grennpath. If I ever get to this my live will just end.
when a bored god plays video games
When a bored Radiance plays video games
Correction: When a bored god wants to decorate his palace.
Mr Beast: "If you touch the ground, I'll give you $10,000"
Chandler:
Maybe the Hollow Knight that we fight wasn`t actually "hollow" because the king developed a fatherly attachment to the chosen vessel and vice versa.They way they looked at each-other was kind of suspicious.
Peter Alex The plague leaking is pretty solid evidence that happened
"No mind to think, no will to break"
I believe the King tested the vessels by injecting them with his soul.
I don't think emotions have anything to do with this, but I still need to finish this to see the text in the Hunter's Journal. :)
Nah bruh, they just gay.
(JK)
If you really want an honest answer not joke here it come.
This scene reveal yet another secret of Hollow Knight. The king is not a heartless monster after all and the vessels despite being designed to be hollow, they're still a living being and thus something inside them still exist no matter how hollow they are. This explain that deep down the king cares about the vessels and acknowledge them as somebody not just tools. Sadly there is no other way to save his kingdom at that time and he need to make hard choice.
The image of chosen vessel that would eventually become the boss "Sealed Vassel" and the king sharing a glimpse of warmness toward each other explain it all.
It's a bond similar to father/son which is acceptable consider that part of the king himself created these vessels thus making him their spiritual father.
That's how tragic it is, a father forced to endlessly experiment and discard countless of his own sons/daughters to save his kingdom that eventually failed anyway.
Pale king: you're not gonna defect on me just because i told you i love you right my son?
Hk: pffft. No way dad
*unknown time later
Hk: DAD I DON'T WANT TO BE IN THIS PLACE ANYMORE! TAKE ME BACK HOME I DON'T WANT TO BE THE VESSEL
*infection takes over hallownest
Pale king:...*deep breath... fuck
The path of pain
The path of feels
The path of "haha nope fuck that I ain't doing that shit no thank YOUUUUU"
That’s last stretch before the Kingsmolds always gets me, more so than the rest of the path
Just watched this to check how far I am in finishing Path of Pain and I just knew I was close to the end. I have literally reached the last sequence.
2:30 Screw THIS section specifically!
I died at the kkingsmoulds
EDIT: I actually managed to beat it after 5 pain staking attempts, my advice is take a break whenever you're frustrated, and take the kingsmoulds slow. Another thing is, once you've beaten the part where you press the lever, you don't have to do it again. Good luck to anyone attempting this! Pantheon of Hallownest, you're next!
So.... How is the pantheon?
@@gravewalker3868 Its not going bad, I'm taking a break due to burnout but i managed to get two of the starter pantheons with full bindings.
Some day all of this will be yours
;-;
I'm crying
Hk: i don't really like buzzsaws dad
Pale king: too bad. Half of this castle is buzzsaws
Excerpt from Lion King:
"Everything the Light touches is our Kingdom."
@@hasenpfefferoni correction "Everything the buzzsaw touches, is our kingdom"