1 thought on “Let’s Play Hollow Knight, Episode 9”
* After flogging YouTube into cooperation… here we are!
* I just took a nap too. It was great.
* It helps if you can figure out your sleep cycle length, and take naps of that length or multiples, plus however long it takes you to fall asleep. So, for me, I set an alarm for two hours or 1:45, because my sleep cycle is about 90 minutes long.
* That whole zone is just hilarious bullshit. So spiky. So, so spiky.
* You crossed the Zone of Flies and–oh. oh. there’s another one. Oh no.
* “I made it, but where am I?” Not sure but it’s FULL OF SPIKES.
* SPIKES SPIKES SPIKES what madness is this.
* Is that a dead king, or just a due who paints?
* Probably just a dude who paints.
* This is very dramatic portraiture cut-scene.
* I want an alternative ending where we just chill here painting forever.
* Yeah let’s just walk above the flies this time. That seems safer.
* After watching you murder a gazillion fancy bosses, it’s kinda hilarious when you lose a lot of masks to, like, a fluffy grub that just walks in a steady path along a wall.
* SOUL.
* Well, soul piece.
* “I’m like Superman!” “…oops.”
* I still love the giant leaf piles that have little grubs driving them. It’s so damn thematic in so many ways, while being a relatively simple enemy concept.
* Well, while you’re figuring out where to go, there are a lot of smelly yeti bugs to destroy.
* Grandpa Grub is always so happy to see you. And all his singing offspring!
* “Oh, it’s just into the fog canyon,” you say, as if Fog Canyon isn’t the /best place/ because it is /full of fog/.
* But who’s boiling all this murder water, huh? Who? Is someone making a giant lethal cup of tea?
* Every time I see a mantis in this they’re pretty awesome but also reminding me of Mantis Cop from Ancestral Night, who is the most awesome. I love them so.
* Aw yeah mantis lord music! I love it!
* I assume they have some sort of code of honor that keeps them from attacking you three at once.
* …just a max of two at once, check.
* Anyway, let’s try this mantising again, it will definitely go better this time through.
* Hm. Maaaaaybe not.
* You’re respected, and alive! Or, uh. No more dead than usual? So that’s nice.
* Deepnest, now that sounds like a happy place to go. And wasn’t that a mask piece up there?
* When Cornifer is hiding, I worry.
* The floor of spiky writhing sure is a thing.
* Riches and writhing and rustling. I do not like it.
* Oh my gosh those big bouncing bugs are so FLUFFY.
* …Moss Prophet worries me.
* The endless speedy centipede passages worry me.
* Oh, hey, not boiling water! Just hot springs! Good to keep the difference clear before hopping in.
* Now I know that they’re called Garpedes and they’re still terrible.
* Oo yeah that sucker pretty much took your head-mask off.
* Yes, let’s blame the controller. I don’t know your controller. Could be its fault.
* The vertical one sure is a Thing.
* That is a heck of a lot of grumbling going on in the audio.
* Cloth, you have a cool name, please don’t die.
* augh zombie bugs.
* Grouchy Knight is still the Grouchiest.
* The failed tram station is nicely creepy.
* …wait, when did you get two blue drippy masks?
* Tram pass???
* Take the creepy tram to creepytown!
* (As if this whole game isn’t already creepytown.)
* Holly Knight is a tram being.
* Even the known climbing is terrible climbing.
* I wonder, in passing, how they did the ‘voices’ in this game. They’re so evocative, and somewhat like speech, but they’re not gibberish in the same sort of way Simlish is.
* Trains! I like the light rail near me, though it’s not quite a train. It’s trainesque. Train Lite.
* Huh. Forgot to post this when I wrote it. Well, here you go now.
Start To Finish 
* After flogging YouTube into cooperation… here we are!
* I just took a nap too. It was great.
* It helps if you can figure out your sleep cycle length, and take naps of that length or multiples, plus however long it takes you to fall asleep. So, for me, I set an alarm for two hours or 1:45, because my sleep cycle is about 90 minutes long.
* That whole zone is just hilarious bullshit. So spiky. So, so spiky.
* You crossed the Zone of Flies and–oh. oh. there’s another one. Oh no.
* “I made it, but where am I?” Not sure but it’s FULL OF SPIKES.
* SPIKES SPIKES SPIKES what madness is this.
* Is that a dead king, or just a due who paints?
* Probably just a dude who paints.
* This is very dramatic portraiture cut-scene.
* I want an alternative ending where we just chill here painting forever.
* Yeah let’s just walk above the flies this time. That seems safer.
* After watching you murder a gazillion fancy bosses, it’s kinda hilarious when you lose a lot of masks to, like, a fluffy grub that just walks in a steady path along a wall.
* SOUL.
* Well, soul piece.
* “I’m like Superman!” “…oops.”
* I still love the giant leaf piles that have little grubs driving them. It’s so damn thematic in so many ways, while being a relatively simple enemy concept.
* Well, while you’re figuring out where to go, there are a lot of smelly yeti bugs to destroy.
* Grandpa Grub is always so happy to see you. And all his singing offspring!
* “Oh, it’s just into the fog canyon,” you say, as if Fog Canyon isn’t the /best place/ because it is /full of fog/.
* But who’s boiling all this murder water, huh? Who? Is someone making a giant lethal cup of tea?
* Every time I see a mantis in this they’re pretty awesome but also reminding me of Mantis Cop from Ancestral Night, who is the most awesome. I love them so.
* Aw yeah mantis lord music! I love it!
* I assume they have some sort of code of honor that keeps them from attacking you three at once.
* …just a max of two at once, check.
* Anyway, let’s try this mantising again, it will definitely go better this time through.
* Hm. Maaaaaybe not.
* You’re respected, and alive! Or, uh. No more dead than usual? So that’s nice.
* Deepnest, now that sounds like a happy place to go. And wasn’t that a mask piece up there?
* When Cornifer is hiding, I worry.
* The floor of spiky writhing sure is a thing.
* Riches and writhing and rustling. I do not like it.
* Oh my gosh those big bouncing bugs are so FLUFFY.
* …Moss Prophet worries me.
* The endless speedy centipede passages worry me.
* Oh, hey, not boiling water! Just hot springs! Good to keep the difference clear before hopping in.
* Now I know that they’re called Garpedes and they’re still terrible.
* Oo yeah that sucker pretty much took your head-mask off.
* Yes, let’s blame the controller. I don’t know your controller. Could be its fault.
* The vertical one sure is a Thing.
* That is a heck of a lot of grumbling going on in the audio.
* Cloth, you have a cool name, please don’t die.
* augh zombie bugs.
* Grouchy Knight is still the Grouchiest.
* The failed tram station is nicely creepy.
* …wait, when did you get two blue drippy masks?
* Tram pass???
* Take the creepy tram to creepytown!
* (As if this whole game isn’t already creepytown.)
* Holly Knight is a tram being.
* Even the known climbing is terrible climbing.
* I wonder, in passing, how they did the ‘voices’ in this game. They’re so evocative, and somewhat like speech, but they’re not gibberish in the same sort of way Simlish is.
* Trains! I like the light rail near me, though it’s not quite a train. It’s trainesque. Train Lite.
* Huh. Forgot to post this when I wrote it. Well, here you go now.