So I posted recently about something with Hollow Knight and how I was too fat fingered to do the white palace
Well before I wrote that I got as far as the room that has the secret wall to the Path of Pain. I resigned myself after going at the normal way it for hours and getting stuck there.
After writing , I tried to have a go at it again and reading guides to what to do, I finally got through it after an embarrasing amount of hours... now I know it is a skill issue I have with platformers and I was hating myself the whole way through while using a keyboard.
I hated doing it, felt like the game was going to break me but I carried on cursing the game for every inch of progress I made. I can acknowledge that the White Palace was well made ( although the saws and spear mechanisms will probably give me nightmares) , felt a bit overtuned on the timings, but again what do I know I am horrible with platforming in general.
If the normal white palace gave me this much trouble, then I will probably get aneurysms trying to do the path of pain and give respect to those that have will to do it
I don't wish to discourage anyone from playing the game though, my embarrasing amount of hours I put into completing the White Place is more an effect of me literally brute forcing my brain to get timings right and then playing a section at a time that the many sections on an obstacle becomes one set piece action when I stop thinking and let muscle memory take over
it's a single player game, nothing is embarrassing about how long it takes to complete
It feels embarrasing when reading of people doing it in 30 minutes to an hour and I was sitting with it for probably about 8- 12 hours total maybe more. I know speed running achievements are definitely out of the question ๐ I am almost at 90 hours and at about 97% complete out of 112% I think.
If nothing else Hollow Knight is good value for those that are stubbornly persistent and don't mind having the game force you to learnt its skill set.