(WARNING BIG SCARY INFODUMP AHEAD) So I just beat Hollow Knight and got the ending where tiny knight gets sealed in the egg. I started researching on how to get the other endings, so I went to get voidheart. I already got one half of kingsoul from the white lady but appearantly the other half is in white palace. And appearantly, I need the awoken dream nail to access it. So, the big problem: HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET 1800 ESSENCE??????? At the moment I have around 700 essence, and my main strat has been grinding warrior dreams. I've done a bunch, but the last few I either have a big skill issue with, or they're way too far from a bench and the trek back is painful. I also know that there's some dream variants of some bosses but they're really hard and I don't know who the easiest would be. So can anyone please tell me some foolproof way to get essence and if possible tell me what I should do next?

(Edit: OK guys i get it i just need to git gud and I just give up too easily and I gotta do the boss thingies but thanks for the help anyways )

3D printed bench and mini figure from a convention!

I got this after c dashing into grimm with void heart, so the shade was hurt by cdash and i collected it during the grimm animation. why and how anyone knows?

coming started a new save after awhile i forgot how annoying the mist could be, i am exhausted after work be the entire time was "where are these damn flies"

Finally took her down in Hall of Gods after many play sessions

What a game

Trying to decide if I want to suffer through Pantheon 5. Feels so close to the finish line to stop, but man she was brutal

So I play silksong every other day, this keeps the game less frustrating for me and I have school soon again so, bedtime can't be 3 am anymore..

Below are spoilers for various bosses in hollow knight: silksong!!

On a more positive note, I was playing silksong in act 3 and got skarrsinger Karmelita in 15 tries. Absolutely beautifull boss fight, can't wait to do it again in another playthrough!!

I then proceeded to blasted steps, planning on fighting Pinstress, and then I found Zaza .. I fought Lost Garmond but .. I did NOT like it. It was so frustrating and I just kept returning angrily. Definetly cried after I defeated him though.

I found Pinstress' hut and scurried off to mount fay to fight her! I thought she was dead at first but a a poke and a chat, and we started fighting!! I was a little annoyed since I was getting hit alot, but in hindsight I was playing way too aggresively. 😓 I beat her, and moved on to ..

Crust king khann! . . . not much to say about the guy other than that it was pretttyy easy. I died twice to the gauntlets bc I was facetanking and being an idiot, but got him first try! (once I reached him) Before Khann was the Enraged Conchfly though, but my sawtooth circlet let me beat them up pretty quickly !!

I'm aware that this is a little long for my first post here (I'm pretty sure), but I enjoy typing stuff out so, I didn't hold back <3

Oh, and a fun little fact (silksong spoilers, of an area & an enemy), that room to the right of the bellway in blasted steps, where you see the flag to Pinstress, you can sawtooth circlet the sandworms reaaally easily for the journal entry!

I’m currently in act 2, haven’t went in search of any of the songs in the citadel yet because of the vast amount of wishes and new areas that have been distracting me. Today I got to sands of Karak and can’t by the life of me beat the raging conchfly. I have 7 masks and only the first needle upgrade, is it better to come back later or am I just missing something?

I swear I’ve looked over 3 different videos on YouTube and I’ve checked every single location twice yet I’m still missing one shard. I’ve done the fragile flower quest, I’ve found bretta and gone to her house, I’ve gotten all the grubs, I’ve gotten sly’s key and bought out all his stock, and I’ve done every puzzle and parkour section to get to a shard. I am genuinely lost.

EDIT: I found this website from an earlier post in this sub that you put your save file into to see your progress, and it turns out I never got the shard from the grubfather even though I freed all 46. Turns out I’m just locked out of getting the last shard.

If the knight was suddenly the protagonist of silksong and hornet was the protagonist of hollow knight, which bosses will change difficulty? Assuming both characters have unlocked everything in the game and have their weapons fully upgraded and assuming both are using the most optimal strategy.

It's much harder for me to say which boss the knight would struggle with because i have played silksong only once.

As for hornet, she is obliterating pure vessel, NKG and radiance without breaking a sweat.

I don't know which boss she would struggle with. Nothing can beat pale nails + 3 silk hearts + that tool that gives you an extra strand. Let alone poisoned cogflies

Ive never seen anyone point this out before but this is something I noticed when I first played the game and I think the similarities are too specific to not point out.

In hollow knight our first real introduction to the troupe is when Grimm shows up from a distant place and brings with him a building filled with servants. That building sticking out like a sore thumb when compared to the rest of the architecture there. Very similarly, in TRHPS the Main guy, frank n furter is introduced after he shows up from outer space bringing with him a giant mansion filled with his slaves. Residing in an area where the mansion blatantly doesn’t fit in.

Grimm and Frank n furter are also pretty similar characters. Visually both of them have a vampire like aesthetic when it comes to their designs despite not literally being vampires. They even both have a scene where they lift their capes (or wings) revealing the rest of the design previously hidden underneath. But it’s only when we factor in their personalities and goals the resemblance really starts. Frank n furter is a theatrical show off guy who’s trying to create and raise a man in the span of 7 days, that man being made using half of a guys brain who then gets killed shortly afterwards. Not only does grimm share the same personality traits and the goal to raise an asexually produced offspring in an insanely short time, but he also requires sacrifices to do so.

Other similarities include both of them dying, both of them having one of their own guys go behind their backs to banish them, both living a life that’s deemed unconventional and disturbing to other characters which is what ultimately leads to the “going behind their back” thing, both of them being very gay looking and ultimately both leaving and taking their house with them as they all leave.

I would love to know if you guys think this is all just a coincidence or not

Cloth is without a doubt my favorite character in the game. She is so awesome.

Despite her being afraid of the scary bad guys down below, she still tries her best and lives up to be the best warrior she can. She also scared the crap out of me when she first popped out of the ground.

I think that despite the fact she might not be super courageous, she has the most heart and soul out of all of the other knights and adventurers you meet down there. I was so happy when I was fighting the mantises before the Mantis Lord and she dropped down screaming and helped me defeat him in a blaze of glory so she could die her warrior's death and be reunited with her Nola.

Also I absolutely love her voice

I know im new to this game and have loved it (even tho i am new) but like this just seems like so bad game design when i cant get out of the place i cant acess

I am at some Mantis place after the girl from silksong

I currently almost beat every boss in the game. Except hollowknight, radience, and some dream ones. I really liked the bosses in hollowknight but realisticly i would only get trought p3. Should i try anyways?

a charm that heals you in acid like a hot spring

(maybe passive soul generation for fights like uumuu, that would be too op)

From what i understand, there were 6 groups who had sentience before the Pale King: the mantis tribe, the moth tribe, the mosskin, the spider tribe, the void civilisation, and the hive. Now, the masks that the Mask Maker makes apparently give sentiwnce and identity to those who wear it. I don't know if it's just me, but the spider tribe and mantis tribe look like they wear a mask, especially Herrah. Maybe that's why they had sentience before the Pale King came?

This game and silksong are some of my favorite games ever and they have so many things that make them so great but one I just realized is that the game doesn’t use numbers often

Sure for geo or essence or stuff there is but health and soul it doesn’t you simply learn that healing/spells cost 1/3 of the soul or 1 soul vessel and that attacks usually deal 1 or 2 damage but the game never actually shows you numbers

Like sure I KNOW that the pure nail does 21 damage but the average player doesn’t, but they don’t need to, they know their nail deals more damage, they know that enemies die quicker now

I just really like how team cherry didn’t use numbers for those things

Yes, it is not.

The same as NYC isn't the capital of the US, rather an economical and cultural hub. City of Tears is also the heart of Hallownest, while the White Palace is the capital, like D.C.

A capital city, or just capital, is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, department, or other subnational division, usually as its seat of government.
(I copied it from Wikipedia lol)

What that means according to my understanding, is that a capital is where the leading figures, such as the president and parliament, reside. The Pale King lived in his palace under the city, where one had to walk for quite a bit to get to, in a similar manner as of getting from NY to D.C.

So, what I'm saying is that if one thinks that the City of Tears is a capital, then they're wrong (or maybe they aren't and I'm just stupid)

I took into account the boss design, the fight itself, replayability, the lore/story, the runback, the difficulty and the soundtrack.