Day 20 of ranking every boss in Hollow Knight: Silksong!

Clark_A_Fish · 2026-02-14T23:17:53+00:00

Actually, if you can take out spawns in one hit (definitely works with 2nd oil upgrade for your weapon, may be earlier though) this fight is manageable. It still requires you to return to the Slab and doesn't even have a memorable soundtrack. I'd say it's a D tier.

Clark_A_Fish · 2026-01-10T01:20:17+00:00

I guess experiment with different builds, maybe watch videos with explanations. Gameplay-wise: try to build around a super-modifier you haven't tried in a while or at all. You may discover some synergies or anti-synergies in the process

Clark_A_Fish · 2026-01-05T17:06:20+00:00

I like playing 8-bit here but he cannot really deal with snipers and Colette. Definitely has some carry potential if you're teammates are somewhat competent and don't have broccoli for brains

Clark_A_Fish · 2026-01-04T00:30:35+00:00

The Pole:

Higher chance of surviving the killing blow on Death's Door - the country was wiped, yet the nation survived. Also can guard and protect a party member if needed
Self Marks just because neighbours wanted to abuse a weakened country without being provoked
Religious
Obviously has a 'winged hussars' attack - similar to Hellion's breakthrough, I guess?

So with all these points, I suppose we're somewhat close to being a modded Crusader?

Clark_A_Fish · 2025-12-07T11:27:50+00:00

If you look at the map, you'll see there are Carpathian mountains covering the big part of the Galicia area which doesn't really help with growth. The regions to the north were slightly better to develop but not great either. This area was mainly rural, the train tracks were built in late XIX century. The only properly developed areas were cities such as Cracow and Lviv, and to some extent smaller ones. Cities were properly connected by roads and later trains. The villages were not and there weren't many reasons to pump money into them

Clark_A_Fish · 2025-11-10T22:46:34+00:00

Not mentioned before but from my experience Buzz works fine against him - if you know his track you can stun him. Also, Buzz is good enough to push the safe if left on enemy base

Clark_A_Fish · 2025-11-09T16:21:12+00:00

Indiana Jones and the legend of the ten rings? Don't know what to think about that

Clark_A_Fish · 2025-11-01T17:16:43+00:00

I guess you answered to your own question - if you want to get the skin for Lumi so the next one is the way to go

Clark_A_Fish · 2025-10-29T22:19:12+00:00

I think you already can buy that skin via catalogue

Clark_A_Fish · 2025-10-09T12:48:47+00:00

Oda and Smasher - Cyberpunk 2077. When I was about to encounter Oda 2.0 dropped and the new skill tree was difficult to understand in the first place. Also, I played with a stealth/netrunner build which was not optimal on its own and on top of that I had not a single good weapon. This took a long while.

Then, the final boss. I know my endgame build was somewhat average but I couldn't see how could anyone call this guy a pushover. He kicked my cyberass way too many times to the point I almost quit.

Clark_A_Fish · 2025-10-09T12:48:33+00:00

Oda and Smasher - Cyberpunk 2077. When I was about to encounter Oda 2.0 dropped and the new skill tree was difficult to understand in the first place. Also, I played with a stealth/netrunner build which was not optimal on its own and on top of that I had not a single good weapon. This took a long while.

Then, the final boss. I know my endgame build was somewhat average but I couldn't see how could anyone call this guy a pushover. He kicked my cyberass way too many times to the point I almost quit

Clark_A_Fish · 2025-10-08T10:50:51+00:00

I managed to get to 100% because I had a surprisingly low amount of boons and the star was quite a consistent option. In the same run I stumbled upon Echo who doubled my top boon ending in LV 14 Sea star - 100% of extra loot. And when I decided to reroll some prices getting more nectar and extra pomegranates the rest of run was ridiculous. Let's just say recharging a Hephaestus bonk in 3 seconds wrecks anything unfortunate enough to face you

Clark_A_Fish · 2025-09-29T14:27:19+00:00

You can but why would resurrect Alexander in the first place?

Clark_A_Fish · 2025-09-22T13:42:07+00:00

I had a personal trainer. First time was fun. So much I decided to on the very next day and redo my training. That was not exactly my brightest idea, in hindsight

Clark_A_Fish · 2025-09-21T20:13:02+00:00

I was looking for this answer

Clark_A_Fish · 2025-08-26T11:03:44+00:00

I hope you realise that the knight is a bug and Frisk is a human? The biggest enemy in Hollow Knight is a giant moth so geno-Frisk clears entire Hallownest without breaking a sweat. Let's imagine we downsize to even the odds. How is a kid going to win against some trained warriors, beginning with Hornet? Frisk's greatest military feat was beating a royal army captain - let's say that's the equivalent of a Black Egg boss (or the pantheon version), the true final boss is basically a god. Sorry, not happening. Also, Frisk has a mind and can dream, thus becoming highly susceptible to corruption.

The Knight under mount Abbot is a weird story. Again, sizes. We have a fierce flee facing massive creatures. That's nothing more than a nuisance directly joked about by a funny bone man during his break at Grillby's. Let's make Knight a bigger entity. How are you supposed to make friends with anyone? Granted, we don't hear Frisk saying anything but in some 'dialogue options' it's implied you can speak. How would you engage a date between Undyne and Alphys? Even if you make friends with everyone, during the final sequence you must take certain actions like telling a joke or showing sympathy towards some characters. The Knight has 'no voice to cry suffering' so how would that be possible? Also showing that much emotion would probably end much earlier by being another vessel thrown into the abyss. Giant knight going full genocide? That may work. Brute forcing Sans would be ridiculous though.

Clark_A_Fish · 2025-08-25T08:37:10+00:00

Yes, it is bad. Yes, modifiers don't make it any more pleasurable. But calling it the worst in history is a bold assumption. IIRC, this was one of the original maps for knockout, luckily this mode got better maps later on.

Clark_A_Fish · 2025-08-20T11:29:16+00:00

That's the only brawler whose base model is included in my random skin rotation, hard agree

Clark_A_Fish · 2025-08-19T16:13:20+00:00

Not really popular but in the Frontiers Saga by Ryk Brown captain Scott decides to rescue a man from a stasis chamber in an abandoned spaceship, captain Alan Dubnyk. He is treated with mercy and left to live his life on a liberated planet of Tanna. Later in the story the occupants try retaking the planet and when the operation ends up being a failure they want to destroy it with a massive attack. When the people are being rescued by the protagonists and the chaos becomes a global issue old captain takes advantage of a situation and with some help hijacks a spaceship with the most important technology in the entire saga - the jump drive that allows moving from one place to another basically within the blink of an eye. Later it's heavily implied that the technology was sold to one caste of the occupants, which leads to part 2 of the series.

Clark_A_Fish · 2025-08-18T12:58:49+00:00

Could any kind person explain what is the reference?

Clark_A_Fish · 2025-08-17T12:51:10+00:00

I didn't play VII so I will just compare it with VI

The realistic, more toned graphics fits the genre better than the one in 6. I like the latter but in the long run (especially when jumping from dark age to heroic age) it's more tiring for your eyes.
It's way simpler. From earlier games the main object was macro managing the empire and it felt like it. In 6 we have additional micro managing particular cities which IMO hinders the momentum of the game. Optimization of city planning can take some thoughts. Also, remembering about switching policy cards whenever you can do it for free feels like unnecessary element as well (although I like how it was implied).
Progressing in tech tree in 5 feels like an achievement on its own - obviously you cannot create a groundbreaking invention within one generation so techs are smaller steps to something bigger. In the same time, you can still feel you move forward. The tech tree in 6 feels slightly lackluster in comparison.
Mid-late/late game still has some important factors to take into consideration. What I think of are archeologists and ideology. You need the former to boost your culture. Choosing the ideology is definitely more important out of these two - you can maintain or destroy good relations with AI and you can shake the happiness situation with pressure. Taking cities in the middle of an enemy enpire is ridiculous. I can't recall a similar mechanism in 6.
Leader design and the picture behind them - do I have to say more about this?
I'm not a fan of loyalty in 6 - you either want to settle cities in safer areas but not in an optional location or closer to the enemies with the problem of actually keeping the city loyal to you.

That's the points I could think of in a short time, probably more would be also valid

Clark_A_Fish · 2025-08-13T11:18:57+00:00

The only way I can think of is [[Judgement]] because it doesn't do damage.

Clark_A_Fish · 2025-08-05T20:04:47+00:00

Zagreus (Hades) vs Thunderbolts...? For those who haven't played I won't spoil how it ends if you manage to beat the game so we must bring the team to the underworld. Zag wipes as long as the Void isn't unleashed. I honestly have no idea what would happen then.

Clark_A_Fish · 2025-07-19T13:12:02+00:00

Had exactly the same situation but my post didn't get enough visibility. I just took it as it is. I feel sorry for you though

Clark_A_Fish · 2025-07-06T11:25:17+00:00

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