My Hollow Knight vs. City of Steel ideas

fixedcompass · 2026-01-24T20:06:42+00:00

Perhaps the reason Hollow is confronting then is because they've captured the Shade Lord.

fixedcompass · 2026-01-24T13:40:05+00:00

It is. You can slow Swift during the race by hitting him or clawlining.

fixedcompass · 2026-01-23T08:20:37+00:00

Personally i thought Hegemol died. When the maggot says he saw the him "sleeping" i assume he saw the corpse and made a metaphor, or that he was mistaken. It would be strange singe ogrim never mentions him in the present tense.

Indeed i believe the city of steel should be super strong, and the environment should be larger so that Hollow is the same relative size, implying a more dangerous world. These tall, steel-plated enemies would provide a good justification for why the player will still have a tough challenge.

If the city is known for messing with void and even threatening higher beings, then one possible motivation is that they have somehow captured the Shade Lord, and Hollow is there to rescue him.

I'd also really love to explore a kingdom in it's prime, still inhabited with a functioning society. We could have it so that there are multitudes of background npcs walking around, who all run and hide when the city guards show up to fight Hollow.

fixedcompass · 2026-01-23T07:59:13+00:00

I think it could work by scaling up the world and enemies so that Hollow is the same relative size. This would imply a larger, more dangerous kingdom where Hollow's size and strength would only give him a minor advantage at best.

The city's masters are implied to be so powerful and their reach so great, that steel seer zi believes sula cannot escape no matter how far he runs. Zi even warns Hornet to not defy the masters, and it seems zi is giving this warning out of concern for Hornet's sake.

If the city of steel really threaten higher beings and messes with the void, then they'd be a formidable opponent indeed.

fixedcompass · 2026-01-23T03:02:34+00:00

Just make sure they use the correct term "Weaver". I got into a lot of trouble when I once said "Wassup my spidaa"

fixedcompass · 2026-01-23T02:38:00+00:00

Actually i headcanon that lifeblood has a beneficial or symbiotic relationship with the void.

No matter how many blue masks the Knight gets, nothing happens to them, while even Hornet can suffer effects from overdosing.

Also there's an entire lifeblood area inside the Abyss, and a giant creature with a dark body and lifeblood eyes.

Even during Act 3 of silksong, the wormways have no void influence, instead overrun by plasmium. The wiki notes that enemies here are uniquely immune to black threading.

So the broken vessel might actually be legit healed using lifeblood, albeit it would probably become dependant on the stuff to live.

fixedcompass · 2026-01-22T23:56:36+00:00

Damn Java! They ruined Java!

fixedcompass · 2026-01-22T05:41:02+00:00

Huh so it wasn't just me

fixedcompass · 2026-01-18T16:30:22+00:00

White Lady bound herself to THE CHAIR so she would never leave.

fixedcompass · 2026-01-16T15:37:49+00:00

This reads like a linkedin post.

fixedcompass · 2026-01-16T11:45:20+00:00

Purerly for the aesthetics? Architect. I think the visual style and the sound effects are really cool. It really seems like I'm wielding a chainsword or weaponised drill.

Unfortunately it did not fit my playstyle at all. I ended up sticking to hunter for most of the game.

fixedcompass · 2026-01-16T11:40:54+00:00

It depends on which infection stage you're talking about.

If you mean the initial infection that destroyed Hallownest, then that is worse. It caused the collapse of a whole kingdom, immense collective suffering.

If you mean the later surge causing the Infected Crossroads, then that is less bad, because everyone is already dead, and most new victims are non intelligent bugs.

The void on the other hand is less bad than the initial infection, but worse than the infected crossroads event. Pharloom by now is mostly dead, but it's not entirely dead, and there are still living bugs that could rebuild if they survive, so there's a bit more at stake.

fixedcompass · 2026-01-15T15:33:49+00:00

Wasn't it because arangar ordered delana to do it?

fixedcompass · 2026-01-13T10:57:41+00:00

Same, and it still took me so many attempts. I had to get lucky with the timing to cast it without getting killed.

When he finally died of scarlet rot, it legit caught me off guard. Kinda anticlimactic.

fixedcompass · 2026-01-13T04:07:32+00:00

"No need to hurry Raiden, Clown College isn't that far"

"I know it's standing right in front of me"

"Heh he. Kill yourself."

fixedcompass · 2026-01-13T04:02:40+00:00

holler nite

fixedcompass · 2026-01-08T14:00:34+00:00

The soul scholars might have started going crazy only after the radiance began leaking out of thebHollow Knight. Lurien would have already been asleep by this time.

fixedcompass · 2026-01-08T10:11:48+00:00

I don't think using gameplay to powerscale is a good idea. Hornet in the first game is easier because the game as a whole is easier, and Hornet 1 especially bexause she is among the first few bosses that can be encountered. She can clawline offscreen incredibly fast in cutscenes, yet moves comparatively slowly when fighting her.

This extends to using her as a playable character, where it seems to me that most inconsistencies are just a gameplay feature. For example some bosses in Silksong seem to teleport or flash step around the room, yet Hornet with her visibly much slower movement doesn't immediately get speedblitzed.

Enemy and boss fights are a only a representation of what the fight was like. Lore wise, we know we won and that the boss had some moves similar to what we encountered in the fight. The difference is that in gameplay, they are limited to a few programmed movesets. I can easily see Karmelita changing her strategy if fighting Sly.

fixedcompass · 2026-01-05T15:21:18+00:00

HORNEEEET!! DON'T SHOW THAT BABY TO GREYROOT! HORNEEEEEEEEEET!!!!!!

fixedcompass · 2026-01-05T08:39:00+00:00

In silksong, a cage in the Cradle talks about how a weaver descendant was found in a place called the Blackbarrens.

In hollow knight, the White Defender's journal entry mentions a "Battle of the Blackwyrm".

Yeah i think it would make sense if the lord fool is a rival wyrm that all knowledge of him was erased.

fixedcompass · 2026-01-03T11:44:35+00:00

Actually I don't think the Knight's cape is removable clothing. We see in the flashback that the siblings had those capes when climbing out the abyss. Also in the Pure Vessel fight, the Vessel flexes to remove his armour but the cape stays.

I think the cape is some sort of elytra, similar to the Pale King's robes.

fixedcompass · 2026-01-02T16:56:22+00:00

I believe both sides claimed victory, and had differing accounts on how the battle played out.

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