You can also ignore all of that and do whatever you want - something I’ve learned this second go around is that if you already know what to do you can avoid bogging yourself down in the details and still have fun just exploring and going down your completion checklist. Along the way, you pick up things like upgrades and items that give you the opportunity to access new enemies, fight its greatest foes, and figure out the mystery that lies at its core. The short of what you do in Hollow Knight is simple: you play as a little bug thing and you platform around the fallen kingdom of Hallownest, striking your nail at every single enemy in your way. It’s a clear Before and After sort of thing, and Hollow Knight is the dividing line that’s basically come to define a lot of what’s around it.Īnd for good reason! Hollow Knight is a very good game! Enter Hollow Knight, with its mechanics primarily inspired by Dark Souls (which is at least a bit funny, given the degree to which Dark Souls was inspired from Castlevania even beyond the Metroidvania-like map) and suddenly every indie metroidvania after has bonfires as save points, an oblique plot which focuses more on putting individual bits of lore together to get a full picture, and combat that’s pattern based, punishing, and a lot more based on player skill than anything else.
There are exceptions, obviously - and I can’t claim that I really know everything about the genre - but pre 2017 most of the prominent metroidvanias I saw were… primarily based on Castlevania, down to stuff like RPG-esque stats and gear (where you could walk over anything if you grinded enough) and a plot which… more than anything was mostly just a reason for your character to be walking around your castle sandbox.
Like, take how Hollow Knight influenced indie metroidvanias, for example. It’s really cool to see how sometimes games can be so popular and influential that they forever change how their genre is viewed from then on out.
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