0:40 Legit the saddest part of this fight... The Hollow Knight gains partial control of his body, and stabs himself in order to help you win, but then the infection just overcome him and literally throws him around like a puppet.

One of the few if not only times I’ve ever seen in a video game in which darkness was the good side instead of light.

Inspirational Quotes(2017) "Git Gud"-Hornet, stabbing a dude in the face

I Love that the hero of Hollow Knight isn't some warrior of light. They're an embodiment of darkness, and they've come to stab the light in the face and take it straight to hell.

I firmly believe this entire game takes place in a patch of grass next to the Curse-Rotted Greatwood.

No more gods. No more kings. Only bugkind.

I Love how the Player Thought It was a cutscene and Waited for That Void Thing to Attack The Radiance so they just waited for like, 15 seconds in silence

This ending is sad, but right. The main character dies to save the entirety of Hallownest. The vessels played their purpose, to keep the Radiance- no... To rid the Radiance of this land. It's sad, seeing the siblings look up. "Our purpose has been fulfilled." as they sink into the ground. I personally didn't get emotional the first time I saw this, but rewatching this ending, knowing the lore and all, I feel... sad. But this is the true, good ending.

In the end, the true savior was not the child that the Pale King had deemed perfect. No, it was the united strength of all the children he had rejected and abandoned. When the world needed them most, they followed the call of a sibling who believed, not in the father who abandoned them, but in the strength of the imperfect vessels. They defied their father’s expectations and achieved what the mighty king, nor his greatest warriors, could ever hope to. These broken beings brought down one of the greatest threats known to bugkind.

Who would win An actual god Some black slime in a mask with legs edit : after 1 year i just realized the knight isn't a bug

3:59 and THIS! IS FOR MYLA!!

I did the same thing as you, just stared at the previous hollow knight holding the radiances eye open, then I was like..."Do I whack it?" XD

One of the best games I've played in a long time, needs more recognition.

5:00 when you do that fake falling thing

When you learn the story of this game, it's really sad when the hollow Knight tries to kill itself during the fight.

Something that makes this ending sadder is that- these are basically children. Because the hollow knight *grew* to what he is now, a somewhat adult. The vessels are still the same size as when they came out of the egg. Those were children. It's hard not to choke up watching the end scene and the Hollow knight's last phase where he could barely stand up from how weak he was, stabbing himself desparetly trying to end his pain and help you while the infection throws him around like a puppet. Seeing the siblings look up as their purpose has been fulfilled makes me tear up and they curl up and finally rest in peace

1:53 that luck tho

Who would win? A god of light Or... One beetle boi

I'm just gonna pretend that hollow knight lived, the mc lived and they all lived happily ever after while being long lost siblings

I get emotional every time I see this ending. It's so well-crafted, and despite the fact that we straight up died, it makes us feel like we made the right choice. The Radiance is gone, thereby ridding the Infection of the bugs of Hallownest, the Siblings are able to rest, and the Hollow Knight is at peace. We, in our final moments, were able to complete our biggest, and final mission. Everyone is free. But we were not the only victims. I personally feel bad for the Radiance, because, she is not as malevolent as the lore paints her to be. She was wronged, forgotten by her tribe in favor of a new light. She wanted revenge. And for her trouble, she was sealed away in a (mostly) empty mind for an unknown amount of time, her subjects were killed, and as was she- by something made by the creature she loathed so much. I feel bad for the Shades, for they were sacrificed to a purpose that ultimately, was useless and inhumane. The scream of the void calling them to unite, consume, and annihilate the Old Light, while being helpless, as inherently, they were decided as flawed and useless. They were trapped with nothing but the corpses of themselves and all of their thousands of other siblings, each one being no better off than the last. The fragmented wills of discarded vessels, who were killed by the person who was supposed to protect them. By their father. All this pain- all for nothing. And we, the Little Ghost of Hallownest. Honestly, there are no words to describe the kind of sympathy I have for this poor vessel child. They were forced to fight through hordes of monsters, controlled by the supposedly benevolent higher being who, in a fit of rage, drove their home and family to absolute madness, becoming the cause of death of thousands of their siblings, and pitting almost every living creature against them. Almost every companion they encountered was either slaughtered or taken away, and regardless of circumstances, they were ultimately left alone, one way or another. There was no happy ending for little Ghost. They died with no-one to stand by them. They, unlike everyone else, were never brought peace. Everyone else got to move on, and they didn't. Their only respite is that, in their sacrifice, they brought the core of the infection down. They, ultimately, completed their final goal. And, in their current circumstance, that's probably the best ending they can get. At the very least, they died fulfilled.

Coming back now, the worst part of the whole Hollow Knight fight is just the fact when Hornet stabs him, he's in the exact position of when he stabs himself.

The way the graphics looks makes me feel like I want to live in the game. I

The knight: Dont worry, im good My shad gonna be back to my vessel soon Can you help me find some super glue to fix my face?

"No will to break..." "No mind to think..." "No voice to cry out suffering" - Pale King

Imagine all this shit happening in your own lawn.

1:07 GET GOOD

Dude, you made the radiance fight look like a cakewalk. I lost with the first minute, and I was at full health because I didn’t get hit by the Hollow Knight. Tho it was first time seeing the radiance, I’m ready to hop back in and try again

we'll meet soon again on the road ahead this was one of the last sentence This may mean that it's not the end there might be more

3:48 Ghost's horns suddenly seem a bit longer. They also look a bit similar to a young Hollow Knight's horns in the Path of Pain cutscene.

plot twist: this is just a beetle biting a light bulb until it stops working, extended into an incredibly long and depressingly good game

The moment I was banging the shit out the Radiance with the Hollow Knight I screamed at the screen out loud "FOR MYLAAAAA" with incontrollable passion This game made me feel so much emotions...

If this game is about bugs then is the Radiance the size of a Jumbo Pen?

imagine not immediately spamming abyss shriek as soon as she appears

Radiance = Stooped guy who set plague/orange goo but made bugkind in the first place. King = Made the bugs get smarterer. Made Hallow knights as to hold in the plague.

this ending, it's made me tear up every time I watch it. something about the lore of it, the fact that the cute little knight you play as sacrificing themselves, the music, it's all emotionally powerful to me. I love this game probably too much, but I don't care; it's a definite 10/10 for me.

Why did he died ;_; I liked him so much....

3:17 The abyss rises. There's no use if your the last sacred light in the world.

The end cutscene actually makes me cry, I know I’m weird

3:39 BROTHER! TRUE KNIGHT!! LONG HAS OUR HOME SUFFERED UNDER THIS TYRANT! NOW END IT! END OUR

i pressed shift tab to see what time it was when i beat it and shift skipped the cutscene apparently so now im here

I like how the hollow knight helps you in the end

I also love how whenever you are jumping up to hit the final blow you see all the shades just watching in shock

I really do wonder how much of the Hollow Knight was inspired by Dark Souls' Artorias. The way he moves, his one-armed attacks, his possessed roaring, it's all there.

*ah yes. Time to beat up the sun*

I hope we see how hornet feels about The ghost deaths,since they where half siblings,and she got attached to him,I hope we see it in Silksong.

4:58 when you're having a good sleep but suddenly dream of parasailing.

I'd like to think your character is the collective souls of bugkin whose fallen to the infection(not in-game SOUL, but every dead bugkin). And this ending is the collective bugkin souls having its vengeance upon the infection. They cannot rest until it is done. And once it is, they fade to sleep for good.

4:00 "I'M GONNA SLAP SOME SENSE INTO YOU!!!"

When your body on bed makes that fake fall thing 5:00

Or. You could have asked a human to use a those electric lamps lol

If you think about it the ending with the siblings sinking into the ground is...sadder then you think The siblings where made to contain the infection and knew nothing else one way to look at this is that there finally put to rest or there eternally doomed to spend life with no purpose anymore

I just like the thoughts that when you were delivering de killing blow the hollow knight says "You will be forgotten" while The Radiance scream and vanished in the darkness

How to win tru ending First:do game 100% Two:sacrifice your self to save everyone

I DIED so many times, cause im a bad player and want to see how i can defeat the Radiance. and now........... I AM BACK! After the final boss. After the three rounds of the fools. After beating Grimm second form. And last but very least.... The Absolute RNG. I beat it. I Fucking beat the game and come back to this vid. Only to say. THAT WAS A "MASTERPIECE"* (*delete the 5th pantheon, it sucks, frustrating and nobody likes it.).

5:27 "He did it." ... "Now we may rest."

Hollow Knight has broken nail, while Pure Vessel has pure nail.

In the radiance boss fight the hollow knight's shade helps you.

1 detail I love is that its the hollow knight that helps you and holds the radiance down

I still can't tell if this outcome is a good thing or a bad thing

4:47 I cry every time. :.(

For those struggling with the boss I'll give my tips because I just beat the game today. I used 2 extra health charms and the quickslash charm as well. For the Hollow Knight fight, just kinda spam slashing him and dodge his moves (he only has like 4 moves so you'll learn the animations), and when he's down you can heal if you need to, but if you've got a lot, hit him a lot while he's hitting himself because you'll get a bunch of damage in. Lucky for you, if you make it to Radiance, you'll start with your bonus health again. Use your shriek as much as you can in this fight (just make sure you have time to dodge something if it's close). Slashing him will give you soul quick so you are almost never low on soul. For the platform part of the fight, keep using shriek if you can and heal far away from him if you need to. Wait for him to come to you, don't bother jumping towards projectiles to get to him, you'll get yourself killed. The jumping at the end is easy. Boom you're done. This boss took me 8 attempts with trying different charms and not using shriek, but then I beat it on my 2nd attempt when using the health and shriek. Good luck!

it's just me or this scene is too epic 3:36

Thank you, I gave up and I couldn't beat the final boss but you made it look super easy. Thanks for finishing the story for me :)

The funniest thing? They say its a game about bugs. Team Cherry Lost bug rights after the Abyss. Remember what the statue at Godhome said: "Not bug, Nor beast, Nor god"

I felt that delay when the knight was supposed to slap the radiance to death lol. On my first playthrough I was wondering why no one was doing anything.

5:52 tfw you’ll never play the game for the first time again

I think this is fair. The Radiance is not a pure evil, but someone who wanted revenge from a king. She got her revenge on him and his children, and Pale King's plan succeeded, so I think both are happy wherever the heck they are. I only feel bad for Hollow Knight and his siblings, cause they still have feelings

I feel like such a story couldn't be told in a more realistic art style, which makes the art choice brilliant. In any other context, I feel like this story would be too tragic and too gruesome. I don't know if it would have hit me as hard... it's so incredibly tasteful and brilliant, and I was blown away to find out Team Cherry was such a small workforce and not a large team of well-paid and well-known developers. Bravo to this masterpiece. So full of deep lore, mystery, magic and most importantly... fun!

Congrats Fray! This is awesome

Has anyone noticed that Hollow knight (Boss) has one arm

Dumb people angry at Silksong having a different protagonist and complaining "Why they didn't use the protagonist of the OG game!? WHY?! I wanna see more adventures of Hollow Knight!" Me: Well... there are reasons.

I love The Hollow Knight!!! (The Boss) His design is awesome! And just listen to how he roars!!!

Game after 8:11: you can now play as Luigi

This makes me depressed.

‘Light cannot exist without darkness’

Light tries to destroy darkness at all costs but it fails to realize that if it destroys darkness then the yang of its yin is also destroyed There is no light without darkness and there is no darkness without light but light doesnt understand and tries to destroy darkness at all costs

Question for everyone... Ever wonder if the corni the mapper was actually OP. He always managed to reach into tough ass places it took forever too reach and u be like how tf.

Why is this ending considered worse than the godmaster ending? In that one a bunch of (mostly) innocent creatures get killed who have no quarrel with the main characters or hollow nest. The only different is that the pure vessel survived But he’s gonna fight hornet? So that means he’s just gonna die again? So why is the godmaster ending any better? It isn’t

"MA! Come check this out, the stag beetle is tryna eat that one moth again!"

this endings cutscene is one of the best i've ever seen in videogames. The first time i finished the game and saw the dead souls finally resting hit like a truck.

looking for WHY IS THIS IN MY RECOMMENDS I NEED TO BUY THIS GAME

This is like made in heaven

why did the pale king try to seal away the radiance when he could have just *fucking killed it?*

took me...3 3hour sessions to beat radiance i think? also what charms.. quick slash, lifeblood core, and mark of pride i can tell. also the crack in the hk's shade is just epic

Plot twist: the knight is an immortal time traveler who is payed by the developers to be in the game, he is self aware. And he never died, he just troll a lolll a lollled Hornet.

RIP The Knight

Who else was dumb and didn't realize the other creature holding Radiance down was the Hollow Knight

Gotta rewatch this for SILKSONG HYPE

Keep in mind, this all probably happened under a bench Being serious, the knight fulfilled what he was made for, he is possibly now, the hollow knight

1:00 3:35

The last cutscene is the only reason I'm not fighting Radiance until Silksong is out.

Hornet lives to tell the tale

Re: Description - unforgivable!!!

This is the saddest moment of my life:(

You can’t pay back what you owe... WITH MONEY! 4:00

Rip hollow knight his skull broke and now he is an actually ghost oof.

I keep forgetting that you can up hit and down hit in this game and I always charge when I hit. I guess it was my downfall. But I did beat it at one health... it was so climatic.

1:15 Megaman x8

Gotta love that Hornet throws one final “Git Gud” at the knight before he fights the Radiance lol.

I got through the first faze in about 5 seconds by spamming abyys shriek (with shaman stone) and unbreakable strength nail hits.