I have been wanting to play hollow knight but im bad at games, is it hard ? Would you recommend?
HMM okay, so. hollow knight, for me, was only difficult because 1. i do not have patience. and 2. i haven’t played platformers on desktop in Literal Years (and the last i played was a paper mario game). however! i’ll say even if you’re Not familiar with these types of games, it Should be relatively easy to pick up! they introduce the mechanics slowly (starting with walking, the movement limited to how high you can jump (dependent on how long you hold the button) for now, and then you go on to find more things like spells and dashing and all that) and they give you time to readjust to having each one! at least that’s how it was for me :0c
for bosses you’ll usually have to try them multiple times to get down their attacks (and the frames that prepare their attacks), and there’s no real “game over” screen for hk when you die; you just wake up on your most recent bench and go back to retrieve your shade and you’ll be able to try again. it’s no big deal dying, the game sort of expects you to fail some stuff at first and gives you a chance to try again.
it’s a game that, first run through, is difficult just enough to keep the player engaged and actually feel like they’re Progressing when they get certain items / defeat bosses / etc, esp if they’ve struggled w them. and, even then, it’s got its story that for most people has them like :eyes_emoji: and wanting to learn more abt it despite their troubles!
tl;dr i’d recommend it!!! it’s a very nicely challenging game that wasn’t out of its way ruthless and it was fun for me to go through and start piecing the story together and figuring out how everything works and it was a refreshing new beginning in video games which i. Admittedly do not play much of anymore.