You can see that this creature is infested by the light. Who or what is it calling for? As far as I can tell, its voice is never answered. I hear this beast crying out sometimes as I prowl the caverns, although I've never actually laid eyes on it. Becomes aggressive if not able to mingle with its own kind. THE BROODING MAWLEK "Ferocious but extremely social creature. This may also be one of the most "normal" creatures to make it onto this list. Of course, almost every creature in this game has a face or a mask like a stylized, alien skull. I'm a pretty big fan of that! I also really enjoy their bony, beaky faces. I apppreciate the respect the Hunter seems to have for the larger adults! These seem to serve multiple purpose as this setting's generalized blood-draining insects, resembling a sort of mosquito but leaping around more like a flea due to their seemingly useless, vestigial wings. This enemy comes in two sizes, but otherwise looks and behaves the same. Either keep your distance, or try to dance between its hops and strike at its legs." A worthy foe, surprisingly nimble for its size. " Leaps around the edge of the world, trying to crush prey beneath its body. If you hold it above a fire, the belly will grow and grow until it explodes in a steaming shower of fluids" This hopping thief's belly is full of the blood it has stolen from other beasts. THE HOPPER " Leaps at prey and uses its sharp proboscis to drain vital fluids. ![]() This encounter looks at first like a six-eyed monster within a mossy cave, and the reason we're covering this one first is because, upon your first meeting, The Hunter gifts you its Hunter's Journal This functions rather like Pokemon's Pokedex, but an entry on a given creature is instead filled out once enough of that creature has been killed, and the entries offer us The Hunter's own personal thoughts on each organism! Wherever relevant, we're also going to include the Hunter's notes as a direct quote on the enemies and bosses we're about to review. THE HUNTER "When I was young, my brothers and sisters and I would hunt each other in the nest. ![]() So as usual this time of year, I'm narrowing it down to what I consider "the spookiest," which doesn't necessarily include every one of my favorites, but it does include most of them! That's cool! There's also a rationalization behind this that is a MASSIVE SPOILER, and we will get to it here, so, be warned about that.Īrguably almost every character and creature in this game is Halloween-appropriate, seeing as they're all gothic-looking beetles and flies with skull-like masks, but of course, reviewing the entire bestiary for just one article would be a pretty massive undertaking. ![]() It's interesting to me that the natural, healthy state of this setting is one of dim, predominantly grey and blue colors, but the deathly blight is something luminous and vivid. From its premise to its visual execution, it is quite simply one of the most perfect games to ever exist, and I say that having still never physically played it myself, as I so rarely play any games anymore when I can just watch my spouse play and absorb them like extremely long, slightly more surreal movies.įor those of you not totally familiar with this one, the player takes on the role of a nameless and mysterious knight exploring the kingdom of Hallownest, which is in the process of falling apart under the influence of a bizarre plague often referred to as only "The Infection," but sometimes known as "The Bright Light." It's the vivid, orange glow and sometimes matching cysts infesting the environment and many of its creatures, even capable of animating dead bugs as mindless "husks." ![]() It's a game in which virtually every single character is an adorable, yet satisfyingly alien looking arthropod in a gorgeously animated, dreamlike setting with a gothic horror twist. It's one of those things that almost felt too "on the nose." Something with so many things I liked that it felt kind of overwhelming, maybe even a little too wistful to think about it too much a reminder of the kind of projects I wish I knew how to organize myself, and one of those things I kind of spent most of my life never realizing I missed. Hollow Knight is, somehow, close to three years old at the time of this writing, and still I had never really gotten around to discussing it much.
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