Hollow Knight is one of the best games of the decade. You should buy this game if you are interested in...

1.) A vast, and beautiful world that, even when you think you've seen it all will continue to sprawl out and show you more.
2.) A challanging, but increadably rewarding combat system that pushes you and your abilities to the limit..
3.) A beautiful visual and musical style that will never stop amazing you.

Hollow Knight is a game all about progression. A metriodvania, with a 2D world with closed off paths that you can back-track through once you've upgraded your move set. The worst thing about Hollow Knight is it starts slow, and my initial issue was that I lost interest a few hours in, but push past that. Keep. Playing. Explore everything, keep getting better at combat, talk to NPCs, piece together the story and lore of Hollownest, I promise the pay-off is worth while. So please, give it a shot.

A few negatives, because no game (especially a game that's money to content ratio is unbelievable) is perfect.

1.) The game starts slow, and it isn't impossible to get lost, you need to have patients early on, and not everyone can do that.
2.) The combat system is amazing, but it takes a while to reach it's full potential, and some of the bosses have some cheasy attacks that will negate parries, have attacks that result in something teleporting on-top of you (leading to unavoidable damage), and a few attacks in the late-game that I never felt the hit-box was consistant on.
3.) The back-tracking works really well for most of the game, you get to know Hollownest well, but in my quest for 106%, I ended up needing Google for a few things that I missed, because re-exploring the entire map would've taken ages.

All of those negatives out of the way, this is most fun I've had out of a 2D game since Cave Story. Putting it right among the top of my favorite games of all time.

Hollow Knight is one of the best games of the decade. You should buy this game if you are interested in... 1.) A vast, and beautiful world that, even when you think you've seen it all will continue to sprawl out and show you more. 2.) A challanging, but increadably rewarding combat system that pushes you and your abilities to the limit.. 3.) A beautiful visual and musical style that will never stop amazing you. Hollow Knight is a game all about progression. A metriodvania, with a 2D world with closed off paths that you can back-track through once you've upgraded your move set. The worst thing about Hollow Knight is it starts slow, and my initial issue was that I lost interest a few hours in, but push past that. Keep. Playing. Explore everything, keep getting better at combat, talk to NPCs, piece together the story and lore of Hollownest, I promise the pay-off is worth while. So please, give it a shot. A few negatives, because no game (especially a game that's money to content ratio is unbelievable) is perfect. 1.) The game starts slow, and it isn't impossible to get lost, you need to have patients early on, and not everyone can do that. 2.) The combat system is amazing, but it takes a while to reach it's full potential, and some of the bosses have some cheasy attacks that will negate parries, have attacks that result in something teleporting on-top of you (leading to unavoidable damage), and a few attacks in the late-game that I never felt the hit-box was consistant on. 3.) The back-tracking works really well for most of the game, you get to know Hollownest well, but in my quest for 106%, I ended up needing Google for a few things that I missed, because re-exploring the entire map would've taken ages. All of those negatives out of the way, this is most fun I've had out of a 2D game since Cave Story. Putting it right among the top of my favorite games of all time.