Our Favorite Games of 2018: Hollow Knight

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🗓️ 20 December 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Yes, Hollow Knight was released in 2017. No, Waypoint doesn’t care. It wasn’t until Hollow Knight arrived on Switch earlier this year that Patrick, Austin, and Natalie fell head over insect heels (do insects have heels?) for a game that captured our attention and imagination. Is it any surprise, given the way games like Dark Souls were invoked when talking about Hollow Knight? But the Dark Souls comparison, while apt and important, sells a terrific and ambitious game short, and that’s where this conversation comes in, a chance to spend a long time remembering our terrifying adventures in the deepnest, a deep love for the respectful stag, and so much more.

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0:00.0	What's good Internet and welcome back to Waypoints End of Year celebrations for 28
0:59.9	2018's best games team Sherries Hollow Knight which let me just check released
1:06.2	February 24th 2017
1:09.5	What happened why is this you know that was a Kickstarter game either it was a Kickstarter game
1:14.3	It was part of like the indie box. It was a whole bunch of things with that game
1:18.2	But I think most of us got to it this year because it released on on the Nintendo Switch in June
1:23.7	And then on the PS4 in the Xbox one only in September which I did not realize it was so late
1:28.1	I didn't really I thought that's what a pdf says PC only game for like almost a full year right totally totally
1:34.3	So I think a lot of people came to this game this year and before we get into it all the way
1:37.4	I'm curious just high level what were your experiences with some of the the kind of games that how it's drawing on Metroid
1:43.9	Vanias a little bit of Dark Souls in there stuff like that
1:47.4	Yeah, so I
1:49.2	Have a long history sort of with the genre starting with super Metroid. I owned a nest
1:54.6	But don't remember playing
1:56.9	Metroid one or two. I also don't know that I would have at that age had the patience or interest to like do
2:03.2	Like draw a map, you know
2:05.1	It wasn't until super Metroid where like the game like handled that in the interface
2:09.1	So maybe I played those games, but I don't have any recollection of it
2:12.4	But super Metroid I fell for really hard like a lot of people and like it was a short sprint from there to
2:18.8	One of my favorite PS1 games simply the other night, so
2:22.7	Where like I played Super Metroid and liked it
2:25.2	But was like too young to really internalize video games where it's simply the night was closer to me
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