The Top 5 Worst Things That Can Happen To You In Hollow Knight

[@TrueDiox]

Worst part about Myla is it's not a sudden thing. If you keep checking on her, you'll see her slowly losing herself (forgetting things, etc), until she finally goes hostile. It hits too close to home and is seriously sad to watch.

[@lechadeur]

i never went back to crystal peak so she never attacked me and i never attacked her

[@soyelchyyno018]

I forgot about her and kill her lol

[@VoidPaul97]

​@lechadeur Yeah, after getting Crystal Heart, I never returned to the place Myla was. Just too much pain.

[@5P_OFFICIAL]

​@@VoidPaul97at least we can free her from radiance's control

[@ceithless]

and if you d-nail her you can see a fragment of the song she used to sing

[@imarrams511]

Worst feeling for me watching new players that use the Dream Nail on Marissa. It hurts a little. When I started playing HK for the first time,it was 2 weeks before my mother passing away from cancer. And when I found Marissa for the first time, my mom heard the music from HK. She said "that song is so sad but so beautiful". My mom was already bedridden but still was always watching me play HK. Even hours prior she passing away, I sang that song for her. She smiled a little. She died 2 hours later. For me HK,specially the City of Tears song have a special place in my heart. 😞😞😞

[@crimsonlmfao]

I am so sorry for your loss; God bless your mother

[@grapefantaaaa]

i mean i still need that essence so…

[@imarrams511]

@@grapefantaaaa 1 Essence? 😞

[@Failed3614]

@@imarrams511 better than nothing

[@RealRizzerLive]

I need the one essence tho

[@2ndBreakfassst]

For me it was the first time I tried to do the under 5 hr achievement. No mask or vessel upgrades, 1 nail upgrade, ddark, and shaman stone. I got to thk at 4 hours after having a really hard time with watcher knights. I thought, thk is gonna be easy, I've beaten it several times. I crapped the bed and missed the achievement after wasting an hour failing, getting angry, and refusing to take a break. Hard lesson to learn.

[@mageshades]

I got this achievement on my first try; my biggest tip for you (if you haven't done it yet) would be to do each boss you do on the speedrun in the HoG on Ascended or Radiant

[@2ndBreakfassst]

@@mageshades I eventually got it by practicing watcher knights on another file until I got comfortable fighting them without a bunch of power ups, same with the hollow knight.

[@altajine1305]

Watchers knight are actually really hard at this moment ( i finish the game in 5h04) 😭😭😭

[@luborpietrasik9904]

I remember lost one run 5hr 4min same And do again with 4hr and 57 min. Aand I must say I'm a big dummy Should have take pale ore from ansiant basis for second nail upgrade But I forgot that it exist there

[@woofspider330]

I got stuck at watcher knights at about 1h,25m, beat my head against that wall for 30 mins, then got the 2nd nail upgrade, and I swapped my focus/quick cast buttons, because I cant do two fingers on the triggers, so I left one for dash, and the other for focus. Took 5 minutes to adjust, but I beat watcher knights pretty easily that time, and made it out of the game in just under 4hrs I think. I was surprised that I 2-phased Uumuu, and had to run back to Dartmouth for the lantern After going to deepnest and remember that it's dark in there. And forgot to stag to queens station, and just did the FCanyon acid skip again/walked all the way there lol. Maybe it's the console's limitations, but watching Relyea and Fireb0rn, they just make it seem so smooth and fast

[@feeglsnorf]

Honorable mention: Literally anything to do with primal aspids

[@alistairkalliarkos4747]

THIS THE ONE

[@RelyeaGaming]

fact

[@Moonlord2193]

(My opinion don't crucify me) I don't get the hype around primal aspids (and crystal hunters), they're annoying, sure, but they aren't even the most annoying enemy in kingdom's edge

[@gamereviews5384]

Another one is getting killed before getting ur shade losing all that geo you got painful

[@posseidao5447]

I KNEW I WOULD SEE THIS COMMENTARY

[@ohkoxar]

Brought Grimmchild to Fog Canyon on a steel soul run. Fair to say, it did not go well lol (tho I technically died to qga)

[@RelyeaGaming]

ohh no, that is a rough way to go

[@insectoidabomination]

bring him to The Hive with Hiveblood lmao

[@SuperJefftroid]

That's rough buddy.

[@Mk-mz8zt]

I had a dream shield with me

[@insectoidabomination]

@@Mk-mz8zt oooh combine the two and it's bullet hell

[@taurin423]

I experienced the Path of Pain death on those last enemies. Worst feeling, dying to that and realizing the whole thing has to start over. Had to walk away from the computer for a moment there. However, best feeling, I went back in and blew through the path of pain 10x faster than my first run and was back to that part faster than I could have believed. I was astounded by how I had improved from my first run.

[@RelyeaGaming]

second time through is soo much faster. I have a feeling a lot of people would just quit

[@211aonscratch4]

happened to me too

[@fulgentiuswilly5043]

Yus, have the same exp

[@Pogobro]

that feeling you are talking about is why we play games haha

[@thatotherandrew_]

I am in exactly the same boat as you, and even have the sama name as you lmao But yeah, first time through took me almost 3 hours, and second time was in under 6 _minutes_ - real Celeste vibes there

[@IceReptilian]

I'm a person that loves lore. To know what NPCs and enemies are thinking. Now, on my very first run ever, I acquired the dream nail and was stoked I got to read about additional dialogue from NPC's thoughts. I went from Sly to the Old Stag, to Bretta and to Cornifer. I also learned that dream nail can see the thoughts from my enemies that I fight. I eventually stumbled to a place in the city of tears, locked behind a key. I saw the painting and read the Lore about her, in the way in. When I found her, I spoke to her and listened to her sad story about people no longer visiting to listen to her sing. I sat there listening to her for several minutes, which I then realized it was her voice I was hearing in the city of tears music. After, I wanted to see if there was more secret dialogue, so then I struck her with my dream nail. The silence that came after was deafening. To my horror, I realized my mistake. It's been over 4 years since then and I still haven't gotten over it.

[@RelyeaGaming]

Oof, that is up there for sure

[@animejuggernaut2553]

I've been dream nailing all the 1 essence characters cause i thought you were giving their soul peace and making them pass on to bug afterlife rather than being stuck where they are or something....... HAVE I BASICALLY BEEN MURDERING SOULS ALL THIS TIME?!?!?!

[@Gardengap]

Technically you’re freeing her, bc she’s cursed to stay there forever

[@guesnty]

i literally did the same thing

[@gizer-bs]

@@animejuggernaut2553 Well they are going into you pocket.

[@benbrown3039]

So you know that feeling when you're like, "Hey, I beat all the dreamers, I'm finally gonna get the steel soul achievement!" Then you try to fight THK with hardly any upgrades and you realize that he's a lot harder without shade cloak. You keep telling yourself, "I can do it and I don't want to go anywhere in case I die." So eventually you go and try to get some more powerful stuff and you find yourself in infected crossroads (arguably my least favorite area). As you're making your way to the charm dealer, you take a nasty double explosion dealing you 4 damage and ending your 4 hour steel soul run. Lets just say, THIS is the worst feeling I have ever experienced.

[@stefansimicic]

You need to set up your mind 1st upgrades (spells, nail, masks, vessels) do it as soon as you can 2nd buy fragile charms (its steal soul so no breaking possible) 3rd practice bosses you are uncomfortable on another normal save file till you can beat them easily ( best to do in hall of gods) Optional: just quit if you are on 1 mask or 2 mask if boss is doing 2 mask of dmg and u got only 2, its cheesy way but if you just want an achivment. Its so much easier then going over and over again being frustrated for losing so much time. Personally 1st time I was doing it I done it with quiting, then I thought to myeslf, thats just wrong, do it right now, and surprisingly done it 1st try with my 1st and 2nd tip, no practising bosses before fights, just playing carefully. P.S. sorry for my spelling mistakes

[@theworldthroughtyseyes8499]

I’m never gonna have safe dash problems with him I pogo him instead do share dash

[@Vuk2302]

I beat that first try i just got 1 mask early and some nail upgrades and fragile hearth and strength and beat it first try

[@thekohzyfam4499]

@@stefansimicic it’s okay I do it too😂

[@wta1518]

@@stefansimicic This. Absolutely make sure you are practiced with the bosses. Preferably with a harder version of the boss (i.e. if you're going to fight Hornet Protector, practice with Hornet Sentinel, or use Ascended difficulty for bosses that don't have a harder version) until you can beat them 3 times in a row.

[@lottanieminen9173]

I feel the Myla one, I always thought of her as a really safe character and found her humming super calming and then suddenly SHE IS ATTACKING ME?? Top 10 anime betrayals

[@SunnyBunny9621]

I tried steel soul only once. I died to an acid pool in fungal wastes… an incredibly frustrating feeling.

[@RelyeaGaming]

That is not fun

[@zakariyabhamji5065]

@@RelyeaGaming lol

[@zakariyabhamji5065]

Lol

[@OliverClarke-p1o]

The baldur outside greenpath 💀

[@The_Rubber_Dino2]

In my steel soul I died to one of those soul sanctum guys that scoot around on the ground. I was getting more soul for soul master. Embarrassing

[@liljim_8845]

One of the worst feelings is when you go to the colosseum and you meet tiso and he tells you that he’s going into the colosseum. But then if you go down to where a bunch of bugs are falling from the colosseum, you can see tiso’s dead body on the side of the cliff

[@HoodieRay4Life]

Fr

[@Savrollo]

I actually lol´d and had a Nelson moment right there on the spot

[@wta1518]

IT SHOULD'VE BEEN ZOTE!

[@NoNames-vw3bq]

I thought I was going to have to fight him instead of Zote since I left Zote to rot in deepnest. 😂 I was a little surprised that I didn't have to fight him.

[@Justin-pp4uz]

And when i start up p5 and see tiso only to die to the falling mawlek

[@sikky00]

I had a steel soul run and fought the Radiance, thought since it was a dream boss that the death wouldn't count but it actually does.

[@Kriss-ys5pl]

I did absolute radiance on radiant before i even touched that dude on steel mode

[@puglord7947]

It is the only dream boss that actually kills you after all sooooo

[@sandjgaez257]

If she dies for real in the dream, then you die for real in the dream.

[@roarster27xbl74]

Same wasted 10 hours got 100 percent fought radiance to get the achievement for steal soul 100 percent and lost never been so upset in my life

[@quaff4870]

I underastimated her as well because i was like "well im in dream realm so no worries" and then i died lmfao

[@teaenthusiast6193]

"The happy couple achievement" Ah yes best friends

[@askerror1987]

Nothing will be funnier to me than hearing HK creators call them “friends”

[@fusiondraws7482]

They are gay and they can’t deny it

[@yummydragon8533]

i didnt know relyea was a historian

[@strawberrys0da714]

And they were roommates.

[@theye29]

​@askerror1987 why cant they be friends?

[@BSPancake]

On my first playthrough, I actually paused and tabbed out to check if I had to kill the Nail Smith or not. After I discovered I have the option to save him, I tabbed back in, pressed B to exit the pause menu and hit him with vengeful spirit... made me twice as sad since it wasn't even the nail that killed him.

[@buzzsawwyrm1595]

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooof

[@Ferrero_rocher5782]

Controller moment

[@BrandonTheOne2]

​@@Ferrero_rocher5782They said they tabbed out which means they were on pc

[@Ferrero_rocher5782]

you can use a controller on pc @@BrandonTheOne2

[@wta1518]

@@Ferrero_rocher5782 Even worse, controller on a PC.

[@user-BlackBear90]

The worst feeling, for a beginner, is collecting 2000 Geo and dying, then dying again, trying to reach the shade left a mile away...

[@nerdyviz]

Worse dying mechanism, Devs may high to make this syst

[@teaenthusiast6193]

The worst one for me is beating steel soul and managing to get the 100%, going to fight the radience and dying to the hk

[@RelyeaGaming]

Ohh no! That is so far in to get killed!

[@theaxbowlotl]

Fun tip: Right before you die, pause the game, and quit. You will be at full health, at the last bench you saved at. It's cheap, but it beats losing hours of progress.

[@luisapaza317]

@@theaxbowlotl related, my dad for not losing the cars in NFSMW also quit the game a lot haha

[@draygon6909]

I died to radiance instead

[@silliest-astro]

i died to radiance on my first run :c

[@blythepineda9929]

I once tried to complete a Steel Soul run on an enemy randomizer. I made it all the way to Isma's tear but in the room right before with all the enemies, one of them turned into the Radiance and I was already going in with low health. I was absolutely destroyed in that room and it was not pretty.

[@rat5493]

steel soul + enemy rando sounds awful

[@blythepineda9929]

@@rat5493 It was pretty bad. It wasn't so bad the second time because I knew what I was getting into.

[@Sakanamoto]

That’s insane! So the enemy randomizer can literally make anything anything??? I feel for your misfortune…but that must have been quite the sight to see! I haven’t played HK on the computer yet, but I plan to! I’m really curious about the mod support:)

[@rat5493]

@@blythepineda9929 i might have to try one of those now

[@Alextheslayer_YT]

For me the WORST feeling is when you have over 1000 geo and you die so you go to get your shade but you DIE TO YOUR SHADE LOSING ALL YOUR GEO

[@AwsAwssaaa]

Happend to me

[@-Metalblaster-]

Pathetic, I once lost 5000 geo

[@Alextheslayer_YT]

@@-Metalblaster- I said *OVER* not exactly idiot

[@Spit_n_Sparkles]

That’s why I hoard rancid eggs lol

[@Alextheslayer_YT]

@@Spit_n_Sparkles ok um I’m a new player and don’t know to much ummm what do the rancid eggs do?

[@Pollo520]

Unfortunately, I died couple times in steel soul. I could quit and teleport to bench however it would ruin the fun of this challenge.I was Always sad because I lose my progress but I never give up and play again. After few attempts I finally did it. I beat steel soul on 100%.i was so happy about that. Then I wanted to try path of pain because I know it that if you die in dream world (with that dream stamps in background) I will respawn like when you fight the dream version of bosses like soul tyran or lost kin. I did it but I forgot put on a fight charm and I died in that battle. I wasn't worried when I died because I thought I will respawn. Then only thing I saw was black screen with big white word. GAME OVER. I was so confused since I always respawn when I fail dream bosses. I google that in internet to see what happend and then I realized that if you died in white palace you will not respawn. I was so angry and sad at this same moment. I quit game and sit in silence for 30 minutes. That is my most painful story in hollow knight

[@heathkish6901]

Relyea is genuinely one of my favorite people on this platform. He seems like such a sweet, wholesome dude... The world could use more of that.

[@FrogKanna]

I didn’t strike the nail smith and now seeing Sheo and him together is like pure eye candy, I love them.

[@William1w1]

Was doing a true ending run as first steel soul attempt. Took everything slowly and carefully and always tried to be OP for boss fights. Was nearly done and thought Marmu would be a joke... Marmu was not a joke.

[@bikercat1829]

The worst feeling that I experianced, was when I lost my steel soul run. I had gotten both monomon and lurien, but I dead to one of the enemies that does 2 masks of damage in the Beast's Den, and I was so close to finishing it.

[@Sick-cada]

Ooh I hate those enemies. But if you have sharp shadow you can dash right through them, so I've got a way to get around them without the danger

[@ithinkpigeonsarecool]

stupid stalking devouts

[@FatPodMan]

I cannot state enough that the mindset behind these is what makes the moments frustrating. I went from having the mindset of "Well now I have to redo everything" in steelsoul to "Ok, I enjoy this world, I'm fine with restarting" Same thing goes for the pantheons and path of pain, took me 3 hours straight to get past path of pain but not one moment was I frustrated, it was fun. Pantheons I had a horrid mindset at the start, but once I enjoyed the fights themselves and learnt the bosses, it became easier. I was on holidays on a laptop that lagged when I first beat pantheon 5, along with it being my first try in over a month. This happened because I didn't think "this is the time I will win" I thought "Hey let's give it a shot and see how far I go". This also keeps you a lot calmer during those high intensity moments. For people who want to accomplish these like steelsoul, pantheons, ect: Enjoy the game, don't just chase the rewards and achievements. You can do these things, but it takes *time*

[@stripedrajang3571]

Well said.

[@Gabeysword]

The worst thing is dieing a second time without getting your shade and losing an hours worth of geo.

[@hollow9414]

On my way back from the kindoms edge to fight the radiance on steal soul, I died to the exploding bats

[@frog42]

That is horrible. I am genuinely sorry.

[@RelyeaGaming]

that sounds like pure pain

[@lilyrose6819]

Where’s thing that have happened in the whole night for me is losing every single one of my Geo when I have like 7000 Geo

[@hyrumarnold8816]

I spent 5 hours on the Path of Pain and I died at the end to the enemys, it was horrible. I think I literally cried, I was so freaking mad, But the next day I beat it in a hour.

[@vbflame5645]

I died in steel soul run by that one crystal fly in the crystal peak shooting the spike at the worst place possible and killed me 2nd time by primal aspid

[@rockyboi1961]

The two worst non-boss enemies

[@Snake0Gamer]

I fear what Wort will do in Silksong 😨

[@nobody-ri5ng]

What's the wort thing that can happen

[@better640]

Wort scares me

[@MudNic1]

I dont mind wort if silksong comes out soon

[@RelyeaGaming]

wort wort wort

[@switchboy2320]

Wort will skilksong come out

[@ME0_]

path of pain is such a core memory to me like it was a burning summer day 40 degrees Celsius outside halfway through i was so drenched in sweat my controller was constantly slipping out my hands and i somehow persevered after 4 hours

[@evil_meli]

7:01 I was fighting Mantis Lords and I was at 1 hp but I had fury equipped so I was like, "nah, imma be fine" and then died like two seconds later

[@mrwho995]

The worst feeling for me is saving up a bunch of geo for something, dying, and then deciding not to go to the spirit returning guy, dying again, and losing all of it. I'm bad at the game and don't learn from my mistakes and probably lost a combined 20k due to that.

[@BattleFolly]

Avoided save-quitting during the steelsoul / -heart run, but got the dreamgate asap with dreamboss essence, just so I could dreamgate back to a bench whenever I lost courage. Didn't use it much, but just knowing I could use that made me feel more confident!

[@Sakanamoto]

That’s pretty smart! I love the dream gate and I’ve only played regular mode^_^

[@BattleFolly]

@@Sakanamoto Ha, good luck in case you're going to attempt it! And also in any other case :-)

[@pim69420]

i lost my first steel soul to mantis lords and just a minute later i beat mantis lords on a nirmal save file with even worse gear

[@preston_s.]

First time I tried the Path of Pain, I died to the enemies at the end after hours of frustration. I waited a couple years to try again.

[@moutsydumezweni2915]

Bruh I was on the verge of insanity at the white palace, I convinced myself I was Never gonna make it through,I gave the game a rest for a coupleof days ,somehow I eventually did it and I couldn't believe it, now that I know there is even more difficult platforming in the path of pain ,my stride a has already been broken before I have even reached the path of pain, this game is insane😅

[@escapegoat573]

After I did path of pain, i thought to myself i should do this again. so i did it over 20 times more that week

[@SwitchaccountsLol]

Ok I’m not tryna be that guy but I did white place in one sitting

[@Not_Maës-Gaming]

Steel soul, I had 4 masks in fog canyon, I made the fatal error of hitting one of these explosive jellyfishes, it hit me and another jellyfish who ALSO hit me. I had four masks and died in three seconds by ffin JELLYFISHES Fortunately I was only on my way to mantis claw so I didn't lose that much progress, only 45 minutes or so. Also I think that the worst feeling about dying in steel soul would be trying to get the steel heart achievement, getting to 100%, try to kill the final boss and dying during the fight

[@Explosivecoffe]

The worst feeling for me is realizing you could save cloth if you did not interact with her in the Ancient Basin.

[@iiman1c]

but cloth was so happy when she died like that, so i got happy for her too

[@bonkeykong3965]

you know what is truly painful, spending hours trying to beat the radiance (because I have a skill-issue) and dying right before you do the final hit right as you jump towards to radiance

[@ejmatthews1012]

Oh yes they all feel really bad. For me the worst was Myla. I thought I was "helping" her when I killed her, but towards the end of the game I felt really bad. MAYBE there was a chance that she could have awoken from the infection? Maybe? We will never know... I haven't tried steel soul or path of pain yet, but the delicate flower quest did cause me to rage-quit multiple times haha! :) Thanks for the awesome content Relyea!

[@theexplorerofrealms4693]

the most absolute worst feeling is having 1M geo in a steelsoul run and having the delicate flower and it breaking and then you get swarmed by enemy’s and dying

[@dylankennedy1038]

I've got a combination of two worst feelings in this video. It was my first steel soul run and I was in the endgame so I decided to do the path of pain. Two hours later I completed the parkour gauntlet only to panic and die to the two kingsmoulds. I got revenge on the kingsmoulds in my second steel soul run and it felt sooooo good.

[@lunarcosmetics7076]

I lost my 108% steel soul to the kingsmoulds at the end of Path of Pain. I was overcharmed and greedy. 2 months later and I’m trying again finally.

[@thebigbisme1317]

I most definitely agree with you. I lost my steelsoul run at 99% completion while carrying the delicate flower because i hit an Ooma (exploding jellyfish) and the explosion hit me, stunned me and triggered a second Ooma who killed me....😭😭😭

[@VoidHearted]

I accidentally dream nailed the ghost in the dirtmouth graveyard because i didn’t know that dream nailing ghosts made them disappear. I still feel terrible about it

[@mageshades]

This makes me feel good because I got the Steel Heart achievement first try and also didn't kill the Nailsmith. Thanks Relyea.

[@1uckyy575]

me too lol

[@prestonfrost6701]

I just started playing Hollow Knight a few days ago and the absolute hardest thing about it is getting 30 seconds to a couple minutes in to a video like this before I make myself shut it off because of spoilers. I can’t wait to finish it so I can feast on the lore and watch relatable videos.

[@Fili0706]

Understandable. I sadly couldn’t resist halfway through and let myself get spoilered. It sucks. I wished I could play the game for the first time again without these spoilers.

[@harry63242]

Yes these 5 things are definitely the wort things that can happen.

[@RelyeaGaming]

Another one could be the death in Trial of the Fool over and over again when the floor gives out

[@harry63242]

@@RelyeaGaming The true #1 worst thing in Hollow Knight is waiting for Silksong to release

[@KiraAsakura14]

I never regret dying to a last boss because I can actually feel my brain curling with every battle. It's like unlocking new skills in a game, except it's your brain remembering attack patterns not just your enemies' but also your own. Which means if I die, I won't die that way again. Or at least unprepared for it.

[@nemanjalojanicic2786]

This is actually the *w o r t* thing that ever happened to me

[@joshuapatrick682]

I played over 40 hours my first play through, including Godhome. My 2nd was a Steel Soul run and I died 18 hours in to The Radiance….I didn’t do the easy ending for the achievement first… But my 3rd I did get the SteelHeart achievement by beating it with 106% in 13 hours!

[@shadowjedi4602]

ah, yes, wort wort wort wort

[@RelyeaGaming]

wort wort wort

[@TotallyNotConnorFR]

Top five worst feelings in Hollow Knight: 5. Dying to a primal aspit 4. Dying to a primal aspit 3. Dying to a primal aspit 2. Dying to a primal aspit 1. Dying to a primal aspit

[@calebfarmer176]

Funny enough, on my first playthrough I didn't kill the nailsmith going "that's not quite right... no, no I won't do that", left, and came back to see him missing

[@Nneontastic]

The worst feeling in my opinion is when you’re carrying a lot of geo and then die to like a mistake or fuly. And after you go to the same location where you died you get bombarded by mistakes and fulys and die again loosing your 2k geo. Yes this happened to me :( I hate soul sanctum

[@billj.8690]

On my original blind playthrough of the game, I had 20,000 geo on me and I got halfway through that area where you gotta pogo off the big bugs to make it across deep in the Greenpath. I died about 3/4 of the way through. I went back to fight the Shadow and died halfway through. Lol. That was my worse experience by far.

[@lunasophia9002]

The worst feeling of Hollow Knight is knowing you can't experience the game again for the first time.

[@Egehehehej]

I died on my steel soul save to me accidentally stopping a crystal heart dash over the crystals right after i got the crystal heart dash!! Pain..

[@jacksonpick9881]

My worst feeling in in Hollow knight was dying to the washer knights for the 272th time.

[@BenjaminAlternate]

Meh, I would say that Steel Soul (If played like intended without saving to the bench) is better than failing P5 because you can do all of the divine-home DLC within SS, and if you fail P5 you can always restart.

[@derpymule7977]

I can one up the last one. The worst is getting all the way to the end of p5 and dying to that one bug where the void covers the screen

[@lslime1545]

The last one is especially true. When I reached Absolute Radiance in a 5p all bindings run for the fourth time, I climbed to the top, and she's down to last-hit health, and a light-ball-thing just curved around the platform and went back and killed me immediately after I dashed toward Radiance. (The RNG was really bad, when I lured the light-ball-thing to the platform, it went through the gap between the void and the platform then landed right on top of my head. Because Radiance is down to the last hit, I didn't care about the threat that much and just dashed toward her)

[@lslime1545]

And that's half a year before I actually completed 5p with all bindings

[@KYBERION-ye1zy]

I died to the collector on the last 3 grubs and i was so angry it was at least a year till i tried steelsoul again

[@Gizmo56712]

One of the worst feelings for me is the fact that throughout the game, pretty much all your friends die. Quirrel dies, Tiso dies, Myla dies, ( and if you're friends with leg eater ) he also dies. It's just sad.

[@vovoyo6728]

How does leg eater die

[@Gizmo56712]

@vovoyo6728 if you buy the breakable charms for leg eater, then you go and exchange them to unbreakable charms from divine, leg eater will sense that she has fixed your charms and is in the kingdom. So he seeks her out, and divine eats him. If you go into her tent after this happens, you'll see his claws laying on the floor...

[@vovoyo6728]

@@Gizmo56712 oh ok

[@themagm1673]

I died in my steel soul run in the white palace, where I got hit by one of the flying enemies, dropped down, got hit by another one and this time it flung me directly into spikes. I thought I was safe with 3 masks.

[@CatCyan]

Damn i feel that and *IT HURTS BADLY*

[@atincan7601]

On my first steel soul run, I died to a bellfly in the first passageway in city of tears because I'd forgotten what they do

[@Fenrir_8]

I also died by the hands (wings) of a belfly, but way later in the game. It was in the caves next to the Colosseum, I was left at 2 masks after a rough encounter with a Great Hopper. Got careless and forgot that those bastards hit for 2 damage. It was a very painful experience

[@beatrizf.beckhauser252]

When I was first playing the game and I got the pure nail, I was so paranoid to kill the nail smith like "NO THAT CAN'T BE!! IT HAS TO BE ANOTHER WAY!!" And even tho I hate spoilers, I searched about that and my god, I'm glad I did. I saved him, went zooming to the place where him and the Artist would be, and watched they together for a good 10 minutes with a smile in my face, and ngl, I sobbed a little reading their dialogue One of my favorites things in Hollow Knight for sure ❤️

[@Wicky_Licky]

You forgot the sixth, every moment silksong isn’t out yet lol-

[@matthewschwer6048]

Yeah, I've tried a steel soul run. I died of course. I was exploring along, doing great, feeling good after taking out the Soul Master, so I drop down into the sewers to fight my best friend, knock him down and head toward the Crystal Peak. I made it a few screens after saying "Hi!" to Myla before getting bodied by a stray Hunter. Then I had a run that I forgot was Steel Soul.

[@whatthewhatthe9117]

The worst feeling is failing PoH from Abs Rad bindings, it takes so long to get there and yet you die so fast

[@patrickmorrey8722]

I have definitely experienced the p5 radiance one twice, I was trying to do p5 with each binding and already had two done but dying to the climb phase after a stressful hour with the shell binding made me quit the game for a few days. The worst feeling I've had was getting the last phase of absrad on radiant on my first try but falling off right as I needed one hit. It took me another 569 tries to beat it. and the whole time I was thinking "I could've been done on the first try."

[@herfx824]

The worst is lose or ur geo when you need 15 k geo!

[@chasduerr7032]

The worst feeling for me is losing my steel soul run to the last phase of the hollow knight

[@Dug88]

Never tried steel soul. Never will. I learned my lesson about permadeath mode in games that take hours and hours of time playing Diablo 2's hardcore mode on battlenet and losing literal months of time in an instant when I lost a high 80's level character before the area even fully loaded and I was one shotted by a player that went hostile just before i went through the waypoint.

[@fluffylizard8054]

I died to the very end of path of pain. It was the worst. I also lost a steel soul run to a mistake in the soul sanctum.

[@fluffylizard8054]

Mistake as in the enemy

[@nerdyviz]

The worst thing about this game is that whenever you die, you hand over all your geo to a shadow which is waiting for you at the same place where you died, but after dying you start again from the same place where you were sitting last time, and the worst thing is that when you move from that bench towards your shadow, you have to cover a distance and while covering that distance if you die by mistake in between, then your old shadow which has thousands of geo with it goes away, and you have to collect geo again. I don't know what cheap drug the developers used to make such a dying system.

[@karelh8858]

Oh man, I've had so many of those. Hit the last thorns while carrying the delicate flower: check. Died to the Kingsmould after spending like 8 hours getting through the Path of Pain: check. Mastering the Pantheon of Hallownest, getting to Absolute Radiance, somehow making it through the climbing phase on full masks only to completely choke and fall apart on that final platform phase and dying when she's already moved to the center: absolute check! I like to think it builds character and made the eventual triumphs that much better, but it's such a gut punch when it happens.

[@andrewaldrich3602]

I know some of the worst things, but the WORT things? That’s new

[@MrZombiepvz]

There's one thing about Myla is that, when she gets infected and you stand at the extremity of the trigger zone, she will try to hit you but it won't work because she tries to fight the infection

[@Hkmoron]

If i upgrade my nail i will remember to use the vengefull spirit( joking, i’ll just go away)

[@AGuyOnTheInternet562]

my worst feeling in this game is getting stuck on easy bosses every tutorial you watch doesnt help and you fell like your being clowned so you skip it but then another boss comes that you cant skip

[@tegxi]

The worst feeling in hollow knight is realizing your mantis entries for the hunter's journal is complete, and proceeding to go commit mantis genocide when they're bowing to you and your nail is so strong you one-shot them.

[@NotGoingToGiveMyRealName]

One of the worst feeling is losing dying before you collected your shade and losing thousands of geo (especially if you where going to spend it soon)

[@bendrowned8506]

the pantheon one is why i feel like if you can beat the boss on the radiant difficulty you should be able to skip it in p5

[@ultraallstarx9210]

Although that would ruin the feeling of finally doing it or doing bindings with it. If this was the case then even Absolute Radiance gonna get skipped then.

[@greenmarble638]

Learning that those grimm guys you decided to banish yesterday could have given you unbreakable charms

[@nowcow6128]

I kept dying to Brooding Mawlek after I got Claw and dash, and so then I was determined and got to Brooding Mawlek as soon as possible and lost probably about 20 runs just to Brooding Mawlek, (not that big of a deal since I'm going straight there from kings pass) and finally, I did it! After that I learned about Save/Exit and used it to get all the way to the end of the game, so that's going to be my 100% Steel Soul run currently at 89%, but I must say that strategically going into battle only when you have prepared enough to think you can beat the boss is really cool! It makes death feel even more real, like your actually risking your entire run just because you're confident enough to beat this boss.

[@minkpaint4432]

I know this is irrelevant, but I’m proud for some reason, but I completed Path of Pain for the first time today!

[@amykenny6743]

I remember getting pure nail knowing he could go chill with sheo and I talk go out to talk to him and I had a full bar of soul, I accidentally pressed quick cast after I said I would let him live. I also remember challenging myself to kill all the ghosts in spirit’s glade. I killed everyone until only revel was left and I noticed that he wasn’t the same, so I decide to talk to him and dreamnail him to see if he will still attack me. I still regret doing this to this day. I also didn’t know you could save cloth, and when they were talking about how that battle was epic and they were going to go see “Nola” like they were alive almost made me cry.

[@Mastergengar]

Myla left me heartbroken. Sometimes through my first run I'd come back and check on her while I was getting lost and was happy to see she was good. And then I went to visit her that last time... As for Steel Soul, I got to the Brooding Mawlek and stopped to take a moment to hope back to my Godhome save and practice. I beat it multiple times on Radiant and even went back to the normal to practice with it on its platform. Feeling confident I went back to the Steel Soul save and went to my fight. I got hit once, panic set in, and I ended up losing my cool and dying.

[@irregularstuff5290]

The worst noob feeling is gathering 11k geo for unbreakable soul. And then die to giant hopper. Twice. When your shadow is right there, waiting for final blow. And you just watch it all gone, all your money that you've gathered for several days.

[@manday2267]

When you have so much geo; then you die; then when you try to kill your shade to get back your geo; you just die again, and all of your geo are gone. It happened to me when I was having like 14500 geo. It’s so so bad, really.

[@Mockturtlesoup1]

Yeah, I can relate to all of these(with the exception of the final fight in PoP and Abs Rad.) But I gotta say, dying in Steel Soul mode(which I've done maybe 6 or 7 times), and almost always through either sheer stupidity, not playing it safe/being overconfident, and two times I just completely forgot I was on Steel Soul. Lol. That sound and animation is stuck in my brain. Every time it happened to me, my first reaction was, "Ahhhh! No. Noooooo", and then almost immediately after, the denial kicks in a bit, and your brain is like, "Okay, stay calm, we can fix this. Just think..." and then you see the "Game Over" screen, but it all happens so quick that you still have a tiny bit of hope, until you're back at the file select menu, and you see that, just like all your hopes and dreams, your Steel Soul file has been shattered, and it all finally sinks in.

[@JoeMama-uu9xj]

Literally the saddest thing is when u get hit by something that u know it’s gonna hit u but it ends up hitting u anyways

[@Rushnrgy]

For me it’s when I have been saving up so much money and lose TO MY OWN SHADE

[@qazzaqstan]

This happened to me after selling off all my remaining relics because I forgot the price of pure nail (thought it was 3000) and I was trying to grind the last bit of geo I had to stop for the day. Oddly did not take too long to get back though.

[@Rushnrgy]

@@qazzaqstan yeah. It’s kinda funny sometimes but other times it makes me grateful for shade summoning

[@afroampharos]

Thankfully I was prepared when I did both the Path of Pain and my Steel Soul run (in which I had a close call, but thankfully beat it without much trouble). For the Path of Pain I had all/close to all mask upgrades, a full soul meter and Hiveblood but what I never feared until after I started it was being sent back to the start upon death. Once I realised that, I was nearly half way through it so I had to keep playing till the end. I made it through the first half in decent time but the second half (mainly that last room) took most of the 7 hours of that one run. I was so lucky that I had full health on the go that I finally cleared that last room and I beat the two Kingsmoulds without dying.

[@dellusiionall]

Hi relyea I’ve noticed you don’t play hollow knight that much anymore but I’m stuck in ancient basin and I don’t wanna restart but idk how to get out without beating the boss 😭

[@Loganischeese]

the way i died in my steel soul run was that I was running through the city of tears, and a bunch of lance sentries ganged up on me knocking me down to 1 mask, and as i tried to get away, i landed on a roof covered in spikes and i died. it was right after beating soul master too.

[@sephjnr]

The only bright spot in choking PoP at the end is that you can skip the 2nd room entirely now you've opened the door :)

[@Milkkunene]

One time I forgot I was on steel soul and tried to do shade skip 😂

[@lilixpictures6128]

When you're exploring Fungal Wastes and you accidentally fall down to Deepnest without Lumafly Lantern