The game is unfriendly and doesn’t lead you by the hand, but there is no desire to turn it off – you want to figure everything out. Some currency falls out of defeated enemies, and the same coins are often stacked in low piles, but how can you spend this money? You wish to save sitting down on a bench, but you have no clue where it is. Going down a couple of floors, you want to open a map, but it’s not there. Shortly after getting acquainted with the controls, you will find yourself in a confused location, not possessing any useful items, except weapons. You have to explore this dark, hostile world and survive in it all by yourself. Unlike other games of the genre, you won’t get any guidance or right-off-the-start perks. On the surface, Hollow Knight seems to be yet another metroidvania, but it’s much more than that.
