Talk:White Palace/@comment-318525-20170823004320

The game all of a sudden turning into Super Meatboy was not something I appreciated as I got through a good chunk of it. That's not really the type of game I enjoy.

I suggest absolutely having these charms: - Hiveblood - in most places you will die immediately, so you'll lose just one life - if you're patient, hiveblood will regenerate it. - Grubsong - if you do lose more than one life, you can regenerate it using SOUL which this charm will generate for you. As long as you wait for the hiveblood to reload after you die, you can compete each area in "one try".

For the others, I got: - Dashmaster - not being able to dash when you need to sucks - Sharp Shadow - get better range

I managed to get through the first two meatgrinders on the left and right. I wish it had ended at that point, but no. That was just warm-up.

I got to the next bench, but after that I got hopelessly stuck. Maybe I should have heeded the warning and bought a controller instead of playing with a keyboard. But at that point I gave up and started looking for any hints. I found "Hollow Knight - White Palace Skips" on YouTube.

It helped quite a bit - with a bit of creative nail-jumping, it possible to get pretty far. Along with Hiveblood and Grubsong, I equipped Long Nail and Mark of Pride. If you're not good at nail-jumping, I suggest finding something to jam your DOWN key - it helps a lot.

The last section though, that starts with the fast vertical grinder and ends with having to nail-bounce off of Wingmoulds, was just brutal. I ended up leaving the game running on my PC while I was asleep/at work before I had a chance to take another crack at it. I don't recommend doing it the way it's done in the video. You can jump-dash under the blade as it's going up, then jump up and around above it, then from there immediately jump-jump-dash to the opposite wall. Then crystal-dash through the gap but be careful not to end up too high or you might end up hitting the ceiling and stopping, and instead of dying,  accidentally landing on a platform on the wrong side!

tl;dr: git gud?