Talk:Soul Master/@comment-32761845-20170803155739/@comment-27023426-20170821112130

You are right, I got it that way since I thought the Soul Master to hard for me (after getting slashed by Soul Warrior a few times), so I left him for later and encountered Broken Vessel first (stupid move btw, since BV turned to be much harder than SM).

As far as I can tell, you can walk through the game by defeating only False Knight, 1st Hornet, Dung Defender and Broken Vessel (+Dreamer's guardians - Watcher Knight and Uumuu). Plus Hollow Knight.