Talk:Pantheon of Hallownest/@comment-44441310-20191118014009

I think I may have a new record for getting to the point of finally completing Hollow Knight at 112% including completing Pantheon of Hollownest... it took me about 500 hours over a span of 8 months. Yes that's pathetically slow, and I'm not really that bad at game. This is my biggest gaming achievement ever and I'm a few months away from 50 years old. I have a new respect for "Git Gud", where in most other games I've played in the past, you can just spam your way through monsters, but Hollow Knight is so well designed to not allow pure spamming to get through bosses, you really do have to learn the fighting techniques of each boss. Hollow Knight has become my favorite game of all time, my other recents favorites are "Ori and the Blind Forest" and "Zelda Breath of the Wild". I'm really looking forward to Silk Song.

So to complete PoH my charms were unbreakable strength, sprintmaster, quick slash, unbreakable heart, longnail. The bosses included Zote (pain in the ass). The most annoying boss is Markoth because I usually either die there or have so little health after that I can't beat Zote. The most time learning bosses went to Pure Vessel and Absolute Radiance. Pure Vessel took me about 3 weeks of practice to beat and 1 more week to beat consistently. Absolute Radiance took me about 4 weeks to beat and many weeks later I can still only beat it about 50% of the time. When I was ready to do PoH, it took me about 10 tries to finally beat it. I danced around in front of my wife like a crazy man after the big win. What a great feeling. My wife is going to make me an embroidered "Git Gud" teeshirt in the style of the Hollow Knight logo.

So my message to anyone reading this and struggling with the game... the bosses do have a lot of random elements, but lots and lots of practice to 'Git Gud' will help you to avoid getting greedy, and be more defensive. Git Gud!!!