Tips You WISH You Knew When Starting Hollow Knight - From The Community

I asked my community for the tips they Wish they had when they first started Hollow Knight. This video is what they came up with after reviewing over 800 comments. This is the best Hollow Knight Tips for Beginners.

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[imnotvoid]

Buy the lantern, it turns hell into a slightly brighter hell

[Wtfkys]

Tip: Don’t worry about not having found the fog canyon map yet, you will get it eventually.

[laced]

pov: you’ve already played hollow knight but you’re being starved by team cherry

[stAid]

Me: (has been playing Hollow Knight for a long time)

Also me: (still watches this beginners' video)

[jacefavorito]

Another tip I could give is don't freak out if the game traps you somewhere. It wants you to explore it and always has something very important in it

[whyfightweallbreatheair]

What I wished I knew about hollow knight is that I would be getting lost every two seconds

[yasacinar]

Tip: Do not stick to one specific charm build all the time, switch them depending on the situation. Also some charms have interesting interactions with each other, so don't be afraid to try new stuff.

[sgib]

"Listen carefully"

Me who played the game without headphones: interesting

[ClayAdams]

If you’re down to one mask and don’t want to risk having to go reclaim your shade if you die, just quit the game and save, then reload - you’ll be back at the same bench you would of if you died anyway, but with your geo and shade intact

[AnnaPietjeBlom]

Something I wish I knew when playing HK is that when you sit on a bench, all the big enemies you killed will respawn! Whether you want to bench extra to kill them again and harvest geo, or whether you want to make sure you have an easy time by not benching and thus not running into the same enemies again is 100% up to whatever you need at that moment. :)

[spearpanda]

Right now, any hollow knight content eases the pain of waiting for silksong

[Rodrigo-lypg]

If you die and lose your geo (in your shadow) in a place where its probable you'll die for a second time (which means to lose all the geo). The Shaman, to the right of Dirtmouth can bring your shadow to you by giving him a rancid egg. NOTE: rancid eggs are not that common early in the game.

[jessepinkman]

People want Silksong to be rushed and be completed NOW. But look at how Cyberpunk turned out. As much as we want it too come out we don’t want to rush Team Cherry into making an incomplete game.

[therealpiranhaplant]

I have some tips

1: Upgrade your nail with pale ore, it makes the game so much easier

2: You don’t have to make blind jumps! You can look up and down but holding up and down on the controller or keyboard

3: Using spells, it is often better than healing, ending a fight faster can be a better way of surviving than healing!

4: When I first played the game I thought I would have to pay every time I used the stagway so I didn’t open them up, you just need to pay once to open it up and then you can use it whenever you want!

5: This is kind of cheating, but if you’re about to die, then just leave the game and you will be teleported back to your bench with no consequences at all you won’t lose any upgrades or items you’ve collected.

6: Final tip, keep playing the game, it starts slow, but once you get access to the mantis claw the game gets really interesting. Have fun and play Hollow Knight!

[hide]

maybe it be “you can look down” a lot of times i died because i don’t know i can look down

[aciddrinker]

Another tip: Throughout the game, even after you you think you bought everything from iselda, go back. There are things that only appear in her shop after you’ve encountered them. Also, tip 2, the way things are drawn hints at where they go. Like the shopkeepers key or elegant key. If you look at them it hints at where they go just by the art.

[magis]

2:13 that tip is so good. I bet whoever wrote it is a very good person and very handsome

[gabe]

Personally I color coded my map with the pins so that each pin referred to a specific ability I would need to access that new area and it helped a lot to know which places I could explore after having gotten a new ability.

[maxjm]

A little tip after the video:
If you play piano learn some of Christopher Larkin's work you won't regret it. That way you don't have to sit in greenpath to listen to the music. The alternative is to listen to the lofi hollow knight stuff Relyea has on his channel 👍

[themockingdragon]

Here's the three most general tips I have to offer (there are so many more I could give):
1) Dodging is generally the best way to play a fight. Each enemy or boss has its own attack patterns, and figuring out how to play those to your advantage is generally not achieved by just facetanking. There are certain enemies and bosses where you can pull it off, but I would only recommend going in nail swinging if you've nothing better to do and dodging isn't proving to be any help. But it's better to dodge an attack without landing a hit than to do some damage while taking a hit yourself.
2) Poke, prod and swing at every available and suspicious surface you can. If you can spare the soul use a desolate dive/descending dark or vengeful spirit/shade soul to smash any floors or walls respectively that looks more cracked than normal. So many secrets in this game are hidden by secret passageways you didn't know about. To this day I'm still finding surprises despite well over a hundred hours in game.
3) Taking breaks is very important to truly enjoy this game, both in game and real life. Benches are for the most part completely safe havens where you can heal, fill out your map more, swap out charms and just in general reflect on where you are at the moment. They are so incredibly useful and many newbies don't rest up as often as would be most beneficial for their immediate gameplay. Similarly this game can get immensely frustrating in many places. Just leaving it for a bit before you give in to the urge to break something important and coming back later can help you to properly appreciate this masterpiece.