The Top 5 Worst Things That Can Happen To You In Hollow Knight

Hollow Knight is one of the best games ever made in my professional opinion. It is really tough at times and there are a couple of areas that are extremely difficult. In this video we are going to go over the top 5 worst things that can happen to you in Hollow Knight.

This list is the ultimate feels bad list as nobody wants this to happen.
I am sure that you may want to add some of your own things to the list, like a death in the Trial of the Fool. Let me know what you think or would add to the list in the comments.

Note there will be spoilers as we discuss end game stuff.

0:00 Intro
0:45 5th Worst
3:03 4th Worst
4:13 3rd Worst
5:39 2nd Worst
7:05 Absolute Worst

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[TrueDiox]

Worst part about Myla is it's not a sudden thing. If you keep checking on her, you'll see her slowly losing herself (forgetting things, etc), until she finally goes hostile. It hits too close to home and is seriously sad to watch.

[feeglsnorf]

Honorable mention: Literally anything to do with primal aspids

[ndBreakfassst]

For me it was the first time I tried to do the under 5 hr achievement. No mask or vessel upgrades, 1 nail upgrade, ddark, and shaman stone. I got to thk at 4 hours after having a really hard time with watcher knights. I thought, thk is gonna be easy, I've beaten it several times. I crapped the bed and missed the achievement after wasting an hour failing, getting angry, and refusing to take a break. Hard lesson to learn.

[taurin]

I experienced the Path of Pain death on those last enemies.
Worst feeling, dying to that and realizing the whole thing has to start over. Had to walk away from the computer for a moment there.
However, best feeling, I went back in and blew through the path of pain 10x faster than my first run and was back to that part faster than I could have believed. I was astounded by how I had improved from my first run.

[ohkoxar]

Brought Grimmchild to Fog Canyon on a steel soul run. Fair to say, it did not go well lol (tho I technically died to qga)

[benbrown]

So you know that feeling when you're like, "Hey, I beat all the dreamers, I'm finally gonna get the steel soul achievement!" Then you try to fight THK with hardly any upgrades and you realize that he's a lot harder without shade cloak. You keep telling yourself, "I can do it and I don't want to go anywhere in case I die." So eventually you go and try to get some more powerful stuff and you find yourself in infected crossroads (arguably my least favorite area). As you're making your way to the charm dealer, you take a nasty double explosion dealing you 4 damage and ending your 4 hour steel soul run.

Lets just say, THIS is the worst feeling I have ever experienced.

[IceReptilian]

I'm a person that loves lore. To know what NPCs and enemies are thinking.

Now, on my very first run ever, I acquired the dream nail and was stoked I got to read about additional dialogue from NPC's thoughts. I went from Sly to the Old Stag, to Bretta and to Cornifer. I also learned that dream nail can see the thoughts from my enemies that I fight.

I eventually stumbled to a place in the city of tears, locked behind a key. I saw the painting and read the Lore about her, in the way in. When I found her, I spoke to her and listened to her sad story about people no longer visiting to listen to her sing. I sat there listening to her for several minutes, which I then realized it was her voice I was hearing in the city of tears music. After, I wanted to see if there was more secret dialogue, so then I struck her with my dream nail. The silence that came after was deafening. To my horror, I realized my mistake.

It's been over 4 years since then and I still haven't gotten over it.

[imarrams]

Worst feeling for me watching new players that use the Dream Nail on Marissa. It hurts a little. When I started playing HK for the first time, it was 2 weeks before my mother passing away from cancer. And when I found Marissa for the first time, my mom heard the music from HK. She said "that song is so sad but so beautiful". My mom was already bedridden but still was always watching me play HK. Even hours prior she passing away, I sang that song for her. She smiled a little. She died 2 hours later. For me HK, specially the City of Tears song have a special place in my heart. 😞😞😞

[SunnyBunny]

I tried steel soul only once. I died to an acid pool in fungal wastes… an incredibly frustrating feeling.

[sikky]

I had a steel soul run and fought the Radiance, thought since it was a dream boss that the death wouldn't count but it actually does.

[lottanieminen]

I feel the Myla one, I always thought of her as a really safe character and found her humming super calming and then suddenly SHE IS ATTACKING ME?? Top 10 anime betrayals

[liljim_]

One of the worst feelings is when you go to the colosseum and you meet tiso and he tells you that he’s going into the colosseum. But then if you go down to where a bunch of bugs are falling from the colosseum, you can see tiso’s dead body on the side of the cliff

[BSPancake]

On my first playthrough, I actually paused and tabbed out to check if I had to kill the Nail Smith or not. After I discovered I have the option to save him, I tabbed back in, pressed B to exit the pause menu and hit him with vengeful spirit... made me twice as sad since it wasn't even the nail that killed him.

[teaenthusiast]

"The happy couple achievement"
Ah yes best friends

[BlackBear]

The worst feeling, for a beginner, is collecting 2000 Geo and dying, then dying again, trying to reach the shade left a mile away...

[blythepineda]

I once tried to complete a Steel Soul run on an enemy randomizer. I made it all the way to Isma's tear but in the room right before with all the enemies, one of them turned into the Radiance and I was already going in with low health. I was absolutely destroyed in that room and it was not pretty.

[teaenthusiast]

The worst one for me is beating steel soul and managing to get the 100%, going to fight the radience and dying to the hk

[Pollo]

Unfortunately, I died couple times in steel soul. I could quit and teleport to bench however it would ruin the fun of this challenge.I was Always sad because I lose my progress but I never give up and play again. After few attempts I finally did it. I beat steel soul on 100%.i was so happy about that. Then I wanted to try path of pain because I know it that if you die in dream world (with that dream stamps in background) I will respawn like when you fight the dream version of bosses like soul tyran or lost kin. I did it but I forgot put on a fight charm and I died in that battle. I wasn't worried when I died because I thought I will respawn. Then only thing I saw was black screen with big white word. GAME OVER. I was so confused since I always respawn when I fail dream bosses. I google that in internet to see what happend and then I realized that if you died in white palace you will not respawn. I was so angry and sad at this same moment. I quit game and sit in silence for 30 minutes.

That is my most painful story in hollow knight

[heathkish]

Relyea is genuinely one of my favorite people on this platform. He seems like such a sweet, wholesome dude... The world could use more of that.

[Alextheslayer_YT]

For me the WORST feeling is when you have over 1000 geo and you die so you go to get your shade but you DIE TO YOUR SHADE LOSING ALL YOUR GEO