Game Composer Breaks Down BROKEN VESSEL from HOLLOW KNIGHT

I've been nostalgic about the Hollow Knight soundtrack recently! I realized recently that I never made a video on Broken Vessel, even though I remember loving it back when I played the game.

[babymanter]

The Day has come everyone, we got him to the broken Vessel.

[minerman]

Now you have to do Pure Vessel to complete the set

[DanS]

The broken vessel *is* the main character, exactly the same as the player character, just one of many, but who met a grimmer fate.

[ejmc]

Broken Vessel/Lost Kin is easily my favourite fight from the base game. And the music is so intense; sinister but also melancholic. That silent nod of acknowledgement that we get from his spirit is our reward for bringing him peace.

[JaggerG]

These connections you pick up on are so cool. Musicians for games these days really do a great job of telling the story of the characters/areas in their themes. They're so much more than just melodies.

[cephandriusmaxtori]

Let's goooo! Broken vessel has such a solid theme, where it's both knightly but also wrong, and sad, in a way, that really fits what's going on in the fight

[zerokage]

Every time I hear this theme, I can't help but think "death march."

[ianaguilar]

I have never noticed the little White Palace melody before, it's a little nod to something that the vessels were meant to do. I love this theme and is great that you finally made a video on it, THANK YOU SO MUCH

[vino]

Hornet, broken vessel, and sealed vessel all have a little bit white palace in it. Considering they all have the same father, it makes sense XD

[EtoZamamai]

I really like you pulling up the other songs this song references, helps show off how they are related. Also its actually pretty sad that broken vessel has white palace and sealed vessel references for "deep lore implications". Makes me appreciate the song even more! Coincidentally enough was listening to Hollow Knight sound track when I noticed this in my feed

[lordofthestrings]

This is easily my favorite boss of the base game. I'd already felt uncomfortable with how deep I went when I came across it. And then seeing the orange corruption climb into the shell and puppet it around. I was thoroughly uncomfortable and disturbed fighting it

[Tbramblet]

What always stood out to me about this is the instrumentation, it uses different pianos and different strings than the rest of the OST, they sound old and worn

[jacobpalomarez]

Broken Vessel was probably the most impactful boss in the game for me, thanks in no small part to its music. The question who are you and what are you doing here lingers over the entire early game and really comes to the forefront when you stumble across broken vessel and see that he’s literally just you. And then on the first listen during the fight it was so obvious that the boss theme was just a soulless resigned version of the main theme that you just have to accept that you two are one in the same. Then it becomes the entry point for other lore questions, like what does it mean that it is a vessel? What does it mean that I’m just an empty container to be filled with some substance? 10/10 moment where the boss design, music, and story all come together to really get the player invested in what is happening.

[tworiver]

I’d never really noticed the ties to Sealed Vessel and White Palace before!

One of my favorite theories surrounding the Broken Vessel is that it was the Pale King’s original child who attempted a self-sacrifice to seal the Radiance away (before the whole chucking unborn children into an abyss thing), so those references would make a lot of sense for this theory, implying both that the Broken Vessel may have once resided in the White Palace and the similarities between the Broken Vessel and the Sealed Vessel’s failed attempts at sealing the Radiance. It’s only a theory, but I still think it’s at the very least a fun head-canon

[Kaylen_Jakobsen]

3:20 I feel like at this part the melody is is stuck at the beginning of the main theme, perhaps showing that Broken Vessel got stuck soon after escaping the Abyss.
It's as if the song couldn't be finished and is just stuck in a loop (8:48)

[veggiedragon]

This is a very insightful return to a HK theme. I love it when the music tells a story; and "the main theme(character), but empty and dead inside" is exactly what this boss fight is.

[elver]

the 2nd and flat six degree create the most heartbreaking tritone ever

[hussainalkhatem]

8:15 I love how you just made that joke! It got me laughing! 😂

[TheFrozenGeode]

One of the greatest boss themes, and the lore drives deep with Broken Vessel. Also, I'm making a game and have some great musicians I know helping me. It should be done in 2 or less years hopefully, and would you like to listen through the pieces as they get made? Thanks!

[АсельЕсенбай-рщ]

Hollow Knight is so perfect for melancholic mood, thanks for the video, I really needed this today