Hollow Knight - True Final Boss + True Ending + Credits

I forgot I was on streaming quality for recording, so video is not best quality, apologies.

[Supershadow]

0:40 Legit the saddest part of this fight... The Hollow Knight gains partial control of his body, and stabs himself in order to help you win, but then the infection just overcome him and literally throws him around like a puppet.

[thenewguyinred]

One of the few if not only times I’ve ever seen in a video game in which darkness was the good side instead of light.

[MrRaggaedeman]

Inspirational Quotes(2017)
"Git Gud"-Hornet, stabbing a dude in the face

[AngryNerdBird]

I Love that the hero of Hollow Knight isn't some warrior of light.

They're an embodiment of darkness, and they've come to stab the light in the face and take it straight to hell.

[masterofThardus]

I firmly believe this entire game takes place in a patch of grass next to the Curse-Rotted Greatwood.

[rando]

No more gods. No more kings. Only bugkind.

[icycolalemonade]

I Love how the Player Thought It was a cutscene and Waited for That Void Thing to Attack The Radiance so they just waited for like, 15 seconds in silence

[whitefang]

In the end, the true savior was not the child that the Pale King had deemed perfect. No, it was the united strength of all the children he had rejected and abandoned. When the world needed them most, they followed the call of a sibling who believed, not in the father who abandoned them, but in the strength of the imperfect vessels. They defied their father’s expectations and achieved what the mighty king, nor his greatest warriors, could ever hope to. These broken beings brought down one of the greatest threats known to bugkind.

[Electric]

One of the best games I've played in a long time, needs more recognition.

[Anonymous-Shade]

This ending is sad, but right.

The main character dies to save the entirety of Hallownest. The vessels played their purpose, to keep the Radiance- no... To rid the Radiance of this land. It's sad, seeing the siblings look up. "Our purpose has been fulfilled." as they sink into the ground.
I personally didn't get emotional the first time I saw this, but rewatching this ending, knowing the lore and all, I feel... sad. But this is the true, good ending.

[theseguys]

I did the same thing as you, just stared at the previous hollow knight holding the radiances eye open, then I was like..."Do I whack it?" XD

[carmona]

When you learn the story of this game, it's really sad when the hollow Knight tries to kill itself during the fight.

[exxelsetijadi]

Who would win
An actual god

Some black slime in a mask with legs

edit : after 1 year i just realized the knight isn't a bug

[TOMERRY]

5:00 when you do that fake falling thing

[fandomtrashdubs]

Something that makes this ending sadder is that- these are basically children. Because the hollow knight *grew* to what he is now, a somewhat adult. The vessels are still the same size as when they came out of the egg. Those were children. It's hard not to choke up watching the end scene and the Hollow knight's last phase where he could barely stand up from how weak he was, stabbing himself desparetly trying to end his pain and help you while the infection throws him around like a puppet. Seeing the siblings look up as their purpose has been fulfilled makes me tear up and they curl up and finally rest in peace

[dirtman]

Who would win?
A god of light
Or...
One beetle boi

[disappointmentjuice]

I get emotional every time I see this ending. It's so well-crafted, and despite the fact that we straight up died, it makes us feel like we made the right choice. The Radiance is gone, thereby ridding the Infection of the bugs of Hallownest, the Siblings are able to rest, and the Hollow Knight is at peace. We, in our final moments, were able to complete our biggest, and final mission. Everyone is free. But we were not the only victims.

I personally feel bad for the Radiance, because, she is not as malevolent as the lore paints her to be. She was wronged, forgotten by her tribe in favor of a new light. She wanted revenge. And for her trouble, she was sealed away in a (mostly) empty mind for an unknown amount of time, her subjects were killed, and as was she- by something made by the creature she loathed so much.

I feel bad for the Shades, for they were sacrificed to a purpose that ultimately, was useless and inhumane. The scream of the void calling them to unite, consume, and annihilate the Old Light, while being helpless, as inherently, they were decided as flawed and useless. They were trapped with nothing but the corpses of themselves and all of their thousands of other siblings, each one being no better off than the last. The fragmented wills of discarded vessels, who were killed by the person who was supposed to protect them. By their father. All this pain- all for nothing.

And we, the Little Ghost of Hallownest. Honestly, there are no words to describe the kind of sympathy I have for this poor vessel child. They were forced to fight through hordes of monsters, controlled by the supposedly benevolent higher being who, in a fit of rage, drove their home and family to absolute madness, becoming the cause of death of thousands of their siblings, and pitting almost every living creature against them. Almost every companion they encountered was either slaughtered or taken away, and regardless of circumstances, they were ultimately left alone, one way or another. There was no happy ending for little Ghost. They died with no-one to stand by them. They, unlike everyone else, were never brought peace. Everyone else got to move on, and they didn't.

Their only respite is that, in their sacrifice, they brought the core of the infection down. They, ultimately, completed their final goal. And, in their current circumstance, that's probably the best ending they can get. At the very least, they died fulfilled.

[majidalsheriqi]

The way the graphics looks makes me feel like I want to live in the game. I

[mlgwolvesmeep]

I'm just gonna pretend that hollow knight lived, the mc lived and they all lived happily ever after while being long lost siblings

[ibraheemahmad]

Imagine all this shit happening in your own lawn.