How does it eat the donut? It has no mouth, no voice.

@Fingusa  
As someone who beat path of pain, the 5th pantheon and nkg on radiant, I couldn’t disagree more. The normal white palace is a difficulty spike in terms of platforming, but it’s nowhere near as hard as you make it out to be. You just have to be patient and get better at it. Pantheons are optional, so is nkg and I’ve had 2 friends who weren’t hardcore gamers that beat him with some practice and dedication. I don’t think those are valid excuses to keep from recommending this amazing game.

Didn’t expect Hollow Knight art from you, Vava.
 
@Fingusa
 
I’m still struggling with the Pantheon of the Sage, as embarrassing as it sounds

@Tide Hunter  
Dude, you’re 100% me when it comes to HK, DS, all those style-kinds of games

@Tide Hunter  
Dude, the spoilers.
 
But anyway, by White Palace I meant the entire thing. I never said you have to kill Nightmare King Grim in order to get a good ending, I just said that fighting him (her?) is absolutely mental. Same with Pantheons.
 
You do have to do White Palace though, which literally comes out of nowhere and is probably the biggest difficulty spike right next to the Pantheons.

@Fingusa  
Nightmare King is completely unnecessary for any ending except the Pantheon endings. And, there were “good” endings before the pantheons were added in. The original real ending, and the only one I’d consider good, is just you killing Radiance. That needs you to go to the White Palace, sure, but nothing in the game makes you go to the Path of Pain, and Nightmare King Grimm is only necessary for getting max completion and getting the max rank Grimmchild charm. He’ll also appear in the Pantheon even if his non-godhome version was not beaten.
 
I think that the Pantheon endings are not really the good endings. Sure, they’re the hardest endings to achieve, but in them either you consume the Godseeker and become a horrible void monster (or void god), or you and the Godseeker are obliterated by the Delicate Flower. In the Godseeker endings, it’s implied that you (the Void) replace the Radiance, and Hornet has to face the Hollow Knight alone, while in the ending where you beat the normal Radiance, Hornet survives, the void shadows are finally laid to rest, and the infection is destroyed.

I am a person who absolutely loves Hollow Knight. The music, atmosphere, the story… there are no 2D games that can compare in my honest opinion.
 
Yet, I cannot recommend the game to anyone cause if you want anything but the bad ending, you have to go through some of the most sadistic level design and enemies that I have experienced in gaming. Just look up Pantheons. No Dark Souls game even compares to the level of BS that is the White Palace, Nightmare King Grim fight and Pantheons.

You should play Hollow Knight. I have played through it about 4 times (the fourth being on Steel Soul mode, meaning that dying would cause the game to be reset), and I’m not very good at games. At the start, I wasn’t very good, but in games like Dark Souls and Hollow Knight, players get better as they keep playing. And I’d say Hollow Knight is usually easier than Dark Souls.