{"id":185877,"date":"2021-02-04T22:30:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T22:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/hollow-knight-metroidvania-genre-game\/"},"modified":"2021-02-04T22:30:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T22:30:13","slug":"how-hollow-knight-elevated-the-metroidvania-genre-game-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/02\/04\/how-hollow-knight-elevated-the-metroidvania-genre-game-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"How Hollow Knight Elevated the Metroidvania Genre | Game Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Team Cherry’s 2D Metroidvania Hollow Knight<\/em> <\/strong>released in 2018 to great critical and commercial success. Garnering multiple games of the year awards, Hollow Knight<\/em><\/a> slowly amassed a solid following thanks to its unique blend of ideas.<\/p>\n

Hollow Knight<\/em> finds itself among the\u00a0best Metroidvania games<\/a>\u00a0in recent years.\u00a0The game has a strong selection of systems and mechanics in play, which has managed to elevate the Metroidvania genre itself to another level.<\/p>\n

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The art style and direction of a Metroidvania game is as important as all of its other\u00a0mechanics. It’s the lens through which players will see this lovingly crafted world and nudge them to explore more and more.\u00a0<\/em>Many Metroidvania games like Ori and the Will of the Wisps<\/em> have sought to create a uniquely inviting and gorgeous look with a strong sense of detail. Every approach to art style is different, very few are bad (and certainly not Ori<\/em>), but the simplistic art style of games like Hollow Knight<\/em><\/a> is arguably better for two reasons: it’s likely to age well, and it never\u00a0prevents visibility.<\/p>\n

Hollow Knight<\/em>‘s unique art<\/a> style looks playful on the surface, which come off as inviting, as even the bosses can look extremely charming. Ultimately, Hollow Knight<\/em> manages to keep the whole experience interesting beyond this, as players uncover the deepest mysteries of the land by reading and piecing everything together in their head.<\/p>\n

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A lot of the ideas that Hollow Knight<\/em> sports can be traced back to Dark Souls<\/em><\/a>, such as losing all of the collected money as soon as the player dies. Subsequent runs require players to run back to the old spot to find a ghostly figure that, when killed, will give players back the loot. Also, the combat of Hollow Knight<\/em> is absolutely vicious like Dark Souls<\/em> with a bunch of unrelenting foes and a diverse roster of formidable bosses, bringing a lot of ideas to the table and meshing them together really well.<\/p>\n

However, Hollow Knight<\/em> never really “depresses” the player like Dark Souls<\/em><\/a> and instead manages to keep the experience inviting and challenging at the same time, thanks in part due to its aforementioned art style. In addition to this, Hollow Knight<\/em>‘s developer Team Cherry has a great sense of how often new content should be doled out to keep the prospect of exploring exciting, which is essential for a Metroidvania to nail down. Giving players new content around every corner makes them lose that anxious feeling of exploring a terrifying world and indirectly, inhibits a designer to explore the possibilities of a new mechanic to the fullest.<\/p>\n

That being said, giving players too little can quickly turn off many players as they find the prospect of exploring the same ruthless world unrewarding and tedious.\u00a0Hollow Knight<\/em> treads a fine line in this regard and combines a lot of already successful ideas with a uniquely distinct and contrasting art style to create a truly exceptional experience. Hollow Knight: Silksong<\/em><\/a> has a lot to live up to, but many fans believe that it will.<\/p>\n

Hollow Knight\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is available on\u00a0PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.<\/p>\n

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