Scott wrote:> nonamesleft wrote:
>> I've heard high praise about hollowknight. I tried it out, but it just wasn't
> doing
>> it for me. I wanted to like it. After hearing so much praise for it, I was disappointed.
>> It's one thing to try out a game without hearing anything about it beforehand,
> but
>> it's a bigger letdown when you hear a lot of consistently great things about a
> game
>> and then it just doesn't add up for you.
>>
>> Maybe I'll watch gameplay of it, at least experience it that way.
>>
>> What did people here enjoy so much about Hollow Knight? The question isn't rhetorical
>> in any way. I'm just disappointed and want to understand what other people experienced
>> with the game that was so good.
>
> The first time I tried HK, it didn't hook me either. About a year later I tried it
> again and LOVED it. But, not too long into the game, I looked up it's length and
> found that it's a ~50 hour game! I didn't have the time for that length of a game
> at that point (especially a 50 hour Metroidvania!), so I stopped again. One of these
> days I'll actually play and beat it.
What is it about the game that hooked you?
When this thread was re-opened, I just jumped to the newest post. I guess I never saw that last post from Bean before it closed. 
