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Hollow Knight is one of the best games I have ever played. I wasn't expecting much from a 2D game but it surprised me in every way, from the beautifully hand-drawn graphics to the enchanting music, boss designs, world design, gameplay etc. It is very close to a perfect game for me.
I killed the Hollow Knight, the final boss and realised the game continued. I completed it at 101% and then later got to know that it goes up to 112%. One of the things that you can do is go to this place called the Hall of Gods where you can fight all the bosses you encountered in the game.
So, my target now is to fight all the bosses and clear this area. Each of these bosses has two more levels of difficulty than the normal version. For eg, look at this one:
The Soul Warrior is not too difficult to defeat, it has a few different attacks but you can get used to them. The 'Attuned' is the normal difficulty which is the easiest of them. It deals one mask damage on contact, slash or projectile damage.
Once you defeat it on 'Attuned' the next level 'Ascended' will be unlocked. This is a bit difficult as the attacks will deal double the damage than normal and summon a new enemy in the battle.
But the real challenge is the 'Radiant' difficulty where you will be killed in one hit. There is no chance for a mistake in this one and is quite hard even for the easy bosses.
I tried and failed a lot of times after eventually succeeding in killing the Soul Warrior.
Here is the video showing one failed attempt along with the final successful attempt.
Massive Moss Charger
The easiest of them has to be the Massive Moss Charger. It just has two types of attacks and both can be dodged easily by either jumping over the sliding bug or dashing under the jumping moss charger. You find this quite early in the game in Greenpath. That's why it is super easy to defeat. You don't have most of the abilities at that point in the game. Whereas the Soul Warrior is from the Soul Sanctum which is a more difficult area of the game.
This is the first one that I defeated with all the difficulty levels.
Some even have another difficulty level after this, which is the dream version of the same boss. Not all bosses have this dream version only some have it and they are much more difficult than the other versions. The dream versions can be quicker have more attacks or have more minions and support enemies along with them.
There are still a ton of them left and I will be killing them one by one. These two were the easiest of them for me but some are quite tough. I am having trouble defeating the normal level of some of them let alone the next two difficulty levels.
Note:
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- Screenshots are from the game, Hollow Knight.