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get

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our story begins in the distant past if[br]you're too young to remember 2014 just

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ask anyone the world was a very[br]different place kids used to spend their

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free time at a place called Radio Shack[br]famous actor Shia LaBeouf famously

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decided he wanted to stop being famous[br]Bill Cosby made his way back onto TV but

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this time it wasn't exactly for[br]advertising jello but yeah other than

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that and the ISIS invasion of Iraq and[br]that whole Ebola thing and Ferguson

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2014 was a pretty good year but the most[br]important event of 2014

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happened on November 18th when two[br]Australians going by the names William

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Pelin and Ari Gibson launched a[br]Kickstarter for a little game called

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hollow Knight of course we all know[br]about the final product that was created

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during the eight hundred and twenty nine[br]days between the launch of the

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Kickstarter and the release of the game[br]but what about the content that was left

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out a lot can happen in eight hundred[br]and twenty nine days that's like eleven

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point five one Kardashian marriages well[br]the first thing I do when I start

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working on a new video is to check the[br]wiki that way I can just copy paste it

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into my script okay let's see here no[br]wait fuck damn it

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bingo this is hollow knight cut content[br]now at the time of writing the latest

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content pack team cherry has released is[br]the grimm troop so it's always possible

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that some of the stuff mentioned here[br]will get added into the game in a future

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update team cherry has dropped the[br]trailer for content back three gods and

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glory and it looks good could use more[br]beretta to be honest but again we don't

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know what else coming this time around[br]so it's possible team cherry might throw

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some cut content back into the game so[br]if you see something in this video that

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is actually in the game please double[br]check before you go to the comment

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section and call me a stupid asshole I[br]get enough of that at home in Team

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cherries early Kickstarter updates they[br]showcased a variety of content that

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didn't make it into the final game[br]spooky dungeons giant bosses whatever

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the fuck this is supposed to be most of[br]these features actually pop up in the

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weird and wonderful world trailer that[br]was dropped during the final week of the

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Kickstarter this video has some pretty[br]neat stuff so let's just start here ten

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seconds in we can already see a cut[br]enemy this guy first appeared in the

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third Kickstarter update going under the[br]name blundering Auber Liske it was

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described as being a careless and clumsy[br]herbivore so yeah he just runs into shit

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I guess so why did blundering over list[br]get the axe

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while team cherry briefly mentioned the[br]enemy in an interview they gave on the

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roundtable live podcast and I think[br]pretty much like every like every every

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enemy and boss that we conceived and[br]liked that went anywhere past like

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sketches but once you've already created[br]art for it we used it no actually

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there's a couple enemies that we didn't[br]use maybe that weird charging thing with

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a big nose yeah never really had an area[br]yeah there were a lot of enemies they

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ended up on the cutting

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that weird charging thing with a nice

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here's the next interesting scene from[br]the trailer ashram a warrior is holding

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a spear that has an infected tip and[br]he's talking like a madman you remember

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the Shrimant warrior right the guy who[br]sounds like Owen Wilson Wow

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I also wonder if there was originally a[br]plan for a mushroom village with more

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mushroom npcs in the final game the[br]closest we get is the fungal core but

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the only interesting thing there is a[br]dead guy who complaints about The Pale

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King anyway I think maybe this scene was[br]meant to show how the infection messes

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with the mind I mean if you look at this[br]guy's dialogue he does not sound okay

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here we can see it there used to be a[br]back stepping mechanic at some point

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that would have been nice at about 30[br]seconds in we can see the knight using

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an ability called to tyrants fist this[br]is clearly an earlier version of the

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desolate dive they probably changed it[br]after the spell system was more fleshed

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out because you know you don't really[br]need magic just a fist to things during

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the fight with The Grudge mother in the[br]Forgotten crossroads we see an

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interesting statue the statue is of[br]three beings but the one on the right

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has been broken[br]the two remaining statues clearly

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represent The Pale King and the white[br]lady the king and queen of hallow nest

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as for the identity of the third one[br]well I've actually got good news team

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cherry did an interview on PC Gamer back[br]in August of 2017 where they talked

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about designing the map of hallow nest[br]in this article team cherry actually

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provided pictures of old versions of the[br]map one map in particular is full of

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information about Halle Knight's[br]development but what exactly does a map

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tell us about this statue well we don't[br]actually give a shit about the map right

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now but in the margins of the paper that[br]the map was printed on we can actually

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see a sketch of these three figures in[br]an identical pose and we could see that

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the figure on the far right looks almost[br]exactly like the hollow Knight so what

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the fuck does this even mean well it[br]could mean that the Halle Knights adult

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form was originally the design for[br]another higher being the fact that it's

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broken makes me think that the higher[br]being is an early version of what

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eventually became[br]the radiance what's also interesting is

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that the mandible is shown here look a[br]lot like the structures found in the

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dream world we don't know when the moths[br]ended up in the game but maybe it wasn't

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until later in the game's development[br]but it's interesting to think that the

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hollow night was at one point the true[br]antagonist of the game about a minute in

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we see something quite strange before[br]using the vengeful-spirit spell the

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knight has a white circle that rotates[br]around it later on the trailer we see an

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item in slide shop called the white[br]crystal ring so was this white crystal

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ring a powerup that allowed the player[br]to charge the vengeful spirit attack I

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don't think there's any way to confirm[br]this but it's still pretty interesting

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next we see a pretty crazy ability dream[br]diving so if the knight uses the dream

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nail on an NPC it slices the poor[br]bastards head open allowing the knight

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to enter the dream well the dream well[br]is where bugs hopes fears and dreams

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reside team Cherry's plan was to use[br]stream diving to give the player unique

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challenges involving stuff like running[br]away from a hoard of invincible flying

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nightmares or fighting off a group of[br]creatures without using the nail these

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areas would also give the player unique[br]items and reveal secrets about the NPCs

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past there's actually a video showing[br]off the dream dive ability on the elder

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bug the dream world here looks pretty[br]empty

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I guess the hoard of invincible flying[br]nightmares is off today at the end of

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the video the knight comes across a[br]younger version of the elder bug the

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name of elder bugs younger self has[br]become one of the most divisive issues

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in the hollow knight community is it[br]baby bug maybe child bug maybe his name

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was elder bug you know kind of like how[br]people name their kids Gertrude I'm kind

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of bummed that this feature isn't in the[br]final game but I agreed that removing

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this feature was probably a good idea[br]Hari Gibson explain why this feature was

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removed in the reddit AMA team cherry[br]held back in August 2017 we did

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experiment with a full Dream diving[br]system but it ended up feeling really

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disjointed and distracted from exploring[br]the world the time we saved making dream

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levels went into more fully fleshing out[br]Halla nest it would have been cool to

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have these little challenges separated[br]from the main game to try out but then

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again we already have the fan favorites[br]white Palace and Coliseum of fools for

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that[br]speaking of things that people love in

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games the next scene with cut content[br]shows the knight swimming underwater a

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different game played mechanic like this[br]would have been really cool also it

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would have made more sense if the[br]jellyfish in the fog Canyon were put in

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here in the final game they just sort of[br]float around in midair like they own the

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place[br]assholes anyway the next thing we see in

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the trailer is a giant fucking spider[br]now that's badass just look at this

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thing it's huge when you look at all the[br]bosses that are actually in the game

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they are all pretty small there's[br]nothing like kraid from Super Metroid

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for example I'm not saying that there[br]needed to be but it would've been cool

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to see how team cherry handled it and[br]I'm not sure if team cherry had much

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planned for deep nest at this point but[br]this makes me curious was this boss or

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any boss for that matter intended to be[br]a boss in beast den well obviously there

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was what else would be making this noise[br]and don't try to tell me that's just

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Harris snoring team cherry spiders don't[br]snore I should know I just googled it

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holy shit this trailer just keeps going[br]doesn't it after the spider boss we see

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an unused NBC a giant snail it looks[br]like this is an entire village of snails

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and the shells look like little houses[br]god I wish this place was in the game I

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know the character design doesn't really[br]fit with the games atmosphere but I

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don't care this guy's awesome remember[br]that old map of hallow nest I mentioned

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well it looks like there might have been[br]an area in the resting grounds

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originally planned for the snails of[br]course this could just be referenced to

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the snail shamans it's a toss up really[br]next we see slice shop I mentioned the

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white crystal ring earlier but there are[br]some other items here too they're just

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proto versions of items that ended up in[br]the game the most interesting one to me

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is the greed charm this shows us that[br]the charm system has existed since the

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early days of the game's development now[br]team cherry must have known that the

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snail was fucking cool because he shows[br]up again and plot twist he has a kid I

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guess[br]I just love the expression on this guy's

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face he's just so fucking done with this[br]kid

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and this is so weird that the other[br]snail has a smaller dialog box in the

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final game there's almost no instance of[br]multiple characters talking at once

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other than maybe the dreamers I'm bummed[br]that these guys got the boot but the

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artwork for the shells is still in the[br]game so who knows in a Kickstarter

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update posted in February 2017 team[br]cherry mentioned that to new backer

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design bosses dungeons and a new village[br]would be added to the game later if this

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upcoming village is entirely new it's[br]gonna have to be pretty damn good to get

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me to forget about these guys

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and that's it for the trailer but there[br]are a few other bits of cut content

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scattered throughout the Kickstarter[br]page first let's look at the stretch

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goals team cherry set during the[br]campaign the first met stretch goal was

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the white palace this stretch goal[br]promised to new boss battles the dusk

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Knight and the King's golem[br]according to re from the reddit AMA the

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King's golem turned into the Kings[br]mauled enemy but he's not sure what

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happened to the dust knight the second[br]stretch goal was the addition of four

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more side quests that included two more[br]bosses within the game the first side

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quest was titled an ale Smith's[br]obsession this side quest basically

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would have dealt with what the nail[br]Smith would have done after finishing

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all of the Knights nail upgrades in the[br]final game the knight is simply given a

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binary choice to either straight-up[br]murder the nail Smith has requested or

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leave him alive if the knight leaves him[br]alive the nail Smith will somehow find

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his way to nail master sheõs house where[br]the two develop a deep love for one

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another and that's it[br]not much of a side quest but at least

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now we know what the nail Smith's[br]obsession was art another one of these

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additional side quests was the hive the[br]hive was described as being a city

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inhabited by an ancient and proud race[br]at the heart of the city would be a sad

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truth as well as a boss encounter of[br]course the real sad truth is that there

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is no boss encounter honestly the hive[br]is a bit of a letdown

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it is definitely the most underdeveloped[br]area in the entire game I mean come on

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even cuphead had a bee boss battle no[br]wonder cop had won Best Debut indie game

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presented by SiC hydro at the 2017 Game[br]Awards team cherry has admitted that

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they would like to add more to the hive[br]re mentioned in the reddit AMA that they

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might add another NPC or put in little[br]homes for the bees to live in on top of

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that re also mentioned a connection[br]between Hornet and Vespa the dead queen

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of the hive the original idea for Hornet[br]was that she was going to be the child

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of three Queens[br]she was birthed by Hera queen of deep

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nest raised by the white lady the queen[br]of hollowness and trained by Vespa the

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queen of the hive[br]it's from Vespa that Hornet received her

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current name this makes more sense when[br]you look at the older maps of how honest

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while the game was still in development[br]you can see here that the hive is

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actually connected to deep nest in the[br]final game the hive is about as far away

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from deep nest as you can get[br]which makes this seem less plausible but

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Ari didn't know if this was still the[br]direction they were taking the character

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so it's very possible that this[br]connection between hornet and the hive

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is still canon another one of the side[br]quests was the secret of the stag ways

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which promised to shed light on the[br]history and fate of the stags I'd say

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the side quest did make it into the[br]final game with the inclusion of the

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stag home and the hatched egg hidden[br]within the last side quest is pretty

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interesting it's called the lantern on[br]the Black Shore the description for this

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event says travel beyond the city of[br]tears and reignite an ancient flame I

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assume that this Lantern is the[br]lighthouse found in the abyss and that

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Black Shore is the lake avoid the boss[br]encounter for this side quest might have

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just turned out to be the radiance but[br]I'm not sure now since we're talking

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about the abyss I figured we should talk[br]about the unmet stretch goal for the

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abyss the abyss expansion would have[br]added four new bosses to the abyss now

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as we know the abyss has no bosses even[br]though there are creatures there who

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appear to be alive Ari Gibson filled us[br]in on what the abyss expansion would

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have been in the reddit AMA he said that[br]the part of the abyss that the player

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finds is really just the abyss shore and[br]that the player would have traveled into

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the lake of void to experience the true[br]twisted world of the abyss some have

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wondered if team Jerry will revisit the[br]abyss in future updates but Ari

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dismissed the idea in an interview he[br]gave with the creative hustlers show and

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we could go and do all that but that[br]just means that we're gonna be making

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hollow Knight for the next four years[br]well we keep adding to it and what we

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really want to do is do all the holy[br]night that we've promised and the little

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extra bits that we just really can't[br]help ourselves from doing and

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close that book for a while and work on[br]something completely different another

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game but obviously is like something[br]there is its own world and then you know

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maybe we feel like returning to it in[br]ten years or something and then the

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abyss might be calling the next stretch[br]goal was to bring holo night to the Wii

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U so yeah this has been completely[br]dropped and now teen cherry is working

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on porting the game to the Nintendo[br]switch I think that this is great

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Halla night is going to get a lot of[br]attention once this happens seeing as a

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switch has no good games what's that[br]supper Mario Iliad don't make me laugh

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there was also an unmet stretch goal to[br]bring holo night to the PlayStation Vita

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but there hasn't been any news on that I[br]guess I'll just have to stick to

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whatever games people play on[br]PlayStation Vita one last rect goal that

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was not meant was for the Coliseum of[br]fools it would have added four new

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bosses and would uncover the mystery[br]surrounding the Colosseum we get a

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little light on this from guess who are[br]a Gibson he said that two of these

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bosses are Zoet in the Oh bobbles the[br]other two bosses eventually became

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enemies Ari also said that the Colosseum[br]still held a mystery but still no word

0:15:59.100,0:16:03.720
on that I do get a gladiator vibe from[br]this new trailer maybe the call scene

0:16:03.720,0:16:08.190
will tie in with the new gods and glory[br]update but who knows anyway one thing I

0:16:08.190,0:16:11.700
should mention is that the Colosseum of[br]fools was originally planned for the

0:16:11.700,0:16:15.990
fungal wastes lore wise it makes a lot[br]more sense to me that it was placed in

0:16:15.990,0:16:20.130
an area of the game full of uninfected[br]mantises who believe in the value of

0:16:20.130,0:16:23.790
strength I can't say I really have a[br]good explanation for the lore

0:16:23.790,0:16:27.600
surrounding the Colosseum now that it's[br]in kingdoms edge but I will share a

0:16:27.600,0:16:30.740
brief summary of my thoughts

0:16:31.960,0:16:35.920
another bit of content team charities[br]during the Kickstarter was a battle with

0:16:35.920,0:16:40.600
fierce Draya who has gone crazy after[br]the death of the queen of hallow nest of

0:16:40.600,0:16:46.000
course in the final game DRI is dead and[br]the Queen is still alive now out of the

0:16:46.000,0:16:50.290
five great Knights talked about in the[br]game the player only gets to fight one

0:16:50.290,0:16:55.180
of them twice but some have speculated[br]that the other Knights could come as

0:16:55.180,0:17:01.450
dream bosses however Ari Gibson dashed[br]all hopes in the reddit AMA when he said

0:17:01.450,0:17:03.910
that the five great Knights would be[br]explored more in the future

0:17:03.910,0:17:09.250
but not necessarily through dreams one[br]of the biggest pieces of cut content

0:17:09.250,0:17:13.480
from hollow Knight was an area called[br]the forest of Bones team cherry

0:17:13.480,0:17:17.350
mentioned this area in an interview on[br]the roundtable live podcast when

0:17:17.350,0:17:22.480
discussing the origins of hollow Knights[br]map it was like we just had the idea was

0:17:22.480,0:17:26.679
that you had like the middle area and[br]then you had three areas around it so

0:17:26.679,0:17:30.850
which is why the original area is called[br]crossroads in the final game and it's

0:17:30.850,0:17:36.250
gonna have like fungus land rain land[br]bone land or whatever bone land was

0:17:36.250,0:17:39.880
going to be a massive part of the game[br]with burning tar falling from the

0:17:39.880,0:17:44.620
ceiling and an area called the holy[br]grounds hidden deep within from the

0:17:44.620,0:17:48.400
reddit AMA William tells us that ants[br]were originally planned for this area

0:17:48.400,0:17:53.050
which would have been fucking awesome[br]from the roundtable live podcast as well

0:17:53.050,0:17:56.860
as an interview team cherry did with PC[br]gamer we have a little bit better idea

0:17:56.860,0:18:01.900
of what the forest of Bones development[br]was like the area initially started in

0:18:01.900,0:18:06.010
the top right corner of the map[br]apparently Ahri didn't like the idea of

0:18:06.010,0:18:10.450
an area with lava being at the top so[br]they moved the forest of bones down to

0:18:10.450,0:18:14.290
where the ancient basin ended up being[br]according to William it would have been

0:18:14.290,0:18:18.250
a large maze-like area that would[br]eventually lead to the monarch wings

0:18:18.250,0:18:22.900
after that the player would have had to[br]then light torches in order to open a

0:18:22.900,0:18:27.490
gate let's take a closer look at this[br]map and see if we can figure it out the

0:18:27.490,0:18:29.710
player would have had to enter from deep[br]nest

0:18:29.710,0:18:33.280
the only other area connected to the[br]forest of bones was the white palace

0:18:33.280,0:18:37.720
which connected to the city of tears v a[br]one-way elevator the first thing the

0:18:37.720,0:18:41.620
player would have had to do was probably[br]reach this area right here and get the

0:18:41.620,0:18:45.250
monarch wings which is indicated on the[br]map by this white circle

0:18:45.250,0:18:49.120
after that a lot more of the area[br]becomes unlocked the player would then

0:18:49.120,0:18:52.510
be able to reach these yellow objects[br]which I assume are the flames that

0:18:52.510,0:18:56.830
William mentioned in the podcast after[br]these were lit the gate here would open

0:18:56.830,0:19:00.940
up allowing the player access to this[br]enclosed area from there the player

0:19:00.940,0:19:05.080
would have to reach this green circle[br]which I assume is the King's brand then

0:19:05.080,0:19:10.210
the player could reach this location[br]which is probably the holy grounds also

0:19:10.210,0:19:13.809
the abyss and the white Palace would be[br]accessible at this point as well if the

0:19:13.809,0:19:18.130
player has a Shou - they can go fight[br]this back or boss over here there's also

0:19:18.130,0:19:23.549
a nail art up here for a move called[br]Skyward slash I think this is a village

0:19:23.549,0:19:28.860
this looks important but I can't read[br]this shit I think it says King mu and

0:19:28.860,0:19:34.140
yeah that's pretty much it[br]oh and there's a snail

0:19:35.640,0:19:40.299
now let's talk about the holy grounds[br]this little area on the map has a

0:19:40.299,0:19:44.830
picture of a broken dreamer mask which[br]is kind of weird but either way this

0:19:44.830,0:19:47.860
must be the location of the dreamer for[br]the forest of Bones

0:19:47.860,0:19:53.590
so which one is it well the word above[br]the mask here says Hagen mole which was

0:19:53.590,0:19:57.789
actually Harrah's original name this is[br]kind of confusing especially since the

0:19:57.789,0:20:02.200
holy grounds have mono moans mask[br]plastered everywhere not Harrah's the

0:20:02.200,0:20:05.710
reason for this is because all of the[br]dreamers had the same mask very early in

0:20:05.710,0:20:10.000
the game's development okay then so who[br]are these fuckers they kind of look like

0:20:10.000,0:20:14.919
vessels okay this is probably gonna[br]sound fucking crazy but follow me on

0:20:14.919,0:20:19.389
this guy's in September of 2015[br]Rock Paper Shotgun published an article

0:20:19.389,0:20:24.639
that featured pictures from re Gibson's[br]sketchbook this is cool because re

0:20:24.639,0:20:27.880
sketches are wire most of the artwork[br]and character designs for hollow Knight

0:20:27.880,0:20:32.110
came from these enemies we see in the[br]holy grounds can actually be found in

0:20:32.110,0:20:35.679
this sketchbook the sketch details the[br]animation for one of these enemies

0:20:35.679,0:20:40.570
spawning into the game not only that but[br]there are notes to these notes detail

0:20:40.570,0:20:44.350
how a boss fight with a dreamer would[br]have worked it says that the boss fight

0:20:44.350,0:20:48.269
would be incredibly difficult and that[br]the dreamer could roar to summon minions

0:20:48.269,0:20:53.710
so in other words these guys are minions[br]who help protect the dreamers so yeah

0:20:53.710,0:20:57.730
this whole thing sounds pretty weird[br]between this and the broken statue in

0:20:57.730,0:21:01.149
the church we can definitely tell that[br]Halle Knights story was once quite

0:21:01.149,0:21:04.419
different it seems like team cherry[br]hadn't quite decided what the vessels

0:21:04.419,0:21:09.220
were yet moving on we also have pictures[br]from re sketchbook of some of the

0:21:09.220,0:21:13.090
artwork for the forest of Bones this[br]first drawing shows off these things

0:21:13.090,0:21:17.710
called bone vines we also see these[br]weird-looking structures here's a

0:21:17.710,0:21:21.610
picture of one labeled or pillar we[br]don't know much about the pale war found

0:21:21.610,0:21:26.080
in the final game re Gibson said in the[br]reddit AMA that they were related to the

0:21:26.080,0:21:30.639
pale beings and that actually makes[br]sense the forest of Bones was filled

0:21:30.639,0:21:35.049
with giant corpses and as they piled up[br]in this hot area they might have turned

0:21:35.049,0:21:40.570
into or with superior properties there's[br]also this dope lava fountain and I guess

0:21:40.570,0:21:44.169
this might be the entrance to the holy[br]grounds and that's about all the

0:21:44.169,0:21:48.280
information I can find on the forest of[br]Bones but why did he get removed

0:21:48.280,0:21:52.570
in the first place team chair gave two[br]reasons as to why they cut the forest of

0:21:52.570,0:21:55.240
bones[br]the first reason was that it would have

0:21:55.240,0:21:59.020
taken a really long time to finish the[br]second reason they gave was that they

0:21:59.020,0:22:03.250
thought it would be too much for players[br]to handle those are pretty good reasons

0:22:03.250,0:22:08.020
I guess cut damn it during the[br]Kickstarter team cherry announced a new

0:22:08.020,0:22:11.710
pledge tier that allowed donors to make[br]their own dungeon and boss they

0:22:11.710,0:22:15.490
mentioned ideas like a robot graveyard[br]and even showed off this drawing for a

0:22:15.490,0:22:19.930
dungeon called the Carnival of[br]crustaceans yeah I know it's super weird

0:22:19.930,0:22:24.280
but what's cool is the description up in[br]the corner it mentions organ music

0:22:24.280,0:22:29.140
hanging lights and tents all things that[br]made it into the game with the grim

0:22:29.140,0:22:34.600
group content pack not the struggling[br]crab boss thing though sorry crab ello

0:22:34.600,0:22:41.230
there are also a few charms that got[br]left out of the game back in February of

0:22:41.230,0:22:44.140
2016[br]team cherry posted an article announcing

0:22:44.140,0:22:48.340
the inclusions of the charm system in[br]hollow Knight in this post we see a

0:22:48.340,0:22:52.060
couple of charms that didn't make it[br]into the final game two of these cut

0:22:52.060,0:22:56.680
charms are identified as the vengeful[br]swarm and the glass charm unending greed

0:22:56.680,0:23:00.430
vengeful swarm was a charm that would[br]spawn hatchlings when the knight would

0:23:00.430,0:23:04.950
take damage so it's sort of like a mix[br]between thorns of agony and glowing womb

0:23:04.950,0:23:08.790
unending greed is clearly just the[br]original version of fragile greed

0:23:08.790,0:23:13.450
there's also some charm designs left[br]over inside the game there's a dulled

0:23:13.450,0:23:17.530
out version of - master and this one[br]kind of reminds me of carefree melody

0:23:17.530,0:23:22.450
now let's talk about some of the unused[br]content that got left in the game first

0:23:22.450,0:23:27.520
off we have this unused sprite sheet of[br]a small enemy pretty fucking lame but

0:23:27.520,0:23:33.820
hey there it is moving on user Casey[br]Ghost released a mod for Halle Knight

0:23:33.820,0:23:37.830
back in July that gave the player access[br]to some rooms that were left in the game

0:23:37.830,0:23:41.080
unfortunately these rooms were removed[br]from the game with the hidden dreams

0:23:41.080,0:23:45.070
update so this mod no longer works with[br]the current version of the game but

0:23:45.070,0:23:48.430
don't worry you're not really missing[br]out on much some of the rooms are just

0:23:48.430,0:23:52.810
on textured areas there are also some[br]pretty strange rooms that feature tight

0:23:52.810,0:23:57.250
pathways one of which stretches on for[br]quite some time these two rooms look a

0:23:57.250,0:24:01.210
lot like the underwater room from the[br]trailer as well as the room we're in can

0:24:01.210,0:24:04.659
be found in the[br]game this really long ass room is very

0:24:04.659,0:24:08.409
similar to the room with une in it but I[br]wonder if this area was supposed to be

0:24:08.409,0:24:12.820
filled with acid maybe the night reached[br]the bottom of this room where une can

0:24:12.820,0:24:16.840
give it the ability to swim back up[br]otherwise it's pretty difficult to get

0:24:16.840,0:24:21.460
out of this area I don't know it's just[br]a theory there's also some cut rooms

0:24:21.460,0:24:25.149
from Crystal Peaks but there's nothing[br]really that exciting about them I'll

0:24:25.149,0:24:28.990
show them to you anyway but I don't have[br]anything to say so I'm just gonna play

0:24:28.990,0:24:43.000
some royalty-free jazz music here we[br]have a room filled with moth statues

0:24:43.000,0:24:47.260
this area was shrunk down and hidden[br]within the glade of hope in the final

0:24:47.260,0:24:51.519
game but even in this earlier version[br]there is still a Ledge for the night to

0:24:51.519,0:24:55.899
stand on so it can dream now this statue[br]it doesn't do anything here but the

0:24:55.899,0:24:58.889
statue in the finished map tapes the[br]knight to the shrine of believers

0:24:58.889,0:25:02.769
there's also a test room for the[br]dreamers which contains a static

0:25:02.769,0:25:07.029
Guardian that we can't interact with[br]he's just sort of showing kind of looks

0:25:07.029,0:25:09.580
like he's about to flash us the fucking[br]pervert

0:25:09.580,0:25:13.419
the last room is the most interesting[br]it's the only cut room with an

0:25:13.419,0:25:17.320
interactive bench and it's full of[br]string and needles which look exactly

0:25:17.320,0:25:21.610
like the needle that Hornet uses what's[br]even more interesting is that the exit

0:25:21.610,0:25:24.909
in this room leads to the room in the[br]ancient basin where the white palace

0:25:24.909,0:25:28.929
once stood but since there's no[br]adjoining exit in this room the player

0:25:28.929,0:25:33.429
gets stuck is this cut room supposed to[br]be harness room or is it just to show

0:25:33.429,0:25:37.090
that the white palace had some[br]connection to the weavers in the hidden

0:25:37.090,0:25:40.899
Stagg station that was added in the[br]hidden dreams update we can see that the

0:25:40.899,0:25:45.100
thread is still there all right so[br]that's all the boring stuff out of the

0:25:45.100,0:25:50.049
way now it's time to talk about cut[br]dialogue and trust me boys and girls

0:25:50.049,0:25:54.010
team Jerry cut dialog from this game[br]almost as much as the sick Hydro 5

0:25:54.010,0:25:57.820
sensitive razor cuts away unwanted[br]facial hair while helping you protect

0:25:57.820,0:26:02.620
your skin from irritation so we're about[br]to go headfirst into some deep hollow

0:26:02.620,0:26:07.389
night lore if you don't have a good[br]understanding of the lore then well I'm

0:26:07.389,0:26:12.190
not mad but I am disappointed now I[br]wanted to start off by talking about the

0:26:12.190,0:26:15.810
elegy of hollowness[br]the first four lines of this poem appear

0:26:15.810,0:26:19.530
at the beginning of the game but the[br]rest of the poem can only be found by

0:26:19.530,0:26:24.000
digging into the game's files in fact[br]the elegy of hollowness isn't even a

0:26:24.000,0:26:28.980
complete poem it literally just stops[br]midway through one of the lines and yet

0:26:28.980,0:26:32.550
everyone and their fucking grandma uses[br]this poem when they talk about Hall and

0:26:32.550,0:26:38.010
aisle or so can we really consider these[br]unused lines as Canon at the end of the

0:26:38.010,0:26:41.940
day what we are really trying to do is[br]figure out what is written in the hollow

0:26:41.940,0:26:46.350
night lore Bible that's more important[br]than figuring out what is canonical

0:26:46.350,0:26:51.720
within the game if that makes any sense[br]anyway there's this dialogue from the

0:26:51.720,0:26:55.320
moss prophet here we get a little[br]insight into what pisses the radiance

0:26:55.320,0:27:00.000
off she doesn't like it when creatures[br]change form which is probably referring

0:27:00.000,0:27:04.500
to how the pale king transformed from a[br]worm she's also against stealing soul

0:27:04.500,0:27:08.040
which is probably referring to how the[br]knight gained soul from hurting other

0:27:08.040,0:27:12.840
creatures and then she talks about how[br]the only crime a God can commit is by

0:27:12.840,0:27:17.400
dying is she referring to how the pale[br]King might be dead or is she just saying

0:27:17.400,0:27:21.540
that she refuses to die herself she caps[br]things off by talking about how the

0:27:21.540,0:27:26.340
empty ones must be destroyed milah has[br]similar dialogue to this in the final

0:27:26.340,0:27:31.440
game now the most cut dialogue we have[br]is for the three dreamers in the final

0:27:31.440,0:27:34.680
release of hallow night the three[br]dreamers talk in brief sentences and

0:27:34.680,0:27:38.820
their dream nail dialogue is even[br]shorter it's kind of hard to understand

0:27:38.820,0:27:42.870
in the final dialogue but the dreamers[br]have a debate as to what to do with our

0:27:42.870,0:27:47.220
little bug buddy here from looking at[br]this cut dialogue it becomes much more

0:27:47.220,0:27:51.660
clear what was going on here mana mana[br]argues that the knight should be allowed

0:27:51.660,0:27:56.040
to break the seals on the hollow night[br]while learn argues that the seal should

0:27:56.040,0:28:00.870
remain since that was the oath the[br]dreamers made to the King Herod uhz n't

0:28:00.870,0:28:05.460
seem to care said she's only in it for[br]Hornet for example here's a line that

0:28:05.460,0:28:09.630
was originally meant for Mata Mon the[br]teacher we sealed that plague and

0:28:09.630,0:28:14.670
thought we'd found an answer but we were[br]wrong our sacrifices what did they win

0:28:14.670,0:28:19.920
us at Worlds sealed in stasis here's a[br]line from lurin remember our promise

0:28:19.920,0:28:23.130
sister[br]we three vowed to protect the seal with

0:28:23.130,0:28:26.940
all our devotion this isn't really[br]aligned from Hera

0:28:26.940,0:28:30.810
more of a note about what she would say[br]more detach than the other dreamers

0:28:30.810,0:28:35.250
maybe Ponder's how the hollow night[br]feels after all this time would he make

0:28:35.250,0:28:39.900
the same choice again first few[br]dialogues are very taciturn there's also

0:28:39.900,0:28:44.730
a generic line about The Pale King our[br]King appears as a bug and I shall take

0:28:44.730,0:28:50.220
him as so but his are traits that[br]transcend our kind his is a mind beyond

0:28:50.220,0:28:57.000
ours duty given form in sleep I shall[br]not look upon his like again the

0:28:57.000,0:29:00.000
dreamers also had different lines that[br]they would give to the night when found

0:29:00.000,0:29:05.700
in the dream world here's a line from[br]autumn on only one path I see the seals

0:29:05.700,0:29:11.850
must break will it bring destruction of[br]course it will bring change to let its

0:29:11.850,0:29:18.240
to live forever in an unchanging world[br]death I would fear less this line is

0:29:18.240,0:29:24.510
probably from lurin remember our bond[br]our sacrifice for the kingdom's sake for

0:29:24.510,0:29:30.900
the one we must protect and again Hera's[br]dialogue is in note form talks about her

0:29:30.900,0:29:35.520
history as part of the agreement for her[br]alliance and her role as a dreamer King

0:29:35.520,0:29:40.350
gave her a child was she allowed to keep[br]this child or was she taken away then

0:29:40.350,0:29:45.450
there's this huge monologue vimana mom[br]now there's a lot here and it's hard to

0:29:45.450,0:29:48.810
know how much of this still reflects[br]team Cherry's plan for hala Knights

0:29:48.810,0:29:53.430
story according to maan Amon here the[br]kingdom of hollowness lasted for a very

0:29:53.430,0:29:58.230
long time and had reached a point where[br]civilization had stopped advancing she

0:29:58.230,0:30:01.830
also mentions that halan has struggled[br]both against the radiance as well as the

0:30:01.830,0:30:05.610
void we don't really know the full[br]details of the pale Kings relationship

0:30:05.610,0:30:09.540
with the void but we do know that the[br]void tries to consume any creature or

0:30:09.540,0:30:14.160
beings around it the King used the void[br]for his constructs but maybe his

0:30:14.160,0:30:18.870
tampering put his people in greater risk[br]than we know and what's with we found

0:30:18.870,0:30:23.400
each other after all was modem on[br]actively seeking the night out did

0:30:23.400,0:30:28.200
quarrel somehow help with this effort[br]then there's this line which to me is

0:30:28.200,0:30:33.630
super interesting an empty vessel to[br]bring hope a strong vessel to bring

0:30:33.630,0:30:37.400
stagnation an enlightened vessel to[br]bring an end

0:30:37.400,0:30:42.200
yeah this is some Lord of the Rings type[br]shit right here it almost sounds like

0:30:42.200,0:30:46.610
some sort of prophecy or something now I[br]can see interpreting this in two ways

0:30:46.610,0:30:51.320
the empty vessel is the hollow Knight[br]the strong vessel is the main character

0:30:51.320,0:30:54.860
if the player gets the hollow night[br]ending while the enlightened vessel is

0:30:54.860,0:30:59.330
the main character if the player gets to[br]dream no more ending another way like to

0:30:59.330,0:31:03.440
interpret this is that the empty vessel[br]is the first sibling ever made the

0:31:03.440,0:31:06.830
strong vessel is the hollow knight and[br]the enlightened vessel is the

0:31:06.830,0:31:12.530
player-character okay I have two more[br]lines left to show you these last two

0:31:12.530,0:31:17.330
are kind of unique not only were they[br]not used in the final game these two

0:31:17.330,0:31:21.590
lines were completely removed from the[br]game's code after launch which leads me

0:31:21.590,0:31:26.540
to believe they are super juicy the[br]first one comes from the white lady two

0:31:26.540,0:31:31.730
halves of a whole you found your way[br]back to me we were so unfair weren't we

0:31:31.730,0:31:37.700
to cast you out please you must not hate[br]him he did what he thought was right the

0:31:37.700,0:31:42.650
kingdom had to live okay so this pretty[br]much lines up with what we already know

0:31:42.650,0:31:47.480
the Kings soul the siblings being locked[br]away but that last line is kind of

0:31:47.480,0:31:52.520
interesting anyway the last line comes[br]from The Pale King his dream nail

0:31:52.520,0:31:57.679
dialogue in the final game reads no cost[br]too great but at one point it might have

0:31:57.679,0:32:04.070
been false one you cannot reach me here[br]well it seems to confirm that the Bell

0:32:04.070,0:32:09.140
King is indeed hiding in the white[br]palace but who is this false one he's

0:32:09.140,0:32:15.690
probably referring to the radiance the[br]false god of hollowness right or is he

0:32:15.690,0:32:22.980
oh wait wait wait a minute as much as I[br]want to get into this right now this

0:32:22.980,0:32:27.480
isn't the right place for deep lore I'm[br]sorry guys the last thing I wanted to

0:32:27.480,0:32:31.799
talk about was those sketches that we[br]have from Ari Gibson I showed off a lot

0:32:31.799,0:32:34.769
of them for the forest of Bones[br]but there are a few more I'd like to

0:32:34.769,0:32:38.879
share with you this picture has some[br]pretty interesting stuff on the far left

0:32:38.879,0:32:43.559
we can see a giant bug with ten legs[br]wearing a dreamer mask was there a plan

0:32:43.559,0:32:47.460
for the dreamer boss to transform and[br]did an actual enemy I mean wouldn't a

0:32:47.460,0:32:52.200
fight with this fuckface be pretty easy[br]I guess we're in his dream so he could

0:32:52.200,0:32:56.190
probably do whatever you wanted to us[br]right hit us with a train or something

0:32:56.190,0:33:00.899
then there's this guy his mask is[br]similar to the mask worn by Hera and the

0:33:00.899,0:33:05.070
weavers so maybe this was the king of[br]deep nest or something but part of me

0:33:05.070,0:33:09.090
says this guy might have been connected[br]to the colosseum of fools the symbol for

0:33:09.090,0:33:13.500
the colosseum also has the six eye hole[br]design and this guy has that same spiked

0:33:13.500,0:33:18.000
shell that the Lord Fool has and it[br]looks like this guy is presiding over

0:33:18.000,0:33:22.799
something also here's the trilobite from[br]deep nest and this confirms that

0:33:22.799,0:33:26.100
something is supposed to come out of[br]that thing over here we see an early

0:33:26.100,0:33:31.559
design for the white lady in her little[br]kakouton ball thingy now honestly this

0:33:31.559,0:33:36.120
last image bummed me out this is an[br]early design for Naz so there are two

0:33:36.120,0:33:41.100
obvious differences here first of all[br]he's got fucking wings second he has a

0:33:41.100,0:33:45.240
longer tail that he probably used to[br]attack the night with everyone in the

0:33:45.240,0:33:47.639
hallow night community who likes to shit[br]on mosque

0:33:47.639,0:33:51.299
he's got such great build-up to his[br]fight and then the fight itself is just

0:33:51.299,0:33:55.320
lame imagine how crazy the nos can[br]counter would be if it started the same

0:33:55.320,0:33:58.850
but then he just turned into this[br]fucking Ridley type motherfucker and

0:33:58.850,0:34:03.960
that's it for this video sorry it was so[br]short to make up for it check out this

0:34:03.960,0:34:07.500
blog I just posted in this post I[br]compiled all of the evidence I found

0:34:07.500,0:34:12.119
through this video into one spot it's[br]pretty good to be honest very dense and

0:34:12.119,0:34:17.950
concise in fact I don't know why I even[br]bothered making this long-winded video

0:34:17.950,0:34:21.060
I should just stop right now