@halodude442: Damn right, this game really is a giant deal in all the ways and way too underappreciated. On the other hand I really dunno why people make a big deal out of Nier, its great but not as good. Also Nier for me is the archtypical epic game, you fight big crazy bosses and the music is superb. Nier kinda nails the whole atmospheric aspect at least when it comes to the music and the fighting animations, like you should go and watch combo videos of Nier, stuffs really awesome looking.
Anyway, to the very least I really hope that Hollow Knight game will be discussed during GOTY stuff and gives the whole competition a good run.
Whats better is that Hollow Knight isn't even realized yet. More add-ons are coming adding lots of stuff, too. For instance one extra playable character, Hornet. Perhaps even new lands and things to explore and more boss fights. We're still talking about a kinda incomplete game here.
@rorie: Yeah I kinda agree, you really have to be a explorative type to spend like 5-15 hours in this game just to "backtrack" stuff. I don't find that its not really backtracking in my opinion as this game is pretty much designed around the notion of visiting previous places all the time judging on how the world is designed and without spoiling too much, some old places will change later in the game, too. I basically visited random places without knowing what I was doing and thats how I progressed while finding secret and sometimes even important stuff like in the process. Also its worth just going back to visit worm-daddy if you find his jar-babies from time to time. I've found like 30+ sons and I'm still not done.
Its still a long game by most standarts. I don't know anyone who played through this in less than like 15 hours. I'm 25 hours in and barely reached the late game parts but I'm sure most would've finished a normal playthrough by that amount of time.
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