Игроки спустя девять лет продолжают спорить о тайнах локаций игры Hollow Knight

Hollow Knight is an indie Metroidvania praised for its music, art style, atmosphere, difficulty, and crucially, its worldbuilding. This is a game with hidden mysteries, deep lore, and events and locations players are still debating years later. Its sequel, Hollow Knight: Silksong, was highly anticipated and received widespread critical acclaim upon its eventual release. Some of Hollow Knight's unresolved questions and debates were answered — at least partially — in the sequel, but many weren't. And some of the answers just brought up more questions! Today, more than nine years after its initial release, players are still having debates involving these ten Hollow Knight locations. Some spoilers below. 10 Crystal Peak & Hallownest's Crown What's the Statue? Hallownest's Crown is right at the summit of Crystal Peak, and it's covered in glyphs written in an unknown language — and a statue of the Radiance. The game is pretty cagey about what this actually is, and fans have a bunch of theories. A prominent theory is that the statue is actually the Radiance's physical body. Fans point to its Dream Nail dialogue and position at the summit as evidence it's something special, but others argue that other statues have Dream Nail dialogue and the markings are identified specifically as an "unknown language" rather than Seals of Binding. This location is clearly showing something important, but no one can agree on exactly what it is. 9 Teacher's Archives Can We Talk About the Jellyfish? Teacher's Archives is a building in the middle of an acid lake in the wider Fog Canyon area. As the name suggests, it's an archive containing Monomon the Teacher's research. Fans argue over exactly what Monomon was doing in the tower, and whether her research directly or indirectly led to the weird jellyfish in Fog Canyon. Were they just regular creatures from Fog Canyon she was studying, or did she make them? Fans aren't sure, and the question keeps popping up. Some even wonder whether she specifically created Uumuu as a guardian, since it's the only hostile jellyfish with unique behavior and a clear connection to Monomon. 8 Fungal Core More Than Just a Big Mushroom There's a massive mushroom corpse at the heart of the Fungal Wastes, and fans are still wondering exactly what it is, even after Silksong released. You can Dream Nail the fungal creature, and it gives a cryptic philosophical statement about foreseeing an inevitable demise. The Mushroom Clan is described as having a shared mind, so naturally one interpretation is that it was was the Clan's leader. But fans wonder whether the giant mushroom was a leader, merely an unusually large member of the collective, whether it was a Higher Being, and even whether it's a Hallownest equivalent to Silksong's Old Hearts after Silksong released and dropped new knowledge. No one knows what it is, though, so the discussion continues. 7 Nosk's Lair What Even Is Nosk, Anyway? Nosk is a shape-shifter Infected that mimics faces from its victims' memories, and its lair contains their remains — including the remains of several Vessels. The debate here is over why, exactly, there are any Vessels in its lair at all, and what implications that has for Nosk itself. Vessels were supposed to have been discarded in the Abyss, so their being in Nosk's Lair in the first place is weird. Some fans suggest they're just escaped Vessels who wandered somewhere they shouldn't have. But this leads into a debate over what Nosk even is, and whether it originated in the Abyss. Silksong didn't provide an answer, so this debate is still ongoing. 6 Lifeblood Chamber Why Is There a Giant Head? The Lifeblood Chamber has a massive, many-eyed head inside it. It doesn't appear to do anything at all other than breathe and blink, but it's very noticeable. It even appears again in Godhome, which is pretty weird. It's called the "Abyss Creature," and no one knows what it actually is — and there's very little actual lore around it. It's pretty atmospheric, though. Fans proposed a bunch of theories: it's a Lifeblood Higher Being, a creature infected by Lifeblood, some sort of Void creature, or even something analogous to the Nightmare Heart. Some fans even think it's the source of Lifeblood. Hollow Knight: Silksong expanded on Lifeblood lore, but frustratingly, didn't go into what the Abyss Creature actually was. 5 Beast's Den What's the Deal With the Dangling Thing? There's a shrine-like room inside Beast's Den with a being strung up, and when you use a Spell on it, a Seal appears. Since the original Hollow Knight's release, the purpose and nature of the shrine and being have been a major question, but Silksong didn't answer those questions either. After Silksong, some fans proposed that it could be an artificial womb related to Hornet's creation, based on new information about Weavers. But other fans think it has a deeper, older meaning related to Deepnest's older royal history. But we've still got no real idea what the room is for, why there's a dangling being, or why there's a Seal. 4 Tower of Love But Why Grubs? The Tower of Love contains the Collector, a Void creature that collects Hallownest's creatures in jars. We know what it does now, but we've got no idea what it was made to do. What it was made to do, and why it's obsessed with preserving Grubs, remain unanswered questions. Since the Collector's body looks like an armorless Kingsmould, theories suggest it's a failed, rogue, or prototype Kingsmould. But even those who agree with this theory can't agree on which one of those it is... and, of course, why it collects Grubs. Was it a failed Kingsmould? Is it a prototype? Was it a Kingsmould that just said "No, thanks," and did something else? No one knows. 3 Ancient Basin Who Killed the Pale King? In Hollow Knight, the Ancient Basin is where the White Palace used to be before it disappeared. We know this, and we know that the Pale King ruled from the Palace. But what actually happened to the Pale King, and why did the Palace disappear after the Infection came back? Prominent fan theories suggest that the Void killed the Pale King, since there's Void in and around the Palace, but other fans push back and say that the Pale King doesn't show the classic signs — or that the Void wouldn't have been able to kill him in the first place. Silksong doesn't give us an answer, so the debate continues. 2 White Palace Is It Real Or Just a Dream? Can It Be Both? The real White Palace disappeared with the Pale King, but you can visit a Dream Realm version of it. This one has a bunch of theories attached to it with no clear answer. One big question is whether the White Palace is the real White Palace or some sort of dream creation. The palace disappeared, but the Knight can enter it through a corpse's dream. Was that the real White Palace or a memory? We can see the Pale King's corpse sat on the throne, and some people suggest this means the Palace was just moved physically into the Dream Realm. But Silksong confuses us further, since we do enter what's explicitly Hornet's memory of the White Palace. Does that mean the original White Palace from Hollow Knight was also a memory? Fans aren't sure, and to be honest, neither am I. 1 The Abyss How Did the Vessels Get Out When the Door Was Locked? The Abyss is where the Vessels were born, and the game tells us that the entrance was sealed after the Hollow Knight was chosen. Okay, cool. But there are Vessels outside the Abyss: the Knight, the Broken Vessel, and the corpses in Nosk's Lair. How did they get there if the Abyss was sealed — and did they all escape in the same way? One theory fans have settled on involves an underground passage from the Abyss to Deepnest, which would also explain the corpses in Nosk's Lair. Another suggests that the Knight escaped the Abyss before it was Sealed. After Silksong, we still have no answer, but some fans suggest that the Abyss and Void is geographically larger than Hallownest and connects distant kingdoms, allowing for escape there through some other route. But that doesn't really solve the Nosk problem, so who knows? - OpenCritic Reviews - Top Critic Avg: 89/100 Critics Rec: 97% - Released - February 24, 2017 - ESRB - E10+ for Everyone 10+: Fantasy Violence, Mild Blood - Developer(s) - Team Cherry - Publisher(s) - Team Cherry - Engine - Unity - Franchise - Hollow Knight - Genre(s) - Metroidvania