But then there is a massive gap before you receive the next item, the foam gun. Grenades you practically abuse to get through the game easily, and you get a metric ton of them. Progression is also one of the poorest I've seen many of the moves and abilities are very inspired by Super Metroid, but they don't hold up. It gives you a ballpark guess of where you are, but doesn't provide much information. So if you're inside a grid spot, it could contain vents, other rooms, or be part of another sector entirely. Not to mention that the minimap goes off of a grid system much like the original Super Metroid, but that game could pull it off because rooms were constructed in a grid. It gets exhausting after the first time, and it doesn't get better after the thirtieth. You'll go through tiny airvents, climb up ladders after ladders, and most of the time you'll reach a point where you need to get more items to progress to pass through, so you need to backtrack again all the way to where you were before and find a new route. Most of the time it will look like there are multiple ways there, but it doesn't matter which one you take because it will always be just equally as long. Each room you enter goes different ways into every part of the map, which feels way more rewarding for a Metroidvania. The original Resident Evil, Ori, and Hollow Knight do it in the correct way where maps are built with landmarks in mind and easy to maneuver passageways with plenty of shortcuts so there are plenty of ways to get from place to place on foot. The game seemed as though it wanted to make it feel a little bit longer than what the story allowed, so objectives are constantly placed on opposite points of whatever objective you just completed, so you have to backtrack through this labyrinth over. Speaking of the map, it isn't that large, but it is dense. On top of this, maneuvering the actual map of the complex is made harder because ascending vertically is made way more difficult because it's so hard to move from platform to platform with this. Ultimately, both would result in you taking an equal amount of damage in the end. It would make combat encounters confusing on whether or not the game wanted you to take cover, or run and gun through them. It feels incredibly clunky and difficult to handle, where you move laterally way too slowly, but jump very high and at fast speeds. I'd say a lot of the major headache comes from the way movement handles.
So it should be clear that a lot of the mechanics of the game are experimental rather than polished. I'd say that the game was more of a tech demo for something that ChAIR or Epic was going to work on further, but found that the market for Metroidvanias hadn't exactly taken off save it for the titular two titles the genre gets it's name from. But nonetheless, it probably wasn't for the right reasons.
There are a lot of inherent flaws with the game that give me a bit of a headache at times, but I'd be lying if I said that there were a lot of moments where I felt pretty hooked on playing it. I'm almost certain my review doesn't mean a whole lot considering that most of the people who plan on purchasing this game played it when it originally came out and have more fond memories of it and looking to go back- I'm not one of those people, so I'm going to review it for what it was, is, and how some other developers could learn from it's design. So I attribute that to my heated nature in this.
#Hollow knight map with everything full#
I wrote this review after playing for about 2 hours of trying to go around the map doing a full completionist getting everything. Shadow Complex Remastered Game Review by Praetor
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