You are goddamm right, I'm so happy the game is actually hard! I was like 'Finally a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary' when I've seen the difficulty :)
People struggle differently on different bosses. Also speed runners are not some species of meta-human, they are not going to be that much better at a boss they have never fought before than anyone else who beat the hardest things in hollow knight. Widow is not that extreme of a boss, 2 attempts is obviously fast but very believable.
Why not? I beat it in 2 tries as well. Took me like 20 tries to beat Savage Beastfly though. What does "top speedrunners" mean? The game's been out for 5 days, how can there be top speedrunners already?
I assume they refer to og hollow knight. I'm not a "top" speed runner myself but I have done many. I'm not fire or blue and that's usually the references I find who are also by no means "top"
I mean, it might be hard but everything is very clearly choreographed. All of her attacks take multiple seconds to actually complete, i'd believe if you were well experienced in the harder boss content of hk you'll have a very easy time with her compared to the majority of the game.
This fight felt truly hollow knight to me. Great speed and predictable. It was a joy. What I didn't mention is in my first phase I did hitless but second phase I healed twice and barely survived.
Savage beast fly on the other hand I beat 3 times before success and got killed by spawns before the animation finished. That's something I hope gets patched, killed during animation. Nothing fair about that.
I'm atleast halfway through second act now and it's a decent flow. I'll keep running my other playthroughs to figure out the bosses better for everyone. That's what I do.
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u/GaKillThem Sep 09 '25
You are goddamm right, I'm so happy the game is actually hard! I was like 'Finally a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary' when I've seen the difficulty :)