Hollow Knight speedruns are much harder than you think

I regret to inform you this is exactly as hard as I’d expect it to be

I'll be honest I've never ever thought a Hollow Knight speedrun would be easy

Hollow Knight speedrunner here- really cool to see how you took the time and effort to learn strategies and inform yourself about the games you run! It becomes particularly noticable when watching you do a run of a game i’m familiar with. Also 112% APB speedrun when 👀say the word and i will teach you lol

As an og hollow knight player having played for like 3-4 years, you did suprisingly well on this like really good job. Hollow knight is a metroidvania and really hard to speedrun because of how large it is so just awesome job all around (plus you are goated)

I remember when this channel was relatively small and people still were always asking to speedrun this game. So glad he finally did it!

It's strange watching an Eazy video and actually knowing the strats before he does them lmfao

Didn’t talk to elderbug, run invalid

Hey! Awesome to see someone running my favorite game! You mentioned not knowing how the Uumuu AI works, so I thought I'd give you a short summary: For the first cycle (when Uumuu initially spawns), it's going to give you 3 attacks. After the third attack, it'll check how much distance it's traveled, and if it's more than a certain amount (which I believe is RNG), it'll move slowly and Quirrel will slash it to expose its core. If it's traveled less than the required distance, it'll queue up another attack (we just call them "extras"). After an extra, Quirrel is guaranteed to slash Uumuu to expose its core. Note that Quirrel slashing Uumuu doesn't actually damage it. Any subsequent cycles work the same way, except that Uumuu will make the check for an extra attack after 2 attacks instead of 3. Fun fact: with optimal any% equipment, a 2 cycle is the minimum number of cycles required for a kill. It's super cool to see top-level runners fight Uumuu. They have setups and planned reactions for every single attack pattern, so I would highly recommend checking them out if you haven't already!

Woah this game looks really awesome! They should make a sequel and not release it until 4 years after announcing it

“To witness a WR, one must endure the harshest punishment.”

Eazy, it is genuinely inspiring to watch your videos. I have only ever completed one speedrun in my life (pokemon emerald, it took me 6:39 minutes), but watching you go from speedrunning flash games to legitimately putting fantastic runs for competitive games up on leaderboards with nothing but your grit, deterministic attitude and relentless optimism makes me want to sink some hours into my favorite games and get a run or two approved on the leaderboards. Keep it up dude, thanks for the great (and consistent!) content.

I do wanna say that the version that Eazy is using actually a previous patch. Patch 1221. It allows a few glitches and is the most optimal for speedrunning. The current patch has a separate category on the leaderboard.

This is a legendary game The speedrun strats are insane!

What a pleasant surprise! Hollow Knight speedrunner and longtime fan here, really happy to see you enjoying the speedrun! Love the explanations of the run and entertaining commentary! If you ever are looking for more HK speedrun content, Steel Soul runs (my personal favorite) are really high stakes and fun, and Path of Pain is a really challenging, more platforming oriented category!

I'm really impressed by the tricks you learned for this game since I struggled so much to do even the easiest ones and never got to speedrun the whole game before! Mad respect!

Big time hollow knight fan here, seeing you do such skillful and difficult speedruns every once a while makes me respect you a lot. You're amazing and keep up the good work!

It's a bit longer, but it would be so awesome to see you do a 112% run. Great video, easy! Also, for anyone wondering, HK is such an awesome game, and you should definitely play it.

Hollow Knight Speedrunner here: quick tip, switch to Chinese in the game menu, it makes mashing a lot faster. There’s of course a lot of other stuff you should do, like double dash mantis pogo, blue lake wcs, pogo cycle wk, optimal cdash cycle, Uumuu extra attack recovery and optimal Uumuu damage cycles, QGA and QG route, proper stalking devout strats, faster THK, etc., but that’s the main starter tip :) Second most important suggestion is to learn QGA and QG route, then practice the bosses (especially WK and Uumuu).

I always watch these videos wondering how close to the top speedruns you put the effort to get, and as a HK enjoyer, that's actually pretty good for a beginner, congrats man

I think this is the first time you've covered a game that I already knew the speedruns for. Kind of crazy how much work and tim goes into one of these.