As you fight it, once it gets low enough it begins to stab itself, trying to end its life. The Infection took over this Vessel, your kin, and now it wants nothing more than to die. This sad, desperate music begins to play as you fight this once mighty god in the place of his imprisonment, the place where he willingly resigned himself to try and contain The Infection that has ravaged Hallownest for so long. Once all four chains are broken and he’s unleashed, the fight begins. After having destroyed all three Dreamers, the door in the Temple of the Black Egg is unlocked and you find HK inside. The Hollow Knight, the thing that is literally in the game’s title, is nothing more than a ruined, pathetic shell of what it once was. There’s nothing quite like a final boss that’s been hyped up for the whole game, pretending to be this great, powerful being that cannot be beaten, but when you get there you realize that whatever it once was, is no more. Then, the fight for your life begins, deep inside an old, dark tunnel where your dead body will never be found again. It twists and snaps, turning into this massive, multi-legged organism whose origins are too terrible to be named. And as the music comes in, terrifying and primal, you see yourself across the room. And then, as you enter a large room, filled with the deceased corpses of Vessels and bugs alike, the final door closes. You keep moving forward, more doors closing behind you as you go. As you follow it, you hear a sound behind you: something’s slammed down. Without knowing it, you are led down into this unknown abyss, following yourself for reasons you can’t understand.

You follow, wondering what it is you saw. But when you approach, it flees deeper into the darkness. Rather, let me describe how you end up even getting there: imagine yourself walking down a dark, silent corridor. For Nosk, I feel that describing the actual fight to you isn’t really important. Found behind a breakable wall somewhere in Deepnest, Nosk is a creepy, malformed creature that lures its prey by assuming a false form. The interesting thing about Nosk is that no one really knows what the f**k it is.

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