How Hollow Knight's Design Tells Its Story Without Words

The environmental storytelling and world design of Hollow Knight is literally unmatched, blowing away even FromSoft's greatest hits in its consistency and depth. Let's check it out!

This video is one section of an upcoming Hollow Knight video essay which will lay out the entire timeline of Hallownest based on a bunch of new lore discoveries (or at least, stuff I haven't been able to find anywhere else).

00:00 - Start
00:45 - What is Environmental Storytelling?
00:54 - Environmental Storytelling in Metroid 2 - Setup
02:01 - Environmental Storytelling in Metroid 2
03:26 - But What About Hollow Knight?
04:04 - Technique 1: Adding Depth
04:35 - A Clearer Example
05:32 - And That's a Simple Scene
05:59 - Technique 2: Designing History
07:14 - Queen's Gardens: A Case Study
09:13 - Recap
09:54 - Real Talk

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