The video discusses the extreme difficulty of speedrunning the game "Hollow Knight." It explains various speedrun categories, with a focus on "Low Percent God Home Ending," which is considered the most challenging. A speedrunner named Milky successfully completed this grueling category after many attempts, showcasing the dedication and skill of the Hollow Knight speedrunning community.
1. Hollow Knight is a challenging game, with tough platforming sections and difficult moral decisions. It is also not easy to speedrun, with speed runs of the game being even harder due to the difficulty of the game.
2. Speed runs of Hollow Knight involve crystal dashing pixels above acid, fighting bosses with little to no upgrades, and completing some of the most difficult challenges quickly and often while taking double damage.
3. There are different ways to run the game, also known as categories. The most popular universal speedrun categories are any percent and 100. In any percent, you complete the game as fast as possible with no additional requirements or completion. In 100, you must complete the game after collecting every item in collectible.
4. In Hollow Knight, the term "true ending" refers to the normal radiance ending. This run involves fighting a wide array of bosses without ever upgrading your nail and only using shade soul and shaman stone.
5. The "low percent" category requires you to complete the game with as little completion as possible. This means that items that help make any percent faster and easier, such as shaman stone and dash, are not allowed to be picked up.
6. Hollow Knight also has a "true ending" and "low percent" category. The "true ending" refers to the normal radiance ending, and the "low percent" category involves completing the game with as little completion as possible.
7. The hardest full game category of Hollow Knight is the "god home ending". The hardest individual level run is "all bindings" pantheon of hollowness.
8. The "low percent god home ending" is the hardest Hollow Knight run conceivable. It involves completing the game with as little completion as possible, facing every pantheon back to back with worse equipment than all bindings, and having only five hp instead of four.
9. Milky, a speedrunner, successfully completed a single segment speed run of the "low percent god home ending". This run was so difficult that it took him six hours and 38 minutes of some of the most difficult Hollow Knight gameplay imaginable.