Hollow Knight - new indie Metroidvania!

I backed this one on Kickstarter and have been looking forward to it for some time. Sadly, I've been so swamped at work, I haven't had time to play it yet!!

Night in the Woods also came out recently, and I haven't had time to play that one either. *sigh*

Bought it on last Saturday, played 2hrs straight into the game.

First, this game looks gorgeous. Dialogue has its own feeling too.

Second it plays very solid, much like a IGAvania title, though with it's own twist like weapons have some kind of backlash when you attack.
It even has an enemy encyclopedia, pretty cool.

Music is good also, new-age / ambient tracks with beautiful melodies.

I'm still early into this game, and I'd love to dig deeper.

How hard is the game? If compared o other games? I get tired so fast if I am stuck or find it too hard. (I feel my time could be put on more important things than gaming when I get stuck over and over again).

Let me know.

Let me put this way, it's difficult but it's fair (not as difficult as OoE but definitely harder than SoTN, if you want some comparison).
You'll die a lot in this game and it has a Dark Soul-like mechanism (you lost all your money if you die, and you must travel back to where you died to recover).

IMO I'd be happy if Bloodstained's difficulty is similar to Hollow Knight.

What's bothering me is, this game has a huge map, and map of an new area is only available when you found a certain character and buy the map from it.
But often when you finally found this character you're probably half-way or even completed the area!
That means you need to complete at least a good chunk of new area WITHOUT a map to get a proper map.

Even worse, the character changes its position.
Let's say you've found the character but can't buy the map because you don't have enough money, and you might want to grind some money in the next room, but when you come back, the character is gone.
I've been through this situation and it's very, very frustrating, but at least you could buy that map after defeating that area's boss.

This really makes backtracking A LOT harder and time-consuming, but hey, the original Metroid on NES doesn't have a map feature at all.

I know this is coming for the Switch, but have they announced a possible release date/window at all?

akuwa Thank you!

Fortunately microSD cards don't cost too much, so getting one shouldn't sting too much.

Switch version is out now! I'm downloading it now...

Nice game. I actually have it in my GOG wishlist. One of the better metroidvanias around.

Oh hey, this game is getting a physical Switch release, isn't it? I might end up getting it then!