This is Hollow Knight: Forgotten Crossroads - In Scratch! It is a fully playable version of the Hollow Knight's first area, the Forgotten Crossroads, including enemies, bosses, grubs, and geo rocks (It doesn't include Sly, Gruz Mother, charms, or the Ancestral Mound, however). I hope to eventually expand this to include more areas, enemies, and features. Enjoy! ---STORY--- If you haven't played Hollow Knight, it is a metroidvania set in a ruined underground kingdom of bugs. Most of the inhabitants have succumbed to the infection, a dangerous plague that has spread throughout the kingdom, corrupting bugs. Your goal is to contain the infection, or destroy it completely. There are many areas to explore, and many enemies you encounter. This project only includes the first area, the Forgotten Crossroads. ---CONTROLS--- You can view and change controls in the options menu, accessible from the main menu and the pause menu. To open the pause menu press P. The controls are by default set to the default Hollow Knight controls (arrows, ZXCA), but I would recommend changing them to WASD, Space for jump, J for nail and K for focus, which I find just a bit more intuitive. ---HOW TO PLAY--- --The Nail-- Attack enemies and objects with your nail to hurt them. The direction you are facing determines which direction you swing your nail. If you look up while swinging your nail, you will swing upwards. Same for downwards. If you hit spikes or an enemy while attacking downward, you will bounce a small distance off of them. This can be used to reach places you can't ordinarily reach. --Your Health-- The five white masks in the upper left are your health. If you touch an enemy, it will hurt you, removing one mask. When you reach zero masks, you will die. --Soul-- Hitting an enemy with your nail will give you a small amount of soul. Soul is contained within the large circle in the upper-left. When your soul vessel is one-third full, you can focus the soul to heal one mask. If your soul vessel is not full enough, it will be gray. When it gets to one-third full, it turns white. --Geo-- Geo is this game's form of currency. You can get it from enemies and geo rocks. Geo has little use in this recreation, however. Shops and such may be added later! --NPCs-- There are several NPCs (non-player characters) around the world. Talk to them by pressing up They may give you helpful information, or offer their services. Sometimes, however, they are entirely useless. --Benches-- Sit on a bench by pressing up. Get off a bench by pressing down. Sitting on a bench will restore your health. When you die, you will return to the last bench you sat on. --Grubs-- You can find grubs trapped in jars around the world. Save them by breaking their jars. The Grubfather, located in the upper left of the Crossroads, will reward you for saving the Grubs. --The Shade-- When you die, you will leave an dark stain of your previous life on the world, which takes the form of a black ghost known as the Shade. You must return to where you last died and defeat your Shade to get back your geo.
