Hollow Knight: Critical Let's Play

A Critical Let's Play Video Essay that I wrote, recorded, and edited. It follows Hollow Knight; a 2D action-platformer, Metroidvania. The work compares the failure to Aubrey Anable who discusses failure in her chapter “Games to Fail With” in Playing with Feelings: Video Games and Affect. The work also references Jesper Juul who also discusses failing in video games, the paradox of failure, and the feeling of failure in The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games.