So I posted recently about something with Hollow Knight and how I was too fat fingered to do the white palace
Well before I wrote that I got as far as the room that has the secret wall to the Path of Pain. I resigned myself after going at the normal way it for hours and getting stuck there.
After writing , I tried to have a go at it again and reading guides to what to do, I finally got through it after an embarrasing amount of hours... now I know it is a skill issue I have with platformers and I was hating myself the whole way through while using a keyboard.
I hated doing it, felt like the game was going to break me but I carried on cursing the game for every inch of progress I made. I can acknowledge that the White Palace was well made ( although the saws and spear mechanisms will probably give me nightmares) , felt a bit overtuned on the timings, but again what do I know I am horrible with platforming in general.
If the normal white palace gave me this much trouble, then I will probably get aneurysms trying to do the path of pain and give respect to those that have will to do it
I don't wish to discourage anyone from playing the game though, my embarrasing amount of hours I put into completing the White Place is more an effect of me literally brute forcing my brain to get timings right and then playing a section at a time that the many sections on an obstacle becomes one set piece action when I stop thinking and let muscle memory take over
I'm a big believer in straight-up cheating when a single-player game ceases to be fun but you still want to see where it goes. Good on you for throwing yourself at the wall, but I'm not certain you're saying it was very much fun, or worth it.
If it was, hey congrats! But if it wasn't, there's no shame in just turning on god mode when a game's difficulty exceeds what you're interested in grinding. It's a single-player game and you don't need to let other people define how you finish it.
(I personally toggled godmode maybe halfway into the path of pain and again when going for the "true" ending)