While Hollow Knight lore is somewhat contested - I may have watched one too many mossbag videos - there is a consensus that the bug inhabitants of Hallownest were given the gift (or curse) of sentience. Shopkeeper Iselda greets you with a resigned bapanada, the Dung Defender shouts DOMA DOMA DOMA before hurling an enormous, spherical turd at you, and the Nailsmith greets you with a gruff ronjo-stenja.īut the idea of a community project that brings voice acting to the actual text that is displayed is incredibly compelling, both as an example of what a fan community can produce, and as an artistic perspective. I, like many die-hard fans of the game, am incredibly attached to these original vocalizations. Hollow Knight had a kind of voice narration prior to this mod, but one that was a bug-language gibberish. In the trailer you can get a sneak peek at a few voices, like those of Hornet, Quirrel, Snail Shaman, Markoth, Uumuu, and more.

According to the YouTube video description, more than one hundred voice actors lent their talents to this project. Not only do major characters now have voice acting, so do bosses, spirits, corpses (lol), and numerous item descriptions - including lore tablets, charms, and all of the Hunter’s Journal descriptions and notes. This mod is absolutely enormous in scope. It’s available for free for PC players, and it can be installed using the Scarab Mod Launcher. A group of ambitious fans have finally finished an impressive project: Hallownest Vocalized, a mod that brings voice acting to the game.

Hollow Knight lovers now have another excuse to play the game again.

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