[TAS] 0 GEO vs THE SWARM

Is it possible to complete Hollow Knight and defeat the Radiance without ever picking up a piece of having gathering swarm permanently equipped? In this tool-assisted speedrun, we do just that. Thanks to @Icefire3339 for help in developing the route Thanks to @dragon_nyx for the wonderful thumbnail art Thanks to @constructivecynicism1449 for the prior work on the White Palace and Abyss Climb TASes, as well as help in working out some of the more technical input sequences Thanks to @mathulu for hosting the reveal stream Thanks to folks in the HK speedrunning community for their support and encouragement Thanks to you for watching! If you’d like to watch a version of this video without commentary, that’s available here: Technical notes: This TAS was developed using libTAS and was run on patch 1221. It’s intended to follow the spirit of the nmg ruleset, though there are a handful of wcs underplats that are eith