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Crest of the Sea

Stream your needle with long range strikes, heal gradually over time.

Longest range for the needle, but slower animations means slower attacks.

Can line up multiple enemies to hit them all at once.

Needlestrike lashes out in both directions and rapidly hits twice.

Binding is quick and grants you one mask of health and a healing aura that will heal you up to full. Effect is canceled if you take damage.

Pogo moves on an arc.

Crest of the Badge Mole

Hammer enemies with heavy blows and absorb hits with earthen armor.

Basic attack is a slow overhead slam with the needle. Debris flies away from the attack providing additional damage to anything hit.

Needlestrike is a swing like a baseball bat.

Binding provides earthen armor which protects you for up to three hits of damage before shattering but does not heal you. You can bind again even if you already have earthen armor to get more.

Pogo drops you straight down really fast, so you better be right above what you want to hit.

Crest of the Dragon

Build energy as you take more damage, bind to release flaming fury on your foes.

Unlike fury of the fallen, damage increases proportionally according to how many masks you are missing.

Every attack has a small trail of flame behind it that has a percentage chance to cause burning damage, increasing with how low your health is.

Needlestrike is a directional, flaming up-spin.

Binding causes an explosion centered and radiating out from around the player, setting everything in its path on fire, doing more damage depending on how many masks are lost. Heals 1 mask per enemy killed by blast.

Pogo is at an angle similar to Hunters crest

Crest of the Sky Bison

Knock enemies away with powerful gusts of wind.

Small arcs of wind are sent out with every attack, dissipating close to the player.

Binding heals normally and causes each attack afterwards to produce a large crest of wind which will knock away smaller enemies and stagger larger ones for a short time. Bosses will enter their stagger animation faster and it lasts longer than normal.

Notably the wind itself does not cause damage, only the needle or enemies being knocked back into another object provides any damage.

Needlestrike is a single downward slash and a large wave of wind that travels across the screen.

The bench prompt in HK and SS is “rest,” which has very specific connotations that don’t speak to mindlessness very much. “Rest” means you feel safe. It means you can replenish your energy for as long as you need to.

Ghost really takes that prompt to heart! It falls asleep on the benches, which is adorable. That also means that it can feel tired, and also it feels safe enough to let its guard down entirely. Hornet, however, does not, and she’s always looking around. The only time she doesn’t look around while resting is in her house, where she knows for a fact that she’s alone.

However, the most interesting part of HK’s bench prompts is when it ISN’T “rest.” There are multiple points in the game where you sit, but you don’t actually rest. The ones I can remember off the top of my head are sitting by Quirrel at the lake, and sitting on the king’s throne in the white palace. In both cases, the prompt is “sit.”

This speaks to a kind of situational awareness. Ghost is not resting with Quirrel, as it knows why Quirrel is sitting there. It’s a last moment of respect and enjoying each other’s company, not a casual rest where Ghost can just go about its business after.

In the palace, the throne is not actually a place of rest, despite it being the king’s final resting place. Ghost, in my opinion, is aware of this, and thus will not go about its business normally. No charm changes, no map checking, no journal entries. Just sitting.

The entire throne sequence conveys so much without a single word, you arguably see the poor little creature going through a whole sequence of complicated emotions there.

The Knight knocks the King's remains off his throne with enough force to crack what's left of his face and send some bits flying (by this point they've probably seen seen the heaps of corpses in abyss or even put together that he 'made' it...)

It plops itself on his chair (perhaps defiantly ('My chair now!'), or trying to 'fill his shoes') - faint glow coming off of it seems emphasized when it sits there, like it's maybe trying to "glow up the room" like he might have.

....but after a while, a sad little stripped-back melody starts playing that blends both their leitmotifs (like maybe after it got the anger out of its system, some longing for what might have been sets in - this is the closest it'll ever come to interacting with him.)

𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭! 𝘚𝘦𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘩 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵, 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳!