Hollow Knight Fans Are Using The Watcher's Spire Telescope To Watch Shrek

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Hollow Knight has been around since 2017, and it's almost constantly being tinkered with by a dedicated community that still loves playing through the title to this day (we have to do something while we wait for Silksong). Most of its hidden secrets and development quirks have been found over the 6 years since release, but a new discovery involving a telescope found in the Watcher's Spire in the City of Tears has the game's subreddit in stitches.

The telescope in question is rather inconsequential in the grand scheme of the game, so we can forgive you for potentially forgetting about it or not even knowing it's there. To jog your memory, close to the top of the Watcher's Spire is a telescope you can inspect. Doing so gives you a full view of the City of Tears and not much else, but it's a neat way to view the entire area while adding a sprinkling of lore to the overall game.

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However, a fan that goes by Pingu212 on the Hollow Knight subreddit recently discovered that the telescope is actually a disguised video clip, as the game simply plays a video when you inspect the telescope rather than have your character actually look through it. It was also discovered that this video can be replaced with any other video clip the player wishes, and you can probably guess where I'm going with this if you've been subjected to the Internet for more than five minutes.

Pingu212 demonstrates this in their initial post by having the main character look into the telescope to watch a painfully 80's TV commercial for Freddie Freaker, in which you could call up a phone number to get the character to tell you a joke. You can also tell its legitimately being watched through