If this interests you, no reason not to play the first! I personally bounced off of it, but I don’t think that is the game’s fault.

The game’s combat strikes a unique balance between “slow and deliberate” (ala Dark Souls) and traditional fast-paced platformer combat. I went in wanting the game to feel like Hollow Knight, and it is definitely not the same. You don’t play a bouncy lil bug man, you play a big heavy knight. Big heavy knight + platforming felt like a weird combo to me, so I put it down. But not every game is for everybody!