Every area affected by the Hollow Night is beset by shadowy monsters — known as «Voids» — who feed off of a power called «Existence.» (gamingtrend.com)
Button mashing is discouraged while kicking shadowy monsters into saws, pits and spikes is rewarded thanks to a unique checkpoint earning system. (spookysquid.com)
With Batman being publicly unmasked and every criminal able to see him as a man and not a shadowy monster, perhaps Bruce Wayne understood that he needed to symbolically destroy the man in order for criminals to fear the symbol once more. (wolfsgamingblog.com)