An appropriate place for a gravesite, you think?
The fact that you can use a tram to go from the Crossroads to the Resting Grounds would have been nice for those who needed to do such a thing. The tram is also pretty close to stag stations at both ends; I’m not sure why you’d need to use it unless the stag stations were closed, as they are when the Knight arrives. (The Knight is the name of the player character. He’s not the Hollow Knight, but he has many of the same properties.) However, having the Tram Pass, I totally could have just skipped over Crystal Peak entirely and gone straight to Resting Grounds that way. I just wanted to grab the Crystal Heart and Descending Dark, as those two are pretty useful.
With the Dream Nail in hand, I can now get started on unlocking the first ending. I still have two required upgrades to pick up first, but there are also some other places I want to go before stuff gets really challenging. Most of the areas in the game are open, and Crystal Heart is a fun access code: it lets us bypass a Simple Lock. I only have one Simple Key at the moment, and I have two locks I want to open. One can wait until I have more cash, so I think I’ll go do the other one. To a place I never found on my first playthrough: the Junk Pit!