Hollow Knight (Series)

[Monocle]

OOOOOOOOHHHHHHH

I LIKE THIS A LOT

[Moonface]

I thought for a moment that tiny Knight was impaled on the end of her sword like some sort of sick keychain.

[ShiraNoMai]

Silksong: Day One Game Pass Launch


Time to put down the COPIUM, Silksong IS, in fact, NOT vaporware! Here's a new gameplay trailer featuring everyone's beloved insect, Hornet, and her vast array of combat options/tools. 
The game was shown as part of Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase 2022, and as such, all games shown will be out within the next 12 months. It is correct to assume this is the case for this game as well; even confirmed by Xbox when prompted on Twitter.

[Moonface]

Definitely the biggest surprise of the Xbox conference for me. I'd heard a rumour that Silksong was going to be announced as a Day One Game Pass title, but I had written that off as not happening or if it did, it would just show up in some overview screen of other games coming to Game Pass and we wouldn't actually see the game at all.

It's nice to know it's due out in the next 12 months too, since that means we can actually expect to see more of it without waiting forever. XD

[Moonface]

Hollow Knight: Silksong Confirmed for PlayStation Platforms
The official PlayStation Twitter account has confirmed that Hollow Knight: Silksong will be coming to both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5:

[Moonface]

Hollow Knight: Silksong Release Pushed Back
A tweet from Matthew Griffin has revealed that Hollow Knight: Silksong will no longer be releasing in the first half of 2023 as originally planned:

While no release date had been given before, its appearance at last year's Xbox Games Showcase had pitched the game as releasing by June 13, 2023 due to that showcase only showing games that would release within a year of it airing.

[ShiraNoMai]

Good gods this thread was made over 6 years ago...



It's out in two weeks.

No, it's not vaporware after all. Yes, this is real life. Here's the release trailer, and also the Bloomberg article (written by gaming's own Jason Schrier) discussing what lead to the long periods of radio silence coming from Team Cherry.

[Moonface]

I enjoy that even on their official website they avoid mentioning a year. I know it isn't but I like to think it's to give themselves an out if the game somehow doesn't release in a week from now.

I've yet to read the full Bloomberg article but I know the tl;dr is they just didn't feel like rushing themselves and kept going radio silent because all they had to share was "We're working on it". I'd argue that it would have been better to just show maybe a screenshot of an area, an enemy type, just something small like what Slay The Spire 2 is doing rather than saying absolutely nothing, but somehow for Team Cherry it probably worked out better for them to have been silent because the memes it generated has marketed this game far more and better than most developers and publishers could dream of getting for zero marketing expenditure.

If the game turns out good, which I hope it does, then I'll pick it up at some point since I did enjoy Hollow Knight. There was a time I'd have jumped onto the game at launch but all the silence and delays just made me stop caring about when I end up playing it.

[Dragon Lord]

I'm going to say something blasphemous here... I started up Hollow Knight earlier this year... and I did not find it very enjoyable... I know, I know. How dare I say such things about Hollow Knight.

Honestly I just think this is one of those games where I didn't enjoy it the first time around, but when I get back to it and pick it up again, I might find it more enjoyable. It didn't help that I played this after playing a lot of more modern Metroidvania games and that probably made HK feel kind of bad at first.

I might enjoy it more if I experienced it with other people too, and I've been really considering starting to try and make a career of streaming, so maybe Hollow Knight would make for the perfect first game for me to start my stream dream off on.