Hollow Knight

[Dirty Duck]

So after hardly any news for years and years Team Cherry dropped a trailer revealing that Hollow Knight: Silksong is out within the next couple of weeks.



Hollow Knight is one of my favourite games and one of the best metroidvanias. I’ve been poised for news on this sequel since it was initially announced as DLC back in 2018 so I’m very excited.

Have any of you played Hollow Knight? (You should!)

[Bread]

Considering that the release date is 2 weeks away, they had a really excellent opportunity to just shadow drop this and watch as everyone loses their minds, and they blew it.

[Dirty Duck]

Considering that the release date is 2 weeks away, they had a really excellent opportunity to just shadow drop this and watch as everyone loses their minds, and they blew it.

You’re not wrong, but maybe something to do with release weekend performance convinced them it was a good idea to give it a while for people to get hyped and ready to buy on launch instead of needing people to find out it was out first

[Null]

I have no stock in this game at all but I do enjoy seeing everyone’s excitement about it. Do you still have the EDGE subscribers cover issue I sent you?

[Bread]

I played about an hour or two of Silksong on Gamepass today. I'm probably going to leave it there for now. I was never a big fan of Hollow Knight which I put a decent chunk of time into, and this does feel like one of those "more of the same" kind of sequels rather than doing anything outside the box, which isn't a bad thing by any means, but it is giving the vibe that if I didn't like the first game, there won't be anything here to change my mind. I'll keep an eye out on reviews in case I'm wrong and critics point out that it becomes radically different after a certain point, but until that time, it's one I'm skipping.

FWIW, I don't have anything against Hollow Knight specifically, it's just the genre. Metroidvania's have always been a genre that I've struggled to get into barring 1 or 2 rare exceptions.

[Dirty Duck]

I’ve just purchased it and it’s downloading. I find it amazing that it’s <£17 in this day and age. I saw an article saying “The price of Hollow Knight: Silksong is controversial, is it not expensive enough?” which is hilarious. I’m always impressed by the restraint of indie devs when they could have easily got away with charging more without turning most of their audience off.

Despite it being a game I’ve waited years for I may hold off on starting it. I’m currently playing Donkey Kong: Bananza, Delta, and DS2 when I have time at home. I don’t want to overcrowd it else I’ll not finish any of them but I’m working away soon and Silksong will be taking up a lot of evenings I feel. (We’ll see if I stick to my plan or whether I’ll just start it tomorrow or something lol)

[Wayno]

I still need to play the original, but I've hardly touched Delta.

I’ve just purchased it and it’s downloading. I find it amazing that it’s <£17 in this day and age. I saw an article saying “The price of Hollow Knight: Silksong is controversial, is it not expensive enough?” which is hilarious. I’m always impressed by the restraint of indie devs when they could have easily got away with charging more without turning most of their audience off.

I've seen lots and lots of ardent pro piracy people say they refuse to pirate the game because of the price alone, let alone the lack of DRM. The devs know what they're doing.

[Dirty Duck]

So I finally started Silksong last night. I was putting it off as I'm working my way through too many games right now but between Backloggd and @Bread's GOTY events I felt I had to get it under way before the year was out so that I know I voted for it if it deserved it.

I'm not very far in yet but already I'm loving the feel and the enigma of the locations. Getting back into the combat will take some time, I'm not quite used to Hornet's downwards aerial move after having such muscle memory for The Knight's but I'm excited to unlock more of her abilities. Having a protagonist that talks after the original feels a bit jarring, for some reason it didn't occur to me that they couldn't exactly have Hornet be mute after she was talkative in Hollow Knight. I feel like in game's like this a talking protagonist can end up with some slight Solid Snake Syndrome of just questioning what a character is already talking about. I trust the writers enough to yield it well though so we'll see!

[Helikaon]

I'm trying so hard to like this (Hollow Knight) game, but I cannot for the life of me beat the first boss, haha. Feels like I keep running into a brick wall each time I get to him. I am bad at this.

[st3ve]

I'm trying so hard to like this (Hollow Knight) game, but I cannot for the life of me beat the first boss, haha. Feels like I keep running into a brick wall each time I get to him. I am bad at this.

I was the same when I started playing. Trust me, stick with it, you won't regret it.