Hollow Knight - Dark Souls Metroidvania... with bugs!

Looking at my username and current profile pic should kinda speak for itself that I very much like Hollow Knight.

But jesus fucking christ how retarded are the people at Team Cherry? The last time we saw any gameplay of Silksong was a trailer from an Xbox showcase a couple years ago which said "every game we're showing off in this showcase will come out within the year". There were three exceptions to that: some game which came out last year, so it was 2 years instead of "within the year", ARK 2 which the devs are currently scamming their audience with an Unreal 5 early access port of the first game, and Silksong, which has received complete and utter radio silence until now, which even then is just "yes this exists" in response to a fake rumor. No pictures of new gameplay, areas, or characters, no gameplay trailer, absolutely nothing besides "yeah it's still being worked on guys". Do they really think being completely silent like this is a good look?
 
My optimistic theory on why it's talking so long is because they are going crazy on the amount of content. One of HK's strengths was how much content and secrets there were, so doubling down on that would be a cool move.
I specially think this because HK's popularity has led to a resurgence of metroidvania games and the creation of many high quality HK-clones. If they want to stand out they need to use their time and budget to make something that's more than what HK was.
Of course, this is all just hopium I'm huffing. But I believe it.

The Paleblood Vessel said:
Do they really think being completely silent like this is a good look?
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It's probably better than keeping teasing fans for years with no release date.
Silksong is getting close to HL3 levels of legendary never-ever meme status. The moment they announce the release date the internet will explode and it will be a huge free PR.
 
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Terror Sandwich said:
going crazy on the amount of content
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Zero chances of that, but even it was true, Hollow Knight was good for being the right length. I played plenty of video games that were too long to be fun, that I just quit in the middle.

If there was a playable version we'd have heard of it by now. Instead they probably used a scrapped DLC for the trailer, thinking they'll have enough time to make it only to feature creep hard with retarded genres.

Now the question is if it will be roguelite or will try to ripoff Pikmin.
 
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ProfDongs said:
Silksong got a "coming 2025" in the Switch 2 direct.
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IT'S REAL
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(https://x.com/NintendoEurope/status/1907430913148944627)
 
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ShitLurker said:
That it was 2 seconds in a slideshow is also telling. If they had any real desire to show anything beyond "we are totally alive and not trapped in development hell" they could have easily gotten the slot for Hades II or Enter The Gungeon 2.
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True. Need a gameplay trailer for any hope it's coming in the next 365 days
 
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