Nah, it's going to be shit. I've seen that movie way too much by now, the devs decided to focus on some retarded feature, likely one promoted by some discord tranny, and will sink the combat, platforming and exploration to cater to that feature. When (and if) the game releases, the feature will impress everyone until they realize it looks nice but doesn't fit the game, and will be shoehorned to basically every aspect of it.
Both Hollow Knight and Blasphemous don't really deliver on the Metroid part, they're effectively games with levels. I'm more partial to Blasphemous (but that might be because I platinumed it twice, whereas I'm still stuck on the moth in HK and can't even make the first jump in the Path of Pain). I think fighting in Blasphemous is more fun, it has parrying and focuses more on the sword, while Hollow Knight was designed around jumps and is too much about precise jumping/reach/positioning which I suck at and hate. The bosses in Blasphemous are less chaotic, more skill-based, very fair. It's more colorful, too.
in the last update; it's no longer properly blasphemous ("the pope is an evil coward"), just soy ("religion is baaaaaad mmkay"). I haven't played it after the update so I can't really say if the game still sorta holds up if you ignore Ending C ("c" stands for Cuck) and everything that leads to it. 2 is a sequel to Ending C so I suspect it is thoroughly soy.Neither HK nor Blasphemous restart at the boss like La-Mulana 2 does, but only one optional boss in Hollow Knight requires La-Mulana 1's 10 minutes of platforming, it literally sits on the checkpoint and is deliberately designed to be fucking annoying. HK has three boss-fighting modes where you can practice at leisure (but only after beating the originals).
Killing the Nailsmith affects nothing, is not a fuck-up in any sense, and grants an achievement. Leaving him alive grants another achievement.
I dunno, Hollow Knight is the most metroidy game I've played since the first time I played through Super Metroid with my cousin on his snes when I was a kid.
Metroid and super metroid were effectively games with levels too. Metroid had norfair and brinstar and super metroid and brinstar, norfair maridia and the wrecked ship. You could sequence break but effectively, those areas were designed as and acted as levels complete with bosses at the end of each one.
OK, I'll bite, what feature are you talking about? I have seen the video, but no interviews. Is it Hornet's thread?
Well well well, you make it sound like you have some insider information here... OK, if that's the case and an NDA is involved, I will relent.
Why would the devs sacrifice everything to satisfy a single Discord tranny? All they have to do is stick to the formula. Unless if you witnessed it in their Shitcord yourself, I cannot believe you.
Like I said, it's a pattern I've seen before. I hope it won't happen but it can handily explain the long ass wait better than arguments about how porting is hard. It might be randomly generated dungeons, it might be a new platforming mechanic, it might be making the gameplay more roguelike, but the end results will be a lot of wasted effort.
Like I said it's 8 platforms (8 versions of the game) on launch. Usually devs, especially indie devs, release ports for Switch, Linux, and Mac after the game has launched. They are probably optimizing all the versions of the game and ironing out bugs.
Any major features added this late into development would just be half-assed and broken. If it's the same team that brought us the refined 2017 title, then they have to be smarter than that.
Aww, it was a "trust me bro" thing... and here I was hoping I'd get some insider stories from some discord hellhole...
It can be, if the game isn't programmed in a portable way.
Pretty sure that's just memeing on Silksong never getting released. It'd be funny if they actually decide to toss Unity into the ditch and port... to a different engine.
They are so late into development that Unity becoming Jewish (probably) won't affect them. Worst case scenario it will delay the release date by another month or two.
I suspect the reason they refuse to say anything is because they barely have anything to show and have gone through so much scope creep that coming clean to their fanbase would be basically them admitting that the game in its current state is a huge mess and is nowhere near close to being released in a functional form. I've worked on enough projects to recognize the signs of a team trying to hide their incompetence.
On one hand that would suck if this is the outcome. I would genuinely hate it if the sequel ended up being shit. On the other hand it be funny seeing how badly the Redditors copes and seethes about it.
The indieshitter curse of if the first game was popular the sequel will never come out strikes again
