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  • Hollow Knight: Silksong’s Difficulty is Frustrating, but Narratively Brilliant

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    Contains spoilers for Hollow Knight: Silksong

    Hollow Knight: Silksong is damn hard. I know that when I reviewed it, I said that it wasn’t actually more difficult than the first Hollow Knight, but those were the words of someone that hadn’t been to Bilewater or tried the High Halls gauntlet yet.

    Judging by posts on YouTube and Reddit, as well as my own playing, the difficulty spike comes from two areas. One, the runback for bosses can be a nightmare. Silksong has several long stretches between save benches and bosses where getting a second try at defeating them involves hard platforming and annoying enemy placement. I lost count of the times another attempt at a boss miscarried on the way.

    Two, the number of regular enemy gauntlets. Some of these are bosses in and of themselves, such as the High Halls, and some are part of a real boss fight, such as the three Heart bosses in Act 3. That’s where I’m stuck right now, grimly carving my way through Skarrsinger Karmelita by inches after at least 20 tries.

    Both of these irritations involve the same thing: regular enemies you have to cut your way through to fight the boss each time. There’s little opportunity to concentrate on the muscle memory of a one-on-one dance with a single opponent, arguably the mechanical aspect of the Hollow Knight series that is most rewarding. At its best, Hollow Knight is like Cuphead, a series of fighting game scenarios framed as a side-scroller. The mobs muck that up by making you refocus on several individuals rather than one boss.

    I think that’s the point, though. The story of Silksong is about how a mad god keeps a population in thrall to serve her own ends. The hero, Hornet, is constantly running into other bugs that have been turned into crazed attackers. Some of these are even former friends she meets along the way. In Bellhart, Hornet finds an entire town bound in spider silk, caught in worshipful slavery until she cuts the strings.

    Hollow Knight had a similar theme with the Radiance’s infection, but that was more uncontrolled and wild. The work of the main boss in Silksong, Grand Mother Silk, is deliberate and calculating. We see numerous reminders of her terrible authoritarianism. Guards in the Slab prison are born in servitude; workers in the Underworks have to pay to sit down or to receive religious penance; and a room near the end chronicles Grand Mother Silk’s ruthless pursuit of spider children like Hornet, callously spending the lives of follower as long as she gets what she wants.

    Contrast this with Hornet. Having watched Hallownest fall to the infection in the first game, she is keen to avoid another collapse in Pharloom. At every turn, she tries to free the bugs of Pharloom from Grand Mother Silk, often without considering the consequences. When her actions lead to the destruction of Pharloom and the invasion of the void in Act 3, she is emotionally devastated. Everyone around her is dead, consumed by the void, or hopelessly preparing for the end of the world. Desperately, Hornet pledges to fix things.

    This is where the narrative brilliance of the difficulty shines. Regular bugs matter. The rot in Pharloom is not just the work of a few bad apples under a mad god. This is a community full of connections intertwined in a web. When Hornet is forced through long runbacks full of Pharloom’s inhabitants or caught killing pawns in a fight with a boss, it reminds us that everything in the game affects the bugs living there.

    Is it mechanically enraging? Absolutely. Developer Team Cherry could have made this point with fewer regular enemies or easier platforming challenges, but the mobs and runbacks should still absolutely be there. They remind the player and Hornet that there are lives at stake in this fight. This is a kingdom, not an empty space full of mindless obstacles to stab.

    Evil never happens in a vacuum. It is enabled through the petty cooperation of millions of participants. Battles to destroy great evil result in collateral damage to the innocent in 100 percent of cases. By filling these game milestones with the common bugs of Pharloom, Silksong keeps this theme front and center where it cannot be ignored. There is literally no moving forward without confronting it.

    I agree with everyone cursing the difficulty of this game. There were near wins that left me shaking with rage. However, if the last decade has taught us anything, it’s that confronting authoritarianism is going to be very hard and full of casualties. You’ll constantly be running into the haunted servants of the powerful, some of whom you once trusted, and you will have to find a way through them to get to the heart of darkness. Doing so is traumatizing.

    Often, I found myself yelling at these random Silksong mobs that made beating the boss harder. “Why are you even here? I’ve got no beef with you!” I could be using those same words every time some random Nazis yells at me in real life. Silksong has a lesson to teach us about the human cost of authoritarianism, and the runbacks and gauntlets are a part of that. Why wouldn’t they be frustrating?

    Hollow Knight: Silksong is available on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4/5, and X Box Series X/S. $19.99.

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  • Silksong reviews drop to mostly negative for Chinese players due to confusing translations

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    For most Hollow Knight: Silksong players, the combat is challenging and the boss fights are punishing. However, there’s another layer of complexity for anyone playing the sequel in Simplified Chinese: the bizarre translations. On its Steam store page, Silksong currently sits at a “Mostly Positive” rating across reviews in all languages. Once you filter for the Simplified Chinese reviews, the Metroidvania-style game plummets to “Mostly Negative.”

    There are plenty of complaints about Silksong being too hard and not rewarding enough, but the translation issues are a common theme across the reviews for Simplified Chinese. In the reviews and comments, players compared the translations to a jarring mix of ancient and modern Chinese. Tiger Tang, who worked on the Simplified Chinese translation of an indie RPG called OMORI, posted on X that the “translation reads like a Wuxia novel instead of conveying the game’s tone,” referencing the literary genre that features martial arts and is often set in ancient China.

    The good news is that the team behind Silksong is aware of the translation issues, as indicated by Matthew Griffin, who handles the game’s marketing and publishing. Griffin posted on X that the team is aware of “quality issues with the current Simplified Chinese translation” and that they are “working to improve the translation over the coming weeks.” When looking at the original Hollow Knight, the reviews are overwhelmingly positive, even when looking at the Simplified Chinese reviews. However, Silksong credits a team of two for its Chinese localization, while the original featured six.

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  • Silksong, smacking sticks and other new indie games worth checking out

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    Welcome to our latest recap of what’s going on in the indie game space. Folks, it’s here. You know it’s here. So, we’ll touch on it, but briefly. Some developers and publishers opted not to delay their games out of this week (others have done that to get some breathing space from you-know-what), so there are several other newcomers to highlight.

    Before we get there, there’s a sale worth mentioning on a PC storefront that does not offer Hollow Knight: Silksong. The Epic Games Store’s End of Summer Sale is running until September 18 and there are some pretty solid deals. Cyberpunk 2077 is 65 percent off for the base game and 50 percent off for the ultimate edition, which includes the Phantom Liberty DLC (which is also 30 percent off for those who have the base game already).

    Other discounts of note include Red Dead Redemption 2 (75 percent off), Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced (50 percent off), Assassin’s Creed Shadows (33 percent off), The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Complete Edition (80 percent) and Alan Wake 2 (70 percent off). A bunch of PlayStation games are on sale too, including Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (20 percent), The Last of Us Part 1 (50 percent), Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut (33 percent), God of War (60 percent off) and God of War Ragnarok (20 percent). You’ll get 20 percent back in Epic Rewards on your purchases too.

    The Epic Games Store offers totally free games every week (no need to have a subscription for those!), and the freebies tend to be for well-known games whenever there’s a major sale on the store. Right now, you can pick up an all-timer in Monument Valley for exactly zero dollars. You have until 11AM ET on September 11 to claim the classic puzzle game. When that game cycles out, Epic Games will rotate three more titles into its lineup: Monument Valley 2, Ghostrunner 2 (which I enjoy very much but am terrible at) and a strategy game called The Battle of Polytopia. Again, you’ll have a week to claim those.

    Meanwhile, if you have an Amazon Prime subscription, there’s usually a solid selection in the Prime Gaming library. Games you claim here are yours to keep forever, even if you don’t maintain your Prime membership. Amazon offered up a particularly tasty one this week in the shape of Into The Breach, a hugely acclaimed strategy game, but there are plenty of others to check out. And speaking of games you can play right now…

    New releases

    Yes, Hollow Knight: Silksong is finally here. It’s out on consoles and PC for $20 and it’s included with Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. It’s broken storefronts and probably some controllers that players have hurled at the wall after dying to a tough boss.

    After a seven-year wait, Silksong is by some distance the highest-profile indie game to arrive in 2025 so far. Perhaps if we start mentioning another long-awaited game — say, Kingdom Hearts 4? Beyond Good and Evil 2? — it may arrive sooner rather than later. Or in, like, another five years.

    I made a few attempts to play Hollow Knight, but bounced off quickly each time. I’ll be sure to give Silksong a proper go, though.

    It might be the case that Silksong isn’t quite your thing. Never fear, there’s lots of other new stuff from this week for you to dive into.

    If a game pops up that reminds me of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (aka the best game of all time) in terms of looks, I’m duty bound to mention it. Fortunately, Rogue Labyrinth seems like it could be fun to play too. This action-narrative roguelite from Tea Witch Games and publisher indie.io hit Steam this week. It usually costs $15, but it’s 20 percent off with a limited-time launch discount.

    Another thing that’s very much in Rogue Labyrinth‘s favor is that your weapon is a smacking stick, which you can use to turn objects (including vanquished enemies) into projectiles. The combat is a blend of bullet-hell dodging and hack-and-slash action. Being a roguelike, there’s randomization when it comes to things like the arenas, enemies and powers you’ll encounter on each run. The game is also said to feature dynamic narrative systems and you’ll forge alliances with other characters as you try to survive a lethal reality show.

    Although so many other indie games scrambled to get out of the way of Silksong, Hirogami stuck to its September 3 release date. I had to chuckle when a press release with a title of “3D origami platformer Hirogami refuses to fold” hit my inbox last week. An easy pun, but I appreciated it.

    Anyway, this is indeed a 3D platformer with an origami focus. You can flatten out your character into a sheet of paper so that a gust of wind can send you soaring to an elevated platform. You can transform into an armadillo to roll through enemies, an ape to explore treetops and a frog to jump higher. That seems like a real bananza of animal transformation options. Hirogami is available now on Steam, Epic Games Store and PS5.

    Fling to the Finish has been out on PC for some time, and now this co-op platform racing game from SplitSide Games and publisher Daedalic Entertainment has swung over to consoles. You and a friend are tethered by an elastic rope that will inevitably snag on parts of the environment. But you can actually use this to your advantage to swing your teammate onto a ledge or send you both hurling through the air.

    The obstacle-filled courses bring to mind Fall Guys, while the items that players can deploy to slow down race leaders remind me a bit of the Mario Kart games. Fling to the Finish does support solo play, as well as local and online multiplayer, where communication will be key (cross-play is available too). As was the case with Overcooked, you and your pal can play the game by sharing a single controller, which may make it easier to play the game in splitscreen if you’re with a bunch of friends.

    Jetrunner is an action platformer in the vein of Ghostrunner and Neon White from Riddlebit Software and publisher Curveball Games. The folks behind it say it has “a gameplay loop that can be best described as Trackmania meets Titanfall.” So, there are lots of comparisons to make here. Ultimately, you’ll be parkouring your way through various courses while shooting targets, hooking onto grapple points and looking for shortcuts.

    Finding the optimal route — and, of course, actually completing it with as few errors as possible — is the path to climbing the global leaderboards. You can race against ghost replays of your previous runs for a clear visual comparison. In addition, there’s a story mode that sees your character Nina (voiced by Sara Secora) trying to become a legendary jetrunner, with commentator Mick Acaster (Matthew Mercer) charting her progress. I’m digging the visuals here too.

    Jetrunner is out now on Steam and the Epic Games Store for $20 (there’s a 10 percent launch discount on Steam). There’s a speedrun contest that’s taking place until September 11 with a $2,000 prize pool. You can snag a share if you can complete all of the campaign levels in a row quickly enough in the marathon mode and stick to the rules. It also seems that the exodus of other games this week due to Silksong helped Jetrunner gain extra visibility on Steam.

    Upcoming

    A rhythm RPG in which you can use your own music and manually adjust the BPM is interesting enough. But add giant, repurposed mechs to the mix, and now we’re really cookin’. In Steel Century Groove, you’ll compete in robot dance battles as you try to claim a championship. These mechanical beasts were used in warfare long, long ago. Now they’re just literal groove machines.

    Steel Century Groove, which is from Sloth Gloss Games, is coming to Steam on January 28. A demo is available now, and your progress will carry over to the full game.

    When I was assembling the list of games to include in this week’s roundup, I left myself a single, two-word note about The Legend of Baboo: “big floof.” The floof in question is the large, titular dog that accompanies human hero Sepehr in this third-person action adventure from Permanent Way and publisher Midwest Games.

    You’ll play as both characters as you take on enemies, solve puzzles and navigate treacherous lands. When you conquer bosses, you’ll learn powerful magical attacks. Most importantly, you can zhush up Baboo with outfits and ornaments that you discover on your journey. He’s the best boy and he deserves to look and feel good. It’s also crucial to note that, as Sepehr, you can pet, ride and high-five Baboo.

    A release date (or even a release window) has yet to be announced for The Legend of Baboo. It’s coming to Steam, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.

    Dreams of Another looks quite unlike any game I’ve seen before. It uses point cloud rendering tech for its remarkably pretty visuals. This fantasy exploration game from Q-Games (under the leadership of Baiyon, the director of PixelJunk Eden) is set in a dream-like world where you create the world by shooting at it.

    Dreams of Another is coming to PS5, PS VR2 and Steam on October 9, and it might just prompt me to set up my VR headset again. A demo dropped this week on Steam, but it’s only available until September 16.

    Tombwater looks kinda rad. It’s a 2D pixel-art Soulslike Western from Moth Atlas and publisher Midwest Games. The developers took (another?) leaf out of FromSoftware’s playbook by pitting you against creepy eldritch horrors. This one is coming to Steam on November 12.

    I always appreciate when a labor of love comes to fruition. Former Uber, MapQuest and Microsoft engineer John Lansing said that, nine years ago, “I built a Final Fantasy Tactics inspired football prototype, and 691 commits later I am proud to present the Fantasy Football Tactics Demo!” This is a turn-based RPG in which the aim is to outscore your opponents rather than taking them out in combat.

    The demo hit Steam this week. There’s no release date as yet for the full game.

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    Kris Holt

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  • Hollow Knight: Silksong’s Biggest Battle Is Game Store Crashes

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    After years of anticipation (no, really), the Hollow Knight sequel finally sings its way to the surface on September 4. Silksong was first announced in 2019, and after sporadic details and development promises, the DLC-turned-full-release was given a formal release date just two weeks ago — causing mayhem like the Eras Tour movie for other game releases. The indie game sequel follows Hornet, a former princess introduced in the first game, as she explores the new land of Pharloom with similar fighting mechanics to the original game, as well as the newly added quests. You can pinch yourself to check if you’re not dreaming; you can finally download the game after a years long wait— well, sort of.

    Despite being released on multiple platforms, the $20 game was hard to play on launch. The game’s Steam page crashed several hours into its release; gamers have also reported crashes from the Nintendo eShop, the PlayStation Store, and the Xbox Store (including game pass downloads). However, plenty of players made it through the hell of the crashes, as it’s currently the most purchased game and the third most played game of the day on Steam, with over 400,000 concurrent players. Even if you have no plans to play the game, you might still be affected by its passionate fan base. Young Horses, creators of the hit game Octodad, are “delaying” their work until later this month so they have time to play the game. Surely, there are plenty of other gamers who are having slightly less productive work days because of Hornet; they probably just aren’t as upfront about it.

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  • Video Games Weekly: Silksong and Gamescom

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    Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday (or Wednesday, whatever), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who’s covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget.

    Please enjoy — and I’ll see you next week.

    On a planet shrouded in myth, in a land surrounded by lore, on a mountain draped in mystery, in a cave suffocated by secrets, the legend sleeps. For six years, the legend has slumbered while wild stories spiral around it, twisting and expanding and entwining. New words have been born and old words infused with evolved meanings: Believer. Doubter. Silkpost. The lies have grown so thick they’ve become corporeal, spreading trickery with a name and a dead smile.

    For six years, the legend has slept while the masses roiled, all of them waiting for the signal to awaken and know truth. All of them waiting for a bell that will ring, finally and clearly, on Thursday, August 21, 2025.

    Skong. Skong. Skong.

    It’s a special time in the Silksong subreddit. After years of silence around its sequel, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Team Cherry has scheduled a livestream with a “special announcement” about the game for August 21 at 10:30AM ET. Not only is this exciting for Metroidvania fans everywhere, but it’s also possible that this announcement marks the final moments of the Silksong subreddit as we know it. A strange cocktail of game delays, inconsistent updates and hyper-focused cult fandom has cultivated a fascinating little universe in r/Silksong, complete with its own rules, villains and heroes. It’s a place where clown wigs are commonplace and contributors have turned trolling into a role-playing artform. A LARPform, if you will. It’s a place that’s consistently made me laugh every time it’s appeared in my feed over the past year or so.

    Ahead of Thursday’s special announcement, this sub is experiencing the last gasps of desperate myth-making and hopeless anticipation before it transforms into something else entirely, armed with actual information about the sequel, gameplay videos and maybe even a firm release date. Or, dare I say it, a surprise launch. For just a moment longer in r/Silksong, anything is possible.

    And then it’ll be over. No matter what happens during Thursday’s livestream, the day will come when Silksong comes out and the drip-feed of silkposts dries up completely. But for now, our face paint is ready. Sometimes it’s just nice to recognize the madness and the beauty of the moment, before it slips away for good.

    The news

    News from ONL 2025

    Gamescom 2025 kicked off on Tuesday with Opening Night Live, a showcase hosted by Geoff Keighley and the folks behind The Game Awards, and there were plenty of delightful morsels on display. Engadget UK Bureau Chief Mat Smith is on the ground at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, to play upcoming titles and talk to developers, but for now, here are our headlines straight out of ONL 2025:

    And our headlines from Gamescom 2025 so far:

    Gamescom 2025 runs through August 24.

    ROG Xbox Ally lands in October

    Microsoft is slowly establishing its handheld era with news that the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X will be available on October 16. There’s still no official word on how much they’ll cost, but there are hints: As spotted by Wario64, Best Buy recently listed the Xbox Ally at $550 and the Xbox Ally X at $900, and these fall in line with our predictions, which were based on the prices of existing ROG Ally handhelds. Alongside the release date, Microsoft announced the Handheld Compatibility Program, an initiative aimed at optimizing games for portable devices and informing players about how well they perform. It’s essentially Steam Deck Verified, but for Xbox handhelds, and it’s yet another sign that Microsoft’s portable gaming ambitions stretch beyond just one hardware manufacturer.

    The PS5 will cost more tomorrow than it does today

    First Nintendo and Microsoft raised the prices of their latest consoles, and now it’s Sony’s turn. Sony on Wednesday announced the following price increases for the PS5 family:

    • Standard PS5 with a disc drive: $550, up from $500

    • PS5 digital edition: $500, up from $450

    • PS5 Pro: $750, up from $700

    Sony blames the increases on a “challenging economic environment,” echoing sentiments from its contemporaries. The price hikes come at a time in the hardware generation when we’re used to seeing consoles get cheaper, which just makes this whole thing more frustrating.

    Rod Fergusson is in charge of BioShock again and already making big changes

    There have been signs of turmoil at BioShock 4 studio Cloud Chamber for a while now, including news earlier this month that the game failed a review with 2K executives and was due for a complete narrative revamp. Now, we’re seeing even more fallout. Former Gears of War and Diablo head Rod Fergusson has left Blizzard to lead development of BioShock 4 at Cloud Chamber, and his appointment comes alongside news that 80 people at the studio are being laid off. This is actually the second time Fergusson has joined the development of a BioShock game at the last second — he similarly swooped in and cut aspects of BioShock: Infinite at Irrational Games in 2012.

    The race through development hell between Judas and BioShock 4 continues.

    Blizzard’s cinematic and narrative team is unionizing

    Microsoft is the home of another video game union. Workers with Blizzard Entertainment’s Story and Franchise Development team, which handles in-game cinematics and lore for titles including Overwatch and World of Warcraft, voted this week to unionize under the Communications Workers of America. This covers about 169 developers and it marks the fourth unionization effort from Microsoft’s gaming teams, joining QA workers at Activision, ZeniMax and Raven Software.

    Steam censorship is breaking PayPal

    PayPal isn’t a valid way to buy games on Steam in certain countries any longer. Steam in July removed hundreds of games with adult and NSFW themes from its storefront, and updated its policies to ban “content that may violate the rules and standards” of its payment processors. This was incredibly vague and raised immediate concerns around financial censorship, especially when combined with a related culling of thousands of games from Itch.io. Now, it’s confirmed that PayPal has terminated its partnership with Steam in multiple countries, affecting any denomination “other than EUR, CAD, GBP, JPY, AUD and USD.”

    Valve says it’s being pressured by payment processors including Visa, MasterCard and PayPal to remove certain games and implement puritanical censorship policies, and this has already resulted in at least one game being unjustly removed from the platform. That game, VILE: Exhumed, is now available as shareware.

    Roblox is changing its rules after so, so many child-safety lawsuits

    Roblox is locking down its system for sharing and viewing user-generated games following a wave of lawsuits accusing developers of failing to protect their young userbase. All unrated experiences, or user-created games, will be restricted to the developer and anyone actively working on them, rather than being available to anyone over the age of 13, as is currently the case. This change and others, including a new system that automatically detects and tracks “violative scenes” on individual servers, will roll out over the coming months.

    Analogue delayed its N64 remake again

    It’s now due out in Q4 2025. 🙁

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  • Hollow Knight: Silksong has become a meme about waiting for games

    Hollow Knight: Silksong has become a meme about waiting for games

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    In the hours leading up to several gaming news events — like an indie event or a Nintendo Direct — you can see the rumblings of people online discussing a game called Hollow Knight: Silksong. Some share digital summoning circles constructed with emojis and dedicate them to the game in the hopes it will make an appearance at a showcase; others simply express their excitement by sharing memes prior to the event. During a digital event itself, you’ll see viewers spam the live chat with messages like “SKONG [with four airhorn emojis],” or “WHERE SILKSONG????!!??” Sometimes, the phrase “Silksong” will even trend online before one of these events because so many people are sharing their excitement.

    All of this ruckus, just because fans just really want to hear a sliver of news about Hollow Knight: Silksong. The game — which fans shorten to Silksong — is the planned sequel to a game called Hollow Knight. Developer Team Cherry first announced the follow-up to its beloved Metroidvania in 2019; since then, it got a splashy trailer in 2022, but no concrete release date. And by now, its dedicated fan base has turned waiting for the game into one giant viral meme.

    What is Hollow Knight: Silksong?

    To understand the lasting popularity of Silksong, we need to look back at the game that preceded it: Hollow Knight. Developer Team Cherry first released the popular Metroidvania in 2017. At the time, the game stunned fans with its fantastical insectoid world and precise combat. Those elements, paired with its rich method of environmental storytelling, resulted in a gem of a game. Polygon hailed it as “unquestionably the finest Metroidvania ever made.”

    Image: Team Cherry

    Hollow Knight has racked up more than its fair share of devoted fans, so when Team Cherry surprised players with the announcement of a full-on sequel called Silksong, it drummed up plenty of buzz. The developers promised an original story, new bugs to meet, and new worlds to explore. What’s more is that fans would get to play as Hornet, a mysterious but beloved side character from the main game.

    Fans excitedly awaited more news about the upcoming game, but none came. Years passed, and Team Cherry didn’t release any more trailers or news. With each passing gaming news event, it seemed all the more inevitable that players would get a release date, or a new trailer, or at least another peek at the project.

    Finally, in 2022, the developer shared a new look at the game at an Xbox Showcase, but even then, the game had no stated release date. According to Xbox, however, the games in that showcase were going to be released in the next 12 months — meaning Silksong should have come out in 2023. But it didn’t. On May 9, 2023, Matthew Griffin from Team Cherry broke the news on X (formerly Twitter) that the game was not yet ready to be released and that fans should “expect more details from [Team Cherry] once we get closer to release.”

    That was the last major update from the team, and since then, fans have been left in limbo — while still repeatedly expressing their hearts’ desires for the game online.

    Why do fans shout about Silksong online?

    In the years since its initial announcement, expressing a desire to see Silksong has become a viral bit online. At this point, you can’t watch a gaming news stream without people mentioning Silksong. People on social media will share fan art, memes, and reaction posts all in anticipation of the game, or making fun of the fact that there might not be more news about it. The avid fandom can spark the ire of other viewers in chats, and Silksong fans have inadvertently psyched up others excited for the game because they so regularly cause the game’s title to trend on X. All because people just want to express a desire to see this game.

    Polygon reached out to Team Cherry to ask about what it’s been like to see fans talk about the game. We will update this article if we hear back.

    Hollow Knight did sell in the millions, but that isn’t necessarily what seems to be causing this reaction to Silksong. It’s just that this game — which is genuinely a fantastic game to play — has inspired a super-dedicated cult following. The people who love the game just really adore it, and they want to see the next game released.

    In this sense, Silksong does just come across as the next generation’s version of the entire “localize Mother 3” movement. Nintendo has never released an official English localization of Mother 3 in North America, but people have been asking for it for years. To this day, fans still beg Nintendo on social media to release the game, and several fans have regularly pulled IRL stunts to bring attention to the game. Being a Mother 3 fan is almost as much about wanting Mother 3 to come out officially in the U.S. as it is actually playing or enjoying the content of the game.

    That all being said, Silksong has a much better chance of being released than the official English version of Mother 3. Team Cherry has assured fans that while the team might not have revealed too much, development is progressing. So I guess fans will have to rely on their summoning circles until then.

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