Hollow Knight: Silksong playtester encourages patience, says it’s a ‘glorious game worth the wait’
Hollow Knight: Silksong playtester encourages patience, says it’s a ‘glorious game worth the wait’
by Remorse_123
30 Comments
MasterCannoli
As long as it comes out before I die… *dies*
megasean3000
I mean, the same goes for original Hollow Knight. Starts off slow but once you start getting unlockables, it gets better and better. Same should naturally go for Silksong.
unaviable
I love how games are so opposite.
We always say: enjoy your time Devs. Take all the time it needs to polish it up and deliver us the best experience
Then Devs to what they are told by the fandom
Fandom: omgggggggggg give us finally a release date so that we can complain that when it gets delayed and send certian threats to the Devs because they couldn’t deliver us a pre mature release date.
ErrorEra
I really hope when it does come out, no one is disappointed about the length. Silksong won’t have that much content on release. The Hollow Knight that got ported included all of its DLC expansions (which originally took over a year to fully release).
rsn_lie
This is a game by a 3 person dev team that is a sequel to possibly the biggest indie darling of all time.
This game was always going to be in the oven for a long time. The fandom really needs to stop thirsting for it at every gaming news dump. I know a lot of people have expectations that it’s coming out soon because of last year’s xbox showcase, but y’all need to seriously consider the possibility this game is a year plus out.
QuothTheRaven713
Team Cherry is only 3 people, plus I just started Hollow Knight. They can take as long as they need as far as I’m concerned.
dewhashish
The reason why it’s taking so long is because the game is full of bugs.
danSTILLtheman
Is this DLC or a sequel? Always thought it was DLC but I see it talked about more like a full game
chocotripchip
I don’t think my body can take more glorious games this year
Reyfou
Oh, he is asking for us to wait !!! I wonder what we have all be doing all this time. 🤡🤡🤡
Jokes aside, for me they can take as long as they want if we get a game as good as the first one. Thats my hype bar.
UnifyTheVoid
Hollow Knight is my second favorite game of all time, behind Outer Wilds. Beaten all the pantheons, done every boss on radiant. Steel Soul mode, all achievements, and I generally have replayed it every year, which is rare for me to ever beat a game more than twice.
The fact that this game has no release date is so fucking reassuring. I know it’s weird. But it tells me that the developers are 100% certain that they have to get this right. That they won’t release something that is subpar or not of the same caliber of the original. And that’s how it should be done. Deadlines for games are a fucking tragedy. It’s finished when it’s finished.
Maybe I’ll be wrong, but I wouldn’t be shocked one bit if this game was better than the first in every way, and that’s going to be incredibly difficult, maybe nearly impossible to do.
aspenextreme03
Excited as love the first one even though all the backtracking does get old. Not like there is not anything to play.
Sirpattycakes
Silksong is a myth
DarthMailman
I’m not convinced this is a real game anymore.
bisforbenis
Of course it is. Anyone who’s played Hollow Knight then seen the Silksong trailer shouldn’t be surprised to hear this.
Also, it’s made by like 2 people, these things take a while, I know it’s been kind of a meme to freak out about how long it’s taken, but honestly for a small team like this and anything resembling the quality of Hollow Knight (which is generally safe to assume given what we’ve seen), this isn’t an unusual amount of time to take for it to release
InaneAnon
May I ask why people enjoyed the original so much? When I played it felt like a pretty middle of the road metroidvania.
Forforx
No, thank you, not a fan anymore. Play your game yourself, I have a better things to do as a dead inside.
GuyNamedJason
I would say although not a perfect comparison and there are examples of long delays that absolutely stunk when they released (most being high end long hyped IP debuts)
Sports Story is all you need to think about when it comes to any sense of rushing this thing or being upset it isn’t here today. I don’t see a world where it isn’t stellar when it does launch because there’s no doubt the duo has faced a ton of pressure, including inside their own heads… to get it in our hands. And they’re still holding strong on their timeline and vision.
I have a lot of faith in it and in them.
Worm_Scavenger
Mfers forget that the dev team behind both Hollow Knight and Silksong is conposed of just three people.
HunsonMex
If only more games took the needed time to really get finished and polished…
Rupaulsdragrace420
This game could spit on me and I’d say thank you. Team Cherry can literally take as long as they need.
PointOfTheJoke
Maybe i should actually finish hollow knight
itsamamaluigi
I can’t get excited about this unless they announce it will have an easy/assist mode. First game was way too difficult for me.
CatLord90
Which will come out first: Silksong or George RR Martin’s Winds of Winter?
Atomicnes
Omori fans waited 8 years for their game and Hollow Night fans go thermonuclear when the game doesn’t come out tomorrow
countdafivenine
What is the likelihood that it releases in 2023?
sgcorona
All I see is they’re playtesting it, soo….coming soon?
Additional-Orange998
>Long-anticipated videogames and squirrely fan communities obsessing over every detail or lack thereof go together like adorable bugmen and ill-starred underground kingdoms (remember in 2021 when Elden Ring fans were losing their minds (opens in new tab) because there was no new information about it for more than a year?), and the Hollow Knight community is showing signs of crossing a similar psychic threshold after the sequel did not make an appearance in Nintendo’s showcase.
This guy needs an editor. WTF is even going on in this article
sushiqt314
they shouldn’t have said it would come in the first half of 2023 if they wanted us to be patient.
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As long as it comes out before I die… *dies*
I mean, the same goes for original Hollow Knight. Starts off slow but once you start getting unlockables, it gets better and better. Same should naturally go for Silksong.
I love how games are so opposite.
We always say: enjoy your time Devs. Take all the time it needs to polish it up and deliver us the best experience
Then Devs to what they are told by the fandom
Fandom: omgggggggggg give us finally a release date so that we can complain that when it gets delayed and send certian threats to the Devs because they couldn’t deliver us a pre mature release date.
I really hope when it does come out, no one is disappointed about the length. Silksong won’t have that much content on release. The Hollow Knight that got ported included all of its DLC expansions (which originally took over a year to fully release).
This is a game by a 3 person dev team that is a sequel to possibly the biggest indie darling of all time.
This game was always going to be in the oven for a long time. The fandom really needs to stop thirsting for it at every gaming news dump. I know a lot of people have expectations that it’s coming out soon because of last year’s xbox showcase, but y’all need to seriously consider the possibility this game is a year plus out.
Team Cherry is only 3 people, plus I just started Hollow Knight. They can take as long as they need as far as I’m concerned.
The reason why it’s taking so long is because the game is full of bugs.
Is this DLC or a sequel? Always thought it was DLC but I see it talked about more like a full game
I don’t think my body can take more glorious games this year
Oh, he is asking for us to wait !!! I wonder what we have all be doing all this time. 🤡🤡🤡
Jokes aside, for me they can take as long as they want if we get a game as good as the first one. Thats my hype bar.
Hollow Knight is my second favorite game of all time, behind Outer Wilds. Beaten all the pantheons, done every boss on radiant. Steel Soul mode, all achievements, and I generally have replayed it every year, which is rare for me to ever beat a game more than twice.
The fact that this game has no release date is so fucking reassuring. I know it’s weird. But it tells me that the developers are 100% certain that they have to get this right. That they won’t release something that is subpar or not of the same caliber of the original. And that’s how it should be done. Deadlines for games are a fucking tragedy. It’s finished when it’s finished.
Maybe I’ll be wrong, but I wouldn’t be shocked one bit if this game was better than the first in every way, and that’s going to be incredibly difficult, maybe nearly impossible to do.
Excited as love the first one even though all the backtracking does get old. Not like there is not anything to play.
Silksong is a myth
I’m not convinced this is a real game anymore.
Of course it is. Anyone who’s played Hollow Knight then seen the Silksong trailer shouldn’t be surprised to hear this.
Also, it’s made by like 2 people, these things take a while, I know it’s been kind of a meme to freak out about how long it’s taken, but honestly for a small team like this and anything resembling the quality of Hollow Knight (which is generally safe to assume given what we’ve seen), this isn’t an unusual amount of time to take for it to release
May I ask why people enjoyed the original so much? When I played it felt like a pretty middle of the road metroidvania.
No, thank you, not a fan anymore. Play your game yourself, I have a better things to do as a dead inside.
I would say although not a perfect comparison and there are examples of long delays that absolutely stunk when they released (most being high end long hyped IP debuts)
Sports Story is all you need to think about when it comes to any sense of rushing this thing or being upset it isn’t here today. I don’t see a world where it isn’t stellar when it does launch because there’s no doubt the duo has faced a ton of pressure, including inside their own heads… to get it in our hands. And they’re still holding strong on their timeline and vision.
I have a lot of faith in it and in them.
Mfers forget that the dev team behind both Hollow Knight and Silksong is conposed of just three people.
If only more games took the needed time to really get finished and polished…
This game could spit on me and I’d say thank you. Team Cherry can literally take as long as they need.
Maybe i should actually finish hollow knight
I can’t get excited about this unless they announce it will have an easy/assist mode. First game was way too difficult for me.
Which will come out first: Silksong or George RR Martin’s Winds of Winter?
Omori fans waited 8 years for their game and Hollow Night fans go thermonuclear when the game doesn’t come out tomorrow
What is the likelihood that it releases in 2023?
All I see is they’re playtesting it, soo….coming soon?
>Long-anticipated videogames and squirrely fan communities obsessing over every detail or lack thereof go together like adorable bugmen and ill-starred underground kingdoms (remember in 2021 when Elden Ring fans were losing their minds (opens in new tab) because there was no new information about it for more than a year?), and the Hollow Knight community is showing signs of crossing a similar psychic threshold after the sequel did not make an appearance in Nintendo’s showcase.
This guy needs an editor. WTF is even going on in this article
they shouldn’t have said it would come in the first half of 2023 if they wanted us to be patient.
I need to get back into hollow knight