Congratulations, you did it. Yes, you, with all your annoying memes and your endless Reddit posts, you finally made Team Cherry announce a release date for Hollow Knight: Silksong. It was all down to you – YOU – and your valiant efforts. Thank you. None of this could have happened without you. A round of applause, everyone, for the insufferable dweeb over here who won’t shut the fuck up about sad bugs. Satisfied? Right, come see the trailer and find out exactly when you’re going to die a thousand times.
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The release date is 4th September, as announced in a special Team Cherry broadcast today. Team Cherry have also been talking to Bloomberg about why it’s taken so long to pin down a date.
Originally conceived as a Hollow Knight DLC pack, Silksong was announced as a full sequel back in 2019. Team Cherry admitted in 2023 that the game had to be delayed because it had “gotten quite big”. Then, this April, Nintendo made a silly mistake and accidentally revealed that the game would release some time this year. It was also confirmed to be popping up in a playable state at a museum and Gamescom, two places with exactly the same vibe. Throughout all of these twists, the appetite for skong has never dipped below a ravenous, all-consuming hunger. Not to mix metaphors, but god, people are thirsty for this game.
“It was never stuck or anything,” Team Cherry co-founder Ari Gibson told Bloomberg. “It was always progressing. It’s just the case that we’re a small team, and games take a lot of time. There wasn’t any big controversial moment behind it.” The delay was perhaps an inadvertent good business strategy in prolonging the selling power of the original Hollow Knight – as of now, it has racked up over 15 million copies, buying Team Cherry ample time to tinker away on Silksong.
Hollow Knight is one of our best metroidvanias. But is it the best? I won’t tell. You have to go find out for yourself, and leave a disgusting little comment complaining about it if not. Nerd.
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