Hollow Knight followers had been left with an all-too acquainted feeling of dismay after 2024’s E3-esque online game summer season showcases got here and went with no phrase on sequel Silksong.
Fans of the franchise took to social media to share their disappointment after the June Nintendo Direct, which premiered yesterday, June 18, had bulletins for Mario, Zelda, and even long-missing recreation Metroid Prime 4: Beyond — however no Hollow Knight: Silksong.
“All the foremost summer season showcases have now aired, and we nonetheless have not heard something new from Silksong,” wrote ResetEra person cvbas in a submit with greater than 10,000 clicks. “What offers?” Fans within the feedback admitted to rising involved for the sport, which hasn’t acquired any official updates in over a yr when developer Team Cherry delayed it out of early 2023.
“I clearly need them to cook dinner as arduous and so long as attainable, however I feel some communication remains to be crucial,” stated SirKai. “At this level I simply really feel unhealthy for the fellows at Team Cherry. It needs to be powerful to have this insane quantity of expectations in your shoulders,” added Greywaren.
“We bought Prime 4 earlier than Silksong,” complained a Reddit person, referencing the aforementioned Metroid recreation which was basically lacking for seven years. Another posted a quote from Team Cherry in May 2022, after Silksong received the “Most Anticipated Game Award from Unity. “It cannot be an excessive amount of longer, absolutely,” the developer stated.
Just dropped my Hornet statue it is a tough day for Silk Song copers pic.twitter.com/c3sih6joLO
— Andy Cortez (did not pay) (@TheAndyCortez) June 18, 2024
Silksong was introduced on February 14, 2019 as a Hollow Knight growth turned full sequel centered on Hornet from the unique recreation. “Almost from the very begin, Hornet’s journey was supposed to happen in a brand new land, however as we dove in, it rapidly grew to become too massive and too distinctive to remain a DLC, as initially deliberate,” Team Cherry stated on the time. “We do know that makes the wait just a little longer, however we predict the ultimate, contemporary world you’ll get to discover is value it.”
Hollow Knight Silksong isn’t an actual recreation. We collectively hallucinated it.
— Tamoor Hussain (@tamoorh) June 18, 2024
We bought Metroid Prime 4 earlier than Silksong 👏
— Daily Silksong News (@DailySilksong) June 18, 2024
The developer then went quiet for 2 years, solely rising in 2021 to announce it would not have something to say about Silksong at E3 that yr, maybe inadvertently setting the expectation that followers ought to anticipate information until Team Cherry says in any other case.
Another yr handed and Silksong lastly reared its head, because the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase of 2022 revealed the sport can be coming to Microsoft’s console and Game Pass on day one. Further hope was impressed as Xbox had stated all the things proven on the occasion can be launched inside a yr. That, clearly, didn’t occur.
The final time Team Cherry issued an replace on Silksong was in February this yr, when the studio’s PR and advertising chief Matthew ‘Leth’ Griffin posted a quick remark to say it was nonetheless “arduous at work on the sport.”
Thoughts now flip to imminent showcases and the potential for an look in August at Gamescom, the place Microsoft might host an Xbox occasion.
Image Credit: rookideperdido on Reddit
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.
