It’s been six years since Workforce Cherry introduced Hollow Knight: Silksong, the eagerly awaited sequel to 2017 Metroidvania masterpiece Hollow Knight. In these years followers have seen Silksong pop up and fail to pop up at varied reveals, and at one level Microsoft even appeared to substantiate the sport would launch earlier than June 2023. The Sport Awards have been and gone with no Hollow Knight: Silksong. However may the just-announced Nintendo Switch 2 Direct lastly be the one?
Followers assume so, and it’s all as a result of of a image of a cake. Permit me to elucidate.
(*2*) seen that on January 15, co-director of Workforce Cherry William Pellen had modified his Twitter/X profile image to a image of a chocolate cake. Pellen tweeted: “one thing massive is coming. preserve your eyes closed tomorrow.”
one thing massive is coming. preserve your eyes closed tomorrow
— little bomey (@everydruidwaswr) January 16, 2025
On the time, Nintendo’s Switch 2 reveal was rumored for January 16, and so it proved. That was the day Nintendo lastly introduced the Switch 2, though there are nonetheless a quantity of burning questions we’ve got in regards to the next-gen console. Had Pellen actually requested followers to maintain a watch out for the Switch 2 reveal? If that’s the case, why?
That is the purpose the place the Hollow Knight neighborhood went into overdrive — or off the deep finish, relying in your level of view. Followers reverse-searched the image of the cake, which led them to a recipe for Brooklyn Blackout Cake on cooking web site Bon Appétit. The date the recipe was revealed: April 2, 2024.
Why would that date be essential right here? As a result of Nintendo has confirmed Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 will air on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. That’s proper, followers assume Pellen has kicked off a Silksong alternate actuality recreation (ARG) with that tweet and that image of the cake.
Followers haven’t stopped there. They’re at the moment attempting to work out what Pellen’s new X/Twitter deal with, @everydruidwaswr, means, if something. Redditor Representative-True has the best theory I’ve seen so far: “The character restrict on Twitter handles is 15 characters, which is the size of ‘everydruidwaswr.’ I believe “wr” is probably going the beginning of a phrase, like improper or one thing. I’ve but to decipher this, however the Druid of the Moss Temple is a Silksong NPC.”
The plot thickens! Pellen has a new X/Twitter title to associate with the brand new deal with and profile image: little bomey. What’s that about? Followers have seen Little Boomey is a wine from Southern Australia, the place Workforce Cherry is predicated, however the spelling is totally different. What may it imply?!
It’s value remembering that when Hollow Knight: Silksong was introduced, Workforce Cherry confirmed launch platforms as Home windows, Mac, Linux, and Nintendo Switch. However that was six years in the past. Has Nintendo snapped up Hollow Knight: Silksong as a Switch 2 launch title? Is it a timed unique? Is that this all simply bonkers conduct from information-starved followers?
We’ve a few months to search out out. Within the meantime, take a look at every thing introduced at Nintendo’s Switch 2 reveal.
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