Hollow Knight followers have been left with an all-too acquainted feeling of dismay after 2024’s E3-esque online game summer time 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 sport Metroid Prime 4: Past — however no Hollow Knight: Silksong.
“All the foremost summer time showcases have now aired, and we nonetheless have not heard something new from Silksong,” wrote ResetEra person cvbas in a put up with greater than 10,000 clicks. “What offers?” Fans within the feedback admitted to rising involved for the sport, which hasn’t obtained any official updates in over a yr when developer Workforce Cherry delayed it out of early 2023.
“I clearly need them to cook dinner as laborious and as lengthy as potential, however I feel some communication continues to be mandatory,” stated SirKai. “At this level I simply really feel dangerous for the blokes at Workforce Cherry. It must be powerful to have this insane quantity of expectations in your shoulders,” added Greywaren.
“We obtained Prime 4 earlier than Silksong,” complained a Reddit person, referencing the aforementioned Metroid sport which was primarily lacking for seven years. One other posted a quote from Workforce Cherry in Could 2022, after Silksong gained the “Most Anticipated Recreation Award from Unity. “It will possibly’t be an excessive amount of longer, absolutely,” the developer stated.
Simply dropped my Hornet statue it is a tough day for Silk Track 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 targeted on Hornet from the unique sport. “Virtually from the very begin, Hornet’s journey was supposed to happen in a brand new land, however as we dove in, it shortly turned too giant and too distinctive to remain a DLC, as initially deliberate,” Workforce Cherry stated on the time. “We do know that makes the wait slightly longer, however we expect the ultimate, contemporary world you’ll get to discover is price it.”
Hollow Knight Silksong isn’t an actual sport. We collectively hallucinated it.
— Tamoor Hussain (@tamoorh) June 18, 2024
We obtained Metroid Prime 4 earlier than Silksong 👏
— Every day Silksong Information (@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 except Workforce Cherry says in any other case.
One other yr handed and Silksong lastly reared its head, as the Xbox & Bethesda Video games Showcase of 2022 revealed the sport can be coming to Microsoft’s console and Recreation Pass on day one. Additional hope was impressed as Xbox had stated all the pieces proven on the occasion can be launched inside a yr. That, clearly, didn’t occur.
The final time Workforce Cherry issued an replace on Silksong was in February this yr, when the studio’s PR and advertising and marketing chief Matthew ‘Leth’ Griffin posted a quick remark to say it was nonetheless “laborious at work on the sport.”
Ideas now flip to approaching showcases and the potential for an look in August at Gamescom, the place Microsoft might host an Xbox occasion.
Picture Credit score: rookideperdido on Reddit
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.