It is laborious to overstate how eagerly Hollow Knight followers have been awaiting its sequel, Silksong, 5 years after it was initially introduced. And now, they acquired a bit little bit of hope, within the type of an Xbox Store web page.
At present, with little fanfare, Hollow Knight: Silksong acquired an official itemizing on Microsoft’s web site. There isn’t any launch date, no trailer, no pre-orders, or something of that kind exterior of wishlisting, nevertheless it’s one thing, proper? Proper?
Oh, and yet one more catch: it simply so occurs to be April Fools Day, which has some followers treating the mysterious itemizing with a wholesome quantity of skepticism.
“At present I can’t be fooled by SilkSong launch dates. I can’t be fooled by SilkSong bulletins of any form,” wrote Twitch Director of Group Advertising and marketing & Manufacturing Merry Kish on X/Twitter. “My head is obvious and my coronary heart is open you can’t destroy me I’ve ready my soul for right now you rat bastards.”
At present I can’t be fooled by SilkSong launch dates. I can’t be fooled by SilkSong bulletins of any form.
My head is obvious and my coronary heart is open you can’t destroy me I’ve ready my soul for right now you rat bastards.— Merry Kish ☮️ (@MerryKish) April 1, 2024
To be clear, there is no indication that that is some sort of merciless April Fools Day joke by developer Group Cherry or Microsoft, nevertheless it additionally would not inform us a complete lot about the place the extremely anticipated sequel is. A recreation will be listed on the Xbox retailer for any variety of causes, together with routine backend work, and some listings go up properly prematurely of launch. Silksong has additionally had listings on a number of different shops for a while now, together with PSN and the Nintendo eShop.
However with a recreation as anticipated as Silksong, any crumb of data will spur all types of hypothesis. Even Xbox Portfolio’s Senior Content material Planning Supervisor Nick Zuclich ever-so-innocently highlighted the itemizing on his personal X/Twitter:
Hmmm🤔 https://t.co/5mEzisT6bC…
A brand new cool recreation to wishlist?! 😎#HollowKnighSilksong pic.twitter.com/DQBZaJYxoM
— Nick Zuclich (@NickZuclich) April 1, 2024
No matter that itemizing could or could not imply, Hollow Knight followers do not know how understand how to really feel about all this, particularly due to the doubtful timing. As @Shayy_TV on X/Twitter places it: “group cherry deciding to put the shop pages up for silksong on april 1st is the final word chad transfer”
group cherry deciding to put the shop pages up for silksong on april 1st is the final word chad transfer
(sure, it is really actual, it is not a prank)
— Shayy (@Shayy_TV) April 1, 2024
silksong getting retailer pages on april fools is a private assault and i will not have this shit https://t.co/GrnTrgOH4R
— Moises Taveras (@PlatanoRanger) April 1, 2024
The r/HollowKnight subreddit was additionally hesitant to get their hopes up, with u/Plopop87 writing, “I really like how the Web is wrapped in so many layers of irony right now that nobody can inform whether or not individuals are simply falling for jokes or feeding into them.”
“Get up babe, new silksong cope simply dropped,” added u/Responsible-Long-891.
As some identified on each Reddit and X/Twitter, the Xbox web page does have an ESRB ranking (Everybody +10), main to hypothesis that it at the least have to be in some form of playable state. Nevertheless, it is value noting that, per the Entertainment Software Rating Board’s website, “ESRB raters don’t play by means of video games in the course of the ranking course of for quite a lot of causes,” as a substitute relying on disclosures from the developer.
Nonetheless. It is one thing!
Silksong is ESRB rated! This isn’t a drill! https://t.co/GEPL6tyJEO
— James Galizio (@Theswweet) April 1, 2024
hole knight silksong acquired an esrb ranking we’re so again ??
— megga_styler (@MeggaStyler) April 1, 2024
Different followers, properly, are in all places, however are principally simply praying that this implies some sort of impending information on Silksong.
now that silksong has a microsoft retailer web page WHEN ARE WE GETTING A RELEASE DATE pic.twitter.com/ozeYeHZCIL
— ★ lily ★ (@pawsomelily) April 1, 2024
The SILKSONG…IS REALLL pic.twitter.com/lYTXa8wK1c
— AbdHellDiver 🇵🇸/🇨🇩 (@Abdelcisaill) April 1, 2024
Hollow Knight Silksong acquired an Xbox retailer web page and is now obtainable to wishlist.
Numerous Xbox folks hyping this up, are we getting information quickly?! 😭 pic.twitter.com/OpwnPzLPcQ
— Kami (@Okami13_) April 1, 2024
It is little surprise that followers are so hungry for info greater than 5 years after Silksong was first introduced on February 14, 2019. The sequel was proven off throughout a June 2022 Xbox-Bethesda Showcase, seemingly confirming that it might be arriving within the following yr (it clearly did not). In Could 2023, Group Cherry stated it had deliberate to launch within the first half of 2023, however that it might be delayed.
“We’re excited by how the sport is shaping up, and it is gotten fairly large, so we wish to take the time to make the sport nearly as good as we will,” Group Cherry’s advertising and marketing and publishing lead Matthew Griffin stated on the time.
Clearly, you do not get a sequel this anticipated with no beloved predecessor. Hollow Knight was a success amongst followers and critics alike following its 2018, with IGN writing in our 9.4/10 overview that its “wealthy world and unbelievable depth of content material will make you need to discover its caves for dozens of hours.”
Alex Stedman is a Senior Information Editor with IGN, overseeing leisure reporting. When she’s not writing or modifying, yow will discover her studying fantasy novels or taking part in Dungeons & Dragons.