As we speak, we bought our first actual, new, meaty trailer for Hollow Knight: Silksong in a number of years, full with a September 4 launch date. Followers are already unpacking details from the trailer, together with mentioning that it appears to be like like the base recreation of Silksong would possibly be larger than the base recreation of Hollow Knight – fairly a feat for one thing that started off as DLC.
Proof for this comes from the trailer above, which has textual content stating the recreation accommodates over 200 enemies and over 40 bosses. Examine that to Hollow Knight’s launch trailer, which mentioned over 140 enemies and over 30 bosses:
So it seems like Silksong is launching with extra enemies and executives than Hollow Knight did. And although we do not know the dimension of the explorable space in Silksong, it stands to purpose that it most likely wants to be large enough to match all these little guys, and thus its map is probably going to be no less than as massive as the unique Hollow Knight if no more. And whereas that will sound like a given for a sequel, it is useful to do not forget that Silksong did not begin out as a sequel – it started as DLC, after which by some means morphed into one thing seemingly even larger than its predecessor.
Now, that comparability does not embrace Hollow Knight’s DLC, which added tons of recent enemies, areas, bosses, story, and different content material. With all that included, the current recreation of Hollow Knight is sort of actually bigger than Silksong was at launch. That mentioned, we discovered right now that developer Workforce Cherry remains to be engaged on extra Silksong for the months and years after the recreation’s launch, making it attainable it can ultimately surpass Hollow Knight’s DLC as properly.
Should you completely cannot wait till launch to discover out what a few of these enemies and executives entail, we did get to preview Hollow Knight: Silksong earlier this week at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany. Funnily sufficient, it appears to be like like the very same demo we performed again in E3 2019, solely with six extra years of polish, illustrating how far the recreation has are available its prolonged improvement.
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