Topic: Hollow Knight: Silksong Reveals September 4 Release Date

[Shaymin]

Finally.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/72116/hollow-knight-silksong-reveals-september-4-release-date

The Silksong will be cued up in two weeks.

Team Cherry's "Special Presentation" was actually the launch trailer for Hollow Knight: Silksong which will launch on all platforms September 4, including Switch 2 and Switch.

An article at Bloomberg (gift link, subscription normally required) by Jason Schreier has confirmed the team was concentrating on making the game exactly how they wanted it, and the lack of updates would be because they would only be able to say "We're still working on it".

[Khushrenada]

Was not expecting this to be launching in just a couple weeks. Wowzers! First played the original in 2022 so the wait time has been less for me than other gamers but it also means if I do end up hoping for another sequel than it will likely be a much longer wait time for that one unless they decide to expand their staff.

[Luigi Dude]

Was not expecting this to be launching in just a couple weeks. Wowzers! First played the original in 2022 so the wait time has been less for me than other gamers but it also means if I do end up hoping for another sequel than it will likely be a much longer wait time for that one unless they decide to expand their staff.

Let's see the reaction to the sequel first.  There's a pretty long history of major indie titles getting sequels that underperform compared to the original, so who knows if Team Cherry will even want to make another one after this.

Right now the Hollow Knight fanbase is almost it's own realigion with many of it's fans saying the original is a perfect masterpiece that no other game can live up to and Silksong will be the second coming.  With such a rabid fanbase, if Silksong doesn't live up to the hype, the backlash is going to be biblical.  Well with the game taking over 7 years to complete, even if the game is just as good or better then Hollow Knight, I wouldn't be surprised if many of it's fans won't be satisfied because the level of hype that's been built up these last 7 years is going to be almost impossible to match.