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Before Silksong, I Should Probably Play Hollow Knight

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Jade King

Published Apr 20, 2024

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I don’t get the hype for Silksong. Not because I don’t understand why fans are excited about a sequel years in the making, or why every single State of Play, Direct, or literally any other digital showcase is filled with demands for its appearance. I just haven’t played 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Hollow Knight. But as Silksong draws❀ ever closer, it’s time to finally change that.

This week’s Nintendo Indie World was the breaking point. I haven’t played the original, but even I was pulled into the hype that this was the one. Finally, after recent weeks saw an age rating and store listing emerge online, Silksong was finally set to break cover. Maybe we’d finally get a release date, some new gameplay, or even a coveted shadow drop during the stream itself. But alas, it just wasn’t meaಌnt to be.

The main character in Hollow Knight looks like a silly little guy. ⛎But he also has a pointy thing to stab me with, so maybe I shouldn’t be so quick to judge.

After being played like a damn fiddle for a sequel, I have absolutely zero context for. I think it’s time. I already own Hollowཧ🧸 Knight on three separate platforms after buying them and promising I’d finally bite the bullet and start a playthrough, but this time I actually mean it.

On the surface, it seems to be little more than a Metroidvania with a gothic aesthetic and plenty of cute, empty-eyed bug♚s. I know nothing else about it, but perhaps this mystery is part of the allure, and why millions are so enamoured by it.

From what I’ve heard, it draws from several classics of the genre with its deceptively simple combat and platform mechanics, both of which appear breezy in the early hours, but quickly fold into challenging 𒐪yet complicated boss battles which rival even FromSoftware in their majesty. I’ve seen clips of these moments, and in the 𓃲past I’ve only ever played a few minutes before bowing out as I had better things to do. I didn’t see the hype, but now I’m going to force myself to find it.

Now I’m reading up on Hollow Knight ahead of my long overdue dive into the game, I've learned it has two expansions. That’s a lot of gaming to be had, so there must have been a demand for more, and the feverish anticipation for Silksong speaks to a game that is not only immaculately made, but rewards the player for discovery and delving deeper into the world and everything it stands for.

There might be 🦹lore here I have never thought about crediting Hollow Knight for in the past, and it will fold into Silksong or pay off in ways that would justif☂y our irrational demands for a release date. I have no idea, but there is a worthwhile excitement to stepping into the fray years after the fact like this.

The Knight approaching an NPC in Hollow Knight.

An image from Hollow Knight that has stuck in my head for years is the cute little bench our protagonist sits on to rest. There is nothing except silence, light, and curiosity towards what awaits us in this labyrinth of a game. I understand why people get so enamoured by a title like this, where, despite its familiar foundations, it still offers a near infinite number of possibilities. If Silksong is a promise to keep building on that𒅌 potential, I’m not surprised that after years of waiting we are growing impatient.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I n🐽eed to go and play H💙ollow Knight. For real this time! Probably...