Team Cherry Teases Hollow Knight Hornet DLC Reveal Coming Later This Week

Most likely the best Metroidvania game, with loads of content for a small price. And it keeps giving!

I gave up on this one because of a boss I couldn't beat. I guess I just suck at this game.

Played for so so long and then just got to a point where I had no idea where to go to advance. There were doors on the map that I hand't gone through yet but had absolutely no idea how to get to them. After trawling around for another couple of hours I fell out of favour with it and moved on to something else.

Once I'm done with Sundered I'll probably go back to it and start over.

Confirms to me by the way that there'll be no Direct this week, surely this is Direct worthy news?

And here I thought Hollow Knight was finished following Godmaster.

BRILLIANT!!! All they need to do now is confirm the physical is coming soon and this will be one of my favourite games on switch ever

I've been thinking about restarting my adventure, I stopped playing a while ago after getting stuck and would struggle to get back into it if I carried on from where I left off. I think I'll wait for this DLC reveal though, if it's integrated into the main campaign rather than a seperate story then I'm best hanging off until it arrives.

Team cherry one of the best studio team ever. Look forward to play this dlc. This game is a beast!!

Still need to finish this game, haha. So many games that need to be finished...

@Scottwood101 “An Indie studio with a multiplat title talking about an upcoming DLC that was part of their Kickstarter goals deconfirms a Direct for me that was never confirmed in the first place.”

Seems to coincide with a possible Direct this Thursday?

Probably my favorite metroidvania of all time... And yet I can't see myself going back for this.

DLC for single player games never manage to entice me at all, as I'm never really interested in bite-sized addendums to those titles. I just wish Team Cherry were working on their next project instead, which is gonna be a day-one buy for me no matter what.

Best Valentine's Day ever.

Oh jeez. I still don't know if I got to any DLC areas at all. This game is huge!

@ricklongo
Might not be "bite-sized". Just look at the Shovel Knight DLCs.

@Rhaoulos Yeah, but don't beat yourself up about it. At least you didn't continue to see what awaited further along...

@Scottwood101 I was a bit like you, never knowing where to go. And I don't like to rely on guides to beat a game. Then I moved on when I had enough, except I got myself a PS4 with quite a few games, dusted off my 3DS and got some other games on the Switch. So I pretty much kissed this game good bye.

@aesz The game would be perfect with an easy (or slightly easier) mode and a few pointers to tell you where to go next. Having to rely on guides is a proof the game is flawed.

Always happy to play this game some more. Can't wait!

@Scottwood101 I think in situations like this, where there is still enjoyment to be had from the game, it’s best to look up a guide and move on, rather than bash your head against the wall and discard the game. I used to have a strict no-guides rule but I realized I was missing out on some great stuff by giving up on games I couldn’t seem to make progress on. Just my two cents.

@Rhaoulos "Having to rely on guides is a proof the game is flawed."

I agree that having to find information outside of the game to progress could be considered a flaw (i.e., La-Mulana), but that's not the case at all with Hollow Knight. Everything you need to progress is provided by the game, and this is not a genre you want the game guiding you through - it would defeat the intention of the design. Metroid Fusion is probably the best example of what you think you want for a game like this, and how robbed you'll feel from the velevet rope tour. Moreover, you have to be playing at a speedrunner level of dedication and execution to break Fusion's sequences and actually explore freely - that's way more difficult than a casual playthrough of HK.

@nofriendo admittedly I did use a guide a couple of times, but because the game isn't exactly linear, it was hard to find the correct part of a guide that was relevant for me so that was equally as frustrating!

Best 2018 Switch game. Team Cherry’s polish on this game and excellent DLC means I’ll buy their next game day 1.

This is probably the Switch game I've sunk the most hours into. Looking forward to hear more about this but I'm not going to jump back in just yet. I've played this so much that I needed a break (I completed the game but stopped at Godmaster) & I still have a backlog I'm trying to chip away at.

Cheers to the developers though; they've given us so much on the DLC front already at no extra cost.

Oh wow, I thought they'd finished releasing DLC for Hollow Knight! I loved this game but haven't played it much since beating the main story. Hopefully this will encourage me to get back into it.

I'd be willing to pay $35 for this DLC.

Hollow Knight is simply an amazing game. That is all.

@Rhaoulos never once needed a guide for this game. Sounds like user error.

I just finished it yesterday with 78% completion. Still plenty to play. Definitely one of my favorite games of all time.

I’d love DLC for Dummies. Something that points me in the right direction and gives me extra health - I basically suck at the game, got lost, and gave up all within a couple of hours

@Thumbsofsteel never mind Switch games, I've put more hours into this since my party of level 99s in Final Fantasy 7 some twenty-odd years ago. It truly is something very special.

@Bunkerneath definitely a must buy when physical comes out. Hopefully it will include all the dlc on it for future play and collectability. I will been waiting for the physical since it's been teased.

@oceano Me too I had some troubles with final boss a few days ago, but then picked it up yesterday and got it on my first try. I felt I was done with it though, but then I read this - had no idea more dlc was planned I got 106%, no interest in Godmaster content really, but this sounds like a bit more story content which could draw me back in.

@Scottwood101 Individual Indies don't usually have Directs.

@Bondi_Surfer First couple of hours can be difficult to get "sucked in" to the world and game play. I love the game, but I was concerned at the start. The game is so much bigger than I imagined, at first.

107% this bad boy back in September. Can’t wait to dive back in

This is a game that I have been playing for a while now and I still haven't finished the dlc, but all I have at this point is the 4th and 5th pantheons, now I have a WHOLE new storyline to do, also is the dlc paid? No one ever confirmed that for me.

Oh lordy, even more content! That's great news! If this is also free dlc, it looks like I return earlier to the game then expected.

@Henmii The DLC is paid, yes.

@Syndiciate,

That's a pity. But I might still download it someday if the price isn't to bad. So far I love all the Hollow knight stuff.

@Henmii Actually, it's apparently being made into a separate game entirely. They just released the trailer for "Hollow Knight: Silksong" on YouTube and give further details in a video on their YouTube channel and the Team Cherry site.

@Syndiciate,

Yeah, I saw it and it looks great! There goes potentially another 50 hours of my time, lol.