Team Cherry Discord Riddle Reveals A New Hollow Knight: Silksong Character

Well, that's not creepy in the slightest.

I didn’t expect this one to come out in 2020, since Team Cherry has been pretty quiet about it.

It’s on my radar again though.

That reminds me, I still need to play the first. It will definitely be in the next half dozen or so games I get to. Definitely.

@JimmySpades Once you do, you'll wonder why you left it so long. It turned out to be one of the best games I've ever played after laying in my backlog for over a year.

A bit of advice though, stick with it as the early game can be quite slow going and difficult.

I really need to finish the original!

I can't even beat the original Hollow Knight, gave up after 30 tries for the 4th boss but I still want to complete it. Can they make an easy mode for normal people who are not speedrun masters.

@hakjie11 Hornet?

@Lordplops there's a lot of creepy NPCs in Hollow Knight, like Leg Eater, an old blind bug who sells you charms

I hope they give options to make silksong easier. Feel like they made the original hard for the sake of it and while I got to the end I couldn’t be bothered to beat the last boss out of frustration of dying so many times!

Day 1 purchase for me, super excitd for this!

I’m with @OorWullie - Hollow Knight is one of the best games I’ve ever played. It’s pretty much perfect, in every aspect . I’m playing Ori and the Blind Forest at the moment, and it’s very good - but it still pales next to Hollow Knight. However, even if Silksong is only as good as Ori, it’ll still be one of the games of the year.

This is my most highly anticipated game at the moment - I'll take any information I can get on it, no matter how small!

@datamonkey I Agree it should be an option. However I also should say that I'm not a great gamer, and managing to finish this game (well not the dlc and stuff) was a feeling of great accomplishment. I think I died to Hornet 40+ times.

I managed to complete the end boss but never got to the true ending/boss.

I stopped playing when I couldnt get past a DLC boss. The circus boss. Cant remember the name. So tough!

Still one of my favourite games of all time though!

@Krull I started playing Ori a couple of weeks ago but it wasn't doing much for me. I'll go back to it though and probably start over again. My first go at Hollow Knight went the same way.

I still have to finish the first. I put around 70 hours but I got stuck at some point cause I stop to play and when I came back i was lost. I did not remember what to do and where to go.

@Tangerine Grimm, the Nightmare King .

That boss is so amazing! That music and the atmosphere, love it!

But yeah, I died to him a lot of times. However, he has almost no rng, so once you get to defeat him, a 2nd time is relatively easy! So my recommendation would be to just keep trying and you'll get him eventually (if you want ofc.)

Bit of bragging here: I even did him on radiant difficulty (no hit taken), am really proud of that . 9 bosses to go on Radiant difficulty but I'll try to get one every weekend in order to keep my sanity.

@OorWullie Ori is worth persevering with. My initial reaction was much the same as yours, at least for the first couple of hours or so, but it's grown on me. The way combat is handled is still mediocre, but exploration, secrets, abilities and set pieces are really well done.

@Friendly Beating Grimm the Nightmare King was my single favourite moment in Hollow Knight! I didn't do it on Radiant difficulty, but by the time I had cracked it, I was pretty much not getting hit at all. I had every attack pattern down. Loved that boss.

I feel like I should go back and try again, but it's been so long I'll be so out of practice, getting my skill level back up to where it was may be a chore :/

I do keep meaning to start from the beginning again, just because it was such a great game. Heres a review I left on Amazon for the physical copy:

An absolutely brilliant game
Without doubt, one of my favourite games of all time. A vast, atmospheric, detailed world to explore. Lots of secrets, different abilities and upgrades to discover. Plenty of challenging platforming and a huge variety of enemies and bosses, requiring skill and often persistence to defeat. The story is deep and cryptic and the characters you meet are unique and interesting. I love the art style, the haunting music and the sense of progression, as you come to learn the worldmap and master the enemies and controls. Not to mention all the DLC is included, adding countless more hours of gameplay to an already large game. Team Cherry have lovingly crafted an intricate, expansive world with it's own distinctive and intriguing aesthetic and lore. A true masterpiece and a must play! I can't wait for the sequel, Hollow Knight: Silksong.

Hollow Knight is one of the best games I ever played, not only on Switch, but in my entire life of gaming.
I highly anticipated this sequel!!

Hollow Knight was briliant. If Silksong even comes close it'll be something special. I can't wait to play as Hornet, she had such an interesting moveset in Hollow Knight.

I'm way too excited for this game.

@OorWullie Agree 100%. Once you get your second or third power-up/skill, the game opens up quite a bit and you start to get into this groove where it just feels good to move around in the universe.

Also, don't feel bad using an FAQ, there are times where the game doesn't telegraph where you should be going next as clearly as you'd expect.

@sonicbooming I don’t discourage using FAQs but I will say the game is very open in its options to how you play. I didn’t even realize this until I was comparing where I was in the game with a friend and we had roughly similar percentages of completion but our paths were drastically different. He hadn’t gotten the Tram Ticket and while I had spent a lot of my time filling out the map down on those levels he had an entirely different are done that I assumed I couldn’t access.
Don’t know if that made sense but it’s less linear than most Metroidvanias and that’s incredible to me.
Also the controls are some of THE tightest controls in any game and in fact ruined some other games for me when I went to play them again. Namely it’s hard to play Rogue Legacy, another fantastic game that’s kind of similar, because it feels floaty and unresponsive by comparison.

@OorWullie I donated to the Kickstarter, so by the time I got my copy I had waited for the game to be developed, and then waited for the game to be ported to the Switch, and then waited for them to send out codes to the backers, by which point not only had I been waiting so long that it wasn't the shiny new game I had to play immediately, but my Switch backlog had grown quite large and held a number of games that were shiny and new and called to me to play immediately. (Many of them lose those qualities before I can get to them. The Switch library truly is a double-edged sword.) But now it's getting to the point where the game is old and I feel I've waited long enough, which is a better feeling than when I look at a game as old and accept that I'll never get around to it. (The Switch library truly is a double-edged sword.)

The article says Silksong will launch this year. Where has this been stated? I haven't heard any release date.

@NotTelevision It is also a timed exclusive for the switch and pc as far as I know.

@JimmySpades It's the best game I have on my Switch. Had it donloaded for a while before I played it but once I picked it up I couldn't put it down.

I LOVE HOLLOW KNIGHT I've replayed it so many times, I've done speed runs, I've gotten 112% So Silksong was my most anticipated game of 2020 but now I'm not sure if it's coming out this year or not. So it's my most anticipated upcoming game in general.

@hakjie11 I'm a normal person and beat it. lol. I play some hard games but I'm not a nut about it. I think Hollow Knight becomes more manageable if you do a lot of exploration. There are plenty of items, charms, and upgrades to get. If you're stuck on an area or boss that's usually the game's way of telling you that "you're not ready yet" and there's still a whole map to check out. Exploration is what the game is definitely about and encouraged. It's very helpful too and thus rewarding. I personally think HK is very fair but I have read many people find it hard. So perhaps it's just different for everyone.

@Krull i much prefer ori to hollow knight. Hollow knights feels to big and pointless. I have finished ori 3 times and its still amazing.

@KnightsTemplar Hollow Knight is big but far from pointless.

@KnightsTemplar Just finished Ori last night - in the end, I really enjoyed it. And I certainly don’t think bigger means better. But you really feel like you’re exploring a vast, bizarre and interconnected world in Hollow Knight; it has wonderful NPCs; the combat is breathless; and the physics are just better. Ori is a little bit too floaty in comparison. But it’s a fine game.

@Kirby_Girl Maybe I am below average then (pretty sure this group is sizable) ...anyway it's frustrating not to complete such a good game...game needs a casual mode for people like me who just want to see "any" form of ending.

I don't know what Nintendo considers "coming soon" since we are still waiting. But the game needed more time to bake I guess. And Corona kicked in. So yeah, as long as it will be great. And I am sure it will!