The Internet has celebrated the celebration of the consecutive holiday: Hollow Knight's release date: Silksong was finally announced, and the release of the game was very close. At first glance, there was nothing outstanding in this news, but the Hollow 2017 knight fans created a true cultural phenomenon from Silksong's expectations. Arstechnica.com Information portal speakWhy.
Why did Silksong crazy?
Initially, Silksong began to develop as an additional for the Hollowing Knight – a gloomy subway about a silent protagonist, not the one who was tricked through the Satan Kingdom of Insects. The project sponsored through Kickstarter has become a great success thanks to the great image design, soundtrack, vibrating mechanics, memorable bosses and context, motivating players to build theory and understanding of Laura's grain.
The authors of the game in 2014 mentioned that the heroine of the addition would be hornet, equipped with long needles and threads – in the original Hollow knight, she was a supporting character.
In February 2019, Team Cherry announced that the addition has become too big and unique to stay in DLC, – now developers plan to turn it into a full continuation of the Hollow Knight.
And then … silent. Hollow Knight was publicly developed and developers have published new updates on the project page on Kickstarter. On Silksong, the studio works behind the closed door. News about the development process appears with power a few times a year, and often does not have much information – the Cherry group simply reminds that she is still working in the game.
Since then, the Hollow Knight has become a feeling even more noisy, and therefore, Silksong, even more expected. According to the studio, in early 2019, the original game was scattered with 2.8 million copies. So far, this figure exceeds 15 million copies and Silksong is still the most anticipated game in Steam-it is nearly 5 million users.
The popularity of the first game, the extremely high expectations from the second and almost complete information gap have led to the fact that any, even the smallest news about Silksong also attracts the attention of the public. Everyone has followed the updates of the steam database and specifies their importance, finds new products in digital games and (supposed to be) the sentences of the ranking agencies to be rewarded, as on coffee grounds, the release date of silk.
Some people even did news from lack of news. YouTube channel, called Dailysilksongnews, was reported for day to day, has been shaken to the perfection of YouTube, that, no, no new information about the game.
The collective patience almost exploded in mid -2023. In the Xbox presentation in June 2022, the publisher included employees from the upcoming Silksong releases, which is said to be the game that will be released “in the next 12 months”. But in November, from the 12 -month period, Team Cherry said the project would not be released in the first half of 2023 and no update for the release window.
Later, Silksong fans flew into every small game presentation in the hope that they would still display something about the Cherry team project, solving that the release was no longer near. Memes and emoticons with wigs are fashionable at the same time.
Why are you making a game for so long?
Hollow Knight's fans and patient fans have carefully studied the interview of Jason Schreyer, with the Cherry team, published by Bloomberg. In particular, developers have finally interrupted for many years of silence and explained why Silksong took so many years and what had stopped them from escaping.
According to the authors, extremely long development is not the result of a creative crisis, lack of enthusiasm or pandemic. The co -founder of Ari Gibson and William Pellen claims that they just really like to work in the game. It was so much that it was difficult for them to find a specific point to stop. They filled all ideas, bosses, new locations, etc.
Due to the fact that Silksong continuously increased on scale, it is difficult for developers to find out when the work will end. Therefore, in the desire not to ruin the players, the Cherry team decided not to say anything about her. Mostly, Gibson and Pellen ignored the bizarre group culture formed around the game, although they knew that the fans' segments exist.
At the same time, the fans were waiting for the release of Silksong, without the need to prevent jokes. The authors have stated that they have an additional release plan for the game after release, as in the case of the original Hollow Knight. And the plan for these supplements also looks ambitious, although the Cherry team is not ready to talk about any terms.