It's been six years since I played Silksong, and I'm OK waiting a little longer<p>It was Tuesday June 25, 2019. San Francisco became the first US city to (temporarily) <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="
https://www.engadget.com/2019-06-27-e-cigarette-vape-ban-san-francisco-online-sales-how.html">ban[/url] the sale of vapes, SpaceX successfully launched and deployed 24 satellites and I sat in Nintendo’s UK office on the outskirts of London, playing a demo of a game that <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXE8LdXzeHM">still isn’t out[/url]. </p>
<p>However, according to yesterday's Switch 2 presentation,
Hollow Knight: Silksong <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/hollow-knight-silksong-purportedly-arrives-this-year-144515332.html">will arrive at some point this year.[/url] Nintendo even showed off a couple of seconds of new footage. <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="
https://www.reddit.com/r/Silksong/comments/1jq1aeh/silksong_has_slopes/">There are slopes[/url]!</p>
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<p>Oh
Silksong, oh
Hollow Knight: Silksong, oh
Hollow Knight’s repurposed DLC. The second
Hollow Knight game from Team Cherry was initially meant to be a DLC addition to the original, but <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="
https://www.engadget.com/2019-02-14-hollow-knight-silksong-trailer.html">plans changed[/url], with the developers saying that it had become “too large and too unique." (This many years later, exactly how large and unique will
Silksong be?)</p>
<p>Later, as part of the 2022 Xbox and Bethesda Games showcase, a
Silksong trailer teased a release date in the next 12 months as part of Xbox’s attempt to deliver a wave of exciting games after a lackluster start to the Series X/S launch.</p>
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<p>When the early 2023 release date passed us by, Team Cherry delayed the game into 2024 and now, well, it’s 2025. I played that demo so long ago that it might have just been a dream.</p>
<p>Without rewriting my <a data-i13n="cpos:6;pos:1" href="
https://www.engadget.com/2019-06-26-hollow-knight-silksong-switch-hands-on.html">six-year-old hands-on impressions[/url] entirely, the new game features a new playable character named Hornet, who featured as a repeatable boss fight in the original
Hollow Knight, with silk-based attacks and faster, more agile gameplay. It also offers a more aggressive play style, with Hornet able to heal herself using silk charges and even repair damage with silk bundles left behind from prior unsuccessful attempts. It's a different gameplay twist from having to beat the Hollow Knight shadow in the original.</p>
<p>I subtitled my hands-on impressions, saying it would be “worth the wait.” Back then, I'd recently finished
Hollow Knight on the Switch, putting in a few too many hours and was hungry for more bug-shaped Metroidvania adventures.
Silksong felt fresh, more responsive, faster and flashier — and I just wanted to play more
Hollow Knight.</p>
<p>Barely six seconds of footage during Nintendo's Switch 2 presentation was enough to re-ignite the
Silksong fandom, when it revealed nothing new more than some downhill traversal. It's proof that a lot of people are still excited — and still waiting.</p>
<p>I'm excited, and six years on, it feels like it must be pretty close. </p>
<p>Right?</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/that-one-time-i-played-hollow-knight-silksong-160022483.html?src=rssSource:
It's been six years since I played Silksong, and I'm OK waiting a little longer
