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EDGE Magazine - Hollow Knight: Silksong Preview (PC/Switch only at launch, release date TBA)
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They made the right call.
Very happy to the see the high demand for the magazine; I hope more folk check EDGE out after reading the issue. They do great work!
I can maybe understand if budget is concerned as they're a small team, still disappointed with that decision though.
And to think the author of the article had to convince management an "indie" game was worthy of a cover.
Silksong is going to be massive. It will rival Nintendo first party excitement on Switch. I expect it to sell a million+ during its first month on that platform alone. And it'll do at least that figure on PC at launch.
Silksong is going to be massive. It will rival Nintendo first party excitement on Switch. I expect it to sell a million+ during its first month on that platform alone. And it'll do at least that figure on PC at launch.
For sure. While I get being disappointed, people really have to acknowledge how small the team is. Basically impossible for them to make it multiplat day 1 when doing all the development themselves.
The map "system" is excellent sure. I like the fact that in each new area you basically go blind until you find the map.
However the actual map is horrendous, low res and mostly unusable for the purpose it's being provided, which is to mark points of interest that you may return to later. There's no two ways about it, it's poor.
The game however is a masterpiece so, map shmap, whatever :D
Disappointed that it's not hitting all platforms. I think it's fine for the initial release of an indy title to target selected platforms so that the team can just get their games out there, but in this case they have a big audience on other hardware that will just miss out, for what is likely a long time.
I'll probably get PC while I wait for PS5 and double-dip, but still.
I'll probably get PC while I wait for PS5 and double-dip, but still.
The only shitty thing about Hollow Knights map is you have to use a charm to show where you are on the map. Other than that it totally serves its purpose. No idea what the fuck some of yall are talking about.
I don't think this is really the case tho. It has an audience of course but nowhere near Switch/PC. It didn't chart among the top 20 best selling game during its launch month on PSN.
people should realize how hard it is to launch on multiple platforms, specially for such a tiny team. having to port the game and then test it on so many hardware variations (specially now with multiple next gen consoles involved) is not easy, and team cherry seem like perfectionists who would want to get things perfect at launch. that's one of the reasons the switch port of the original took so long, they were working to get it to perform perfectly.
3 people, up from the two who made the original.
I'm glad they got a big magazine feature, but all of that info in the OP is stuff we've known since around the time the game got announced nearly two years ago lol. If that's all that was in there it doesn't feel like much of an update.
Is it? I haven't been able to find a source that confirms it's a story sequel.
I just recently purchased and beat Hollow Knight, so I am super hyped for this game as HK was an amazing experience.
I am honestly wondering how they are going to make it accessible while keeping up the difficulty as that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Maybe some sort of assist or god mode like Celeste or Hades? I'd be fine with that as those are difficult games, but I never felt compelled to use those modes. I might have been tempted a few times on Hollow Knight cause man, a few of those bosses were Brutal! I'm looking at you
I think I must have bashed my head against those bosses for like 1 to 2 hours each. I gave up on the first one and came back to it after I was more powerful too.
I am honestly wondering how they are going to make it accessible while keeping up the difficulty as that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Maybe some sort of assist or god mode like Celeste or Hades? I'd be fine with that as those are difficult games, but I never felt compelled to use those modes. I might have been tempted a few times on Hollow Knight cause man, a few of those bosses were Brutal! I'm looking at you
Dream Broken Vessel (right after beating it the first time) and Radiance
Do they though? It seems from all indications that the Switch and PC audience dwarfs the Hollow Knight audience on other platforms.
800,000 people bought the game before it was free on plus, now it has 2.3 million players on PS4.
That's not as many owners as on steam, but that's still a tonne of players. Probably looking at around 3 million players across the two platforms.
It doesn't matter, because it's their choice at the end of the day. But I think it's better if your game has a following, to release in unison on all platforms where that following exists has a benefit. Leaving folks waiting a year or whatever to play your recent title just helps ensure that you don't build your audience on those platforms.
PS5 and XSX are still early cycle and folks are looking to play anything, while developers get swamped later on in the development cycle, that's far less true early on in any console generation where players are thirsty for games.
The original is possibly the best Metroidvania ever. Oh, and the map system is perfect if you have fortitude.
Possibly? It definitely is. And the map system complaints have always been a bit tenuous, so I wouldn't worry about those.
Yep. Huge Super Metroid fan, and was so impressed when I finished Hollow Knight pre-additional content, and felt it was the superior game.
I still won't forget making my one thread expressing this and mods censoring my post, because the thought of it was somehow unbearable, not to mention so many others criticising my opinion without ever playing the game.
Then the game came out on switch and suddenly I was right lol
I have it as 1B to Super Metroid's 1A. Hollow Knight is really long so it serves a different purpose compared to Super Metroid which is short by comparison. I replay them for different reasons. I don't think any Metroidvania does what Super Metroid does with the same map size which is part of why it is such an impressive game.
That's an excellent news... Just hoping my copy arrive in due time (10-11th of January)...
Hollow Knight and Silksong are one of the few games to deserve to be acquired in a Collector's Edition form... They're so beautiful.
You got censored for saying HK is a better game than Super Metroid? It clearly is. 😂
Lords of Shadow was fantastic. Good taste.
Also a good thing that the next game won't be Hollow Knight related. Still having the feeling this will be their Bloodborne. Day one.
Also a good thing that the next game won't be Hollow Knight related. Still having the feeling this will be their Bloodborne. Day one.
Yep. But my favourite part of that is that it showed off the idiocy of platform fandom and how people blindly can't even tolerate another opinion, even when it is a game they haven't played! Ridiculous. Anyway, I love seeing new folks discover this over time. Hopefully Silksong can go even further
Gotta say this segment did its job well. They revealed a minimum of new information and yet managed to get me incredibly excited for the release. Hope we get it soon, fingers crossed for another Valentine's day reveal (I doubt the wait will be more than a year, it'd be weird to feature in a magazine that far in advance).
Not possibly. It is.
Hollow Knight is the new king of the metroidvania genre, and every game in that genre going forward will be compared to it. It has set the new standard.
maybe i'm confusing speculation with something that's been confirmed. they've called it the sequel to hollow knight, i'm pretty sure of that. and the way one of the endings happen and the first scene of the first trailer, makes me pretty confident that they're continuing the story from there.
Great article and screenshots. Game seems nearly done but who knows.
Disappointed that there's no release window or even really hint of a release date. Either way, I'll but this on Switch at launch and then double dip on PS4, just like I did with the original. Hopefully that version isn't too far after the Switch.
Disappointed that there's no release window or even really hint of a release date. Either way, I'll but this on Switch at launch and then double dip on PS4, just like I did with the original. Hopefully that version isn't too far after the Switch.
They've actually stated in a Reddit AMA that they don't consider any ending the canon ending, though that was before the Silksong announcement.
All they've done so far is call it a 'sequel', which I take as just meaning a new Hollow Knight game. It's still up in the air, imo.
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This was at the old place, I titled the thread something along the lines of "Hollow Knight has surpassed Super Metroid as one of the best Metroidvania" and provide my reasoning for my opinion. Mods then changed the title to [redacted] Hollow Knight, as many other users piled on to say it's not possible despite not playing it
Markers were added later (probably with the Switch version, can't remember).
Not a big deal, but I'm curious about what the pricing will be on this. Indie games in general have become more expensive and the first game was so absurdly underpriced. I'm guessing $30-$40?
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30 at max, I'm expecting 20 just because they did 15 the first time (absolute insanity lol).
They did the Switch version first, PS4 and Xbox came a few months later.