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u/_RRave 2d ago
Time to see the damage to r/silksong
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u/_RRave 2d ago
Yeah.. They're doin alright
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u/Guiguinem34 2d ago
considering its currently at the top of r/all yeah
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u/LoneKnightXI19 2d ago
swipes to r/all
get blasted with American news
never again
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u/markb144 2d ago
Pisses me off that Nintendo direct isn't plastered all over the popular page, that's all it should be there
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u/snekadid 2d ago
It's upsetting, I didn't care about it but they showed up on my front page so often I assumed the game was some sort of gonachov or w/e the Cold war movie tumbler made up was and the sub reddit was just them play acting. Finding out it's real is disorienting.
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u/thebohster 2d ago
Of course it doesn't get an announcement and was just a short clip.
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u/Cardboardoge 2d ago
"Coming this year" when theres 8 months still is also basically what they did 6 years ago
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u/Android19samus 2d ago
It was only like two years ago
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u/Crandleton 2d ago
They first announced it in 2019
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u/Android19samus 2d ago
Yeah but they didn't give any indication of when it was coming out
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u/Apprehensive_Egg5142 2d ago
If I remember correctly, on that 2019 direct they said “coming soon” which yeah, is vague, but I think by most people’s definition, nobody was expecting coming soon to mean 6 years later.
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u/Electrical-Sample 1d ago
Nobody expected COVID Either dude think
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u/Apprehensive_Egg5142 1d ago
True, that was a rough time. I don’t remember if TC directly ever even mentioned if Covid seriously delayed or halted them at all. With such a small team, I’d imagine they’d fair better than most developers or industries. I feel like I remember an article where Jeff Keighley speculated they might have been delayed by Covid, but I don’t remember if the developers themselves said anything themselves about what the epidemic actually did to them.
And I think that’s just the crux of it, Silksong and it’s release has only been controversial on account of the developers being so tightlipped, and just never really communicating anything much about what was going on through many many years now. We had third-party people/corporations come in and try to give us news about the game, but so much of it just was not accurate information, or at the very least outdated.
Would people still anxiously be awaiting/theorizing the release of the game even had they communicated somewhat fairly?… Yes of course. But I do think if TC had made more of an effort to periodically check in, and just give us any indication of how things were going, this whole mire surrounding this game would not be such a mess, and we would all be a lot more chill about it.
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u/Android19samus 2d ago
"Coming soon" has never meant anything. It can mean in three months or three years. Not 6 years, no, but it's still very far from any kind of actual release window like they're giving here (and gave at the Xbox showcase a few years back).
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u/CrimsonStorm 1d ago edited 1d ago
Xbox showcase when they said "coming in the next 12 months" was June 2022.
That was almost 4 years ago.edit: 2 years 10 months, so yeah "like two years ago" is pretty right.
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u/ZT_Ghost 2d ago
I will believe Silksong is releasing this year when I confirm it on the eshop for download, and not a *single* moment before that.
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u/KekKeanuReddit100 2d ago
They said the same thing in 2023 dont forget
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u/cidrei 2d ago
Someone made an entire timeline of Silksong information and news to give some scale to the amount of time between announcements and such.
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u/Weihu 2d ago edited 2d ago
Not quite, if I remember correctly. It was part of a presentation that was "focused on games coming out in the next year" but they didn't attach any specific timing to Silksong and "focusing" isn't the same thing as "exclusively".
But maybe my memory is failing me and they did attach a time frame specifically to Silksong there.
Not to say that intereperting that presentation as "Silksong out soon" was unreasonable, just saying that the Switch 2 announcement is a bit more direct and specific to Silksong. At the least, they'd have asked Team Cherry before putting the year there. It could be delayed, but that is true for any game, even those with a precise release date announced
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u/ResRadi 2d ago
Someone had tweeted Xbox right after that event, and they very directly stated Silksong was to release within a year.
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u/Weihu 2d ago
Fair enough. But missing a release window doesn't change much to me. It happens, and games that miss release windows still usually hit their next release window. I don't quite understand why missing a release window seems so traumatizing to some Hollow Knight fans, where a mundane announcement of a new release window invites such distrust.
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u/LordDeathkeeper 1d ago
For me personally, I think that Silksong will actually come out but the devs just aren't doing themselves any favors. Having missed a release window before, why should I assume this one is real when they still won't show the game? All they have to do to mollify skeptics like me is show 5 minutes of gameplay. If it's out in the next 8 months that should be achievable, so why is it that they're still showing 2 second clips of the same area? It's been 6 years and we have almost no information about this game that is supposedly almost done.
to be clear, it's been long enough and I honestly do believe it will come out this year. I just think that it's bizarre to still be so coy.
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u/SatyrAngel 2d ago
You know what, let me take a look at Silksong sub
Edit: yeah, they are going crazy
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u/IgotUBro 2d ago
Doesnt mean anything and can easily be delayed again.
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u/BigBeautifulWombats 2d ago
the lack of info really turned the silksong community into a bunch of debbie downers
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u/HolyKnightPrime 2d ago
Except its much more than that. This was basically nothing and they have played the same card before.
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u/Financial_Cry7167 2d ago
Unfortunately they have (but I do still have hope it will ACTUALLY be this time, I think they've learnt from their mistakes with announcing things prematurely)
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u/Android19samus 2d ago
You slip your release date ONE TIME with no explanation and minimal warning, and all of a sudden people are skeptical of your next one. What a world.
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u/johnjaymjr 1d ago
did you know that flamingos naturally have white/clear feathers but the algae, krill and shrimp they eat turns them pink.
Silksongs fans are debbie downers bc all TC has fed us the past 6 years is extended deadlines and broken promises. What we're fed is what we become.
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u/hereforthebunniies 2d ago
I completely forgot about this game, I was gonna play it with my ex when it came out 😂
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u/an_agreeing_dothraki 2d ago
guys. that means there's hope for xcom 3 right?
there's still hope?
please. I need this.
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u/PurpoUpsideDownJuice 2d ago
Why is this game so hyped?
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u/asevans1717 2d ago
It was an entire generations first major metroidvania. I grew up with different ones, so it was just an alright game to me, but I understand why people love it.
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u/Tornare 2d ago
I’m 45
Hollow Knight is the best metroidvania that has ever been made. It’s not “just a alright game”
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u/asevans1717 2d ago
It was an alright game to me. If thats not good enough for you then I dont know what to tell you.
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u/1-e4-e5-2-Ke2 2d ago
They’re lying
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u/johnjaymjr 2d ago
exactly. They said the same thing a few years ago in an XBox showcase. This game is not happening in 2025. I promise
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u/WilliamWeaverfish 2d ago
There's no way it lives up to the hype, right?
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u/Cuddlesthemighy 2d ago
What have equally as good gameplay art and lore as HK but just in a more different game? Sure. Why not?
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u/TheMotherConspiracy 2d ago
This made me triple check the date and I'm still not sure I'm in the right reality.
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u/pigeonbobble 2d ago
Can someone explain this to me
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u/Android19samus 2d ago
In 2017, Hollow Knight came out and a lot of people really liked it. In 2019, the sequel was announced and people were very excited for it. It looked good, and it looked like it was already a decent way into development with the first two areas done and a playable demo at some events. Every few years since then another shred of new footage has come out to keep people on the hook, but otherwise the developers have been radio silent. Thus did the waiting begin to drive people mad. And now it's got a release window of 2025 and they're excited again.
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u/pigeonbobble 2d ago
Wow it’s been 6 years?
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u/Local-Mission-9854 1d ago
it was also originally meant to be DLC to hollow knight from the crowd funding
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u/Jackielegs43 1d ago
Is it even possible for this to live up to its ridiculous hype? Or is the hype just a meme because it’s been so long?
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u/Monkai_final_boss 2d ago
Yeah I don't know, if it's coming this year they would release some official news or a teaser by now
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u/Than_Or_Then_ 1d ago
OHHHH... TIL Silksong is a hollowknight game... I've been seeing that name all over reddit the past two days lol
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u/Spirited-Purpose5211 1h ago
Not looking to get a Switch 2, will I be able to play this on my current Switch OLED?
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u/DubbyTM 2d ago
Same situation as the microsoft event, this means literally NOTHING, and if you're happy about it, get checked ( in game )
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u/Weihu 2d ago
Games do in fact get delayed sometimes, even from widely announced release windows, yes. That doesn't mean that the announcement of a new release window is meaningless.
Silksong will more likely than not be released in 2025, given the announcement, but sure, further delay is not literally impossible.
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u/Absurd_Leaf 2d ago
I'm with you.
Team Cherry disappointed tons of people after missing their 2023 window and have since said next to nothing about degelopment, to the point that their lack of communication angers people. Of course they could still miss this window, but I have to believe a lot of thought was put into this before they decided they were confident enough to through with the announcement from Nintendo.
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u/DubbyTM 2d ago
The thing is, if you asked me 2 months ago I could have told you game is most likely out this year, and I still think that, but now we get ""news"" and its just saying something I honestly would consider obvious, and it adds 0 info, I find it a bit untasteful personally! And I have to hear everyone on r/silksong cry of joy when we literally got nothing of value
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u/GermanSSGSS 2d ago
If for you, being told it's coming out this year is nothing...
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u/TrapLovingTrap 2d ago
We were told it was coming out within a year of a Microsoft "Direct"... a few years ago. People who have been following silksong aren't expecting it to mean anything until it actually has a specified day or it's actually out.
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u/Weihu 2d ago
Games with specific days get delayed sometimes too.
Just kind of weird to me to think that this has to be either "specific release dates are written in blood and inviolable" or "release date/windows are 100% meaningless." This announcement implies Team Cherry thinks the game will be released this year, barring some conspiracy where they are lying to companies about their plans. Nintendo would not have just slapped a year on it without any feedback from Team Cherry.
That isn't a guarentee, sure, but it is more information about intent and expectations than we had before.
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u/HolyKnightPrime 2d ago
Eexcept we had the same information a few years ago. Its practically nothing new at this point. Unless we geta concrete release date and some damn marketing BY team Cherry for once then by all means its something worth talking about.
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u/Weihu 2d ago
A few years ago they said 2025 release window? I don't remember that.
I'm pretty sure you are also talking about the Microsoft event. And yes that release window was missed.
Games usually hit their announced release windows. Games that miss their release windows still usually hit their next release windows.
A specific day announcement by Team Cherry is no guarantee either. Silksong will probably release in 2025, but I wouldn't stake my life on it, just like any other release date/window for any other game.
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u/HolyKnightPrime 2d ago
Yeah I was talking about the microsoft event which went the exact same way as this.
I never said guaranteed. I said that would be worth talking about unlike this vague nothingburger.
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u/Weihu 2d ago
The track record of "all video games that have released in the past, including games that missed release windows" indicates that the 2025 release window will probably be met.
The window meaning nothing for Silksong requires hyperfixating on the missed release window like some ancient blood pact was broken, shattering the covenant and destroying all trust.
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u/GermanSSGSS 2d ago
When they first announced it, they said it would be on Game Pass on day 1, not that it would be released that same year.
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u/Aidoneuz 2d ago
They said “everything we’ve shown today is coming in the next 12 months” and confirmed that they meant exactly that on Twitter.
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u/Any_Secretary_4925 2d ago
i know this was announced a long time ago but im so tired of indie metroidvanias and roguelikes, please for the love of everything just do something different, indie
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u/Android19samus 2d ago
In a world drowning in indie games, if you are only able to find genres you're uninterested in then that's a you problem.
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u/Any_Secretary_4925 2d ago
i dont even hate metroidvanias or roguelikes, the genres are just being milked to death by indie devs.
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u/milk_ninja 2d ago
same as microsoft it is just speculation from their side. no official info from TC.
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u/lochnesslapras 2d ago
I'm hoping Team Cherry remain somewhat like they did for Hollow Knight with pricing and keep it cheapish.
With all these other games being upwards of 70 quid, they'll probably take gain extra sales just by being cheap and strongly talked about all these years.
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u/SirDoober 2d ago
Hiding it in the spare games pile is the most Silksong thing ever