After 6 years of hype, can Hollow Knight: Silksong really live up to the sky-high expectations?

After 6 years of hype, can Hollow Knight: Silksong really live up to the sky-high expectations?

As the community grows increasingly rabid, I'm left wondering what players are actually expecting the game to be when it (hopefully) launches later this year.

Hollow Knight Was Originally Planned to Be a 'Very Small' Game

A newly published interview reveals that Hollow Knight was originally planned to be a much smaller Metroidvania than what gamers end up getting.

"Like Two Hours Or Something": Resurfaced Hollow Knight Interview Indicates It Was Going To Be Much Smaller Before Its Kickstarter Blew Up

If that were the case, we'd probably have two Silksongs by now!

Team Cherry talks about Hollow Knight and how they initially raised his development, commenting that they nearly cut up to $5,000 in their Kickstarter.

After learning about the statements made a few months ago, details continue to come to us in the face of Hollow Knight: Silksong. Enough has passed since Xbox’s teaser about the game and its moves on Steam. Now the details focus on the original game. During an interview with Source Gaming, Team Cherry co-directors Ari Gibson and William Pellen have shared that Hollow Knight’s original idea was to develop a very small Metroidvania, about two hour…

Hollow Knight devs initially planned very small game, debated shaving $5,000 off Kickstarter goal days before going live

Source Gaming had the opportunity to chat with Team Cherry Co-Directors Ari Gibson and William Pellen to talk about the critically acclaimed Hollow Knight to…