Silksong was first announced 5 years ago

Valentine's Day has come and gone, which means it's time to officially celebrate the milestone of an event The most anticipated video games of all time. This is because five years ago, on February 14, 2019, developer Team Cherry announced a sequel to their first game released in 2017. This was the first time the world heard Hollow Knight: Silk SongImmediately, players were eager to get their hands on this follow-up to the beautiful and captivating Metroidvania game. Now, five years later, fans are still eagerly awaiting the sequel The hollow knight.

Silksong Life began as another life The target extends over the origin The hollow knight Kickstarter. The goal of $56,000 will eventually appear Silksong They promised a second playable character with their own “unique quests and abilities!” But the project expanded quickly, with Team Cherry explaining in a blog post announcing the full sequel that “almost from the beginning, [Silksong protagonist] The Hornet's adventure was intended to take place in a new land, but as we delved deeper into it, it quickly became too large and unique to remain DLC, as was initially planned.

As revealed in Original ad for Silksong and subsequent trailers (which have been few and far between), the sequel will follow Hornet, a supporting character in the original game, to a new kingdom called Pharloom with the goal of reaching a shining castle above. In June 2022, an Xbox-Bethesda presentation gave fans hope SilksongThe game's release was just around the corner when the game was shown off after Xbox said everything in the demo would be so To play next year. According to Team Cherry's marketing and publishing lead, Matthew Griffin, that was the plan. Griffin tweeted in May 2023 The team “was planning to release it in the first half of 2023, but development is still ongoing.”

With the most The last delay, Silksong It has now passed the five-year mark since its original announcement. But it seems Silksong He's closer than ever to his release, and what lies ahead in the grand scheme of things? As Team Cherry said in their original announcement that the planned DLC would turn into a sequel, “We know this makes the wait a little longer, but we think the fresh new world you'll be exploring will be worth it.”