At the moment, Wednesday, April 17, Nintendo held a brief Indie World Showcase. The strain within the air was palpable lengthy earlier than it began, as followers thought this may lastly be the showcase to provide us the long-awaited indie Metroidvania Hole Knight: Silksong—the follow-up to 2017’s critically acclaimed Hole Knight— both within the type of a launch date or (fingers crossed) a shadow drop. Alas, the twenty-minute showcase got here and went, and there was no signal of Silksong, regardless of the chat spamming references to it and clown emoji. What number of extra showcases can we take with out Silksong?
Followers are beginning to get stressed now that the sport has handed 5 years since first being revealed. The restlessness comes from an absence of any actual details about the sport. The final time the Silksong confirmed up in a serious means was throughout a 2022 Xbox Showcase that promised it might be launched within the following six months. Then developer Crew Cherry delayed the discharge. Now, Silksong has develop into one thing of a meme, with followers joking each time a showcase occurs (even unrelated ones) that “THIS is the ONE the place Silksong seems!”
Regardless of all of this, there was cause to consider that the current Indie World Showcase could be the one the place Silksong seems. Earlier this month, on April Fools’ Day, the sport acquired an ESRB ranking that was not a joke, and within the weeks following it’s been rated in Korea and Australia. Whereas not a certain indicator, a sport usually receives a ranking pretty near its precise launch date. When Nintendo introduced an Indie World Showcase, it appeared just like the pure place for Silksong to look. However once more, it didn’t present.
At this level players are like Charlie Brown—continuously fooled into attempting to kick the soccer, hoping that this time, it’ll be completely different. The unique Hole Knight by no means needed to take care of this degree of hype, however now Silksong is at menace of buckling from the burden of expectation. What occurs if it doesn’t present up on the subsequent main showcase? Do followers nonetheless attempt to kick the soccer? Or does the untenable hype give means to an enormous wave of disappointment when Silksong lastly does launch, because it not solely needs to be higher than its predecessor but additionally higher in each means than the sport followers have spent years increase of their minds.
