Silksong cancelled

[Thrash]

seems like they just dont want to tell us...

[Jimmy Rustler]

Sweden님이 먼저 게시:

Isn't Super metroid just A metroid game? i thought the term Metroidvania was created when Castlevania Symphony of the night was created, And Damn sotn was the best game of my childhood, sad to see it dosent get a pc release

Emulate through Duckstation, there's a great undub now too.

[Celery]

prudenut님이 먼저 게시:

Jimmy Rustler님이 먼저 게시:

I agree that's a little hyperbolic

Hollow Knight’s pretty damn great, but once you get to the endgame content and played it for 180 hrs like me, you realize it’s more a souls game than a metroidvania. Like the actual exploring part is pretty boring and kinda empty to replay.

I wanna say super metroid and aria of sorrow are slightly better as metroidvanias bc of replayability, but HK is definitely the best indie game of all time rn.

Insanely ♥♥♥♥ take calling HK a soulslike.

[prudenut]

Celery님이 먼저 게시:

prudenut님이 먼저 게시:

Hollow Knight’s pretty damn great, but once you get to the endgame content and played it for 180 hrs like me, you realize it’s more a souls game than a metroidvania. Like the actual exploring part is pretty boring and kinda empty to replay.

I wanna say super metroid and aria of sorrow are slightly better as metroidvanias bc of replayability, but HK is definitely the best indie game of all time rn.

Insanely ♥♥♥♥ take calling HK a soulslike.

Lol, it is

[zorocancor]

Celery님이 먼저 게시:

prudenut님이 먼저 게시:

Hollow Knight’s pretty damn great, but once you get to the endgame content and played it for 180 hrs like me, you realize it’s more a souls game than a metroidvania. Like the actual exploring part is pretty boring and kinda empty to replay.

I wanna say super metroid and aria of sorrow are slightly better as metroidvanias bc of replayability, but HK is definitely the best indie game of all time rn.

Insanely ♥♥♥♥ take calling HK a soulslike.

It's literally on the store tags you moron

[Rook Me Amadeus]

I don't blame people at all for questioning what happened to the game. Hollow Knight's original dev time was about four years. Silksong started development in Feb 2019 at the absolute latest, probably a couple months earlier. So we're at 4.5 years and counting, at least.

Though it really didn't help that Xbox's twitter account gave everyone the wrong idea about a release date last year.

[Banestaff]

Celery님이 먼저 게시:

prudenut님이 먼저 게시:

Hollow Knight’s pretty damn great, but once you get to the endgame content and played it for 180 hrs like me, you realize it’s more a souls game than a metroidvania. Like the actual exploring part is pretty boring and kinda empty to replay.

I wanna say super metroid and aria of sorrow are slightly better as metroidvanias bc of replayability, but HK is definitely the best indie game of all time rn.

Insanely ♥♥♥♥ take calling HK a soulslike.

"Souls Like" is one of those terms that has virtually no real meaning in gaming lingo. Like "immersive sim".

[Jimmy Rustler]

Banestaff님이 먼저 게시:

Celery님이 먼저 게시:

Insanely ♥♥♥♥ take calling HK a soulslike.

"Souls Like" is one of those terms that has virtually no real meaning in gaming lingo. Like "immersive sim".

I hate both of those terms but 'immersive sim' is far worse. At least someone uninitiated can find some kind of reference point they can use to understand what 'soulslike' or 'metroidvania' conceivably means.

People have forgotten that game genre categories were supposed to quickly summarize what one could expect out of playing if one knew nothing about games.

[Raven]

Birck님이 먼저 게시:

iglumy님이 먼저 게시:

just relax, after all team cherry is only 3 people

Yep this is the biggest thing people forget they think Team Cherry is the same as Electronic Arts or CD Projekt Red.

Those companies have 100's or 1000's of employees Team Cherry has not hired anyone else I believe they had a 3 man team to make HK and they have the same team this time. It takes a lot more time when you have 3 people working on a video game then when you have 100.

Now maybe they should have hired a developer or two to help make the game, but I assume they love the small team they have and the chemistry so why ♥♥♥♥ it up.

You are correct, however the game they are developing is a 2d side scroller with some high def pixel artwork.

I have seen modders create entire expansions to Skyrim in half the time by themselves.

I'm assuming Covid is what set them back, but the silence does not help their case. As if anything the lack of transparency makes it seem like the Game is dead.

[Garet_S]

Seriously... aren't you tired of all this complaining? How old are you? 80? 90?
The best thing you can do is just forget this game.

[|ツ-ColeTrunks]

this game has to be in development hell from the videos i've seen it looks kinda finished? it's a little hard to even differentiate aspects of this new one from the original what's really going on here? This has been on my wishlist for over 3 years i'm just gonna assume it's cancelled.

[Jimmy Rustler]

I certainly wouldn't assume it's canceled, but the videos we have can't be confirmed to be real-time gameplay and you can't make any assumptions about its state of completion based on them.

[a passerby]

It's been dead silent for years. No updates whatsoever. Hollow Knight was released in 2017 after 3-4 years of development. The gameplay trailer for Silksong first appeared in 2019 and there have been zero game updates since. Why Team Cherry would even think to release that trailer if they weren't even remotely close to release is beyond me.

Hollow Knight was a masterpiece and everyone loved that game, but Team Cherry asking people to preorder merchandise for a game that doesn't even exist is kind of an insult. You can't ask people to buy your toys after refusing to release any updates; are you kidding me?

I'm hoping this isn't Vaporware, but it's really starting to look like it.

[Kohmei]

Sweden님이 먼저 게시:

Isn't Super metroid just A metroid game? i thought the term Metroidvania was created when Castlevania Symphony of the night was created

Yes. The term was coined to distinguish a classic Castlevania game vs the newer ones that played more like Metroid. It has since been bastardized to mean all games that really ought to be called Metroidlikes or simply action/adventure platformers, since Metroid wasn't even remotely the first.

[Jimmy Rustler]

Metroidvania is a stupid name for a genre, but at least it has reference points. It's not as bad as incoherent nonsense like 'immersive sim'.

[Banestaff]

|ツ-ColeTrunks님이 먼저 게시:

this game has to be in development hell from the videos i've seen it looks kinda finished? it's a little hard to even differentiate aspects of this new one from the original what's really going on here? This has been on my wishlist for over 3 years i'm just gonna assume it's cancelled.

Either it's got some deep core flaw in the gameplay rendering it not up to the developers' expectations that's requiring some kind of significant rework or the devs are waiting to make it a launch title for the new Switch when it comes out next year. This is my outlandish prediction.