As we speak, Wednesday, April 17, Nintendo held a brief Indie World Showcase. The stress 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 a scarcity of any actual details about the sport. The final time the Silksong confirmed up in a significant approach was throughout a 2022 Xbox Showcase that promised it will be launched within the following six months. Then developer Group Cherry delayed the discharge. Now, Silksong has change 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 purpose to imagine that the latest Indie World Showcase can be the one the place Silksong seems. Earlier this month, on April Fools’ Day, the sport obtained an ESRB score that was not a joke, and within the weeks following it’s been rated in Korea and Australia. Whereas not a certain indicator, a recreation sometimes receives a score pretty near its precise launch date. When Nintendo introduced an Indie World Showcase, it appeared just like the pure place for Silksong to seem. However once more, it didn’t present.
At this level avid gamers are like Charlie Brown—continually fooled into making an attempt to kick the soccer, hoping that this time, it’ll be completely different. The unique Hole Knight by no means needed to cope with 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 approach 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 approach than the sport followers have spent years increase of their minds.