Alright, Silksong gang, pack up the cork boards and sorrowfully spool away your pink string—seems we had been being had. Or perhaps simply drunk on sample recognition. Most positively the latter.
In case you’ve got been out of the loop (truthfully, you are higher off), the Silksong group had a conniption final week after a developer William Pellen’s alt account, sometimes used for shitposting, modified its deal with and profile image to some chocolate, then cryptically tweeted out the phrases “one thing huge is coming. maintain your eyes closed tomorrow”.
Like a horde of hungry zombies that’d simply been thrown an arm, the much-starved fanbase crowded round and started to draft conspiracy theories. Some of which I used to be even shopping for into, like how the account’s new deal with, “little bomey”, was a reference to Napoleon Bonaparte—it is a complete factor. All indicators appeared to level to April 2, 2024—seems, these indicators had been fallacious.
Hollow Knight pace and problem runner fireb0rn posted to X that Matthew Griffin—in any other case often known as Leth, who handles advertising and publishing for Team Cherry, had “reached out to me to verify there was no Silksong ARG, and that the adjustments to William’s account and the tweet had been a nothingburger. Apologies to have misled everybody. The cake was a lie.”
This was then seemingly confirmed by Griffin, who, in a response to a quote tweet, reassures players that: “Yes the sport is actual, progressing and can launch. <3”.
So, how’s the fanbase doing? Uh—not tremendous nice, as one publish discussing the letdown reveals. “Radio silence for years when requested to present any form of replace, response inside two days for this although,” writes one despondent participant on the r/Silksong subreddit. “I’m truthfully sick of those sorts of bait,” writes one other, “they’re giant (coming from William in any case) so after all all spring into motion and hope, simply to be crushed.”
The primary Hollow Knight subreddit appears equally upset, however not shocked. “Leth ought to take a break from all this typing earlier than he will get carpal tunnel,” a detractor jokes, referencing the marketer’s lengthy silences. That is a little bit harsh—however in equity, Team Cherry has been habitually and perpetually quiet concerning the challenge apart from some guarantees that it’s very taking place, with information droughts stretching into the a whole lot of days.
That would possibly be as a result of at any time when Team Cherry says something at this level, its fan group descends upon these phrases like a swarm of starved locusts—which, I get, even when they could be a contact melodramatic. At the very least, it isn’t strong optics to place a trailer in a 2022 showcase of video games prepared to return out in the identical yr, earlier than spending three extra years growing it with nothing however an occasional squeak. Let’s hope there’s some correct information quickly, for the sanity of everybody—and never least that poor “Daily Silksong News” man, whose lengthy vigil might very properly proceed.
