I don’t think it’ll live up to the hype but it’ll still be a great game.
I don’t like feeding the hype beast. The same thing happened with Cyberpunk, where there was no physical way that the game could have met the hype.
I expect Silksong to just be another Hollow Knight, and that’s good enough for me
They did also lie about it in many ways. On release, cyberpunk was nothing like what they promised continually.
Silksong, however, has had exactly no information outside a small demo, a trailer, some art, and now 6 small clips and images.
I don’t know what to expect from silksong and that makes me happy. The hype train has set up a bigger world, new movement, and a few fun looking blss fights. I’m sure they can deliver on that
Another great example of hype-train beastmode is No Man’s Sky. By the time it came out people were talking about it like they’d be plugged into the matrix. That’s the last time I let myself be carried away even slightly by hype. I was super pessimistic about NMS compared to what my friends and people online were expecting. I was still grossly disappointed.
By the time CP77 was getting ready to release I figured it would be a bare bones looter shooter, bugged to all fuck, with a story duct taped to it’s carcass. Essentially DOA. So I was actually pleasantly surprised when it was a quite fleshed out FPS RPGish shooter with the storyline woven solidly through. Still bugged to all fuck though.
It seems the community at large has been pretty damn patient waiting on it only getting scraps of information from Team Cherry. I think it’d be a safe bet that it might be a bit rough to start with but after having a tight community give productive feedback there will be an update or two that’ll make it just as good it not better than Hollow Knight
After six years, if the community needs to provide feedback to get the game to good condition then Silksong will be considered a failure
That being said I think it’s going to be just fine. I don’t think it’s going to revolutionize metroidvanias though, and that is unfortunately going to upset a subset of people.
Don’t think it’s out to outdo itself or any other metroidvania just provide a good game. And any game is going to have some jank at the beginning especially if the development team is still only a handful of people, that’s the updating that I was referring to
I think as long as this game looks nice and vaguely gestures at some deeper plot, it could be complete dogwater and still get perfect scores and be extolled as the GOAT.
I’m just gonna hope Team Cherry learned from their mistakes and impoved upon their already existing framework!
Lmao can’t fail to live up to hype if you never release the game
I add a lot of random games on my steam wishlist, many aren’t out yet. The oldest one I’ve wishlisted that is unreleased, by a good margin, is Silksong, back on 6/3/20. Next is Showa American Story on 1/8/22, then Clockwork Revolution (by the guys who did Wasteland 3 and Tides of Numenaria, good pedigree!) on 6/22/23. There’s a fair amount more that are closer to current day. Ultimately if these games never come out, I lose nothing. If/when they do then I get a lil e-mail that lets me know, and I can be like “oh yeah I did wishlist that didn’t I?”, then I look at a few reviews to make sure it isn’t absolute trash, and if it isn’t, I buy a cool game I wanted a few years ago and forgot about.
That’s where Silksong lies for me.
I feel real bad for folks who are deeply invested in it though, like brother there are a GRIP of metroidvanias out there. You are absolutely eating good in metroidvanias, don’t let yourself starve while you wait for Silksong, it’s only going to magnify any quibbles you have with it. Play Guns of Fury. Play Animal Well. Play 9 Years of Shadows. Play Pseudoregalia. Don’t let Silksong build itself up in your head.
