It's exhausting to overstate how eagerly Hollow Knight fans have been awaiting its sequel, Silksong, 5 years after it was initially introduced. And now, they received a little bit of hope, within the type of an Xbox Store web page.
Today, with little fanfare, Hollow Knight: Silksong received an official itemizing on Microsoft's web site. There's no release date, no trailer, no pre-orders, or something of that kind exterior of wishlisting, but it surely's one thing, proper? Right?
Oh, and one more catch: it simply so occurs to be April Fools Day, which has some followers treating the mysterious itemizing with a wholesome quantity of skepticism.
"Today I will not be fooled by SilkSong release dates. I will not be fooled by SilkSong announcements of any kind," wrote Twitch Director of Community Marketing & Production Merry Kish on X/Twitter. "My head is clear and my heart is open you cannot destroy me I have prepared my soul for today you rat bastards."
Today I cannot be fooled by SilkSong release dates. I cannot be fooled by SilkSong bulletins of any form.
My head is obvious and my coronary heart is open you can’t destroy me I’ve ready my soul for at the moment you rat bastards.— Merry Kish ☮️ (@MerryKish) April 1, 2024
To be clear, there's no indication that that is some form of merciless April Fools Day joke by developer Team Cherry or Microsoft, but it surely additionally doesn't inform us a complete lot about the place the extremely anticipated sequel is. A game might be listed on the Xbox retailer for any quantity of causes, together with routine backend work, and some listings go up effectively upfront of release. Silksong has additionally had listings on a number of different shops for some time now, together with PSN and the Nintendo eShop.
But with a game as anticipated as Silksong, any crumb of info will spur every kind of hypothesis. Even Xbox Portfolio's Senior Content Planning Manager Nick Zuclich ever-so-innocently highlighted the itemizing on his own X/Twitter:
Hmmm🤔 https://t.co/5mEzisT6bC…
A brand new cool game to wishlist?! 😎#HollowKnighSilksong pic.twitter.com/DQBZaJYxoM
— Nick Zuclich (@NickZuclich) April 1, 2024
Whatever that itemizing could or could not imply, Hollow Knight followers have no thought how know how to really feel about all this, particularly as a result of of the doubtful timing. As @Shayy_TV on X/Twitter places it: "team cherry deciding to put the store pages up for silksong on april 1st is the ultimate chad move"
workforce cherry deciding to put the shop pages up for silksong on april 1st is the last word chad transfer
(yes, it's really actual, it's not a prank)
— Shayy (@Shayy_TV) April 1, 2024
silksong getting retailer pages on april fools is a private assault and i gained't have this shit https://t.co/GrnTrgOH4R
— Moises Taveras (@PlatanoRanger) April 1, 2024
The r/HollowKnight subreddit was additionally hesitant to get their hopes up, with u/Plopop87 writing, "I love how the Internet is wrapped in so many layers of irony today that no one can tell whether people are just falling for jokes or feeding into them."
"Wake up babe, new silksong cope just dropped," added u/Responsible-Long-891.
As some identified on each Reddit and X/Twitter, the Xbox web page does have an ESRB ranking (Everyone +10), main to hypothesis that it at the very least have to be in some type of playable state. However, it's value noting that, per the Entertainment Software Rating Board's website, "ESRB raters do not play through games during the rating process for a variety of reasons," as a substitute relying on disclosures from the developer.
Still. It's one thing!
Silksong is ESRB rated! This shouldn’t be a drill! https://t.co/GEPL6tyJEO
— James Galizio (@Theswweet) April 1, 2024
hole knight silksong received an esrb ranking we're so back ??
— megga_styler (@MeggaStyler) April 1, 2024
Other followers, effectively, are in all places, however are largely simply praying that this implies some form of impending information on Silksong.
now that silksong has a microsoft retailer web page WHEN ARE WE GETTING A RELEASE DATE pic.twitter.com/ozeYeHZCIL
— ★ lily ★ (@pawsomelily) April 1, 2024
The SILKSONG…IS REALLL pic.twitter.com/lYTXa8wK1c
— AbdHellDiver 🇵🇸/🇨🇩 (@Abdelcisaill) April 1, 2024
Hollow Knight Silksong received an Xbox retailer web page and is now out there to wishlist.
Lots of Xbox people hyping this up, are we getting information quickly?! 😭 pic.twitter.com/OpwnPzLPcQ
— Kami (@Okami13_) April 1, 2024
It's little marvel that followers are so hungry for info more than 5 years after Silksong was first introduced on February 14, 2019. The sequel was proven off during a June 2022 Xbox-Bethesda Showcase, seemingly confirming that it will be arriving within the following yr (it clearly didn't). In May 2023, Team Cherry mentioned it had deliberate to release within the first half of 2023, but that it would be delayed.
"We're excited by how the game is shaping up, and it's gotten quite big, so we want to take the time to make the game as good as we can," Team Cherry’s advertising and marketing and publishing lead Matthew Griffin mentioned on the time.
Obviously, you don't get a sequel this anticipated with out a beloved predecessor. Hollow Knight was a hit amongst followers and critics alike following its 2018, with IGN writing in our 9.4/10 review that its "rich world and incredible depth of content will make you want to explore its caves for dozens of hours."
Alex Stedman is a Senior News Editor with IGN, overseeing leisure reporting. When she's not writing or enhancing, you’ll find her studying fantasy novels or taking part in Dungeons & Dragons.