Hollow Knight: Silksong Looks to be Significantly Bigger Than the Original Hollow Knight

Today, we got our archetypal real, new, meaty trailer for Hollow Knight: Silksong successful respective years, implicit with a September 4 merchandise date. Fans are already unpacking details from the trailer, including pointing retired that it looks similar the basal crippled of Silksong mightiness beryllium bigger than the basal crippled of Hollow Knight - rather a feat for thing that started retired arsenic DLC.

Evidence for this comes from the trailer above, which has substance stating the crippled contains implicit 200 enemies and implicit 40 bosses. Compare that to Hollow Knight's motorboat trailer, which said implicit 140 enemies and implicit 30 bosses:

So it sounds like Silksong is launching with much enemies and bosses than Hollow Knight did. And though we don't cognize the size of the explorable country successful Silksong, it stands to crushed that it astir apt needs to beryllium large capable to acceptable each those small guys, and frankincense its representation is apt to beryllium astatine slightest arsenic large arsenic the archetypal Hollow Knight if not more. And portion that whitethorn dependable similar a fixed for a sequel, it's adjuvant to retrieve that Silksong didn't commencement retired arsenic a sequel - it began arsenic DLC, and past someway morphed into thing seemingly adjacent bigger than its predecessor.

Now, that examination doesn't see Hollow Knight's DLC, which added tons of caller enemies, areas, bosses, story, and different content. With each that included, the existing crippled of Hollow Knight is astir surely larger than Silksong was astatine launch. That said, we learned contiguous that developer Team Cherry is inactive moving connected much Silksong for the months and years aft the game's launch, making it imaginable it volition yet surpass Hollow Knight's DLC arsenic well.

If you perfectly can't hold until motorboat to find retired what immoderate of these enemies and bosses entail, we did get to preview Hollow Knight: Silksong earlier this week astatine Gamescom successful Cologne, Germany. Funnily enough, it looks similar the nonstop aforesaid demo we played backmost successful E3 2019, lone with six much years of polish, illustrating however acold the crippled has travel successful its lengthy development.

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