Hollow Knight: Silksong Shows Up at Gamescom: Opening Night Live With Almost 30 Seconds of New Gameplay, as a Treat

Yes, hello, we're backmost again with different update connected the ongoing saga of "Are we getting a Silksong merchandise day this week?" The reply is, inactive maybe, but it's not happening astatine Gamescom Opening Night Live today. Instead, we got astir 30 full seconds of marque caller gameplay, and a reassurance that it is, successful fact, coming retired this year.

If I dependable a small implicit it, it's due to the fact that I, similar galore of you, enactment connected my clown constitution yesterday astatine the behest of ONL big Geoff Keighley, erstwhile helium teased thing Silksong related astatine his amusement today. There was nary warrant of what it was going to be, if anything. But there's a full heap of grounds pointing toward the merchandise day being soon, similar successful the adjacent fewer months, and fixed that we inactive don't cognize it, ONL would person been cleanable for an announcement.

Then, today, hours earlier the show, developer Team Cherry teased a "special announcement" for Silksong this Thursday, portion Bloomberg newsman Jason Schreier took to societal media to affirm nary merchandise day for Silksong would beryllium revealed astatine Opening Night Live. Okay, fine. And then, during the pre-show, this happened:

So, okay, nary Silksong astatine each during ONL? Fine, sure. But then, determination it was! For 30 full seconds, and a confirmation from Keighley that it would beryllium retired aboriginal this twelvemonth and connected the Gamescom amusement floor, some of which we already knew.

The community, of course, has been wholly mean astir each this, arsenic usual, with the subreddit and "silksong" tags connected assorted different societal platforms perfectly exploding throughout. It looks similar everyone's coming retired of this happy: they got caller footage today, and a apt merchandise day coming connected Thursday, though astatine this constituent I'm hesitant to posit adjacent that overmuch fixed the back-and-forth quality of this full situation. It's go specified a meme astatine this constituent that it's astir intolerable to archer what's going connected with this crippled anymore.

Anyway, the footage itself is benignant of cool, if a spot bladed connected really revealing meaty caller information. We spot what looks similar a caller brag successful there, and immoderate of Hornet utilizing immoderate chill abilities connected assorted enemies. I'm definite successful the coming hours the assemblage volition afloat dissect and comparison this with older footage (the past caller worldly we saw was backmost successful 2023) to spot what each we tin glean from it.

Hopefully Thursday is yet a merchandise day truthful we tin extremity this weird, six-year anticipation erstwhile and for each and conscionable get connected with playing the dang thing.

You tin drawback up connected everything announced astatine Gamescom Opening Night Live close here.

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