Team Cherry hoped Silksong could be anyone's "first Hollow Knight game," and one reason it took 7 years is they were "comfortable" not knowing what's gonna happen: "The really interesting things are the things you sort of discover along the way"

A sprite sheet for Hollow Knight Silksong.

Hollow Knight developer Team Cherry has been slow-roasting Silksong for over seven years now, and in that time a few things remained constant for the studio: it hasn't given up hope that the sequel can be a good jumping-on point for players who missed the original, and for a while it wasn't really sure where it was going.

With everyone replaying or discovering Hollow Knight in the run-up to Silksong's September 4 launch (I just finished my 108% replay over the weekend), now seemed like a good time to revisit Team Cherry's comments to Edge magazine way back in 2020.