Whisper it three times, pinch yourself, do whatever you have to do to absorb the reality that the Hollow Knight: Silksong release date has finally arrived. Team Cherry's next game is out September 4 on all platforms. In the time since its 2019 reveal, empires rose and fell, stars blinked out, and (no, seriously) a global pandemic came and sort of went. It was all(?) worth it.
Yet for my money, the best part of today's Silksong special isn't the impending launch. We already knew it was coming this year, and now we know it's just two weeks away. That's enough time for a last-minute 100% replay of the first game, which is nice. But I'm most struck by the fact that the folks at Team Cherry, long dramatized in the heads of worried fans as a scrappy studio struggling with setbacks, apparently couldn't be further from burnout or development hell.
