After 6 years of hype, can Hollow Knight: Silksong really live up to the sky-high expectations?

With a whole three seconds of footage, this month's Nintendo Direct put a new release window on Hollow Knight: Silksong: 2025. The game has blown past announced release windows before, of course, but this does feel a bit more concrete—brief though the appearance was, this was still Nintendo announcing the lineup for its brand new console. There's some weight to that.

But as the Silksong community once again goes wild with rapture, I'm left troubled by a question that's been floating around this game for a while now...