On September 4th, 2025 a 3 person Australian indie developer studio by the name of Team Cherry released their long awaited game Hollow Knight: Silksong. The release caused stores such as The Nintendo eShop, Steam Shop, and the Playstation Store to crash for around 3 hours. In an article posted by The Guardian “Many were unable to complete purchases, with error messages persisting for almost three hours after launch” (Burke, Sept 5).
On September 9th Team cherry stated that they will be updating the game with the primary goal of bug fixes while also slightly decreasing the difficulty of certain early game bosses and enemies. Some more changes include a difference in price for the bell benches.
Hollow Knight: Silksong is a metroidvania sequal to Team Cherry’s last game release, Hollow Knight and follows a character named Hornet who is a princess from the kingdom of Hallownest. “She has been kidnapped (bug-napped?) and taken to the land of Pharloom,”(Hearn, Aug 21). The game starts after Hornet falls down into the Moss Grotto and now needs to fight enemies and parkour out of the Moss Grotto.
Soon though Hornet learns that the bugs who captured her were supporters of the Citadel, a religious organization located at the summit of Pharloom. Hornet decides to reach the summit of Pharloom and find the Citadel in order to find out why she was kidnapped. On her way to the Summit however, Hornet discovers that Pharloom has been choked by silken threads and now the residents are hostile towards you. Hornet soon encounters Lace who fails to prevent her from reaching the Citadel.
When Hornet reaches the citadel she takes an elevator down into the Underworks. Eventually she escapes from the Underworks and meets the Conductors. After Hornet successfully plays a melody for them Hornet encounters Lace again. Hornet is able to defeat Lace and is granted access to the Cradle where she defeats Mother Silk and binds with her body to become the new Weaver Queen. If certain conditions are meet another ending can appear where Hornet frees Lace and the pair attempt to reach the surface but are unable to, The Void God, the protagonist of the Original Hollow Knight, appears and is able to bring the pair to the surface and ending the game.
