The game director for Hell Is Us, Jonathan Jacques-Belletête, recently featured on the Skill Up podcast, where he aired his opinion about Team Cherry’s decision to announce the release date for Hollow Knight: Silksong two weeks prior.
“They’re allowed to do what they did,” Jacques-Belletête said in the interview. There are no rules or laws against that.”
“I don’t wanna get say they caused this to us or somebody else, I don’t really care about that, and I don’t really wanna get into that type of debate, but when you’re that big, I think a shadow drop is a bit like wow.”
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The hype around Hollow Knight: Silksong meant that many developers tried to avoid releasing their games on the same day—or even close to—the indie hit. However, the way the game’s release date was announced meant that other developers barely had time to move their dates if it had already been fixed.
It is believed that Hollow Knight: Silksong was the reason Demonschool was delayed to November. Jacques-Belletête called Silksong the “GTA of Indie,” adding that “to shadow drop something like this is a little callous”.
Hollow Knight: Silksong was not really shadow-dropped because that would have meant announcing and releasing it on the same day. However, other developers can argue that they were not given enough time to pick dates.
Hollow Knight: Silksong is getting a second big patch
Team Cherry has announced that they are close to finalizing the second post-release patch for Hollow Knight: Silksong. The announcement was made on the developer’s Steam page.
“Where the first patch dealt mainly with critical issues, this next one focuses on a few still remaining, while also cleaning up some bugs around specific tools,” the developer said.
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“The current version of that patch is now live on the public-beta branch (version: 1.0.28626) if you’d like to test it for yourself. Expect a few more additions and tweaks before full release.”
Full Hollow Knight: Silksong Patch 2 Notes
– Added Dithering effect option in Advanced video settings. Reduces colour banding but can slightly soften the appearance of foreground assets. Defaults to ‘Off’.
– Updated Herald’s Wish achievement description to clarify that players must both complete the wish and finish the game.
– Fixed Savage Beastfly in Far Fields sometimes remaining below the lava.
– Fixed rare cases of Shrine Guardian Seth getting out of bounds during battle.
– Added catch to prevent Lugoli sometimes flying off screen and not returning during battle.
– Further reduced chance of Silk Snippers getting stuck out of bounds in Chapel of the Reaper battle.
– Fixed various instances of dying to bosses while killing them causing death sequences to play messily or out of sync.
– Fixed Shaman Binding into a bottom transition causing a softlock.
– Cocoon positions in some locations updated to prevent it spawning in inaccessible areas.
– Fixed Liquid Lacquer courier delivery not being accessible in Steel Soul mode.
– Fixed some NPCs not correctly playing cursed hint dialogues in certain instances.
– Fixed Pondcatcher Reed not being able to fly away after singing.
– Fixed Verdania memory orbs sometimes replaying layered screen-edge burst effects.
– Fixed the break counter not working for certain multihitter tools eg Conchcutter.
– Fixed Volt Filament damage multiplier not applying for certain Silk Skills.
– Fixed Cogflies and Wisps inappropriately targeting Skullwings.
– Fixed Cogflies incorrectly resetting their HP to full on scene change.
– Fixed Curveclaw always breaking on the first hit after being deflected.
– Fixed Plasmium Phial and Flea Brew sometimes not restoring as intended at benches.
– Various other smaller tweaks and fixes.
