The Internet Reacts To Hollow Knight: Silksong’s Big Day

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After six years, the clowning is over. Hollow Knight: Silksong is coming to a PC, Switch, Xbox, or PlayStation near you on September 4. Silksong has been conspicuously absent from industry events for so long that the act of anticipating the elusive Metroidvania has become a meme in and of itself. Now that it’s imminent, what does the internet do with all that pent-up energy? They draw, yell, and celebrate.

So far, the most prominent reaction to the Silksong news beyond keyboard smashing is art that represents the end of a meme. For years, Hollow Knight fans have been depicting their constant waiting for a crumb of news with images of the game’s characters dressed in clown make-up. The joke got so popular that someone modded it into the original game, and Geoff Keighley even referenced it ahead of Gamescom’s Opening Night Live show, where Silksong made an appearance. Now, fans are hanging up, throwing away, and burning their clown wigs and wiping off the makeup.

 

Though the end of the clownery is one part of the equation, others are just expressing relief and excitement that they’ll finally be able to play the game they’ve waited more than half a decade for.

The end of today’s reveal trailer read “September 4,” but didn’t bother specifying “2025.” Some are using this to joke that the wait may actually be far from over.

 

Hollow Knight fans are lining up in droves to play Silksong at Gamescom; we’ll see if those lines get a little smaller now that everyone knows the game is just two weeks away.

That’s not a lot of time, but it is enough time to play (or replay) the original Hollow Knight. It’s on just about any console you can imagine, and is still considered one of the best Metroidvania games of all-time. There’s a reason people have been clowning for all this time.

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