A Year of Silksong

It’s been a whole year now since Hollow Knight: Silksong finally released, and it has been a delightful journey. I wasn’t there for a lot of the hype around it, I was more than happy playing Hollow Knight in the span of a year or so, and beat it only a few days after Silksong was finally released to the public on September 4, 2025, a day after I posted my review. I was perfectly aware of the meme though, and the time it took for this sequel to finally show up, so I was very clearly hyped, and I had decided that I would buy and start Silksong on the very first day, the first time I even considered doing something like that. Waiting in line is something I’ve never done. It has always been a bit of a dream of mine, to wait for a whole day behind the closed doors of a videogame shop, like those old videos on YouTube where people are camping for a whole night just to be among the first to get Halo 2 for the Xbox back in the day, though in this case it would be a digital game I guess. Of…