Thank goodness Nintendo didn’t do its livestream on April Fool’s Day. Silksong, the long-awaited sequel to lauded 2D action game Hollow Knight, appeared during a scant few seconds of the Nintendo Switch 2’s livestream reveal — and it’s coming this year.

Believe me, I had to rewind the Nintendo Direct a few times to catch it, but Silksong indeed appears to show similar gameplay to the 2D Metroidvania masterpiece, Hollow Knight. Scroll to the 49:46 mark of the April 2 Nintendo Direct to find, at last, confirmation that the game is coming.

Officially titled Hollow Knight: Silksong, the game is… well, we can’t tell anything from the five seconds of gameplay we saw. Silksong, a boss in the original Hollow Knight, is the game’s protagonist — we can see her wielding her sewing-needle-like thin sword that she punished players with in the fight. 

Silksong was originally revealed six years ago during E3 2019 by Hollow Knight studio Team Cherry. The company hasn’t commented or revealed anything else about Silksong on its website or social media channels (its X account has been dormant since 2023).

Fans have been holding a candle for Silksong as news slowed from a trickle to nothing over the years, grasping at threads of evidence that progress continued, like the game’s Steam page going live in February. Today, those fans are, unsurprisingly, losing their minds.

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