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Team Cherry hopes "if there were ever" new Hollow Knight games after Silksong, they could "just exist alongside one another" so the order you play them doesn't matter (www.gamesradar.com)

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[–] Hazzard@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Silksong achieved this for me personally, as in Acts 1 and 2, the only references to Hollow Knight are vague allusions to Hornet's origins, lines like "I've seen such things before", or characters referring to her as a "higher being".

Act 3, which takes some pretty diehard completionist play to access, goes further and gives us some direct new information on the lore of Hollow Knight, and I'd say only the true ending would have anything that's inscrutable to a totally new player.

It strikes a good balance, IMO, and I'd feel comfortable recommending Silksong without playing Hollow Knight, if I thought they could handle the difficulty without the skills developed by playing Hollow Knight. I'd be very happy with future games following this formula.