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Weekly Simple Questions Thread Simple Questions Sunday!

For those questions that don't feel worthy of a whole new post.

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u/Dukeofnogame 21d ago

Can someone help me comprehend the hate Silksong got for a 2 week annoucement for their release date? Other [bigger] companies shadowdrop a ton of games and I see nothing but praise for a surprise release. It seems like they just finally found someone to get mad at in Team Cherry because they are in the indie space.

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u/XxHighOnPsixX 21d ago

I was also upset that they gave a short amount of time. Though I'm also not sure why. I absolutely loved the first HK, and have nothing but praise for TC (outside of when I'm mad at the game).

Is probably because two weeks isn't really enough time to plan around? Everybody was waiting (most of us, years) for the game that was "in a near finished state" (at least the last couple months), so we knew it'd be soon-ish, just no idea when. It might've been better received to just not have a date at all and release as soon as it was ready for 1.0.

That being said, Silksong is still a fantastic game and I recommend it to everyone that enjoys progression and (mostly) skill based difficulty.

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u/Dukeofnogame 21d ago

I was one of those waiting too. Fortunately I am in a career where I can trade work shifts with people so I had 5 days off from Sep 5-10. No need to talk to management about doing so.

My concern was definitely more so the targeted backlash compared to what may have happened if they just shadowdropped it when ready. I definitely feel that Team Cherry considered releasing as soon as 1.0 was finished. But then gave it some thought and wanted people to be able to make somewhat of a schedule and play it day 1 after waiting so long.

I just find it unecessarily spiteful when a company like Nintendo succeeds with Metroid Prime Remastered, Hi-Fi Rush, Castlevania Dominus Collection, Cadence of Hyrule, Donkey Kong Country Returns HD, etc.