Nu hvor Hollow Knight: Silksong endelig er ude efter mange års venten, skifter spørgsmålet hurtigt til, hvad det talentfulde studie Team Cherry nu kaster sig over. Vil de udforske Hollow Knight-universet med endnu en fortsættelse, lave et spin-off, eller gå i en helt ny retning? Det var netop det, Bloomberg spurgte teamet om i et nyligt interview.
Team Cherry afslører, at de nu ønsker at udforske noget helt andet, selvom de ikke udelukker at vende tilbage til Hollow Knight-universet senere. Årsagen er ganske simpel: De ønsker ikke at blive kendt som "studiet der kun laver Hollow Knight".
Medstifter Ari Gibson uddyber: "We have said we'll go elsewhere as well. Although we've also said those experiences will still be about exploring big worlds full of weird characters and giant bosses and whatnot. So there would be a through line there that people will be familiar with. That's not to say we won't return to these Hollow Knight worlds. We do have ideas around what forms those would take. But we also don't want to be exclusively people that make Hollow Knight."
Beslutningen handler altså ikke om træthed af universet, men snarere et ønske om at udfordre sig selv. Gibson forklarer, at "it'd be interesting for us to explore the same things we're interested in but maybe in a slightly different genre, slightly different theme, and how that affects the stories we come up with."
Han bemærker også, at "we also hope that if we step away from it for a while, the community continues as they have been to develop it themselves." Det betyder ikke, at Silksong ikke kan få mere indhold senere. Studiet fortæller nemlig, at der findes "vague ideas" om DLC eller noget lignende, selvom de endnu ikke har "discussed anything like that ourselves," når det gælder eksempelvis New Game+.
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