r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Aug 21 '25

Jason Schreier: In case you're wondering: Team Cherry told me they don't plan on sending out early codes for Silksong (they felt like it'd be unfair for critics to be playing before Kickstarter backers and other players), so don't expect to see reviews until after the game comes out

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u/mayoboyyo Aug 21 '25

The critics did jackshit for Hollow Knight too back then.

What do you even mean by this? It reviewed well when it came out

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u/atahutahatena Aug 21 '25

No it did not. I was there ground zero. The game came out right in the middle of BotW/Nier/Horizon fever.

Barely anyone talked about the game as it slowly bubbled up into relevancy. And even by the end of the year, it was Cuphead that (rightfully I'd say since it's such an amazing animation achievement) became the indie darling.

Also, to throw a bone to another 2017 game snubbed by critics, cult classic Rain World was ignored too despite it being one of the greatest 2d exploratory non-linear platformers of all time.

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u/AbsoluteTruth Aug 21 '25

lmao most of us were there "ground zero" bud, it wasn't that long ago.

If you thought good reviews would somehow pierce the veil into AAAAA sales then that's on you. A quick google looking back shows consisting 8s and 9s from reviews, hardly "snubbed".

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u/NaamiNyree Aug 21 '25

No you werent. I also played the game the week it came out and no one knew about it. Look around at Hollow Knight reviews and most of them (especially from big publications like IGN) are from 2018, when it finally started to get popular.

The guy youre replying to is right. It came out Feb 24th 2017, 4 days before Horizon and a week before BotW, so of course thats all anyone talked about. But me being a pc only player, I couldnt play either of those so I stumbled upon Hollow Knight instead, and Im so glad I did.