Despite buddies repeatedly nudging me into enjoying it, I’ve nonetheless solely performed the primary couple hours of Team Cherry’s glorious Dark Souls-ish metroidvania Hollow Knight. Normally a degree to lament, however I’m not feeling so dangerous about it in the present day.
Riding a wave of inertia from a really profitable launch, the third and last free enlargement for the sport, Gods & Glory, is on its method. With it, we’ve received a teaser trailer and a characteristic record for many who don’t have fairly sufficient bugs of their lives. Maybe as soon as this comes out, I can start enjoying it correctly.
The options record (tucked away in the description on the teaser above) for Hollow Knight: Gods & Glory is spectacular sufficient. Starting off with a brand new NPC added to city – The Godseeker – whose presence will apparently ‘expand your romance options’. She’ll put you on the monitor to seek out a number of new bosses inside Hallownest.
The new boss fights might be accompanied by some contemporary additions to the soundtrack, and dealing your method by foes will additional the Godseeker’s story arc. There will even be a brand new gameplay mechanic – the flexibility to ‘Glorify’ sure charms, though what this entails isn’t expounded on, however the title alone ought to have min-maxing gamers itching with anticipation.
The greatest new characteristic is a brand new playmode, unlocked by finishing your complete Gods & Glory story arc. Team Cherry say that this mode is ‘long requested and is a classic for the genre’, closely implying some form of New Game+ performance, or maybe (extra ambitiously, and fewer doubtless) some form of randomizer mode, as has turn out to be common to mod into Metroid-type video games in recent times.
The door continues to be open for paid expansions at a later date, and the format of the sport (being barely extra open than most metroidvanias) lends itself effectively to further content material being bolted on, however for the instant future, Gods & Glory would be the finish of Hollow Knight as we all know it, and loads of purpose for me to lastly return to the sport.
Team Cherry aren’t fairly able to pin down a launch date for the Gods & Glory replace, however are aiming for ‘early 2018’, so any level inside the subsequent couple months.
