Silksong Switch 2 Direct Footage Analysis (9 whole seconds of new footage!)

I know what you’re all thinking. When is 
mossbag finally going to talk about the

news we got regarding Deltarune 3 and 4? 
I know, I know. But you’re gonna have to

wait a little bit longer for that video. 
For now, let’s just talk about Silksong.

You remember that game, right? I honestly kinda 
forgot about it during the great Silksong drought

of 2023 to 2024. But the drought has finally 
ended thanks to the most recent Nintendo Direct

showcasing the Nintendo Switch 2. It’s so 
cool, I’ve honestly never seen a console like

it before. During the 3rd party games sizzle 
reel section towards the end of the direct,

we get 9 whole seconds of brand new SIlksong 
footage, as well as a release window for 2025.

But that’s not all. After the direct, we got seven 
new screenshots and a brand new piece of key art.

We truly eating good this fiscal quarter. 
In this video, we’ll be briefly looking

over the new footage and discussing the new 
nuggets of information gleaned about Silksong.

First of all, I wanted to address this new key 
art we got from Nintendo. This goes so hard. This

is the stance of a true hunter. Or someone 
about to poop. Either way, it’s super cool.

I’ve never shown my face on this channel, but when 
you picture me in your head, just think of this

image. I think it captures my animal-like 
instincts quite well. That or this image.

Moving on to the footage, the first clip we got 
is from the game’s first area, the Moss Grotto,

a section of the game we’ve already seen quite 
a bit. It was even playable in the E3 2019 demo.

But that was almost six years ago. Despite all 
that time, this area still looks pretty similar.

If you sit and stare at it, you can 
see slight changes in the background,

showing off that Team Cherry has been 
tweaking the environments since the demo.

But there’s a bigger change here too. In 
the E3 demo there was a ledge to the left

of this platform. Continuing down that path 
would take you to a mysterious, locked door,

seemingly connected to the Weavers. One theory 
is that there are multiple doors like this,

each leading to a different Weaver that gives 
Hornet special skills such as the Silk Spear.

So where is this door now? Is she safe?

The first possibility is that they placed 
a breakable wall here to hide the path. The

second possibility is that they just removed 
the path entirely, possibly putting the door

somewhere else. Considering the fact that this 
tiny platform is still here, there’s a chance

the path is just blocked by a breakable wall. 
But that seems like a pretty devious spot to

hide a potentially important power up. So I 
really wouldn’t be surprised if Team Cherry

moved this Weaver door somewhere else and maybe 
put a less important goodie behind this wall.

Next up, we have a scene of Hornet sliding 
down a slope covered in what appears to be

spores of some kind. There’s a few things to note 
with this shot. Let’s start with the big one:

the slopes. 2017’s Hollow Knight has 
earned a bit of a reputation for not

containing any sloped ground 
that the player can walk on.

Ari Gibson shared his thoughts 
on slopes in a NeoGaf post from

back during Hollow Knight’s 
Kickstarter campaign in 2014.

We've avoided sloped surfaces for the 
most part (though we use them on a few

special occasions). It was initially 
a stylistic choice for the gameplay,

though there's an ongoing discussion about 
whether to re-introduce them. They can make

the game world look more real, but they also 
introduce some randomness in combat and movement.

With the flat surfaces you get really consistent

control of your character. But it's 
all still up in the air at any rate!

Given the game’s final layout, Team 
Cherry obviously stuck to this mentality.

In an interview with Source Gaming from 
2018, Team Cherry echoed similar sentiments,

saying that flat ground removes fuzziness 
from gameplay over sloped ground,

allowing the game to demand more 
from the player in terms of combat.

There’s also the technical concerns 
surrounding slopes. According to Graig,

the lead playtester for Hollow Knight, due to 
Unity's implementation of 2D physics, slopes

introduce a lot of edge cases that need to be 
considered and things get messy fast. That's why

Graig is also avoiding slopes in his Unity game, 
Roc's Odyssey, which is now live on Kickstarter.

The game I’m working on, Titan Shell, which 
you can wishlist on Steam by the way, does have

slopes. Our game runs on Game Maker, which has its 
own tile based collision system, but we wrote our

own collision code instead, some of which is on 
screen right now. So yes, they do add complexity

to the task of programming collisions and enemy 
behavior. And considering the blazing fast pace

at which Hollow Knight was developed, dedicating 
the extra time to plan and program something they

weren’t even sure they wanted in the first 
place probably didn’t sound too enticing.

That said, there are a few areas with 
sloped ground. Kinda. The giant elevators

in the City of Tears that go up to the 
Forgotten Crossroads and Resting Grounds

have sloped ground you actually can stand 
on. However, if we turn off the graphics,

you can see that this “slope” is actually just a 
flat surface that changes its height depending on

where the player character is. So even the ground 
that is sloped in Hollow Knight isn't sloped.

With all that said, seeing honest to god sloped 
ground in Silksong like this must be a huge deal,

right? Well, if we consider Ari’s original 
concerns, it seemed to be much more combat

related. This sloped section appears to 
be heavily confined to just a specific

platforming challenge. Hornet isn’t even 
really walking on this slope, she’s being

forced into a sliding state. This also reduces 
the complexity of the programming involved too.

In other words, this doesn’t 
necessarily mean we’ll start

seeing slopes in sections of normal 
terrain in Silksong. Especially since

Silksong seems even more focused on precise 
movement and combat than Hollow Knight was.

But enough about the slopes themselves, let’s 
talk about what’s on the slopes. I’ve seen some

people speculate that these are dandelions, but 
if that were true, then you would expect to see

seeds with this shape floating around, but that’s 
not the case at all. To me, they look more like

fungal spores of some kind, similar to mold. In 
addition to the giant spores we see on the ground,

there are also smaller spores falling down 
from above. These look somewhat similar to

the particles seen floating around in the 
Fungal Wastes. It’s not an exact match,

but at the moment I do think these are 
supposed to be fungal spores of some kind.

There’s also a random plant here, but 
I don’t think it’s really significant.

Another interesting aspect about this sequence 
is that we can see a vignette over the screen.

It’s a little hard to spot, but if you zoom 
in on the bottom right corner of the screen,

you can see it more clearly. It vaguely looks 
like mycelium or other certain types of mold. I’m

guessing this vignette appears whenever Hornet is 
touching or is in close proximity to these spores.

And it’s possible that prolonged exposure to these 
spores might do damage. I don’t know if you’ve

ever slid through a huge mass of mold before. I’ve 
done it a few times, and I would NOT recommend it.

On the other hand, it’s a pretty subtle effect. 
If touching this stuff did do damage, you’d think

the vignette would be more obvious, like when 
you’re at one health in Hollow Knight. Maybe the

vignette is only subtle like this because Hornet 
found some special item that keeps her safe from

the spores effects, similar to how the Varia 
Suit keeps you safe from hot areas in Metroid.

Another possibility is that this 
is some sort of escape sequence,

where Hornet is running from a giant 
avalanche of spores and this vignette

is just there to help set the mood. We saw 
an escape sequence in the Xbox trailer,

so I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw more of 
these sequences in the rest of the game too.

But why are there even spores here in the first 
place? Well, we’ve talked about floor lore,

we’ve talked about vore lore, I guess it’s time 
we talk about spore lore. These spores seem to

be a more recent development in the region. 
We can see broken pillars in this cavern,

implying that some sort of structure was built 
here before these spores took over. Perhaps

whatever structure was built here inadvertently 
induced the proliferation of these spores.

We know that the bugs of Greymoor 
are suffering from an infestation

of dustroaches. This area might be similar 
to that, serving as another example of how

Pharloom is slowly falling apart due to 
the silk and song haunting the kingdom.

To finish off discussing this clip, we need to 
look at the HUD in the top left corner of the

screen. We have a new symbol here we haven’t 
seen before. But before we get into that,

I want to very quickly explain the HUD and 
how it works, because it’s been a few years

since we’ve all had to look at this, and 
honestly, I don’t think Silksong’s HUD is

very intuitive to understand just by looking at 
it. Now this explanation is as I understand it

from looking at various trailer footage and 
things Team Cherry has said over the years,

so it might not be completely correct, 
but it’s the best I can do. If you know

how the HUD works already, then you 
can just skip ahead, smarty pants.

So what makes the HUD so different from the 
HUD in Hollow Knight? The big change here is

the introduction of crests. In Silksong, 
Hornet can swap between different crests

that alter the appearance of the HUD, 
Hornet’s moveset when using her needle,

what kind of tools Hornet can equip 
and even other properties as well.

For example, in this clip Hornet’s HUD 
has three claws sticking out the left

side. We’ve seen Hornet perform some kind 
of large slash attack while having this HUD,

possibly some kind of charge attack, 
similar to the Knight’s Nail Arts.

We’ve seen her use a similar, Nail Art style 
move when wearing a different crest as well.

While wearing the claw crest, we’ve 
also seen Hornet use some buzzsaw type

attack as well. This alters Hornet’s regular 
downward dive attack, which is much simpler.

Getting back to the HUD, there’s this front 
facing spool that is sometimes completely empty,

and other times full of silk. This corresponds 
to the spool bar below which is used to indicate

Hornet’s silk reserves. Whenever she hits a foe, 
one segment of silk gets added to the spool bar.

This notch on the spool bar indicates how much 
silk Hornet needs to use her Bind ability,

the move that heals her for three masks. Once 
Hornet collects enough silk to reach this notch,

the silk on that portion of the spool bar 
lights up along with the front view of the

spool. In other words, once this part of the 
HUD lights up, you can heal. It appears the

spool bar has no notch when you first start the 
game, because the entire bar is exactly enough

silk to use the bind ability. So it’s only once 
you upgrade your spool that the notch appears.

To the right of the spool bar is the region 
where Hornet’s tools are displayed. There

are three categories of tools: red, blue and 
yellow. Red tools are used by pressing the

tool button along with up or down on the 
d-pad. These red items appear on the HUD,

showing how many uses it has left as well 
as which direction you need to press to

use them. Uses can be replenished 
by spending Shell Shards at benches.

We’ve seen a lot of red tools used in various 
trailers over the years: Straight Pin, Tri-Pins,

Sting Shards, Cogflies, Pimpillos, Caltrops and, 
of course, the controversial Lifeblood Syringe.

We’ve also seen images of other tools like the 
bone boomerang, this strange back of tricks,

I don’t even know what these are, and this 
orange bottle, the same one we see in this

new shot. Since we’ve never seen this item in 
action, we don’t know exactly what it does yet.

We also aren’t exactly sure how blue and yellow 
tools work. We’ve seen what a few of them look

like in the menu, but we haven’t seen them 
augment the HUD all that much. There’s this

clip where we can see a green blob on the end 
of the spool bar, which might be some kind of

regenerating silk slime. In various screenshots, 
we’ve also seen the spool bar extended with what

I assume is some kind of tool, as well as 
a reserve spool bar added onto the HUD.

In the Edge Magazine interview, it’s also 
been hinted that there are tools which will

automatically shield you against projectiles, 
give you more rosaries when killing enemies,

and pulling rosaries towards you, similar 
to Gathering Swarm. So the blue and yellow

tools are generally more passive, but 
the distinction between them is vague.

With that all explained, we can finally talk 
about this new symbol. It appears to indicate

what skill Hornet has equipped. We can see from 
a Edge Magazine screenshot that you can equip

these skills to your crest as well. Skills 
have been shown off extensively in trailers,

and you could even use them in the E3 demo. 
Pressing the “Skill” button would allow Hornet

to use this move, presumably the Silk Spear 
move mentioned in the Edge Magazine interview.

Other potential skills might be Hornet’s 
Gossamer Storm, this thrusting attack from

the Xbox trailer, and this parry move from the 
reveal trailer. Since these skills seemingly must

be equipped, and there’s only one equip slot, 
does this mean Hornet only has access to one of

these skills at a time? That seems like a pretty 
big departure from the Knight having access to

three separate spells at once with Vengeful 
Spirit, Desolate Dive and Howling Wraiths.

But keep in mind that Hornet also has access to 
both tools and unique movesets, so maybe Team

Cherry wanted to limit Hornet from being able to 
use a bunch of different skills on top of all of

that. This system also allows Team Cherry to 
design a bunch of different skills for players

to choose from and swap out as needed, instead of 
just having the same three spells at all times.

In this shot, the white symbol is greyed out, 
but that is not the case in the next shot. Here,

we see a different white symbol, but this time it 
is lit up. We also see Hornet using her Gossamer

Storm attack, indicating that this white symbol 
represents the Gossamer Storm skill. The reason

it’s lit up is because in this shot, Hornet has 
enough silk to perform the attack, whereas in

the previous shot, Hornet doesn’t have any silk 
at all. We can also see in the last shot of the

trailer that the Gossamer Storm symbol is not lit 
up, since the attack takes four silk to perform.

So this symbol both tells you 
what skill you currently have

equipped as well as whether or not 
you have enough silk to cast it.

So if the symbol in shot 3 is Gossamer Storm, 
what is the symbol in shot 2? Out of the possible

skills we’ve seen, I think this thrust move 
is the most likely candidate. But honestly,

this symbol looks more like an anchor 
or a pendulum to me. So I’m not gonna

say anything for certain on this one. 
But let me know in the comments below

what you think about the current 
state of the trout population.

While we’re talking about skills, I do want to 
mention that the Gossamer Storm skill now works

differently than how it did in the Xbox trailer. 
In that trailer, the attack cost three silk, but

would gradually continue to drain your silk over 
time. But in the new clip, it seems to cost a flat

four silk while also lasting longer. It seems like 
Team Cherry has been messing around with the costs

of these abilities over the past few years. With 
how much variety there seems to be in playstyle,

and how unbalanced things like charms could be 
in Hollow Knight, Team Cherry might be focusing

extra hard on making sure the various tools 
and skills in this game are balanced properly.

Moving onto clip three proper, let's look at 
the two new enemies Hornet is fighting. There’s

a five legged Citadel Caste member wearing 
a white pointy hood… And the other guy is

wearing a golden mask modeled after the strange 
ball symbol we’ve seen all over Pharloom. We’ve

seen white hooded enemies and enemies wearing gold 
before, but these two certainly stand out to me.

While both enemies can fly, it seems the 
hooded figure doesn’t have any wings. That,

combined with its weird looking legs, 
makes me wonder if it’s some kind of robot.

When it hits the ground after dying, 
we can see for a brief moment that it

explodes into what might be bells 
and some kind of wheel mechanism.

Shortly before Hornet uses her Gossamer 
attack, we see the hooded enemy’s mask

flash. We can tell from the footage that 
this enemy is parrying here. After Hornet

hits the enemy in this state, it does a 
counter attack, but it attacks downwards,

away from Hornet and it gets knocked out of 
its attack. Team Cherry mentioned in the Edge

Magazine interview that they wanted enemies in 
Silksong to be more complex than Hollow Knight,

so seeing this random enemy do a parry move 
makes sense. I think the only times we saw

proper parries like this in Hollow Knight were 
the Hollow Knight fights. Oh yeah, and Hornet.

The last thing I wanted to note here is how these 
enemies die. In previous instances of enemies

dying in Silksong, we could usually see white 
lines stretching up to the top of the screen.

This lends to the idea that our enemies 
in Pharloom are being manipulated like

puppets from above. But that effect 
appears to be lacking in this footage.

I don’t think they would have removed this 
effect since it seems pretty important to

the game’s lore. Something that Team Cherry 
seems to care about. I don’t know. They’ve

shared conflicting views in the past. That 
said, there are also moments in the Xbox

trailer where the effect doesn’t appear when 
an enemy dies. So maybe the lines just don’t

appear every time. Whether or not there’s 
a reason for when they do, I have no idea.

The room itself is very reactive to Hornet’s 
attack too. We can see this candelabra fall over,

the hanging drapes here sway around, 
and so does this giant chandelier in the

background. We’ve seen this more reactive 
environment in other trailers as well,

like during the Last Judge battle, 
which is all really cool to see.

Alright let’s talk about the elephant in the 
room. As I’m sure all of you immediately noticed,

we’ve actually seen this candelabra before. Who 
could possibly forget seeing this candelabra as

it appeared in this room from the Xbox trailer? 
Not only that, but these two rooms look quite

similar to one another, implying that they 
may appear in the same section of the Citadel.

This room from the Xbox trailer 
appears to be some kind of church hall,

while this new room appears to be some 
kind of lecture hall or music hall,

given the podium and the auditorium 
seating in the background.

But there’s one other massive detail I’m sure 
you all remember. In the background of the room

from the Xbox trailer, we can see a strange 
figure standing, watching over the room. It

appears to be this character, which Team Cherry 
showed off back in 2019 in their last blog post.

This guy is one of three members of 
a scholarly suite, former tenders of

a dusty vault full of ancient knowledge. 
So both of these rooms might be connected

to this dusty vault. The fact that there 
are a bunch of corpses just lying around

there in the background might lend to the 
idea of this place being kinda decrepit.

Unfortunately I still don’t think we have 
enough information to solve whatever is

going on with these guys, but something 
tells me we’re closer to cracking this

case than ever. Together, we might be able 
to solve this. Be sure to let me know in the

comments below what you think about the 
current state of the trout population.

This new room also serves as the location of 
our next clip from the Direct. Unfortunately,

it played as part of a giant mosaic at 
the end of the sizzle reel. So we’re

gonna have to zoom and enhance on this bad 
boy. Alright, now where’s Silksong? Oh here

it is. Not gonna lie, this looks kinda 
mid. Oh whoops, that’s Undertale. My bad.

I tried my best to isolate and 
stabilize the Silksong portion,

but the quality is going to be a bit 
lower for this clip unfortunately.

Here, we can see two new enemies. This big 
chonker. And this dead guy. Some people

speculated that this mace wielding guy is a 
boss, but I think it’s just a larger enemy.

We see it walk over some caltrops that 
Hornet set down and take damage. Dumbass.

The enemy attacks in a way similar to the 
False Knight, jumping up in the air and

slamming the ground with their giant mace. But 
after performing this attack the first time,

he then seems to cover his mace in silk 
before slamming down on the ground again,

creating a damage zone that Hornet has to stay 
out of. Overall, it seems like a pretty fun fight,

and I’m excited to see bigger enemy 
encounters like this throughout the game.

At the very end of this clip, we can see Hornet 
spend one silk to perform her Harpoon Dash move.

It seems like this move might always be 
available to Hornet and doesn’t need to

be equipped like her other silk costing skills.

And that’s it for the new footage. Let’s move on 
to those sweet, sweet screenshots. This first one

is of the giant golem enemy. We saw this guy 
all the way back in the 2019 reveal trailer,

as well as in screenshots uploaded to 
the PlayStation app. Everything looks

pretty similar from the PlayStation image, 
although maybe some of the rocks have been

tweaked a bit. Obviously, both of the 
new screenshots are way different from

the original version. The new screenshots 
look much more readable and less muddy.

The tool Hornet has equipped here is a bone 
boomerang, the same tool we see in PlayStation

screenshot. So it seems like the boomerang 
is unlocked at some point before this fight.

This tool probably comes from the ant faction, 
whom we see in both this Forest of Bones portion

of Pharloom and in this green area referred 
to as the Far Fields in an Xbox screenshot.

Looking at this screenshot of the golem, it 
seems to be somewhere in that general area

between the Forest of Bones and the 
Far Fields, so that all checks out.

As for the skill equipped here, I think it’s the 
Silk Spear skill we’ve seen before. Going off the

Edge Magazine interview, and the fact that it’s 
the skill you have in the demo, it’s likely the

first skill the player is expected to unlock. 
All of this, mixed with the fact that Hornet

only has six masks here, makes me think this 
encounter will be fairly early on in the game.

In the next shot we see Hornet traverse what 
appears to be the Coral Forest area. We can

see what appears to be some fatass fish. 
This is likely a reference to the film

Shark Tale. I think this fish is the same as 
whatever these pinkish background creatures

are. We’ve seen these other fish in previous 
clips so they aren’t particularly noteworthy.

And when I say fish, I mean fish-like bugs.

Looking at the HUD, we can see a new skill is 
equipped. I think this skill is some kind of

grappling hook move that allows you to move 
straight up through the air. We can see that

Hornet is traveling up a thread of silk in the 
screenshot and she has used part of her silk

reserves here too. Her needle is missing, 
so I assume she threw it upwards. So it’s

like a vertical version of her Harpoon 
Dash technique. Of course, this could be

completely unrelated to the silk move we see 
equipped, but for now, we can’t know for sure.

The first tool here is one we’ve seen before, 
but not in use. Just from looking at it,

I can’t tell you what it’s supposed 
to do. The second tool is the Cogfly,

which seems to operate similar to the 
Glowing Womb babies from Hollow Knight.

In the next screenshot we see Hornet in the 
Citadel, fighting off some bugs we’ve seen before.

The only new thing here is this cog themed 
HUD, possibly found in this area, referred

to as Cogworks in the metadata of the reveal 
trailer. I never mentioned it on this channel,

but a user on Discord, known as TheShawarma, 
was able to mine metadata from the Silksong

reveal trailer Team Cherry posted to Google 
Drive. This gave us the filenames used for

the various clips used in the trailer such as 
“catacombs-creeper-chase”, “coral-king” and

“lava-bigskullgoomba-cool-dash-combo”. This 
shot in the reveal trailer was likely called

“cogworks-harpoon-dash”, finally giving us a name 
for the area. It might be only an internal dev

name, but it’s much better than what I’ve 
called it in previous videos, C***works.

Getting back to the screenshot, 
given Hornet’s pose here,

she’s probably about to use whatever 
dive attack is unique to this cog crest.

Another thing worth noting here is how this 
area is covered in webbing. When we first saw

this Citadel area in the 2019 reveal trailer, 
there really wasn’t anything like this. But

since the Xbox trailer, we’ve been getting 
more images of the Citadel covered in this

silk. I think Team Cherry has opted to 
make the Citadel look more dilapidated.

Finally, I wanted to point out this 
bell. It kinda looks like pac-man.

This next screenshot shows off Bellhart, a city 
we saw in the reveal trailer. And as you can see,

Bellhart’s looking a little worse for 
wear these days. The bell buildings in

the foreground look a lot more dilapidated. 
On top of that, this shop looks way less

stocked than it was before. Also it looks 
like the turnover rate is pretty high too.

So it seems like since the reveal trailer, 
Team Cherry has changed some of these

areas to indicate how much Pharloom has been 
suffering from this curse of silk and song.

Another odd change is the removal of the 
quest board. I don’t think Team Cherry

would have cut the quest system from Silksong, 
so I’m a bit surprised to see it missing here.

The background here has also been blurred a lot 
since 2019, and the foreground has a much more

golden look to it. And this silk ball statue has 
been made more of the focal point of the room.

I know some people don’t like how 
Team Cherry hides environment details

behind blur, but I think I do prefer how 
Bellhart looks in this new screenshot.

This tool here looks a lot like a Pimpillo, 
which we’ve seen used in other trailers.

Perhaps this is an un-upgraded version of 
the Pimpillo, or a variant of some kind.

This next shot shows the Lace fight. It also 
looks quite different from the 2019 reveal

trailer. But we’ve already seen this updated 
look from the PlayStation screenshots. Again,

Team Cherry has cranked up the blur. They either 
did this to help keep the focus on the action,

or so they can scale down the resolution of these 
background objects to help save on performance.

We’ve seen this tool used in the Xbox trailer. 
Using it turns Hornet’s cloak into a drill. God,

she is so quirky. We’ve seen this bow 
crest in other screenshots before,

but this portion was never lit 
up. So that’s a slight change.

My guess is that performing the Bind ability while 
wearing this crest also fires a projectile of some

kind, so kinda similar to the spore shroom charm, 
which lets the Knight deal damage while healing.

This next image is of the starting room in the 
Moss Grotto. This appears to be the very start

of a playthrough, considering Hornet has four 
masks here, the same number we’ve seen people

start with in the demo. For some reason, Hornet’s 
spool bar is already broken. I figured you would

fix a broken spool bar by destroying the cocoon 
you leave after dying, similar to how you fix your

Soul Vessel in Hollow Knight. But I don’t think 
we actually know that for sure, and that wouldn’t

explain why it’s broken here. So maybe there’s 
more to fixing this spool bar than I realize.

And this last screenshot is from the 
Moss Grotto. There’s less lilypads now,

and there’s some giant bone-like structures 
in the background. Other than that,

there’s nothing new here. Thanks for 
nothing, screenshot. Away with you.

And that’s all the new stuff we got.

But at this point, we might actually be able to 
use these trailers and screenshots to construct

a rough progression for Silksong. Credit to my 
friend Mola for arranging the clips we have by

mask count, spool bar size and equipped tools 
and crests. This doesn’t include anything from

the reveal trailer, since that stuff is 
likely out of date, and the mask counts

probably don’t reflect real progression. It looks 
like the game can progress something like this:

You start in the Moss Grotto, make your way 
to Bonebottom, then into the Forest of Bones

and Deep Docks. After that comes the Far Fields 
and the city, Bellhart. After that seems to be

the Citadel Base, Greymoor, and the Stepps, 
which is where Grindle and the Last Judge

appear to be. These three areas all kinda fit 
somewhere in the middle, it seems. After that,

it seems like you’ll be able to reach the 
Citadel. Finally, the clover area and the

Coral Forest actually seem to be later sections 
of the game. Looking at this, I don’t think we

quite have the full picture yet, but we can see 
some patterns start to emerge from the noise.

Now let’s talk about the 2025 release 
window. This is really exciting. But…

It was also really exciting when we got the 
June 2023 release window back in 2022. And

I just don’t really feel like getting 
my hopes up again like I did back then.

The reality is Silksong will be released 
when Team Cherry feels like it’s ready.

And if they decide by the end of 2025 that 
it still isn’t ready, then it won’t release.

To be clear, I’m not saying the game 
is definitely going to miss the 2025

release window, I just want to 
be the annoying voice on your

shoulder reminding you that a vague release 
window of 2025 doesn’t guarantee anything.

So is 2025 finally the year of Silksong? 
There’s good reason to believe that, but

I’m gonna hold off on calling it for certain until 
I actually have the game in my grubby little paws.