Hollow Knight: Silksong Achievement Hints At A Much Longer Game

"Before even playing the game you can look at a list of Silksong's achievements (or trophies on PlayStation 5). One in particular provides an interesting clue about the larger scope. As Game File's Stephen Totilo pointed out on Bluesky, the "speed completion" achievement requires players to hit 100 percent completion in under 30 hours. A similar achievement in the first Hollow Knight only gave players 20 hours. Does that mean Silksong is roughly 33 percent bigger than its predecessor?"

"Mind you, the above achievement is effectively for a 100 percent speedrun, not an average playthrough. Most players have taken around 27 hours to beat Hollow Knight's main campaign and up to 64 hours to defeat every boss and find last secret. Assuming Team Cherry is keeping the completionist achievement in Silksong just as difficult to get, we might expect it to take, on average, 10-30 hours longer to do everything there is to do in the game."

"While just a speculative guesstimate, the assumption aligns with some of what Team Cherry hinted at in their first and only pre-release interview. When explaining why the sequel took seven years to make, the developers said part of the reason was that they just couldn't stop themselves from continuing to add new things to Silksong: more towns, NPCs, boss fights, and seemingly many more secrets."

Hollow Knight: Silksong's achievement list suggests much larger scope than the original Hollow Knight. A speed-completion trophy requires 100 percent completion in under 30 hours, compared with 20 hours for the first game, implying a roughly one-third increase in content for a speedrun. Typical playthroughs of Hollow Knight have been around 27 hours for the main campaign and up to 64 hours to fully complete everything. If Silksong's completionist goals are similarly difficult, full completion might take 10–30 hours longer on average. Developers took seven years to make Silksong and repeatedly added towns, NPCs, boss fights, and many secrets.

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