The time-honored demake tradition has come for Hollow Knight: Silksong, sending Team Cherry's brutally difficult Metroidvania back to the N64 era. Check it out: Fans say Team Cherry was wrong and Silksong is actually "noticeably harder" than Hollow Knight, with movement and bosses pummeling you from the Metroidvania's first hour Hollow Knight Silksong hands-on: 2,379 days after its reveal I finally played the elusive Metroidvania, and it is absolutely worth the wait Silksong is way harder than Hollow Knight, and my theory is that Team Cherry became evil masterminds without even realizing it Frankly, as visually impressive as the demake is, I truly shudder to think about how mind-numbingly hard this game would be with an N64 controller and the fifth-generation's slippery, clunky controls. People who manage to beat games like Silksong are made of tougher stuff than me, but I'm convinced that, burdened by 30-year-old controls, no one would be able to beat it. Silksong is way harder than Hollow Knight, and my theory is that Team Cherry became evil masterminds without even realizing it