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Bruised Hollow Knight: Silksong fans discover Team Cherry already explained why the Metroidvania is so hard years ago – and it's all because of Hornet's healing
News "You spend more time either at full health or almost dead"
Team Cherry had to go back to the drawing board for Hollow Knight: Silksong for one simple reason: "Hornet being taller changes everything"
News "Her fighting is so fast, and she's so competent, that it changes the way enemies need to be designed"
Team Cherry hoped Silksong could be anyone's "first Hollow Knight game," and one reason it took 7 years is they were "comfortable" not knowing what's gonna happen: "The really interesting things are the things you sort of discover along the way"
News "The difficulty also sits alongside the game in that way," Team Cherry said
8 years on, Hollow Knight is still an extraordinary achievement – but can Silksong live up to the hype?
Opinion Feature | Revisiting the past as Silksong looms
Subnautica 2 designer isn't alarmed by people taking a break, because survival games aren't as "monogamistic" as MMOs like World of Warcraft: "I know what they're doing"
News "If I see people play through all the content of Subnautica and then they leave for a little bit until we do a content patch, that doesn't alarm me"
The Outer Worlds 2 dev says "it was quite a shock" to get bought by a giant corporation like Microsoft while making a game about how evil giant corporations are
News Art imitates life, etc.
The Outer Worlds 2 was helped along by Fallout co-creator Tim Cain, but Obsidian is switching up RPG history by going "much bigger and deeper" with its sequel
News "The Outer Worlds 2 delivers on the fantasy we had when we started the first game"
33 years later, Alone in the Dark still deserves recognition as the survival horror that bridged the gap between Cthulhu and Resident Evil
Features Feature | Back in 1992, Alone in the Dark changed the face of horror forever
Ex-Assassin's Creed and Far Cry lead describes making landscapes in a way that sounds an awful lot like a Shrek metaphor: "It becomes like an onion skin, where we think outwards"
News "You've got to learn the core gameplay loop of what you're making"
"It's OK" to have secrets that players "will never see" says creator of hit open-world indie adventure A Short Hike, praising Dark Souls' exploration for its "depth and richness"
News "It's very easy for an RPG to give you rewards. [But] it was rewarding to explore Dark Souls", says Robinson-Yu
A Short Hike dev says "Where's Waldo moments" like Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Korok Seeds help "to stop you getting too bored" when traveling around in open world games
News Robinson-Yu says it's beneficial to have players "feeling acknowledged for noticing something interesting – like they see a weird looking rock"
Ubisoft foresaw the grindy fate of Assassin's Creed Valhalla back in the Odyssey days, wanting a literal "odyssey" but not "a world that was just fatiguing to travel through"
News A hard line to tread
Ubisoft had a very on-brand problem with Assassin's Creed Odyssey: there weren't many tall buildings in Ancient Greece even though it's a "climbing-frame game"
News "What we did is we took a fantastical approach to the giant statue that then gave us something epic to climb"
Far Cry 4 lead reveals a cut idea for enemy camps that would have completely changed the story: "I think that's where the fun of the whole genre might lie"
News Alex Hutchinson says the devs toyed around with letting players give enemy camps back to Pagan Min
Assassin's Creed and Far Cry veteran didn't want the "feeling Kojima's going for in Death Stranding" in his new open-world game: "We want dense, joy-filled nuggets"
News Is it possible for an open world game to be too big?
"Chasing safe bets is a death sentence": Rematch devs had no desire to simply chase FIFA or Rocket League, but they spent years planning out their hit football game
News "It was not a question of 'oh, Sifu did very well – what are we doing next?"
Max Payne's iconic mug came about because of its creator's university TTRPG club, but he got so "self-conscious" after the game's release that he had to change his hairstyle to remain incognito
News Sam Lake seems less worried about getting recognized these days
Death Stranding 2 hands-on: An emphasis on combat and vehicles feels like an evolution of Metal Gear Solid 5, while continuing to push the first game's in-depth hiking physicality
Hands-on Hands-on | Exploring Hideo Kojima's new perspective as he prepares delivery of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
