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If you'd asked me a month ago what I'd write about Hollow Knight: Silksong, I would've laid a twenty on the table and said "Not a chance it's anything but paragraphs and paragraphs of praise". Yet here we are in the introduction of a piece that I plan to be essentially a critique - an effort to propose that the game is in fact best experienced by those not familiar with its predecessor, and fans of the first game might even have a 'near-miss' attitude towards the seven-years-

Suppose you had the power to breathe life into a machine. The power to burden that assembly of mechanical parts with the weight of a soul, enabling it to feel pain, experience trauma, know love and hate, and, importantly, be self-aware of its own fragile mortality. Not an easy concept to grasp? Maybe it would be easier to imagine yourself in the body of a once inanimate robot. Instead of new life, simply visualise the sum of you consciousness being transferred into a differen